Woodrow Phoenix

Posterity?

The hunger strikers are in mortal danger. But the conditions they’re being kept in are already critical. How the government and its prisons ignore strikers' basic rights and demands.

Eight people are on hunger strike, several apparently at imminent risk of dying, because our law punishes more harshly those opposing genocide than those supporting it. (And under a so-called Labour Government.)

How on earth did we get here? www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...

I will have a look!

A man wearing a flat cap, with a white beard, sits next to a young boy. They are both grinning excitedly. They sit in a sleigh, filled with presents, flying through the night sky pulled by two reindeer.

This came out last month:
‘THE OTHER FATHER CHRISTMAS’
by Serena Holly
Illustrated by Shahab Shamshirsaz

Sounds good!

The front cover of ‘My Port Of Beirut’ Lamia Ziadé Translated by Emma Ramadan WINNER ENGLISH PEN AWARD A watercoloured image of a ball of fire radiating upwards from a group of buildings, smoke billowing into the air above it.

Back, spine and front cover

An illustration of a young woman smiling.“Sahar's selfie becomes iconic” An illustration of an older woman, a colourful scarf around her shoulders. “A video of Marine Najem, another victim of the explosion, was filmed by her granddaughter a few months prior. We see the grandmother, very chic, joyously chanting ‘thawra, thawra’, as her grandchildren prepare to join the protests in Martyrs' Square.”

The days pass, but the sadness, the anguish, the despair, do not. Each day the news is worse than the day before, the extent of the disaster continues to reveal itself. On. our phone screens, terrible personal accounts of August 4 are told in great detail, they lacerate our hearts. New photos of destroyed buildings make me rage; those of disfigured or mutilated people make me cry. A report from inside the Beirut hospitals devastates me. The images are horrific. Those taken of the explosion from the inside by surveillance cameras give a sense of the apocalyptic scene experienced by the staff and patients. There are no words. Images of destruction, of debris everywhere, mountaiss of rubble, crumbled facades, collapsed ceilings, high-tech equipment reduced to scrap metal. There are also images of children in the pediatric oncology unit of the orthodor hospital. This unit, on the ninth floor with a panoramic view of the port, was blasted with extraordinary violence. The children there on August 4 at 6:07 p.m., on top of the trauma of their cancer and their chemotherapy, must also endure that of the explosion and must heal from serious physical injuries. This little girl in the arms of her mother was not wounded, by some miracle. She was happy to have her father with her that day for her chemo session. He had come back from Africa, where he works, just to be at ber side. He died right in front of her, in her hospital bed, at 6:08 p.m. that Tuesday. There are other terrible images. butterflies, blooming trees, birds, fruits, clouds, red mushrooms with white spots surging gaily from the vestiges of the Karantina hospital. which housed six intensive neonatal care units available free of cost to those most in ed-now nothing but a field of ruins. Unlike the orthodox hospital, it was ground-floor only, and is now open-air... [Watercoloured image of Dr. Noun with one of his youngest chemotherapy patients at the relocated hospital. The child has a bandaged head wound]

Another superb cover and instant purchase: My Port Of Beirut by Lamia Ziadé.

A brilliantly meticulous and heartbreaking investigation of the dockside explosion that devastated Beirut in August 4, 2020.

Oh no, what have you shown me?! These are so fab I won’t be able to rest till I find some!

Crick (Michael, who wrote a biography on Nigel Farage) believes that there is a clear line to be drawn between Farage the sixth-former and Farage the politician. "So much of his character is the same as you can see at Dulwich," he says. "The boy who's desperate for attention, who loves debating, who loves division. The English nationalism, the interest - almost obsession - with immigration, the admiration for Enoch Powell, the free-market Thatcherism; all of that began at Dulwich." Much of the public has already made up its mind on Farage. In as much as this story cuts through to the wider elector-ate, some will think it deeply unfair to judge Farage on his adolescence; while others will see it as fair game and reflective of the man he later became. But there will be many who are still undecided on Farage and, for this last camp, his belligerent response to the allegations will be a test. He has the polling support. He has the Tory defections. He has the money now too. But does he have the ability to woo and keep voters who once found him unsavoury? Farage is unlikely to change tack now. "He's got to be true to him-self," says the senior Reform source. "There is precious little point in apologising to people like Ed Davey." Additional Reporting: Harry Yorke

The exact people now saying "Nigel Farage was young and foolish at school" (to excuse his racism, bullying and harassment of fellow pupils at Dulwich College) are the same people who said "Shamima Begum was old enough to know what she was doing".

MEDIA coverage of the tribunal ruling on Sandie Peggie vs NHS Fife has one common characteristic: a disconnect from what the tribunal ruling actually says. Across Tuesday's front pages, the 312-page ruling was presented as a clear "win" for the nurse - despite the fact she lost on 43 of her 47 allegations, including every one she made against trans doctor Beth Upton. Crucially, the four points on which Peggie succeeded concerned only NHS Fife's handling of her complaint, not her interactions with Upton. READ MORE: NHS Fife 'harassed' Sandie Peggie - but doctor did not, tribunal rules We will not explain the bare bones of the case here, that has been done enough elsewhere. Instead, this is to highlight the parts of the tribunal ruling that have been missing from the bulk of media reporting. By way of an example, among the newspapers that splashed the story on their front pages, only Metro noted that the tribunal had found Peggie's behaviour constituted harassment towards the same doctor she later complained about. Not one reported that the tribunal alleged that Peggie was in "breach" of the Equality Act - and of her employer's Bullying and Harassment Policy.

Anyone who said ‘a billionaire right-wing cabal controls all news media in the UK, printing lies or distorting information to hide the truth from us’ would sound like a tin foil hatted conspiracist nutcase. And yet…

Verrrrrry interesting, I will try it. Thanks!

If you’d told me we’d need these skills a couple of years ago, I’d have assumed you were describing an unusual sci-fi novel.

screams, growls and curses are more appropriate of course.

MEDIA coverage of the tribunal ruling on Sandie Peggie vs NHS Fife has one common characteristic: a disconnect from what the tribunal ruling actually says. Across Tuesday's front pages, the 312-page ruling was presented as a clear "win" for the nurse - despite the fact she lost on 43 of her 47 allegations, including every one she made against trans doctor Beth Upton. Crucially, the four points on which Peggie succeeded concerned only NHS Fife's handling of her complaint, not her interactions with Upton. READ MORE: NHS Fife 'harassed' Sandie Peggie - but doctor did not, tribunal rules We will not explain the bare bones of the case here, that has been done enough elsewhere. Instead, this is to highlight the parts of the tribunal ruling that have been missing from the bulk of media reporting. By way of an example, among the newspapers that splashed the story on their front pages, only Metro noted that the tribunal had found Peggie's behaviour constituted harassment towards the same doctor she later complained about. Not one reported that the tribunal alleged that Peggie was in "breach" of the Equality Act - and of her employer's Bullying and Harassment Policy.

Anyone who said ‘a billionaire right-wing cabal controls all news media in the UK, printing lies or distorting information to hide the truth from us’ would sound like a tin foil hatted conspiracist nutcase. And yet…

We’ve done it before, we can do it again [through gritted teeth]

this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"

when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter

it's diagnostic

Do you have to go back tomorrow or are you released now?

Front cover of a small hardcover book by and about the Museum of Modern Art, New York. It shows a photo of the glass-walled exterior and courtyard. Very mid-century mod.

Spine.

Title page, with three photos showing exterior views of the building.

The (New) Museum of Modern Art. A little book on the 75th year and the redesign. Picked up because the cover was so good: insides matched. Bought it.

A golden retriever holding an octopus in its mouth, so it looks like tentacles

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

WHAT !!!!!!

Same

I'm parked here,
out of work all year.
No hurry now
and sleep badly.
But I'm self-employed.
My new job's
to wave them in.

Hey, I know that blur(ry guy)

A map showing a town called Deer Park next to a town called Kildeer

Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house

This is disgusting and depressingly stupid in about 30 different ways. It’s also plain weird and badly thought through - not that logic is any kind of factor. How can this possibly be enforced?

I used to be appalled by how much information the second screener in my life was missing when we watch tv. Now I just refuse to explain anything when she looks up, confused. I rewind to the bit she didn’t see.
It won’t change her :/

What are those gold bits anyway?

Stephanie Kwolek invented Kevlar and was awarded the Lavoisier Medal for outstanding technical achievement. DuPont made a fortune, Kwolek did not. #women #herstory

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan...

Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan

A reminder of where the money's going and why we're doing all this in the FAQs for the auction. Sudan is undergoing the biggest humanitarian crisis since records began, with over 12 million people displaced. Auction £ going to the Sudanese-run emergency response rooms eyesonsudan.net/auction

I signed up for this and failed to do any horn tooting. Sudan needs your help!
And I’ll help you with your comics!

Curses, I can’t make it there today :(
See you on Monday tho.