Women on City board seats up by more than a third since 2016 July 19, 2021 Women hold 39 per cent more positions on boardrooms than they did five years ago, according to a report by New Financial. The think tank published its evaluation of the impact of a government effort to increase gender diversity in the City’s financial services firms. The proportion of women sitting on boards across the UK [...]
Katie Hopkins deported from Australia over controversial quarantine behaviour July 19, 2021 British right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins will be deported from Australia for bragging about her plans to disobey hotel quarantine measures. On Friday, she joked about opening the door “naked with no face mask” to workers delivering her meals in an Instagram Live recorded from her Sydney hotel room. The post has since been deleted. Ms [...]
Pegasus spyware investigation reveals scale of surveillance July 19, 2021 Human rights activists, journalists and lawyers have been targeted by spyware sold to authoritarian governments by the Israeli technology firm NSO Group, according to media reports. An investigation into a data leak by human rights group Amnesty International and NGO Forbidden Stories revealed a list of more than 50,000 phone numbers that may have been [...]