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What it reported: On average, men at The Economist Group made 33 percent more than women there did in 2017. Seventy-six ... What it reported: News UK, which owns The Times of London and The Sun, has a permanent staff of 66 percent men to 34 percent women, according to the publisher. In 2017 ...

Stephen Bullivant, a professor of theology and sociology at St Mary's University in London, produced the figures by crunching data in the European social survey of 2014-16, an academic project which spans the continent and also includes Israel. He concluded that the sense of being Christian by default ...

It would be hard to find another living artist able to pull off the trick that Ms Dean has done: three shows at once in three of London's most important cultural institutions, each focusing on a different genre: still-life at the National Gallery, landscape at the Royal Academy and portraiture at the National Portrait ...

The figure represents around 670 permanent staff in the UK, mainly in London, including the majority of The Economist's editorial teams plus marketing, ... Like other publishers and broadcasters who have declared their figures so far, The Economist Group said the fact there are more women in junior roles ...

Success in the 1990s meant having a chauffeur, shopping in London and eating at $200-a-head restaurants. To be cool today is to use car-sharing, attend a public lecture about urbanism or make your own way around India. “I prefer cycling around Kaliningrad to going by car,” says Anton Alikhanov, the ...

This week Save the 8th confirmed that it has hired Kanto Systems, a London-based political consultancy with links to the campaign for Britain to leave the EU, the embattled Cambridge Analytica (a British firm at the heart of a Facebook data row) and Donald Trump's election. In January it was reported that ...

The CCN calculates that county councils will see a 93% reduction in their biggest government support grant from 2016 to 2020; by the end of the decade they will be receiving an average of £161 per person, whereas the figure for London boroughs, for example, will be £459. Matt Golby, acting leader of ...

They found that children who score in the top 5% of standardised tests in the third year of primary school are many times more likely than the other 95% to file patents in later life. But the likelihood is still much greater among smart kids from rich families. Philippe Aghion of the London School of Economics ...

The struggle to disentangle anti-Semitism from fraught discussions over the Middle East is not unique to Labour, points out David Feldman, a historian of anti-Semitism at Birkbeck, University of London. Where parts of the left sometimes fail “is in recognising anti-Semitism when it is in front of them”, he adds.

SINGAPORE remains the most expensive city in the world for the fifth year running, according to the latest findings of the Worldwide Cost of Living Survey from The Economist Intelligence Unit. The survey, which compares the price of over 150 items in 133 cities around the world, found that Singapore was ...

The report was released late last year by The Economist Intelligence Unit, the research and analysis division of The Economist Group, a London-based company that specializes in international business. The index ranked the safety of 60 international cities across four categories, including personal security ...

WHEN Sergei Skripal left Russia in 2010, his fate seemed to have taken a bright turn. As part of a prisoner exchange with Britain and America, the MI6 double agent swapped a Russian jail cell for suburban life in Wiltshire. Having been pardoned in Moscow and debriefed in London, he appeared destined ...

He had produced the award-winning film score to Sebastian Schipper's one-take thriller “Victoria”, curated a weekend-long show at the Barbican Centre in London and set up a universal day of worship for his favourite stringed instrument—the piano. Then Mr Frahm went quiet. He retreated from the online ...

It has had to make acquisitions in some areas: recent purchases include QuantumBlack, an advanced-analytics firm in London, and LUNAR, a Silicon-Valley design company. It is increasingly recruiting outside the usual business schools to bring in seasoned data scientists and software developers.

In 1894 the Times of London famously predicted that by the 1940s every street in the city would be buried under nine feet of manure. By comparison, cars seemed clean and hygienic, a key reason why they were adopted so quickly in the 20th century. “Cars replaced something that was in many ways far ...

THE residents of a supported-living home in south London are an active bunch. All six have severe learning disabilities and are cared for by ten full-time staff from Mencap, a charity. Nevertheless, once a month they discuss their ambitions with their key worker. About a year ago, one middle-aged client ...

Mr Corbyn has done the opposite. “He's gone from Mr Bean to Stalin,” says one adviser. Two-and-a-half years into the job, Mr Corbyn has never been stronger. Once-mutinous MPs have fallen into line. Corbynites fill crucial positions in the party's apparatus. Left-wingers dominate Labour councils in London ...

But that does not go nearly far enough, says John Battelle of NewCo, a digital publisher. Last month when Facebook reported earnings, it announced a decline in daily active users in America and Canada for the first time and estimated that, globally, users were spending around 50m fewer hours per day on ...

Investors took the news glumly; on the day of the announcement Magnit's shares fell by 10% in London, and nearly 8% in Moscow. Many worry that VTB lacks the expertise and attention to manage Magnit's complex retail business effectively. Western sanctions on VTB add another set of risks. In addition, by ...

That is partly due to recognition that some long-term conditions, such as diabetes, can improve with lifestyle changes. Last year Sadiq Khan, London's mayor, included the idea in his health plan for the capital. A recent count found that London already had over 50 schemes. All general practitioners (GPs) in ...

THE centrepiece of the opening-bell ritual at the London Stock Exchange on February 2nd was a roll call to honour 27 global investors. They were lauded for pledging allegiance to the “30% Club”, a group which campaigns for precisely that proportion of women on corporate boards globally. Membership is ...

TRADITIONALLY, to count as an oil power a country had to be a big producer of the black stuff. China is the world's biggest importer but still wants to break into that exclusive club. On March 26th it launched a crude futures contract in a bid to gain more clout in the global market. Some think that, if successful ...

The immediate cause of the protest was a recently unearthed comment that Mr Corbyn posted online in 2012 in response to a piece of London street art. The mural in question is a blatantly anti-Semitic portrait of a group of capitalists, most of them with hook-noses, playing Monopoly on a table resting on the ...

“THE pub quiz is a uniquely British invention,” says a character in James Graham's latest play, “Quiz”, which opens in London's West End on March 31st. “It combines our two great loves: drinking, and being right.” Mr Graham might be on to something. A conservative estimate suggests at least 100,000 ...

GERMAN carmakers have much in common with the self-confident roadhogs who favour their vehicles. The cars they produce, with sleek design, doors that close with a satisfying thunk and roomy interiors swagged with leather and technology, are the dominant force at the upper end of the car market ...

Ms Saunders first discovered a copy of “Druqks” while living in London, at the time rejecting the Celtic music of her youth for what she calls “plastic American pop culture”, and was struck by the radical possibilities of the language within the context of avant-garde music. For “Le Kov”, she took one of Mr ...