Overall, Americans were split on the issue - 40 percent of respondents in our survey wanted Beijing s foreign influence institutes closed, while 39 percent were against such a move.
Few will be surprised to learn that an organisation funded by the British taxpayer once issued a 'non-discriminatory' language guide that urged its staff not to refer to 'Brits', or use the phrase 'the Queen's English'. The reason the latter was.
TOBY YOUNG: Few will be surprised to learn that an organisation funded by the British taxpayer once issued a non-discriminatory language guide that urged its staff not to refer to Brits .
Taxpayer-funded quango The British Council has provoked outrage by including the UK on a list of countries blighted by extreme and violent racial tension, civil disturbance and genocide.