Richard Branson: When hiring, avoid requiring minimum education and experience; look for skill and character
Thank you, as ever, to everyone who shared such great questions for my Ask Richard Newsletter this month. I chose this question from Karen Morgan, as I have a lot of thoughts on the matter. I also paraphrased her question a little bit to fit into a headline, but I...
More countries in East and Central Africa to have own coastlines as two new continents form
Africa is gradually splitting into two. The Somali and the Nubian tectonic plates are slowly disintegrating from each other, while the Arabian plate continues to pull away. Although that will take between five to 10 million years, with fault lines widening seven millimetres every year, the continent will eventually split...
EX-US VP Mike Pence faces ringing criticism for ‘homophobic joke’ at gay minister for taking ‘maternity’ leave
The White House on Monday asked former Vice President Mike Pence to apologise for what it called a “homophobic joke” he made over the weekend aimed at Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “The former vice president’s homophobic joke about Secretary Buttigieg was offensive and inappropriate, all the more so because he...
US Secretary of State’s current tour of Ethiopia, Niger makes him most travelled top American envoy to Africa
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Ethiopia this week singles him out as America’s most travelled foreign affairs diplomat having logged over 68,389 kilometres (42,495 miles) in flying to Africa. Blinken is President Joseph Biden’s representative in face-to-face diplomacy in Africa, which is being aggressively courted by China and...
Journalist: Covid-19 Origin Act does not compel spy agencies to declassify what they know about Chinese labs
Scientists, politicians and media in the US want the numerous government and private entities whose classified documents should be declassified. Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois, says these entities include the University of North Carolina, the National Center for Toxicological Research, the US Food and...
Law by US Senate to declassify Covid origin facts is CIA ploy to frame China, experts warn
Lawmakers and media misrepresented a bill requiring the declassification of documents related to the origins of Covid, according to several experts who warned that contrary to what the public was told, the legislation limits the types of documents the government must declassify – raising questions about the bill’s real intent....
