HSBC among Hong Kong-based banks cracking down on clients with ties to the pro-democracy movement By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 20 July 2020 | Updated: 22:23 BST, 20 July 2020 Global wealth managers operating in Hong Kong have launched a crackdown on clients with ties to the country’s pro-democracy movement. … Read more
Bosses who fail to navigate coronavirus crisis face onslaught by activist investors By Jamie Nimmo, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 18 July 2020 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 18 July 2020 Bosses who have failed to navigate the coronavirus crisis face an onslaught by activist investors, experts warn. Consultants at Alvarez & Marsal are … Read more
Hundreds of Black Lives Matter activists protest on London’s Oxford Street as other gatherings take place in France and Germany two months after George Floyd’s death Black Lives Matter protests took place in central London on Sunday afternoon Together with a pro-Palestine movement, the activists blocked up Oxford Circus Protests also took place in France … Read more
Over seven weeks in 1989, student-led pro-democracy protests centred on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square became China’s greatest political upheaval since the end of the Cultural Revolution more than a decade earlier. Corruption among the elite was a key complaint, but the protesters were also calling for a more open and fair society, one that would require … Read more
Animal rights activists turn Trafalgar Square’s fountains blood red and claim the coronavirus crisis could have been averted by ending the human consumption of meat Animal Rebellion dyed waters of Trafalgar Square’s fountains red today Protesters claim coronavirus crisis could have been prevented by going vegan Activists are demanding end to ‘climate-destructive and exploitative industries’ By … Read more
Serbia’s president has blamed protesters for spreading coronavirus as rock-throwing activists face off against mounted police in third night of violence after he tried to reintroduce lockdown. President Aleksander Vucic brought in one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe in March in order to combat the virus, before prematurely declaring victory in May and lifting … Read more
More than two-thirds of Britons are worried that minority of political activists have too much say over nation’s monuments, poll finds A huge 80 per cent of those questioned think that Churchill’s statue should stay The polling also showed that 69 per cent of people are proud of the UK’s history Concerns children aren’t being … Read more
Extinction Rebellion activists launch new political party – by SHOP-LIFTING trolleys of food from a London Sainsbury’s ‘because poverty sucks’ The members of the Beyond Politics party walked out of a Sainsbury’s with food They claimed they were giving away ‘free food’ before raiding the supermarket Staff didn’t stop the stunt, though two activists did … Read more
Black Lives Matter protests have continued across the world with vigour this weekend as astonishing footage shows rival anti-racist and far-Right demonstrators fighting on the roof of a seven-storey building in Paris. The videos were shot in the French capital on Saturday afternoon after members of the Generation Identity group unfurled a banner reading ‘Justice … Read more
Thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters turned out in London today despite Boris Johnson’s calls to abandon demonstrations. Police officers were booed as they moved in to detain two of the protesters in Hyde Park after activists defied the Prime Minister’s instructions. Around 20 officers moved through large crowds of peaceful protesters sitting on the … Read more