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Employers will have to hold face-to-face meetings with staff who ask about shift changes under government reforms

Company bosses will have to sit down with workers who request flexible working and justify their reasons for any refusals under new rights announced by Louise Haigh on Tuesday.

The first secretary of state told the TUC conference that employers would have to “properly consider” requests for flexibility and offer a face-to-face meeting under new rights for workers.

Scandal explodes as country’s election campaign peaks, with polls suggesting dead heat between candidates

Brazil’s supreme court has been thrust into what experts consider the greatest crisis since the return of democracy in the 1980s, as two rival judges lock horns on the eve of the presidential election with unpredictable consequences for Latin America’s largest democracy.

The politically charged dispute exploded into public view on Tuesday as judges traded insults and accusations during a heated supreme court hearing that was livestreamed into millions of Brazilian homes.

Prime minister speaks of strengthening Canada’s economic and political ties to Europe at Canada Investment Summit

Mark Carney said Canada will pursue a “unique security and economic alliance” with Europe as he positions his country as a base to build in the “new global economic order”.

Speaking to investors, company executives and government ministers at the inaugural Canada Investment Summit on Tuesday, the prime minister pitched Canada as a “safe harbour” and lucrative home for foreign capital as his government looks to reduce its reliance on trade with the United States.

Nearly half of ethnic minority respondents in a poll say they have faced prejudice over the past year

Many Britons feel inequality is worsening and that discrimination has become more common, according to a thinktank study.

The report by British Future has found that people across ethnic groups believe racial equality is worsening in Britain. One in six people are from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Als je zelf niks te zeggen hebt, waarom zou je social media account dan wel iets moeten zeggen? Nou ja, misschien omdat je wilt laten zien hoe betrokken je bent bij mensen die je hebt gesproken bij een bezoek aan Kamp Westerbork, of omdat je je medeleven wilt betuigen na een immense ramp en je geen idee hebt hoe echte mensen dat doen, of gewoon omdat je op social media een kant van jezelf wilt laten zien die bij zo veel mogelijk mensen zo populair mogelijk is. Allemaal legitieme redenen, dus alleen een kniesoor die valt over AI-gebruik van onze jonge premier, die vandaag zijn eerste troonrede afleverde. Je zou haast zeggen. Wás die maar AI.

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Father Country I Do Love You sounds like a doozy of a new exhibition from photographer Taryn Simon. The project focuses on the life and work of an unnamed, retired FBI agent. From the NY Times: She Spent Years on a Giant Project About One Man. The Result Is Monumental.

As it turned out, his work had touched many catastrophes of American life — the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800, for example, which the agent helped to inspect, or the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11, when the agent was in charge of sifting debris in the immediate aftermath — and also lesser-known events, historical footnotes that were nonetheless telling. What interested Simon were not just the events themselves, but also their reverberations, far beyond any immediate blast radius. What happened, for instance, to the physical ruins from the TWA crash? What became of the woman who tried to take a photograph of the smoldering Pentagon, whose film the F.B.I. agent had confiscated? Or to the Iraqi diplomat who ran the country’s U.S. embassy during the Persian Gulf war, whom the agent had monitored? Or to the child of a couple accused of being Russian spies, whose house the agent had raided?

The piece describes the project, which includes over 1000 photographs and other material, as “a Great American Novel in visual form” and “huge and fractal: biography as butterfly effect”, which sounds fascinating.

Even Jodie Foster makes an appearance; this particular agent had trained Foster at the FBI Academy in Quantico as preparation for her role as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.

Father Country I Do Love You debuts at the Guggenheim in NYC on September 18 and runs through March 14, 2027.

Tags: art · Guggenheim Museum · Jodie Foster · museums · photography · Taryn Simon