November 8, 2023 Dehumanization Is at the Heart of Endless War We don’t have to accept psychic numbing or endless violence as the only possible responses to our broken world. Kelly Denton-Borhaug Ad Policy Relatives of the victims of the atomic bomb offer flowers at Hiroshima Memorial Cenotaph to mark the 70th anniversary of the…
Books & the Arts / November 8, 2023 A Modern-Day Fable for the Tenant Class Hilary Leichter’s fiction examines contemporary crises like work and inequality through the lens of magical realism. Her latest novel, Terrace Story, is a parable about the family and housing. Grace Byron Ad Policy A New York apartment building. (Photo by…
10 hours ago About sharing By Mark Easton & Sean Seddon BBC News A pro-Palestinian march due to take place on Armistice Day would only be banned as a “last resort”, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner said. Sir Mark Rowley vowed officers would do all they could to protect remembrance activities and Jewish communities. While he…
5 hours ago About sharing Watch: Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year Awards… in 60 seconds By Andre Rhoden-Paul at Claridge’s Hotel It was a night of glitz and glamour as stars from the world of entertainment hit the red carpet for the Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year Awards. The luxury fashion magazine’s annual…
1 hour ago About sharing By Alice Cuddy BBC News, Jerusalem The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn. It was Thursday 19 October at about 06:30, and Israel had been bombing Gaza for 12 days straight. He’d been in his third-floor, three-bedroom flat in al-Zahra, a middle-class area in the north of the Gaza…
1 hour ago About sharing The black and white picture was found in a Victorian photo album By Sophie Parker BBC Wiltshire A man depicted on the album cover of Led Zeppelin IV has been revealed as a 19th Century thatcher. The figure is most likely Lot Long from Mere in Wiltshire, photographed by Ernest…
30 minutes ago About sharing A woman drinks water in Istanbul as it bakes in 40C heat in July of this year By Matt McGrath & Mark Poynting BBC Climate & Science It is now “virtually certain” that 2023 – a year of deadly heatwaves, floods and fires – will be the warmest on record,…
36 minutes ago About sharing By Chris Mason Political editor, BBC News The State Opening of Parliament felt like a ceremonial comma. A punctuation mark in an autumn of familiar political sentences. The government set out the hoped-for legal architecture to make their recent promises a reality. Those hoping for a frisson from the unexpected…
50 minutes ago About sharing The tumour in Ray’s jaw was diagnosed only after he paid to see a dentist privately By Ruth Green BBC News Lack of access to dentists is costing lives because mouth cancers are not being spotted or treated early enough, a health charity has told BBC News. The disease killed…
29 minutes ago About sharing Nitrous Oxide user Ali says he needed to use a wheelchair as a result of using laughing gas Possession of nitrous oxide, also known as NOS, has become a criminal offence in the UK. Now categorised as a class C drug, possession of laughing gas for its “psychoactive effects” will…