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Ford government ditched basic income pilot project before any data landed, researcher says

Seems as though he lied his way into office. Ont Toronto Council 20180727

Ontario’s social services minister said the decision to scrap the program was made after ministry officials said it was failing to help people become “independent contributors to the economy.” But a member of the project’s research team said they’d yet to receive a single piece of data.

The far right is at its strongest since the 1930s, and the media is helping | Owen Jones

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Prominent far-right figures being given airtime on the BBC, LBC and ITV are not being properly challenged on their views

The far right is on the march, and it is being legitimised and enabled by parts of the mainstream media. The shambolic interview of Raheem Kassam – sidekick to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage – by the BBC’s flagship Today programme was a striking case in point. This champion of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (or as he calls himself, Tommy Robinson) – a man whose convictions include fraud, assault and contempt of court – was allowed to present himself as a legal expert. His link to the far-right Breitbart website was not mentioned.

Related: The dark stars of the far right compete to bask in the glory of Tommy Robinson

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I will root antisemites out of Labour – they do not speak for me | Jeremy Corbyn

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Yes, there is a continuing problem. But the party will do whatever it takes to safeguard the Jewish community

I have spent my life campaigning for recognition of the strength of a multicultural society. Britain would not be Britain without our Jewish communities. Our country would be unimaginable without the immense contribution made by Jewish men and women to every part of our national life, from art to science, industry to politics, in peace and in war.

Jewish people have also been at the heart of the labour movement throughout our history. So no one can, or should, try to dismiss or belittle the concerns expressed by so many Jewish people and organisations about what has been happening in the party I am proud to lead.

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‘Justice is never served’: Nia Wilson and the fear of racial violence

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A teenage girl was stabbed in an unprovoked attack by a white man. Her death has become a powerful symbol of American racism

Nia Wilson wondered what would happen if she ever became a hashtag.

The 18-year-old Oakland woman loved rapping and makeup and wanted to join the army or become a paramedic. She was also passionate about police brutality and other injustices facing African Americans, and her family said she talked about how they should respond if she ever became a victim.

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Massachusetts college apologizes after police called on black student eating lunch

Racists can even hide at Smith…

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School staff to receive anti-bias training in response to employee calling 911 to report student, who says: ‘All I did was be black’

A Massachusetts college president is apologizing after campus police were called to investigate a black student quietly eating her lunch in a common room.

Smith College president Kathleen McCartney said in a letter Thursday that the college was hiring a “third-party investigator” to review the incident and that every Smith staff member would undergo mandatory anti-bias training.

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Roma Holocaust Memorial Day: Auschwitz survivor Mano Höllenreiner recalls Nazi ‘Gypsy Camp’

Italy and Poland are busy reviving anti-Roma policies. That’s what fascists do…

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4,000 Sinti and Roma were murdered from August 2-3, 1944, in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Ten-year-old Mano Höllenreiner and his family barely escaped death — but not unspeakable horrors. Andrea Grunau reports from Bavaria.

Another Gift for a Putin Buddy

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has said he is considering lifting the sanctions altogether because they are punishing the “hardworking people of Rusal.” But Mr. Mnuchin has it backward. If he was truly concerned about Rusal’s 61,000 employees, he would not relent until the company fully washed its hands of Mr. Deripaska and the corrupt regime the aluminum giant serves.

Behind Mr. Deripaska’s estimated fortune of as much as $5.3 billion, there stands a great crime. During the “aluminum wars” of the 1990s, when that economic sector was consolidating in the chaotic privatization that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, the young metals trader was suspected of ties to gangsters as he seized control of huge Siberian smelters. According to testimony by a gang member in Stuttgart, Germany, part of Mr. Deripaska’s value to the group were his links to Russia’s security services. While his rivals were killed off or fled Russia, Mr. Deripaska somehow emerged as the director general of Why is the Treasury Department easing the pressure of sanctions on one of Russia’s most notorious billionaire oligarchs?