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WASHINGTON – A new report, Are Whistleblowing Laws Working? A Global Study of Whistleblower Protection Litigation, tracks the records of whistleblower laws in 37 countries and provides an unprecedented effort to understand the successes and shortcomings of whistleblower protection legislation worldwide, following a proliferation of laws in recent decades. Co-published by Government Accountability Project and the International Bar Association (IBA)Legal Policy & Research Unit (LPRU), the repo...

YOUR front-page lead article today ("Half of checked care homes ‘weak’ on infection control", The Herald, February 25), complied diligently with the recent narrative of Public Health Scotland, which is to deflect attention from the unrealistic expectations currently being placed on care home staff throughout the country. The article correctly points out that a fortnightly report on the outcome of care home checks is currently being presented to the Holyrood Parliament. However, these in...

Everyday food can be approachable: Danbury chef competes in global contest FacebookTwitterEmail Tom Devine plates a sautéed chicken cutlet, part of the fall menu at Two Steps Downtown Grille, in Danbury, Conn., Sept. 3, 2014.Ned Gerard / Ned Gerard DANBURY — A local chef is competing in a global contest to be featured as Bon Appetit Magazine’s “Favorite Chef.” Tom Devine, the chef at Two Steps Downtown Grille, is in the first round of the online competition, where the winner receives $...

25th February 2021 Uachtarán, I am most grateful to you for the invitation to speak today, and I am honoured to be part of this event. Can I begin, perhaps, with the theme of empire, since you have placed this at the heart of your concerns for our discussion – and since Professor John Horne has highlighted the issue in his eloquent introduction. Let me then move to consider partition, particularly in relation to unionism, since this has a relevance and challenge in terms of the President’s...

THE UK governments have at last outlined their roadmaps out of lockdown, “based on data not dates”. Whilst this gives some real hope for an end to the restrictions, the “data" is once more purely about the NHS and the disease (which, for clarity, I totally agree should be important in the decision making), but it takes no account of the misery and consequences of lockdown, such as the potential other deaths (for example, suicides, late diagnoses/treatments of other serious illnesses and...

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Copy shortlink: State lawmakers and members of the University of Minnesotas Board of Regents are raising concerns that the Legislatures process of electing new regents has become too prone to outside influence. A 24-member council charged with recruiting and recommending qualified regent candidates has become too political, says its chairman, with some members working to "push the candidates of their choice" instead of providing a robust list to the Legislature. Addition...

THERE was really only one logical conclusion to be drawn from the broom barricading Dominic Raab into his living room.

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"If still employed by the University I would I have fought tooth and nail against this decision." "In History we teach our students not to indulge in the intellectual sin of anachronistic judgement ie never to impose the values of today on those of the past. "‎In 1762, the year of David Humes reported letter on the plantations, there is no evidence that any groups in Scotland opposed chattel slavery in the colonies.   "The surge of abolitionism and widespread horror at mans inhum...