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Starmer moves to end free speech

Former civil right’s barrister, leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer, has reacted to the Russian-Ukraine troubles with authoritarian demands to shut down free speech here in the UK. In Parliament he called on the Government to close down Russia Today TV station for broadcasting an alternative point of view he disliked.

He followed that up by threatening a small number left-wing MP rebels who dared to support a Stop the War petition which criticised NATO. And now he’s locked out his own Young Labour section from the party’s official social media accounts because they do not agree with his reactionary policies.

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BRIAN BAMFORD HE DIED PEACEFULLY IN HIS OWN HOME AND 5AM THIS MORNING

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or those who did not know Brian, he was a lifelong Anarchist. Back in the 60’s he was briefly jailed for having the guts to protest against the Vietnam War.

Sad to announce today the death of word newspaper and Northern voices writer, Brian

he knew, Brian was no relation to this hero of Peterloo, but the spirit was the same.

He was fearless in defending his views and only a few years ago got into an altercation with “comrades” that saw him being pushed down the stairs from a meeting room. Brian was softly spoken and a real Gentleman.

So much so that he gained the epithet of “whispering, Brian.”

My own personal favourite memory of Brian is when the Fascist, Tommy Robinson brought his poisonous crew down to cause trouble outside the BBC in Manchester. Brian and I had been in a counter demonstration of only a few hundred people.

As our group faded away Brian thought it would be a good idea, as reporters, if we asked why some of the Robinson supporters, why they were there.

For many years he was the leading light behind the “Northern voices” website which helped expose shifty goings on in politics throughout the country but especially in Rochdale. Brian had also been involved with the “Rochdale alternative press” which did so much to expose the pedophile behaviour of Cyril Smith.

So in he marched with me following. There were around 10,000 ultra-right wingers decked out with flags and banners, some of them reminiscent of Nazi regalia. Other younger Socialists shied away. Brian did not care a jot. He walked calmly into the midst of the crowd, got out his notebook and pen, and started asking questions.

Brian was also a member of the “building our local Democracy group that meet in the “Sam Bamford” room of The Olde Boars Head pub in Middleton. As far as

We salute you, Brian. If there is an afterlife you will not rest in peace but sort them out for when the rest of us get there. I can pay no higher a compliment.

The Labour Right has killed the party, it’s time to bury it EVER since Sir Keir Starmer revealed his true colours and put the so-called anti-semitism Witchhunt, into over-drive to expel socialists, even the most misty eyed Labour Party member must have realised that the party has been taken over by the Red Tories.

But what to do and where to take the fight is a nightmare the nonMarxist left has refused to consider beyond the blinkered stay and fight mentality.

The expectation was that a fight back would be led by Corbyn and his mates in the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs. Corbyn’s is out, never ever to return and with barely a

peep from his mates.

Even after deputy leader Angela Rayner MP said she believes in ‘shooting terrorists first then asking questions’, (more Jean Charless de Menezes murders) and not a single Labour MP has dared to take this fascist to task.

That honour went to Tory MP, David Davis.

And yet, even now, party socialists argue that they must stay and work for a new left leadership. This is cloud cuckoo land even assuming such members would not be expelled on one trumped up charge or another.

Corbyn was the first left leader s i n c e 1 9 4 5 , unless y o u

count Wilson. Corbyn only won because Ed Miliband thought One Member One Vote (OMOV) would just weaken the union voice, and an error by the Right who helped Corbyn onto the ballot thinking him a joke candidate.

Neither mistake will ever be repeated. Starmer has already abolished OMOV and locked out socialists wherever possible.

Labour is in financial straights with unions reconsidering their cash support, and this Red Tory party is deservedly struggling at the polls.

At election time votes for anyone but Labour could make all the difference. The Right has killed the Party, let’s bury it, and then work for a new socialist party to arise from the ashes. The Social Democrats and UKIP rocked the political establishment. It can be done; let’s do it!

HER MAJESTY SPEAKS OUT! I ain’t ‘avin it. My youngest son Eddy is a right twat, the middle one Andy, is a bleedin’ pervy nonce and the eldest one, our Charlie, is a fucking crook. What must my late hubby Phil be finkin?’

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AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD ENERGY BILLS IS GOING UP BY NEARLY £700!

A RISE IN INTEREST RATES? WHY BOTHER?

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he Bank of England that era to his 20%. But it also has decided that the looks a little pointless. surging inflation in real cost-ofA rise in interest living prices needs CONSERVATIV rates can be effective ES combating. This is DUMP ALL THE in times of high inprobably correct, flation, as it encourBURDEN ON but weapon ages people to save THE POOREST up more and makes deployed is an interest rate rise. borrowing-to-spend The increase, a 0.25% more expensive. This rise to 0.5%, is nothing reduces demand and therecompared to what frequently fore discourages price rises. happened between the 1970s and the 1990s – it was not But a tiny rise like this will unheard of for interest rates in result in such a feeble saving

dividend that no one will notice, and such a minimal increase in borrowing costs that it will deter very few. Moreover, add the prospect of the average household energy bill surging up by about £700 this year, and it sounds like we already have a huge deterrent against needless spending.

Meanwhile, as usual, the Tories have found the most “hurtthe-poor-while-making-it-soundlike-you’re-helping-the-poor” approach to help with the costof-living deficit. Rishi Sunak, the

WE ALREADY HAVE A HUGE DETERRENT AGAINST NEEDLESS SPENDING

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A tiny rise like this will result in such a feeble saving dividend that no one will notice

Mr Freeze of Chancellors of the Exchequer, has announced a reduction in Council Tax. Council Tax is the main supply line for local Government, as well as for most essential public

services. The people who use essential public services the most are usually the poorest.

So yet again, to fight economic difficulties, rather than removing money from those who already have way more than they need, the Conservatives dump all the burden on the poorest. Rather than transfer the burden to the broadest shoulders, they transfer the weight to a slightly different part of the same shoulders.

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It’s corrupt!

It’s authoritarian!

It’s Neo-Nazi invested It’s Anti-Semitic!

It’s a NATO patsy!

It’ll get Boris Johnson off the hook!

It’s the front line of the New Cold War! But...WE NOW LOVE UKRAINE!!

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ON THIS DAY

HOME GROWN PROBLEM NOT SOLVED BY CLOSING BORDERS

WEEK COMMENCING 1ST MARCH 1st March 1966- The decimalisation of British coinage in 1971 is confirmed by James Callaghan, the Chancellor of the Exchequer 1971- around 1 ½ million people across Britain went on unofficial protests over the 1971 industrial relations bill.

1981- Bobby Sands, the imprisoned IRA member begins hunger strike. He dies 65 days later.

2nd March 1969- Concord make its maiden flight, reaching 10,000 ft and at 300mph, and was in the air for 27 minutes

3rd March 1882- East London, gets the first electric trams in Britain 1952The US bans communists from teaching in public schools 1991- Rodney King is brutally attacked by US police.

4th March 1976 -A 40-year-old Irish born Mother Anne Maguire is wrongly convicted and jailed for 14 years for possessing explosives at her London home.

2007- 33 women in Iran were arrested at the trial of four women who were arrested in June the

previous year for demonstrating for equal rights 2014- Māori King Tuheitia refuses to meet the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on their planned trip to New Zealand. He didn’t think the time allocated was long enough and also didn’t like being treated like a cultural carnival act.

5th March 1981- Ice Dance Championship at Hartford won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean 1965- An uprising took place in Bahrain after hundreds of workers lost their jobs at the

Bahrain Petroleum Company.

They wanted the end of British colonial presence.

6th March 1984- Start of the yearlong miners’ strike.

1987-The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193 by leaving the bow doors open.

2018- In Western Australia, a bottle with a message inside was discovered, thrown over from the German ship Paula on the 12th of June 1886. Apparently the oldest one to be found.

7th March 1876- Alexander Graham Bell, received a patent for his invention of the Telephone.

1965- Civil Rights Marchers walking over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama were viciously attacked by State Troopers. This shocked the nation who saw film footage and encouraged the fight against racial injustice.

2007- The house of commons votes for the house of Lords to be 100% elected after hundreds of years of it being a birth right to those with power and money.

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THE HERALD OF FREE ENTERPRISE DISASTER

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he sun newspaper had vouchers for people to collect which they could use to get a ticket to go on the Herald of Free Enterprise. On the night of the 6th of March 1987 at18.28, shortly after leaving the Belgian Port of Zeebrugge, the Herald of Free Enterprise capsized, killing 193 passengers and crew. The ferry had left port without shutting the bow doors.

that was sent to assistant managers by the operations manager at Zeebrugge.

“There seems to be a gen-

The Herald was a roll on roll off type that on that night was carrying 539 passengers and crew, 81 cars, 3 buses and 47 lorries’ which was more weight than it should have been.

The ferry was in competition with others ferry companies, so their priority was doing as many LET’S PUT THE trips in as short a RECORD STRAIGHT, time as possible, SAILING LATE OUT it was designed O F ZEEBRUGGE ISN for rapid loading ON. IT’S 15 MINUTE’T and unloading.

S Time was of the EARLY FOR US.” essence as can be seen in a part of the investigation report

eral tendency of satisfaction if the ship has sailed two or three minutes early. Where, a full load is present, then every effort has to be made to sail the ship 15

minutes earlier . . . . . I expect to read from now onwards, especially where FE8 is concerned, that the ship left 15 minutes early . . . . . put pressure on the first

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I expect to read from now onwards, especially where FE8 is concerned, that the ship left 15 minutes early . . . put pressure on the first officer if you don’t think he is moving fast enough

officer if you don’t think he is moving fast enough. Have your load ready when the vessel is in and marshal1 your staff and machines to work efficiently. Let’s put the record straight, sailing late out of Zeebrugge isn’t on. It’s 15 minutes early for us.”

If the Herald had not grounded in shallow water, then the chances are the whole ferry would have sunk causing even more deaths.

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BEST OF THE WEB Gaulle airport.

SHIP FIRE Firefighters are struggling to put out a fire that broke out on a vessel carrying thousands of luxury cars which is adrift off the coast of Portugal’s Azores islands, a port official said.

The official added it was unclear when they would succeed.

The Felicity Ace ship, carrying around 4,000 vehicles including Porsches, Audis and Bentleys, some electric with lithium-ion batteries, caught fire in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday.

The 22 crew members on board were evacuated on the same day.

“The intervention (to put out the blaze) has to be done very slowly,” João Mendes Cabeças, captain of the nearest port in the Azorean island of Faial, said. “It will take a while.”

Lithium-ion batteries in the electric vehicles on board are “keeping the fire alive”, Mr Cabeças said, adding that specialist equipment to extinguish it was on the way.

AUSTRALIA Australia will welcome international tourists tomorrow after nearly two years of sealing its borders, relying on high Covid-19 vaccination rates to live with the pandemic as infections decline.

“The wait is over,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison told a briefing at the Melbourne Internation-

al Airport.

Australia’s opening to tourists is the clearest example yet of the government’s shift from a strict zero-Covid approach to living with the virus and vaccinating the public to minimise deaths and severe illness.

Most of the country’s 2.7 million coronavirus infections have occurred since the Omicron variant emerged in late November.

However, with one of the world’s highest vaccination rates - more than 94% of people aged 16 and over are double-dosed there have been just under 5,000 deaths, a fraction of the rates seen in many other developed countries.

The country recorded more than 16,600 coronavirus cases today, before all areas had reported, and at least 33 deaths, mainly in the three most populous states

of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.

ANOTHER SUICIDED A prominent French modelling agent who was a former close associate of disgraced American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead in his Paris prison cell, prosecutors have said.

Epstein, arrested in July 2019 on charges of trafficking underage girls for sex, was found dead in his New York jail cell the following month awaiting trial over abuses against under-age women.

His former associate JeanLuc Brunel, in his mid 70s, had been charged with the rape of minors and held in prison since December 2020.

He was briefly freed in late 2021 but then re-incarcerated on a Paris court of appeal ruling.

A souce close to the investiga-

tion said Brunel had been found dead overnight in the prison de la Sante. Paris prosecutors later confirmed he had died.

Police are now investigating the cause of death, added the source, asking not to be named.

Brunel’s death means his case is closed, unless other suspects are implicated in the same case in the future.

Brunel had denied the charges. He was first detained in December 2020 at Paris Charles de

RUSSIAN IMMIGRATION Foreigners in Russia who support terrorist or extremist causes should be immediately booted out of the country, President Vladimir Putin has said after Moscow hinted that it was considering the possibility of giving citizens found guilty of serious violations deportation orders.

Speaking on Thursday at the board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Russian leader set out his stance on how people who have immigrated to his country should be penalized for grave crimes.

According to Putin, everyone who comes to Russia to live, study, and work, while respecting the law of the land, its culture, and traditions, is welcome. “These foreign citizens, and especially our compatriots coming from abroad, should be able to freely and, without bureaucratic delays, arrange all necessary documents,” he explained.

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re we free to catch Covid or are we not? I thought all this was to be agreed at today’s Cabinet meeting.

Were we not told that Winston Spencer Johnson was going to announce today our freedom to fall ill? It seems that Javid is screaming HEALTH, HEALTH, HEALTH while Sunak is screaming WEALTH, WEALTH, WEALTH. How I miss those Bubbles. They did not last. Well, they were designed by a Prick.

I am reminded of a lesson in St. Catherine’s Girls Secondary Modern, Herriot Street, Liverpool. I was the teacher. The subject was government and politics. I spoke very few words. Brilliant ones, of course!

These 15/16 year old girls were

pissed off at having to wear blue and white striped blouses. Having worked in our local prison I knew why. It was prison uniform. They wanted the head to change it.

They thought that they would compose a survey for all the girls.

What words? So they had to discuss how to pose the question.

How to present the results to the head? “Better not be me, she hates me.” Lots of discussion about that.

THE FOOL MUST GO 1972 and Nixon goes to China. Later an opera commemorating that event was produced. I once asked Frank Cottrell Boyce (no relation to Max) if he would write an opera about Trump. “Beyond parody” he said. But should I see him in the Co-op I will definitely suggest that he writes one about Piffle.

Our official policy has, I think, changed from Die With Covid to Live With Covid. Piffle tells us to be proud. Of what? Of him? There was a time when I thought that the longer he stays the more people will come to despise the Tory Party. Good thing! But I really think we have to get him before he gets us. At present we put up with and even smile about his repeated lies.

What does that say about us?

To this day I am not sure about my intervention. Was I right? Was I wrong?

He appointed a cabinet of incompetents who are dedicated to widening the gap between rich and poor and who plan to put the cuffs on those that protest. He has even invented a job for the Moggy. No, it is not to change nappies.

I said that every teacher is aware of your feelings. That is why no-one has ever been punished for breaking that particular school rule. BUT if you demand and insist upon a new rule it will be enforced.

After all, you asked for it.

Its not just incompetence. It is also sheer nastiness. They neither know nor care about people unable to donate to their Party. Come on, sign up for war. That is another Piffle self defence strategem. He will personally pin The Cross Of Ukraine on your body bag. For the moment I shall refrain from saying much about the leader of the New Blair Party, except that presenting himself as a less incompetent Piffle excites no-one.

Ah! Maybe we won’t go ahead, the teachers are on our side.

My mistake? I think I ought to have done much more to let them know what they were teaching me about the subject I was supposed to be teaching.

DEMOCRACY? Not exactly straightforward, can be rather untidy. But doesn’t it sometimes make you feel like a valued member of a community?

Our current government limits decision-making to a very few preferred people. And they come nowhere near those girls who, at the age of 11, as I was, were told that they were inferior humans.

Run a government? Can jokes get sicker?

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HOW COP26 IS SEEN FROM THE STREET IN RURAL WEST NORFOLK

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s a distraction from the ravages of COVID and imminent implosion of the Conservative Party (we can all see the jockeying of West Norfolk MP Elizabeth Truss to put her infamous “cheese” speech behind her to be the next Tory leader), COP26 was a continuation of the good and the great arriving by - private jets - to tell us how to turn back the climate clock.

The organisers claim that COP26 achieved a global compromise that reflects a delicate balance between the interests and aspirations of nearly the 200 Parties.

Without China and India onboard no holy grail was achievable, so its true value lies in the publicity given to the belief that climate change can be reversed.

Ironically the conference was overshadowed by an enormous rise in the price of oil with global

ramifications.

With a new leader of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk borough

council the same politicians who defeated a Climate Emergency motion in 2019 have seen the

OUR FATHER ANDREW IS NOT A PERVE, THAT’S NONSENSE ISN’T IT JEANIE? HA BEA!, THAT’S A RALLY RALLY FUNNY PUN...NONCE SENSE!!

OH YA JEANIE, YOU’RE RIGHT, NON SENSE!!

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light and now agree a council zero carbon target in eight years.

But other than generate good photo opportunities it will make only a teeny tiny difference.

from homes.

During the 2020 pandemic local transport use fell and so did CO2 emissions, down by 19.6 per cent!

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West Norfolk produced the county’s most global warming gas called BILLION carbon dioxide in 2017 CLEAN UP at nearly 1,500,000 kiloBILL FOR LIZ grams. Much of this was TRUSS’S SEAT down to high road usage in this rural area, but 40% came lion.

It is expected to cost £3.8 million to save 500 tonnes of council produced CO2 reproduced throughout the borough would mean a clean up bill of more than £1 bil-

CRIMEA WAS PART OF RUSSIA Crimea was part of Russia from 1783, when the Tsarist Empire annexed it a decade after defeating Ottoman forces in the Battle of Kozludzha, until 1954, when the Soviet government transferred Crimea from the Russian Soviet Federation of Socialist Republics (RSFSR) to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UkrSSR). The transfer was announced in the Soviet press in late February 1954, eight days after the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a resolution authorizing the move on 19 February. The text of the resolution and some anodyne excerpts from the proceedings of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet meeting on 19 February were published along with the very brief announcement.

Nothing else about the transfer was disclosed at the time, and no further information was made available during the remainder of the Soviet era.

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MORE THAN TWO GRAND A POP FOR A SMALL PROCEDURE

THE PATIENT HAS HIS EYES OUT

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inally it was time for me to have my cataracts out and implants in. The NHS paid a local business with a fancy name, in a beautiful building next to our nearest hospital, a fortune.

Over a couple of months I’ve had two such ops, and now I can see for miles (though I’m not sure there’s anything worth see-

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ing) but can’t focus on anything closer than the end of my arm.

I’ll now need reading glasses to function at anything below the macro level.

The staff of the Eye Clinic, all fourteen of them, seem professional, caring, hardworking, and capable. I just wonder how much more deserving they are than people on minimum wage,

I wonder how much more deserving they are than people on minimum wage

in A&E, or driving ambulancan audience of cattle and flies. es, delivering shopping to those still shelMy eyes are much THE tering, emptying better now. The exSTAFF SEEM the bins, and so perience was painPROFESSIONAL, less; I was fully conon. Their rewards CARING, seem to come scious throughout, HARDWORKING, the light show was from NHS money, £45,000 per day, beautiful, and the AND CAPABLE times 7 days a week. recover took a couple of weeks for each That’s going to be eye. I can recommend it about £1.35 million per calendar to anyone who doesn’t object to month, for an operation done some rather wealthy people getsuccessfully in local health cen- ting even richer out of it. My extres in India by volunteers, with cuse is that without it I couldn’t

legally drive our car, at a time when I’m needed as ‘The Lift’ for various members of my family who can’t get around without me.

The problem we have in the UK is bigger than one person’s situation, two eyes, and a driving licence. We used to have a NHS free of charge, publicly funded, and owned. Where did it all go wrong?

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ELEVEN Left Labour MPs defied Starmer ELEVEN left Labour MPs defied Starmer and the right wing by putting their names to a Stop The War petition.

Their rebellion immediately crumbled when the chief whip read the riot act to them threatening to exile them with Jeremy Corbyn.

They each received a letter saying that if they did not immediately withdraw their names from the petition, which was highly critical of NATO, they might have the party Whip withdrawn.

The petition says that NATO “should call a halt to its eastward expansion and commit to a new security deal for Europe which meets the needs of all states and peoples,” adding: “We refute the idea that NATO is a defensive alliance, and believe its record in Afghanistan, Yugoslavia and Libya over the last generation, not to mention the US-British attack on Iraq, clearly proves otherwise.”

The rebels included such icons of the left as Diane Abbott,

John McDonnell and Richard Burgon.

To no one’s surprise they all buckled under and humiliatingly withdrew their support which makes a complete mockery of their oft repeated call for left wing party members to “stay and fight” rather than resign in disgust with Starmer and his cronies.

A Labour spokesperson said: “The small number of Labour MPs that signed the Stop The War statement have all now withdrawn their names. This shows Labour is under new management.

With Keir Starmer’s leadership there will never be any confusion about whose side Labour is on – Britain, Nato, freedom and democracy – and every Labour MP now understands that.”

The group did not represent “benign voices for peace”, Starmer said, adding: “At best they are naive, at worst they actively give succour to authoritarian leaders

who directly threaten democracies. There is nothing progressive in showing solidarity with the aggressor when our allies need our solidarity and – crucially – our practical assistance now more than ever.”

The other 10 second rebels were: Tahir Ali, Apsana Begum, Ian Mearns, Ian Lavery, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Zarah Sultana, Mick Whitley and Beth Winter.

Other MPs still supporting the petition include Jeremey Corbyn and Claudia Webbe, both former Labour MPs who, for different reasons, have had the whip withdrawn and sit as Independent MPs. Andrew Scattergood, cochair of Labour’s faded left Momentum, said: “It beggars belief that the Labour leadership instead focuses on a week-old statement in an attempt to wage factional warfare against them, while a real war wages on against the Ukrainian people.”

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s Liberty says: “This Government is systematically shutting down all avenues of accountability through a succession of rushed and oppressive bills.”

PCSC Bill – Police Crimes, Sentencing and Courts Bill – The Police Bill aka the bill attacking our Right To Protest, democracy, rights, liberties and freedom.

Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 2021 – aka the CHIS Bill, or Licence to Kill Bill. The Act provides an express power to authorise CHIS, the Government and its agents, to participate in conduct which would otherwise constitute a criminal offence, including false imprisonment, rape, torture and murder.

Covid Act 2020 – including removing central government and local authorities’ responsibility for the provision of care for those who need it.

Reform and revision of the Human Rights Act – Liberty says this is an unashamed power grab and threatens to weaken our rights protections and put the Government beyond accountability.

NABB – Nationalities and Borders Bill – one of the most racist bills in recent history, which would extend the ‘hostile environment’ first created for the Windrush generation to include and affect all diaspora communities. It will leave refugees to drown and criminalise

Voter ID Bill

anyone who tries to save them, with up to a lifetime in prison, and would leave British Citizens at risk of having their nationality stripped without notice or chance to appeal.

Assisted Dying Bill – as long as our lives are not safe in their hands, neither are our deaths.

With 250,000 extra, avoidable,

preventable deaths of disabled people by June 2019 as a result of Tory Cuts and Austerity and since 2020 a further 181,424 COvid Deaths, it is quite clear the Tories agenda is clearly to endanger and end lives not save lives.

Health and Care Bill – which will accelerate the privatisation of Our NHS and the creation of

Environment Bill Electoral Commission (abolition) - Mr Peter Bone Elections Bill Dormant Assets Bill Dissolution and calling of Parliament Critical benchmarks (references and administrators liability) - Lord Agnew of Oulton Charities Bill Armed Forces Bill There are 266 Bills going through Parliament right now About 30 of them are Government Bills, the rest are private members bills

a two tier system of healthcare provision and will further increase inequality in the NHS, social care and public health. The

least well-off will particularly lose out.

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ew academics have a more intuitive and thorough understanding of history unfolding between Russia and the US than Nina L. Khrushcheva, author, commentator and professor of international affairs at The New School in New York City. The granddaughter of the Soviet leader of the 1950s and 1960s Nikita Khrushchev has observed the unfolding crisis in Ukraine very closely and shares her thoughts with Kathimerini.

In one of your recent articles you suggest that the West has ignored Russia’s security concerns. Do you really think that Russia’s big fear is that perhaps in 10 years time, Western NATO forces might establish military camps only a few hundred kilometers from Moscow?

Well, yes, I mean the West ignored Russia as a legitimate player after the Cold War. America says that NATO is a defensive alliance. But in Putin’s view, if NATO is close to the Russian

borders this creates the potential for manipulation in Russian affairs. Also, Putin is thinking that if Ukraine is firmly in that NATO embrace in five years from now and they decide – and I think they already have decided – that he is the Saddam Hussein of Europe, then why not take him out? So Putin thinks that he doesn’t want to have this fate.

Apart from that, Putin is basically saying, “Why are you denying me things that you do?” Finally, even if he dies in the Kremlin, after many years, he doesn’t want to be the one who, for example, didn’t prevent Ukraine retaking Crimea by force and the Russian naval force from being replaced by a US naval force. I think all these are very complicated thoughts that he has and that’s what I think drives his current actions.

You have explained that Russia seeks to establish a sphere of influence. But what about the sovereignty of nations and their freedom to choose alliances?

Ukraine should have the right to choose an alliance. But my

teacher, my mentor was George Kennan [the US diplomat who was the advocate of the doctrine of containment of Russia during the Cold War]. Yes, all the countries have equal rights but geopolitics suggests that ultimately the smaller countries, the less powerful countries end up choosing what’s the least harmful way for their existence. Look at Finland. I’m not disagreeing with your suggestion but let’s be reasonable here. I’ve been a critic of Putin since December 31, 1999 when he became president. But certainly the United States is not the source of goodness. Why is the West screaming about Putin so much and not screaming enough about [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan? It’s just because the US needs a giant enemy. And, equally, Putin wants to push away a big power. Two countries that consider themselves important and messianic are arguing over who is better, more important and more messianic…

Yes, but one could argue that there are some practical matters

here. If Ukraine falls and accepts Russian demands, then NATO will crack and Europe will enter a new Cold War era. China might be more emboldened toward Taiwan. And Russia will then ask for more influence over the rest of Eastern Europe.

It is possible that all of that could happen. The Chinese are already emboldened and looking at this with great glee. And, yes, Putin might ask then, “What about the Baltics?” What Putin demands is what many Russian leaders would demand because Russian leaders think that they have a great country. But the West says, no, you are big but you’re basically just a gas station with a pump for us or something. And so you’re going to sit at the children’s table next to the toilet.

What would George Kennan suggest as a solution to this impasse?

George Kennan was very much against the expansion of NATO eastward in Europe and so he would say, “Consider their

issues, discuss their problems.”

But, you know, I teach propaganda in the university and I see how politics is being done. You always need to create an enemy and you always need to create history to show you are right.

Would your grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, support President Putin in his goals regarding Ukraine?

When Putin annexed Crimea, my uncle thought that Khrushchev would agree with that.

My mother said instead that he would be appalled by that.

Khruschev was certainly a Soviet patriot. He would have been traumatized even at the thought that American naval ships could go into Crimea. As you know, during his premiership, in 1956, tanks were sent into Budapest.

In 1968, while he was retired, the Soviets sent tanks to Czechoslovakia. He was incredibly upset, and he was saying, “It’s been 12 years, and we haven’t learned a better way than sending tanks.”

So today, I’m sure he would say, “It has been 60 years and still we haven’t learned a better way.”

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NO GOVERNMENT - Nicolette No government is a way of life.

No government means to trust your friends.

I know who I am and you know who you are.

If everybody knew what they wanted, there’d be nothing, nothing left.

People would do what they wanted, and there’d be no government.

There’d be no government, there’d be no government.

People would do what they wanted, and there’d be no government.

LEFT LEANINGS

N

icolette, (born Nicolette Love Suwoton) is a UK singersongwriter of Nigerian parentage. Born in Glasgow in 1964, she is well travelled having lived in Nigeria, Switzerland, France, and Belgium. Her music is characterised by many influences, including, Jazz, Classical, Blues, Folk and African, her main thrust though is in the field of Electronica through the genres of Trip-Hop, Drum and Bass, Breakbeat, Industrial and Ambient, all of which has resulted in an individualistic sound due in part to the diversity of music her father played and taught her as a child.

Described by some as ‘Billie Holiday on acid’, her distinctive voice has been likened to that of a child, even by herself, but her subject matter, is anything but childlike. Nicolette draws a great deal on the personal experiences of herself and others in her songs, and with three solo albums under her belt and working and collaborating in the electronic mu-

»

The song though was not free of its critics with some journalists regarding it as anarchic

sic field with the likes of Massive Attack, Plaid, Alex Empire, and 4Hero, she has assured her place in the scene.

About the song…

‘No Government’ is predictably a song about what it would be like to live with no one telling anyone what to do, and how idyllic it might be to resort to a time when we trusted our friends more than anything else, and did not need to be told what to feel, how to think and what to do. Indeed, we’d have time, free from the constraint of a government to enjoy ourselves and enjoy one another in ways that we don’t have time to do so now.

The song though was not free of its

critics with some journalists regarding it as anarchic. Suwoton’s own answer to that was that she didn’t understand how anyone could think of the song as anarchic! ‘Or maybe I don’t understand what anarchy really means’, she adds. ‘It was really annoying to have to keep explaining to the press that the song is about the real meaning of freedom, and them not paying the slightest bit of attention to my explanations. Basically, No Government is just saying that if we as human beings trusted ourselves and believed in this amazing intrinsic wisdom that we have, we wouldn’t have to be told what the right thing to do is, because we would know. And by extension the world would be different… less stressed, perhaps, less fearful. Fear is a killer.’

Amen to that, Sister…

You can find the song on YouTube if you wish to give it a worthwhile revisit.

Or perhaps it’s in your collection already.

By Adrian Angel

There’d be no government, there’d be no government.

People would do what they wanted, and there’d be no government.

Life has me tempting, refreshing me, making me stretch.

My body is flowing and happy and feeling refreshed.

My choices, believe me, are infinite easy.

Exciting and mystical choices before me.

They tell me my life is a journey in no government.

If everybody lived in their bodies, we’d have so much, so much time.

Touching would be such a pass-time, and we’d have such lazy days.

We’d have such lazy days, for we’d kiss them away.

People would worship each other, and we’d have loose, lazy ways.

No government is an easy time.

No government is an exciting life.

We’d work for ourselves, and we’d love for ourselves, and for no government.

There’d be no suffering.

There’d be no government.

People would see and let them be, and we’d have no government.

There’d be no government, there’d be no government.

People will see and let them be, and will be no government.

No government is a way of life. (7x)

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BLACK ACTRESS SHARON DUNCAN

victim of anti-China propaganda war T

he claim first appeared in Times of London last October as fact until it quietly admitted that story about alleged Chinese racism was untrue.

A week after it had appeared it was deleted from the Times website and published a tiny correction.

But exactly the same lie can still be found, uncorrected, four months later on FilmAsthete, BreezyScroll and WION web

Claims that membership grew after Corbyn’s defeat hid a mass loss and financial problems Starmer’s heartless shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, took a cowardly swipe at 150,000 former party members by smearing them with the anti-semitism brush.

The right wing MP whose favourite policy is fiscal discipline - austerity to you and me - told the Financial Times that plum-

sites. FilmAsthete claims “the actress is not featured in the new poster created for the Chinese market.”

All the false stories are based on a tweet from an American based think-tank called the China Africa Project which Tweeted in October that Black actress Sharon Duncan-Brewster had been “removed” from the Chinese version of the film poster for Dune.

The idea being that Chinese

audiences are racist, and would not want to see the film if they thought it starred a Black actor.

So presumably, someone in authority in China had airbrushed Duncan-Brewster out.

But this was a total lie now acknowledged by the Times (why did they check?) and sort of by Yahoo News.

It was first debunked on Twitter by Daniel Dumbrill, a YouTuber who lives in China and specialises in disproving

just such disinformation: He immediately Tweeted: "No they didn't. That is one of the many posters made by the studio and used in the West as well, but as a matter of fact, China is mostly using the version with Sharon present. You could've very easily verified this on your own."

Several other Twitter users in China published photos they had taken showing the exact same posters as the rest of the world, but translated into Chinese, were being used.

One of the posters — in English, Chinese and other languages — includes an image of Duncan-Brewster as her character Dr Liet Kynes. But several other posters do not.

Her character, Dr Kynes, is not a main character or central to the story. The Trinidad born but UK actress is billed ninth in official list of actors.

Source: Asa Winstanley

Fury as senior Labour figure tars former members as anti-semites meting party membership was ‘a good thing because they were the wrong sort of people’ ignoring that many had dedicated their lives to the party.

She added: “They should never have joined. Losing them was a price worth paying for ridding Labour of anti-semites” puttiing flesh on Deputy Leader Angela Rayner’s 2020 threat to suspend ‘thousands and thousands’ of members if they did not ‘get real’ about anti-semitism.

Immediately after Reeves latest insult Twitter lit up with furious complaints that Reeves had branded former members as anti-semites without a shred of evidence, now standard Labour behaviour.

This final swipe came as a surprise as Reeves, unlike her lookalike colleague at the time Ruth Smeeth, had remained silent throughout the years bombarded of fake claims that the party was riddled with racists.

Nor did she see any connection

between plummeting membership and the growing threat of bankruptcy which Reeve said was Jeremy Corbyn’s fault.

She added that the 150,000 “never shared our values” and as she championed the memorialising of Britain’s first woman MP, Lady Nancy Astor, a well know Jew-hater, she was probably right.

This is not the first time Reeves has gratuitously insulted a large section of the party.

In 2015 as Ed Miliband’s shadow work and pensions secretary, she infamously declared that the party was “not the party of people on benefits” which immediately outraged disabled activists.

She told the Guardian: “We don’t want to be seen, and we’re not, as the party to represent those who are out of work.”

Looks like nothing has changed in the land of Labour Mordor.

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WOULD 100 YEARS ADVANCE MARVELS BE ENOUGH TO WIN THEM OVER?

THE TRUTH ‘MAY’ BE OUT THERE… T

hey say that our species, Homo Sapiens, has made more technological advancements over the last 100 years, than it EVER has throughout its entire 200,000 year history.

And you have to ask yourself, if you’re a thinking person that is, why that might be?

The Conspiracy theorists will all tell you that it’s aliens from another world, the evolutionists that it’s nothing more than a natural progression borne of something as simple and mundane as eating meat which made our brains evolve faster. Without wanting to risk delving too far into the realms of Mulder and Scully though, could it really be the case now that we actually were visited by and interfered with in some way by a race of technologically superior beings, beings that then engaged in a ne-

farious, but mutually beneficial deal of some sorts with the governments of our world?

Would our governments actually enter into such an arrangement, you might ask? Would 100 years of technologically advanced marvels be enough to win them over?

Well, it’s really not that farfetched when you apply a critical mind to the issue. Indeed, it’s a theory that’s touched upon quite seriously within the second half of Season 10 of ‘American Horror Story - Double Feature’, in which its creators, Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy offer us a scenario centred around an Alien race from a dying world that shares its technology with the American government for a price, technology ranging from microwave ovens, through stealth/military technology and microelectronics, and right on up to the mobile phones

that we now depend upon in our day to day existence, all of this in exchange for the dubious right to experiment upon certain Human individuals with the aim of producing an Alien/Human hybrid, within which the Alien race can better exist on Earth.

Of course predictably all is not what it appears to be, and once the Aliens have their hybrid skinsuit, Humans are deemed entirely unnecessary and duly wiped out.

So, did Mankind really just ‘evolve’ such a huge jump in our technological expertise by eating more meat then, or could it be the case that the truth really is ‘Out There’ somewhere, and that we’re all about to face utter annihilation?

As always, you decide…

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MAGGIE THATCHER, MORE AGONY AUNT ANSWERS FROM THE OTHER SIDE

Dear Maggieovich, I was minding my own business in my own back garden when some American guy said I was standing too near the garden fence and started shouting at me. What should I do?

Yours V Putin, Maggie Says - Well Vlad my dear boy this is a very common situation you are facing with the Americans, it happens all over the world. If you were to visit all your neighbouring gardens you would find a well tooled up Yank ‘Advisor’ just begging to be ‘provoked’! Literally they are begging for you to chuck a carelessly ‘aggressive’ Frisbee into their yard or look at them funny, so they can ‘Kick your goddam Ass’! Either that or they will unleash their pet British Bulldog Tony.

Of course you could just chin the f***er, like I did the Argentinians in the 80’s, It might piss off your neighbourhood but it will make you popular at home, it worked for me. Of course Boris will just stand there

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screeching “Leave him Joe, he ain’t worth it!” whilst eating a Donner Kebab and urinating up your fence.

In both cases make sure they wear facemasks and gloves, nobody wants you to catch anything, well except Charles.

RT Hon, Baroness Thatcher, My two oldest son’s are both very naughty and have got themselves in trouble. Should I stop their pocket money Liz from Windsor.

Maggie Says - Ma’am it just goes to show that being the son of the richest woman on the planet means you can do anything if you are as thick as sh*t or a colossal pervert, or both. Of course being a rampant sexual deviant is definitely one of the benefits of huge wealth and boys will be boys. Maybe confiscate his fancy military regalia he likes to dress up in when he’s not Noncing it up in mid-priced Pizza Restaurants.

As for your eldest, taking cash for honours, he’s done nothing the Tories and Labour haven’t done.

I doubt the Met will give a toss, even without Dame Cressida ‘misplacing’ the evidence.

Dearest Maggs, My electric bill has gone up 1000 percent and I cannot afford to eat. Should I still support the

Tories?

Mrs Starmer from London Maggie Says - well if it’s not Lady Victoria Starkers. I have to be honest I know nothing about you and Googled. The first article that came up was from Tattler, you sound the very model of a Conservative wife, having given

The World View Of DAISY MAIL In the interest of balance, a mainstream view....

Hello again readers, it’s Daisy here with another well judged, MSM informed, slice of good old British common sense in your revolting Trot Newspaper.

I see that noble Duke of Prince Andrew did the honourable thing and avoided his courtcase over shadowing the Queen’s Jubilee. And did you hear he had to sell his skiing lodge to pay off that slutty woman’s anti sextrafficking charity all those millions of pounds. Warms the heart doesn’t it.

I was so proud of the Great British Curling team’s success in the Winter Olympics. There is something really uplifting about working class Scottish lady’s sweeping the floor while their boss shouts the word “Hard!”

I see Boris is overturning the ban on Fur and Foie Gras, allowing British Sadists to indulge their blood lust. I can’t see why force-feeding corn down a goose’s neck so it’s liver swells to bursting point was ever banned, the EU allows the French to do it as it’s traditionele...Have that Macron you pint sized Get!

up your career as a solicitor to support your husband’s ambitions. It says here that you are Polish and Jewish and live in a £1.75Million house and that is about all anyone knows about you. Everyone is hoping for a mild winter, what with food and heating being so expensive, maybe just dip into your savings portfolio and blame a foreigner.

It’s the Tory way.

Querida Senhora Margherita, I have just moved home but the kids here will not play with me. They are really mean. Can you advise Christiano from Manchester.

Why don’t you writhe on the floor like you’ve been electrocuted. Or rollover a dozen times holding your shin, which is clearly fine being protected by a shinpad. Try screaming foul mouthed tirades in Portuguese right in the face of any official who disagrees with you. It’s worked for you so far, you petulant Iberian manboy Ponce.

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BIZARRE NEWS Psycho E-moji Out In The Cold Jeremy Farmer, 35, was arrested on February 10. According to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD), he is a suspect in his father’s disappearance, and has been charged with murder.

Farmer’s father, Fred, disappeared while on a hunting trip in late 2019. His family kept receiving text messages from Fred after he went missing, but something aroused their suspicions. Fred had suddenly started using emojis. That wasn’t something the 58-year-old retired mechanic had ever done before.

Fast-forward to February 2021, and Jeremy is behind bars. And he might’ve gotten away with it all too, if he’d paid any attention to how his father wrote his texts.

As far as his family was aware, Fred had never typed so much as the basic 🙂 smiley in his life.

On December 27, 2019 – more

than a month after Fred had left for his hunting trip – the family reported him to the police as missing. The IMPD launched an investigation and began looking for Fred.

The police found out that Fred’s cell phone was never in the woods where he was supposed to be hunting, reported the Washington Post. Instead, the phone remained in Wayne Township, west of Indianapolis, until it shut off for good in January 2020. Investigating Fred’s bank accounts also revealed something fascinating. Someone had made thousands of dollars’ worth of purchases using Fred’s debit card after he had disappeared. Surveillance footage at one of the stores showed Jeremy Farmer as the impersonator.

The final nail in the coffin came when two witnesses told the police that Jeremy had bragged about killing his father.

According to them, the young

man said he’d shot Fred twice in the head and hidden his corpse in a freezer. £1,000,000 Estate Agent Piss-Take The SIX FOOT SQUARE house was originally a hat shop in the Shepherd’s Bush area of London. That’s fine. It seems like a claustrophobic space to both work and shop, but that was at least reasonable. It looks as though someone bricked up a gap between two other proper buildings. The German fashion photographer owner who has a minimalist/amateur aesthetic, bought the hat shop and turned it into a home. The Estate agency Winkworth wants people to believe this home is a “designer’s dream” and the living quarters are comparable to a “luxury yacht.” But the door for the bedroom is literally on the floor.

That’s cute and “designer” until someone opens it and forgets –

or forgets to tell the other person – and someone plummets down a stairway.

One floor is just the bathroom. On to the second floor where you’ll find a windowless office, a bedroom, and a roof terrace where you can go for your panic attacks when the walls are closing in on you. The third floor is all the plumbing in the house, including the only bathroom.

The top floor is the petite “master” bedroom.

It’s hard to imagine that this is someone’s ideal home. The agency is working hard to spin it as quirky for people who want more from life (but not more space).

Self Charging Users Turning a person into a battery sounds like something out of The Matrix movies. If you haven’t seen them, in the films a malevolent race of machines farms human beings for produc-

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Virgo (August 23 – September22) Something will happen today. Lucky Car – Morris Traveller Libra (September 23 - October 22) It’s never too late to change your mind. It is, however, bloody infuriating. Stop dithering.

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A good idea you pick up from listening to other people talking can easily be used for your own benefit.

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ing bioelectricity But now scientists have indeed figured out how to use the human body to power electric devices. In a new study, published in the journal Science Advances, researchers created a stretchy, flexible device. It can be worn like a ring or a bracelet, and it generates electricity from contact with human skin.

The new device differs from the human batteries in The Matrix films in power output as well. The invention produces only one volt of energy for every square centimetre of skin it touches. If that doesn’t sound like much, that’s because it isn’t.

That’s actually less voltage per area than most modern lithium batteries produce.

The stretchy-stretchy material the device is made from is called polyimine. To this base, the researchers added thermoelectric chips and connected them with liquid metal wires.

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Gerry O’Gorman Book Review On

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June

1953,

after

conviction for conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of the

Soviet

Rosenberg

Union,

became

Ethel

the

first

the general mood was that the

woman in the US to be executed

people felt if you scratch a Jew,

for a crime other than murder.

you can find a Communist”.

Rosenberg was killed by five

Despite

matter, Sebba’s flowing narrative

husband Julius was executed in

remains clear, lucid and riveting,

‘Sing Sing’ prison, New York City.

as many dramas - personal,

The pair went to their deaths

domestic, political, historical &

protesting

court-room - unfold and inter-

their to

innocence,

provide

US

comrades

implicated

weave

to

originally indigenous

Atena Daemi is free! Her sister

design”.

colonialists forced them out. Now

posted a tweet saying "Atena is

a

sacred

place

Americans

for

before

the land is being handed back,

an

subject

inevitable,

devastating conclusion.

Sebba Rosenberg

humanity at the heart of its

the

in

espionage plots.

structure for putting “care and

of

and

chair a few minutes after her

authorities with names of other

Iran: News from Amnesty

size

complexities

refusing

International that after five years,

the

jolts to the head in the electric

portrays as

neither

martyr

-

it

Two young boys, Michael and

transpires that Julius did in fact

Robert, were orphaned by their

pass secrets to Russia - but the

parents’ executions.

author offers a sympathetic subtext to the couples’ actions and

Although many on the Left

free" along with a moving video of

Located in a waterlogged area

along with the responsibility to

may

Atena giving her mother an

vulnerable to climate change, the

conserve it. The forest will also

Rosenbergs’

embrace.

£1.5m

by

revert to its original name Tc’ih-

‘Crime of the Century’ by FBI

Sebba’s book has been lauded

hospital

is

run

be

familiar story

with -

the

commitment to the struggle for a fairer society.

dubbed

Friendship, an NGO, and embodies

Léh-Dûñ, meaning ‘Fish Run Place’

chief J Edgar Hoover - Sebba

by academics, historians and

She was arrested in Iran in 2016

the spirit of resilience. Architect

in the Sinkyone language.

focusses firmly on her female

contemporary authors. Her work

after handing out leaflets and

Kashef Chowdhury designed the

subject, whilst exploring Ethel’s

took five years to complete and

taking part in a peaceful protest

building to withstand extreme

other roles as mother, sister, wife

joins,

against the execution of a young

weather, harvest rainwater and

and daughter. The author also

substantial

woman.

uplift patients. A canal running

A relative of the banana that

notes that although most leading

including literature, plays and

through the site provides natural

grows in the Ethiopian Highlands

characters in her story are male,

documentaries,

cooling.

is a “wonder crop” that could feed

and mainly intent on Ethel’s

contributions from Arthur Miller,

millions.

destruction,

Sylvia Plath and Woody Allen.

She was sentenced to time in prison for “gathering and colluding

Eithiopia: Scientists heralded an underrated ‘wonder crop’

to commit crimes against national

“The hospital is very relevant

security”, “spreading propaganda

to critical global challenges, such as

against the system”, and “insulting

unequal access to healthcare and

studying

the founder of the Islamic Republic

the crushing impact of climate

enset (a “banana on steroids”), little

immigrant

of Iran and the Supreme Leader”.

breakdown

Amnesty said thousands of people

had

supported

on

they thanked those who have

is

This is claimed by scientists the

drought-resistant

roots

and

vulnerable

known outside of Ethiopia, where

impoverished upbringing in New

people use it to make porridge and

York’s Lower East Side.

Odile Decq.

bread.

This hospital is a celebration of a building dedicated to humans.”

California:

upsetting detail I found ‘A Cold War Tragedy’ a brilliant, richly rewarding read.

I was also relieved to discover

She covers the troubled

that Ethel’s children, despite

Researchers reckon the relative

relationships of Ethel’s family,

their traumas, led creative lives

inaccessibility of the country’s

riven by political and personal

and careers.

Highlands has prevented enset

betrayal and tragedy, providing

from

and

historical context via the Great

In her final chapter ‘The

Locals,

Depression, World War 2, and US-

Many Ways of Seeing Ethel

Bangladesh: A hospital in

back to descendants of native

reputedly, call it the “tree against

Soviet Cold War tensions. Sebba

Rosenberg’ Sebba summarizes

rural Bangladesh has been named

American Tribes by a conservation

hunger”.

also acknowledges links in anti-

her story’s all-pervading theme

the world’s best new building. The

organisation. Returning land to

communist hysteria and US anti-

as betrayal, with a compelling

Friendship Hospital in Satkhira

indigenous people has been a

was declared winner of the 2021

proven solution to deforestation.

Tuesday.

Judges

Prize

on

praised

the

of

with

cultivated

International

swathe

a

canon

redwood forest has been handed

RIBA

A

from,

Despite its tragic theme and Sebba charts Ethel’s familial

communities,” said RIBA judge

shown that actions have power in solidarity.

story

draws

Rosenberg

essentially all about women.

the

campaign to release Atena and

her

and

The 532-acre forest was

being

exported

elsewhere.

A recent study feels the crop

Semitism, quoting from Arnold

final line; ‘Only Ethel betrayed

could live up to its name by helping

Forster of the American Jewish

no-one, thus sealing her own

fight malnutrition elsewhere in

Committee; “Our evaluation of

fate.’

Africa.

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Women who made a Difference W

hilst climate change is a major issue today it was a woman, Eunice

Newton Foote (17 July 1819 – 30 September 1888), who defined climate change but was ignored.

Eunice

Foote's

amateur

experiments were the first to outline the relationship between greenhouse

gasses

and

atmospheric warming, but a male scientist

with

a

similar

experiment took credit for the find three years later.

It would take over a century for Foote to receive the credit she deserved for her astounding contributions to science and women’s rights.

Eunice Foote few

institutions

that

allowed

A collector of antique science

amateurs and women to become

the

of Sentiments drawn up by

and was buried in Green-Wood

journals named Raymond Sorenson

suffragists at the 1848 Seneca Fall

Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. So

She was born in Connecticut, but

members. She did not get to present or

stumbled upon a summary of Foote’s

convention for women’s rights written

far only a short film entitled 'Eunice'

grew up in New York with five

read her paper herself. Instead, Joseph

original 1856 study. He asserted that

by Elizabeth Cady Stanton which

has been made of her life.

brothers and six sisters. Eunice

Henry

Smithsonian

“Eunice Foote deserves credit for

demanded equality with men in social

attended the Troy Female Seminary

Institution editorialised Foote’s study,

being the first to recognize that certain

status and legal rights, including the

whose students were encouraged to

saying that “science was of no country

atmospheric gases, such as carbon

right to vote.

attend a science-based college. Here

and of no sex. The sphere of woman

dioxide would absorb solar radiation

she probably developed the skills to

embraces not only the beautiful and

and generate heat… [three] years

Eunice Foote’s place in the

aid her in independent experiments.

the useful but the true.”

before Tyndall’s research that is

scientific community, or lack thereof,

women,

conventionally credited with this

weaves into the broader story of

representation that happens equally

discovery.”

women’s rights. even the Smithsonian

across all regions of the globe.

of

the

Foote was the first scientist to

However Foote's work wasn’t read

define the greenhouse gas effect. She

in full or with the seriousness it

was the first person to demonstrate

deserved.

how different proportions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would change its temperature.

In August 1856, Eunice Foote took her

paper

titled

This lack of recognition of women in science hasn’t changed much. As of 2020, less than 30 percent of the world’s researchers are a

gross

under-

Institution, one of America’s premier During the 19th century, 16

scientific research institutions, was

It’s clear there’s still much to be

physics papers were published by

built on the clause “for the increase

done in order to achieve true gender

Her study was omitted from the

American women; of which two, both

and diffusion of knowledge among

equity for women in science. Let’s give

society’s annual Proceedings where all

written by Foote, were published

men”

justice to those silenced female voices

the works that were presented at their

before 1889.

in science, like the inimitable Eunice

annual meetings were published.

'Circumstances

Eunice Newton married Elisha Her interests extended beyond

Affecting the Heat of Sun’s Rays' at the

Thus, in 1859, Irish scientist John

annual conference of the American

Bloomfield . The couple eventually

Tyndall published his own paper and

prominent suffragist Elizabeth Cady

settled in Seneca Falls and had two

Association for the Advancement of

has since been widely credited as the

Stanton and was a proud suffragist

children there:

Science (AAAS), which was among the

father of modern climate science.

herself. Her signature even appears on

Week

she

was

friends

Foote on August 12, 1841, in East

with

Quotes of the

science;

Foote.

Sources include Wikipedia and Natasha Ishak

Foote died on 30 September 1888,

(see https://tinyurl.com/24krex77 )

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that”.

Martin Luther King.

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and deep heart.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky.

"Far left views push others towards fascism."

George Orwell.

"When posh boys are in trouble they sack the servants."

Dennis Skinner

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WOMEN IN JAPAN A SERIES!

O

n 19th January, the

Fukuoka High court

SHE IS NOT A CRIMINAL

trainees as cheap and dispensable

labour pain all alone and suffering

grounds

of

pregnancy

and

How much could we

low-skilled labour. There have

from the loss . He will remain free

childbirth,

a

been calls, both domestically and

and enjoys anonymity while his

employers tend to select for the

welfare

years’

internationally, for this programme

partner is waiting for the last

programme those trainees who

barriers, over and above a language

probation and three months in

to

verdict of the Supreme Court in a

are least informed of, and isolated

barrier, would

jail to a Vietnamese female

trainees’

cold cell.

from, any support on which they

surmount

technical

could rely. Some of them were

understanding?

handed

sentence

of

down

two

intern

be

reformed. human rights

Foreign have

trainee,

been ignored and trivialised in

Ms. Linh, for abandoning her

Japan, where human rights are not

stillborn twin babies. Why are

so greatly respected in general.

we punishing them at all ?

The marginalisation experienced

They should not have been arrested,

detained

she found herself pregnant.

more severe in rural areas.

only her, but all

I have read quite a few articles

pregnant

we

have to

achieve such an

pregnancy

Some of them wer forced to e terminate their pregnanc y

by

Ms. Linh is one of the most

employers

marginalised female immigrants in

allegedly. I see

Japan. She is not a criminal, but

invisible and

a

a n o ny m o u s

stillborn

devastated mother over two

partners

carefully and delicately dressed

getting away

and named for send-off with

babies

whom

she

on the

Vietnamese in Japan. One thing

Japan, where they ended up in cold

stands out. All articles grant the

alienation. They must have found

anonymity of the male partner.

they feared losing

themselves

The news expects us to believe

their

institutionalized modern slavery

that

deportation,

of Japan. Japanese government-

magical events where no man was

pregnancy being prohibited by the

blaming

run

training

involved. He has been neither

employers.

the

MSM reported that trainees are

Now is the time for Japan to

programme has been a hot bed

arrested nor prosecuted: of course

trainee programme as a business

supposed to be guaranteed their

protect her as woman and mother.

vast

not, because he wasn’t there when

is

maternity leave and

I don’t have much expectation

treat

Ms. Linh bravely was enduring the

mistreating any trainees on the

of

technical

intern

exploitation.

majority

of

The

employers

the

these

pregnancies

were

trainees

to

How many

sympathetic care and protection in

in

female

other

system?

have been offered warm and

trapped

persecution of

Not

understand a foreign country’s

forced to terminate their

one to turn to when

by these females has been even and

prosecuted. Instead they should

The trainee had no-

unscrupulous

rights.

unanimously confided

that

jobs

legally

and due

to

also

from

motherly prayer.

again.

Her misfortune could happen In many articles, I

Even though banned

with it here

detected tone.

a

victim-

Some of

to any female who is forced to endure childbirth in isolation.

the

child care,

but they weren’t informed of their

though.

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he Russians are coming.

Russia is worse than bad.

Putin is evil, “a Nazi like

Hitler”, salivated the Labour MP Chris Bryant. Ukraine is about to be invaded by Russia – tonight, this week, next week. The sources include an ex CIA propagandist

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who now speaks for the US State Department and offers no evidence of his claims about Russian actions because “it comes from the US Government”.

The no-evidence rule also applies in London. The British Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, who spent £500,000 of public money flying to Australia in a private plane to warn the Canberra government that both Russia and China were about to pounce,

offered no evidence.

Antipodean

the

Barack Obama’s “point person” in Kyiv,

“narrative” is unchallenged there. One

heads

Victoria Nuland – the coup regime,

acclaimed

rare exception, former Prime Minister Paul

Keating,

nodded;

called

Truss’s

warmongering “demented”.

Stephen

Cohen,

mentioned. That the British are

and French, the presidents of Russia,

America’s

leading

training the Ukrainian National Guard,

Ukraine, Germany and France met in

infested with neo-Nazis, launched a

authority on Russia, wrote, “The

which includes neo-Nazis, is not news.

Minsk and signed an interim peace

campaign of terror against Russian-

pogrom-like burning to death of

(See Matt Kennard’s declassified

deal.

speaking Donbas, which accounts for

ethnic Russians and others in Odessa

report in Consortium 15 February).

autonomy to Donbas, now the self-

a third of Ukraine’s population.

reawakened

Truss has blithely confused the

Professor as

memories

of

Ukraine

agreed

to

offer

Nazi

The return of violent, endorsed

declared republics of Donetsk and

extermination squads in Ukraine

fascism to 21st-century Europe, to

Luhansk.

countries of the Baltic and Black Sea.

Overseen by CIA director John

during world war two. [Today] storm-

quote Harold Pinter, “never happened

In Moscow, she told the Russian

Brennan in Kyiv, “special security

like assaults on gays, Jews, elderly

… even while it was happening”.

foreign minister that Britain would

units” coordinated savage attacks on

ethnic Russians, and other ‘impure’

never accept Russian sovereignty over

the people of Donbas, who opposed

citizens are widespread throughout

On 16 December, the United

line, amplified by Boris Johnson, is

Rostov and Voronezh – until it was

the coup. Video and eyewitness

Kyiv-ruled

with

Nations tabled a resolution that called

that Ukraine is being “dictated to” by

pointed out to her that these places

reports show bussed fascist thugs

torchlight marches reminiscent of

for “combating glorification of Nazism,

world leaders. For its part, Britain is

were not part of Ukraine but in Russia.

burning the trade union headquarters

those

inflamed

neo-Nazism and other practices that

arming Ukraine and training its army.

Read the Russian press about the

in the city of Odessa, killing 41 people

Germany in the late 1920s and 1930s …

contribute to fuelling contemporary

buffoonery of this pretender to 10

trapped inside. The police are standing

Downing Street and cringe.

by. Obama congratulated the “duly elected”

This entire farce, recently starring

coup

regime

for

its

“remarkable restraint”.

version

of

his

that

along

eventually

“The police and official legal authorities do virtually nothing to

forms of racism”. The only nations to

Since the first Cold War, NATO has

vote against it were the United States

effectively marched right up to

and Ukraine.

Russia’s most sensitive border having

prevent these neo-fascist acts or to

Boris Johnson in Moscow playing a clownish

Ukraine,

The Minsk agreement has never been given a chance. In Britain, the

demonstrated its bloody aggression in

prosecute them. On the contrary, Kyiv

Almost every Russian knows that

Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya

hero,

In the US media the Odessa

has officially encouraged them by

it was across the plains of Ukraine’s

and broken solemn promises to pull

Churchill, might be enjoyed as satire

atrocity was played down as “murky”

systematically rehabilitating and even

“borderland” that Hitler’s divisions

back.

were it not for its wilful abuse of facts

and a “tragedy” in which “nationalists”

memorialising

swept from the west in 1941, bolstered

“allies” into American wars that do not

and historical understanding and the

(neo-Nazis)

“separatists”

collaborators with Nazi German

by

and

concern them, the great unspoken is

real danger of war.

(people collecting signatures for a

extermination pogroms, renaming

collaborators. The result was more

that NATO itself is the real threat to

than 20 million Russian dead.

European security.

attacked

Ukrainian

referendum on a federal Ukraine).

streets in their honour, building

Vladimir Putin refers to the

Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal

monuments

“genocide” in the eastern Donbas

damned the victims – “Deadly Ukraine

history to glorify them, and more.”

region of Ukraine. Following the coup

Fire Likely Sparked by Rebels,

in Ukraine in 2014 – orchestrated by

Government Says”.

to

them,

Ukraine’s

Nazi

cultists

Having dragged European

rewriting

Today, neo-Nazi Ukraine is seldom

Russian-speaking

Ukrainians,

In Britain, a state and media

under economic blockade by Kyiv for

xenophobia is triggered at the very

seven years, are fighting for their

mention of “Russia”. Mark the knee-

survival. The “massing” army we

jerk hostility with which the BBC

seldom hear about are the thirteen

reports Russia. Why? Is it because the

Ukrainian army brigades laying siege

restoration of imperial mythology

to Donbas: an estimated 150,000

demands, above all, a permanent

troops. If they attack, the provocation

enemy? Certainly, we deserve better.

to Russia will almost certainly mean war.

John Pilger can be reached through

In 2015, brokered by the Germans

his

www.johnpilger.com

website:

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Art Quiz - 2 1. The Hay Wain by John Constable depicts a rural scene on which river?

2. What are the three drooping objects in The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí?

3. Who created the work of art known as Campbell's Soup Cans?

4. Who created the famous sculpture The Thinker?

5. Which form of pottery takes its name from the Italian for baked earth?

6. Which arts' movement was founded by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque?

7. Triptych–August 1972 is an oil on canvas triptych by which Irish-born artist?

Art Quiz - 1

8.Which former England cricketer own's a gallery in Chipping Sodbury and is a well known artist?

1. Name the artist famed for painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

9. A Rake's Progress is a series of eight paintings by which English artist?

2. 'My Bed' was exhibited at the Tate Gallery in 1999 and

10. Sir Quentin Saxby Blake is an English cartoonist, illustrator and children's writer best known

consisted of a bed with bedroom objects in an abject state; who was the artist?

for illustrating books by which author?

11. Who created the Angel of the North?

12. Which well known Roy Lichtenstein artwork features a comic-book style plane shooting

London, give the other two English locations?

plastered wall?

5. In which decade of the last century did the British artist Francis Bacon die?

6. Which artist painted the Poppy Field in 1873?

7. Which artist was the first living person to have art displayed in the Louvre?

8. In which British city would you find the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, and the Ikon Gallery?

9. What is the meaning of the art term impasto?

10. In 2011, whose 1969 sculpture Two Forms (Divided Circle) was stolen from its plinth in South London? And can you name the park it was stolen from?

11. Which artist founded the Cubist movement in collaboration with Pablo Picasso?

12. Which painting was stolen from the National Gallery in Oslo in 1994 and held to ransom for $1 million? And who was the artist?

10. Roald Dahl 11. Antony Gormley 12. Whaam!

4. What's the well known name for a painting on a freshly

5. Terracotta 6. Cubism 7. Francis Bacon 8. Jack Russell 9. William Hogarth

down an enemy plane?

Answers 1. River Stour 2. Clocks 3. Andy Warhol 4. Auguste Rodin

3. The Tate is a network of four art museums; two are based in

Answers 1. Michelangelo 2. Tracey Emin 3. Liverpool, and St. Ives, Cornwall 4. Fresco 5. 1990s 6. Claude Monet

7. Georges Braque 8. Birmingham 9. Thickly applied paint 10. Barbara Hepworth's, Dulwich Park 11. Georges Braque (again!)

12. The Scream, by Edvard Munch

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VEGAN CHOCALATE CAKE Ingredients ● Vegan Milk - try soy or

almond etc... ● Lemon juice - this will turn

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Chris Williamson is the ex Member of Parliament for Derby North.

He has had a varied career having been both a bricklayer and a social worker as well as a politician.

Chris was unfairly purged from the Labour party for simply being on the left.

He has been a vegan for many years and is also strongly anti hunting.

the milk into buttermilk. ●Dairy free butter or

margarine ● Liquid sweetener - try

maple syrup, corn syrup, agave etc... This adds extra sweetness and moisture. ● Instant coffee powder /

espresso powder - this is totally optional, but you can't taste it and it brings out the flavour of the chocolate. ● Flour (all-purpose/plain

flour) for structure and bulk.

METHOD Stir the lemon juice into the vegan milk. You can use soy, almond, hemp, cashew - they all work well.

When you add the lemon juice it will slightly curdle - don't worry, that's what you want to happen! It's turning the plant milk into buttermilk.

Melt the vegan butter (a hard vegan butter or a non-dairy margarine all work, with the syrup.

You can use any liquid sweetener: golden syrup, corn syrup, agave or maple syrup. Maple makes for a slightly less sweet cake, but it's still really nice.

Sift the dry ingredients into a bowl, then whisk to combine.

Mix the wet ingredients into the dry and stir to combine.

Don't overmix. You want it completely combined, but stir gently and don't beat it.

Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake for 30-35 minutes or until an inserted skewer (or knife) comes out clean. Cool in the pans for a few minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack for the cake to cool completely.

● Cocoa powder - the

unsweetened kind!

and fluffy. ● For the chocolate icing,

you'll also need powdered icing sugar and cocoa powder.

• Planet of the Apes • The Shawshank Redemption • Gandhi • Pi • Magnum Force • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid • Silence of the Lambs • The Wizard of Oz • Some Like it Hot • Scarface

soda - to make the cake nice

Sudoku

● Baking powder & baking

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TOP 5

Prince Andrew

1

A nonce from a wellknown inbred family of hereditary

nonce’s.

His

Great Uncle, Mountbatten

NONCES

was a well-known visitor to the children’s homes of Northern

Ireland.

distant

ancestor,

His King

Edward the second was reputedly killed with a red hot

poker

activities.

2

Jeffrey Archer

Peter Mandelson The Prince of Darkness. No matter what crimes he has committed

they

are

for

similar

1 3

covered up by his “friends” in high places. Mandelson

Jimmy Saville

was often pictured with

2

his close friend, Jeffrey

Well known for appearing in Conservative party election broadcasts, Saville

Epstein. He is also a close

was given a Knighthood at the request of Margaret Thatcher. He reputedly

friend of Tony Blair and

raped the dead bodies in hospital morgues as well as raping live little girls and

Keir Starmer.

boys. The Tory establishment loved him and gave him the keys to several hospitals including the secure unit of Broadmoor.

4

4

Tony Blair Blair

was

well

known

for

loitering in public toilets for favours in his younger years.

This was probably the least

Matt Hand Cock hideous thing about him. Blair made himself rich by lies and

Lord Mountbatten The family name was changed during WW1 from the German name, Battenburg. For years the American FBI kept a dossier on

5

murder.

his sordid affairs with little boys.

Mountbatten

was

particularly close to Prince Charles. In 1979 the IRA had enough of what he was doing in Ireland and blew him up.

5

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CURED OF HIV

SCIENCE PAGE T he remnants of DNA

may

lurk

in

125

million-year-old

dinosaur fossils found in China.

If the microscopic structures are indeed DNA, they would be the oldest recorded preservation of chromosome

material

in

a

vertebrate fossil.

DNA

is

coiled

inside

chromosomes within a cell's nucleus.

Researchers

have

DINOSAUR DNA

A

woman

became

the third person

component of the immune system.

ever to be cured of

often

researchers compared fossilized

HIV, the virus that causes

This genetic mutation is rare

structures in fossils of plants and

controversial, because it can be

cartilage from the feathered,

AIDS, after she received a

and has been identified in only

algae dating back millions of

hard to distinguish a fossilized

peacock-size

dinosaur

stem-cell transplant that used

about 20,000 bone marrow

years.

even

nucleus from a random blob of

Caudipteryx with cells from

cells from umbilical cord

donors to date, The New York

of

mineralization created during the

modern chickens; they found

blood, scientists reported.

Times

microfossils from 540 million

fossilization process. In the new

structures in the fossils that

years ago might hold preserved

study, published Sept. 24 in the

looked much like chromatin, or

nuclei.

journal Communications Biology,

threads of DNA and protein.

reported possible cell nucleus

Scientists

suggested

that

have a

set

These

claims

are

ARE WE LIVING IN THE REAL WORLD

L

assume

The

bone

marrow transplant procedure The two other people cured

itself takes a heavy toll on the

of HIV, Timothy Brown and

body, both during the highly

Adam Castillejo, both received

invasive procedure and for

bone marrow transplants from

some time afterward. In both

donors who carried a genetic

Brown and Castillejo, immune

mutation infection,

et's

reported.

that

blocks

Live

HIV

cells from the donors' bone

Science

marrow launched an attack

our

Once our descendants build

previously

reported.

These

against cells in the patients'

will

such a computer, they will

transplants

contained

adult

bodies; this condition is known

inevitably

countless

hematopoietic stem cells, which

as "graft versus host disease."

ever more powerful, efficient

simulated beings — just try to

are stem cells that develop into

Following this initial reaction,

and capable. Let's say that at

count how many creatures in

all types of blood cells, including

though, both men were cured of

some point in the deep, deep

video games have appeared and

white blood cells, a key

HIV.

future (for this argument to

disappeared

first

3. The vast majority of all

work,

developed the technology. Very

conscious entities, including you,

exactly when this happens),

quickly,

are living in a simulation.

we build some ridiculous

simulated

planet-sized computer — a

living in a computer will vastly

computer so powerful that it

outnumber the organic brains

could simulate our entire

living in the real universe. If this

universe, recreating all the

ends up happening, we are left

physics,

with three possibilities:

computers

continue to grow

it

doesn't

chemistry

matter

and

create

since

the

we

number

conscious

of

brains

biology that we experience in the natural world.

1. Our descendants (or other intelligent

If we also assume that

beings

in

problem

officers of six

243

d i ff e r e n t

developed

years ago can be

ranks.

Can

solved only by using quantum

you arrange

entanglement, new research

them in a 6-

finds.

by-6 square

the

universe) will never be able to the

A

math

WEIRD MATHS without

The mathematics problem is

repeating a

consciousness is consciousness,

develop

technological

a bit like Sudoku on steroids. It's

rank

regardless of where it resides (in

ability to faithfully simulate the

called Euler's officer problem,

regiment in any given row or

either an organic brain or a

cosmos.

after

column?

digital one), then any simulated entities within the computer

Leonhard

mathematician 2. Our descendants (or other

that gain consciousness will

intelligent

experience a world that is

universe)

indistinguishable from ours.

beings

who

the

published in 1960 in the

first

proposed it in 1779. Here's the

Canadian Journal of Mathematics Euler couldn't find such an

puzzle: You're commanding an

arrangement,

later

computers to show that 6 was the

the

army with six regiments. Each

computations proved that there

one number over 2 where no

technology but choose not to

regiment contains six different

was no solution. In fact, a paper

such arrangement existed.

develop

simulate the cosmos.

and

used the newfound power of

the

will

in

Euler,

or

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WOMENS FOOTBALL E

ni Aluko played for Sussex

enough to lift them above Hearts

League side Pevensey &

into eighth spot. Becky Gabraith

Westham on Sunday after

scored for the visitors in the first

they signed the former Lioness for

minute and earned a point with a

£5 on eBay.

73rd-minute Donaldson

Playing at Langney Sports Club

penalty, and

Rachel

Linzi

Taylor

having netted in-between for the

in Eastbourne, the women’s team

Jags.

played against local opposition in Ringmer AFC, as Pevensey and Westham looked to make their

ENGLAND

mark in the league.

England Women’s U-23s drew with their French counterparts in

Commentator Chris Kamara

Lisieux, following a 3-2 defeat to a

hosted the match, as Eni Aluko

late

was subbed on for Jasmin Beal, in

Thursday.

goal

on

the first half. Lightening up the game with her footwork, Pevensey

Sunday’s

and Westham had their best

game

saw Naomie Feller Aluko and Roberto Carlos. All part

DERBY

give the hosts a 23rd-

of a £5 raffle in support of Football

Derby County missed a chance

minute lead but this

This match culminated from

Beyond Borders – a charity that

to go top when held 1-1 at home by

was

the eBay Dream Transfer, which

helps disadvantaged young people

tenth-placed

cancelled

allowed anyone associated with a

in the community.

Lightning. Ellie Gilliatt got the

performance of the season.

Sunday League team to throw their hat into the

Loughborough

quickly out

by

Ebony Salmon.

Rams in front but Abbie Benstead

Alison Witts bagged a brace as

equalised via the crossbar

Pontypridd Town returned from

Mathilde Bourdieu was denied

Port Talbot with three goals and

a goal for offside after the break

three points.

and

ring, to sign

from

distance.

football

Nottingham Forest had

icons

a narrow 1-0 win over

E n i

basement side Hull City

Barry made it three straight

that lifted them to fourth

league wins with two Taite Trivett

place. The goal came

goals against TNS.

midway through the second half, Mai Moncaster

Celtic

moved

Glasgow City from a

outrushing

game

Charlotte tucking it home.

of

within

ball from the

Greengrass

Cardiff stormed into a

two

second-placed more,

defeat of Hearts.

The took

Hoops a

fifthlead

against Hearts, Caitlin

Hayes

3-0 interval lead, Amy

heading home for a

Williams turning in a Ffion

corner. But it was

Price free kick, Zoe Atkins and

seven minutes from time

Catherine Walsh adding one each.

when Shen Mengyu finally got

Karmyn Carter came off the bench

Celtic’s second.

to pull two goals back for Swansea but their long unbeaten record was over.

the

Lerond denied England a late winner.

Salmon again levelling midway through

the

half,

Charlton

Athletic’s Katie Robinson providing the assist.

following a 2-0

minute CARDIFF

hit

lead in the first fixture, with

points

and

Ouchène

Feller had also given France the CELTIC

winning the

keeper

Sonia

woodwork, while keeper Justine

Ella

Pallis

restored

the

advantage by the break after square

but it

soon

was

all

again,

Salmon

setting

up

Liverpool’s

Missy

Bo

Kearns to score.

But seven minutes before the end, France won it from the

Partick Thistle were held 2-2 at home by Spartans but it was

penalty spot as Manon Revelli netted via the inside of the post.

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Whoopi Goldberg raises a legitimate debating

point about Jews, but in a foolish context

Whoopsie! Goldberg W

hoopi Goldberg, the

recognised as a race, the qualifying

grandmother's

thinking

woman's

criteria are uncomfortably arbitrary.

Cohen. Sure there are such things as

brain

One is considered ethnically Jewish

matrilineal-only DNA and genetic

flatulence, is in hot water over a

if one's mother is/was a Jew. I have

markers that cannot pass from

remark she made on The View on

always regarded myself as a Jew

father-to-child, so I accept we can

ABC, that "the Holocaust isn't

(neither ashamedly nor proudly; it

"reverse-rationalising" the notion.

about race."

is just a detail about me and is no

burst

of

surname

was

more reason to be proud than hair

But the thing is, it is rationalised

In recent years, Goldberg has

colour) because my mother is a Jew.

more than it is rational. By the

largely talked liberal reactionary

But I practise no religion and have

tradition, I know I am Jewish. By

nonsense,

nothing to indicate a Jewish status

lack of confidence in the rule

inadvertently raises a serious and

but

beyond

earlier

behind that tradition, I am never

worthwhile debating point. Sadly

generations of my family had lived

sure that I am; what about converts

she did so in an astonishingly

in Lithuania under the Russian

to Judaism? Are there any in my

foolish

Empire

way,

here

guaranteeing

she

a

backlash that would drown out any such debate. By insisting that

knowing

and

Pogroms.

fled And

during

the

ancestry, thus meaning my blood

that

my

does not carry the anonymous 'Jewish marker' after all?

the Holocaust was about the distinctions between two different groups of white

people

–

Furthermore, I know well that this rule was not always in place – in ancient times one would be

'Nordic/Germanic'

identified as a Jew if one's father

white people and

was Jewish until a prophet

Jews

she

called Ezra inverted the rule –

concluded that it

–

and the feeling that the

could not be a

definition is contrived and

racial matter.

revised at whim does raise an almost 'phantom' quality

The reason I say she raises a valid

to a Jew's identity and heritage.

point

worth debating is

This debate I would love us

that,

although

to have openly, without the

Jews

are

usual squeals of protest from

generally

was

driving the tragedy - to view any

startling

race as inferior - it must be racism.

Orthodox

stupidity with which Goldberg

The race in question can be real or

worshippers.

spoke. Because it can seriously,

imaginary,

Sadly, any

honestly, and without malice be

protagonist believes it is real, it is

chance

questioned whether the 'Jewish

racism.

Zionists

and

o

f

opening

such

extinguished

a by

debate the

while

the

people' truly exist, Goldberg makes the leap that the Shoah therefore

"although Jews are generally recognised as a race, the qualifying criteria are uncomfortably arbitrary"

but

cannot be a racist issue?

In fairness to Goldberg, she did later apologise and retract. But it says much about high-profile

Of course it was! Adolf Hitler was

the

man

driving

Jewish liberals like David Baddiel

the

that they accept an apology for a

Genocide. He believed Jews

remark this crass while refusing to

were a race – an inferior,

acknowledge apologies received

undesirable race. With that idea

from others like Jeremy Corbyn.

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A TRAGEDY AND A NEAR-TRAGEDY IN 72 HOURS F

ootball may not be as

outer perimeter. The police had closed

dangerous a sport to

an outer entry gate, apparently telling

watch as it was back in

the large queues still waiting for access

the 1980s, but it remains a bit hit-

that they would not be let in until half-

and-miss

The

time in the match. Many who had

penultimate weekend of January

tickets were understandably furious

demonstrated that dangers still

at that, and, less forgivably, started

exist very starkly.

pushing those ahead of them, and

safety-wise.

piling pressure on the gate. The gate evoke

was reopened to ease pressure, but

memories of Gate C at Hillsborough

the fans poured through out of

At Elland Road on Saturday 22nd

control, and a large number went to

January, during the build-up to a

ground to be trampled on by those

fixture between Leeds United and

behind them.

Newcastle United, four of the turnstiles at the visitors end suddenly

The stadium’s capacity is 50,000,

broke down. These were the only

but attendance was reduced to

intended entry point to the ground for

40,000 due to Covid-19 concerns.

approximately two thousand seven

Reports

hundred spectators. As the stranded

ticketless should be treated with

Newcastle fans tried to use alternative

caution, as they are often difficult to

turnstiles, the pressure began to build

check, but the turn-out does initially

until quite a serious crush formed.

appear to have been larger than the

suggesting

fans

were

ticket allocation, implying that the reports are correct.

announced it will investigate.

The next match scheduled for the Actual disaster strikes in Cameroon

stadium, a quarter-final over the final weekend of January, was relocated to

Barely 48 hours later, outright

the neighbouring Stade Ahmadou

disaster struck at the Africa Cup of

Ahidjo. But the Final between Senegal

Nations. Near 8pm local time, the

and Egypt was still played in the

Olembe/Paul

Olembe, with Senegal winning the

Biya

Stadium

in

Yaounde was about to host a round-

competition on a penalty shoot-out.

of-16 match between Cameroon and Comoros, when there was an unguided stampede of fans on the

The disaster is also under investigation.

10. Which football team did Alf Garnett support?

11. 'There's Only One Jimmy Grimble' was also a fictional film which focused on a young boy whose dream it was to play for which club?

12. In the sitcom 'Gavin and Stacey', Gavin was often seen wearing what club's shirt? And can you name his favourite player - Stacey bought him a signed picture of this player as a Christmas present?

Answers:

was worth.

Crystal Palace

The West Yorkshire Police has

1.

Startlingly, the match went ahead, and Cameroon won 2-1, for what it

9. In the first series of 'Only Fools and Horses' which team's scarf could be seen on the coat rack?

West Ham United

disturbing.

Aftermath

2.

turnstiles, the attitude implied is quite

Arsenal

malfunctioning

8. Terry McCann in 'Minder' and Wolfie Smith in 'Citizen Smith' supported which team?

3.

life-saving treatment.

Charlton

involved a similar crowd build-up

4.

rushed to hospital in time to receive

Aston Villa

baby, but fortunately the infant was

5.

the

Hillsborough Disaster of 1989 had

Sylvester Stallone (Escape to Victory)

problem.

7. Which football club features in the film The 51st State (also known as Formula 51), in which ex-hitman Felix DeSouza (Robert Carlyle) is a keen supporter of the team?

6.

those injured was a recently-born

Liverpool

the Elland Road stewards treated the

7.

dozens more were injured. One of

Fulham

general lack of seriousness with which

6. If Ipswich's Kevin Beattie stood in for Michael Caine in the football scenes, who did goalkeeper Paul Cooper stand in for?

8.

stampede, including one child, and

Crystal Palace's

maintenance of the turnstiles, and the

at

4. What middle name was Rodney of 'Only Fools and Horses' fame given by his football supporting mother?

9.

At least eight were killed in the

developing

3. The book Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby is an autobiographical account of Hornby's life and relationship with which football club?

West Ham United

there was a lot of anger at the poor

how

2. Elijah Wood plays a follower of which team in the 2005 film 'Green Street'?

5. In the sitcom Porridge, the character Lennie Godber is a supporter of which club?

to enter eventually without injuries,

Recalling

1. In the Mike Leigh play Abigail's Party, the character Tony mentions that he used to play professionally for which team?

10.

Although all supporters were able

Football Quiz Football in Popular Culture

Manchester City

fans

11.

Newcastle

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Aberdeen make indecisive start to new coach's reign

DONS DRAW REVEALS LITTLE ABOUT GOODWIN ERA Q

uick

answers

to

plainly been unacceptable in

What we can conclude was

Motherwell were well worth

gathered the ball at the corner of

questions about the

Aberdeen, and the 2-1 defeat by

given voice by Goodwin himself;

the point they earned here, and

the box and fired towards goal. Van

'fresh

start'

Motherwell at Fir Park in the

Aberdeen have much to improve.

might even have won again.

Veen got a redirecting touch eight

Aberdeen chose to make this

Scottish Cup proved the last straw

There is no area where fans will

Trailing to a Vicente Besuijen goal

yards out. However, Lewis got a

week are unfair. Firing coach

for the powers-that-be at Pittodrie.

feel they are playing to their

at halftime, 'Well had been a little

glove to the ball, and it needed

potential, as this scruffy-but-

unfortunate not to score, with

O'Hara to prod it home to level the scores.

Stephen Glass last week seemed knee-jerk

and

ill-timed,

hurried

eventful re-match with 'Well made

Kevin van Veen hitting a post from

understandable.

appointment, leaving St. Mirren in

plain. Allowances must be made

a free kick, and Mark O'Hara and

Aberdeen have exactly half the

a rush to take over at Aberdeen less

for the conditions, with the pitch

Liam Donnelly both going close.

Aberdeen might have re-stolen

points of Rangers in the Scottish

than two days before the Fir Park

requiring a post-Storm-Eunice

Aberdeen could point to a

the lead when Ramirez appeared to

Premier League at the time of

rematch with Motherwell in the

inspection before the match could

Christian Ramirez goal being

have a clear run on goal, only to be

league, gave the newcomer

even go ahead. But Aberdeen's

disallowed by a linesman's flag.

denied by a last-ditch tackle from

no chance to leave any

passing was agricultural when it

But they did get the lead shortly

Jake Carroll.

was

although

writing, and Rangers are not even top anymore, having been leapfrogged by

Jim

Goodwin's

their

afterwards, when a determined

the line-up. So any

movement off the ball and

chase of the ball by Adam

The decisive moment should

conclusions

positional play were reluctant, and

Montgomery set up Besuijen to

have followed four minutes from

For what is

d raw n

screamed of a lack of confidence,

open the scoring.

time, when Connor Shields almost

traditionally

from this

and they were frequently out-

Scotland's 'third

match

battled in the trenches of midfield.

In the second half, van Veen

against the Dons. But after racing

club',

w i l l

They also looked decidedly edgy,

came close to equalising when his

into the box from a tight angle his

probably

as a bad-tempered confrontation

powerful shot was pushed behind

powerful drive missed the top

be wide

between the two sets of players

by Aberdeen keeper Joe Lewis, as

corner.

just before half-time nearly turned

the Dons began sitting deeper and

into an out-and-out brawl.

deeper.

Celtic.

the

2021/22 season has

imprint of his own on

of

the

mark.

accurate

at

all,

popped up to claim another winner

An untidy match that does not augur well for an immediate

Quick answers to questions about the 'Fresh start'

Of course, edginess is forgivable

After the hour, Motherwell

Aberdeen improvement. But given

in a team without a win in six

coach Graham Alexander made a

time,

league matches, but still a state-of-

double substitution, bringing on

Aberdeen in his own image.

being that must end if Aberdeen

Ricki Lamie and Kayne Woolery. It

wish to get back to winning ways.

had an immediate effect. Woolery

Goodwin

can

remake

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FOOTBALL RE SU LTS

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Real Madrid Manchester City Bayern Munich Liverpool

PREMIER LEAGUE:

I

n one of the most dramatic

forward recently recruited on loan

unclear-headed;

matches of the Premier League

from Juventus, made his first Premier

attacked, the more they huffed-and-

season,

off-form

the

more

they

Tottenham

League start. It was he who scored a

puffed. Indeed, they were perhaps a

suddenly pulled themselves together

fourth-minute opener to silence the

little lucky not to go 3-1 down, when

to claim an upset win at the Etihad. It

crowd, set up by a generous pass from

first Kane was put clean through only

means a title race being dismissed as

Son, who had sprung the City offside

for Ederson to save with his legs, and

over-bar-the-shouting since New

trap.

then when another Kane goal was

Year is now looking open again, what with Liverpool winning earlier in the day.

disallowed by VAR for an offside City pulled level sluggishly half an hour later, when a mistake by Hugo

against Kulusevski early in the buildup.

Lloris, fumbling a straightforward throughout the evening. But

diagonal cross, presented an easy

Having got away with it twice, City

they played with unmistakeable

finish for Ilkay Gundogan. But

were handed an injury time lifeline,

complacency,

lethargy,

somehow, although their tempo

when VAR awarded a penalty

against a Spurs team they clearly

increased for the rest of the first half,

(probably correctly) for a handball by

did not take as seriously as they

City still seemed awkward, edgy and

Cristian Romero. Riyad Mahrez

should have. Spurs, to their credit,

lacking in ideas. They went in at

leathered the penalty home to earn an

took full advantage, with Harry

halftime without really looking likely

apparent point – perhaps even to open

Kane looking rejuvenated after

to take the lead.

the path to more, as there were at least

almost

months of cutting a dejected figure

five more minutes of stoppage time

(who nearly joined City back in the

City started the second half in

summer, let us not forget), and

similar fashion, and were punished

South Korean star Son Heung-Min –

again around the hour mark. A neat

Instead, Antonio Conte's troops

the true man of the match -

move between Ryan Sessignon and

regrouped magnificently, launching

reminding

everyone

that

left.

he

the maestro Son reached Kane,

another rapier-like attack into the

remains one of the most potent and

bearing down on Ederson and

shaky City defence. Having beaten the

clever attackers in the world.

untracked by the City centre backs.

offside trap, Kulusevski sent a

Kane volleyed brutally into the top

majestic long cross from the right. The

corner, and Spurs were in front again.

ball passed over the heads of the City

It was not just the usual suspects to emerge with great praise however.

Dejan

Kulusevski,

the

Swedish

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St. Johnstone Ross County St. Mirren Aberdeen Heart of Midlothian Rangers Dundee

back line, and reached Kane. He City's response still seemed

nodded it down into the turf to loop past Ederson. Spurs led for the third and decisive - time.

The points were deserved, and may

reinvigorate

UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE round of 32: THURSDAY 17th FEBRUARY Borussia Dortmund 2-4

Rangers

Tottenham's

desperate hunt to return to Europe's bigger competitions. As for City, they must get an uncomfortable sense that Liverpool are no longer very far behind them.

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Diaz took the ball in his stride between the Norwich centre-backs and chipped an illustrious finish over Gunn

Reds fight back to overcome bold Norwich

Saturday 19th March, Anfield Mane 64, Salah 67, Diaz 81 – Rashica 48

I

n one of those odd top-vs-

international Milot Rashica put

say, with a goal reminiscent of one he

bottom clashes that should be a

Norwich ahead via a cruel deflection

got against Manchester United in

walkover but become a struggle,

off Joel Matip that left Alisson

2020. A mighty drop-kick downfield

helpless.

by Alisson actually reached Salah in

Liverpool held their nerve well against Norwich City to claim three points.

Liverpool

Mohamed Salah Be com Tenth Pla es ye Score 150r To Liverpool Goals

the Norwich D. He produced a

dominated

Stirred into intervening, just as he

profound first touch to bring it under

statistically and were deserving

had had to at the San Siro in midweek

control, teased the approaching

winners, but they still had a nervous

against Inter Milan, Jurgen Klopp

Gunn by weaving one way and the

twenty minutes before it all turned

sent on Thiago Alcantara, whose

other, then rolled the ball past him

their way.

influence in midfield for the next

and two defenders trying to cover the

forty minutes was magnificent, and

goal-line, to put Liverpool in front. It

Without Roberto Firmino or

Divock Origi, who added extra

was Liverpool's one hundredth goal

Diogo Jota up front, or Andy

finishing power up front. The

in all competitions this season, and

Robertson

Alexander-

equaliser still took a while to arrive,

Salah's one hundred and fiftieth for

Arnold in defence, Liverpool were

but it was spectacular when it did.

the club.

still fairly smooth and in control.

Jordan

They could have been four up by

improved form since the mid-season

half-time as they dominated the play,

break, lofted a delightful ball to

ship somewhat for about twelve

with chances for Virgil van Dijk,

Tsimikas on the left edge of the area,

minutes after that, but the killer goal

Kostas Tsimikas, Mohamed Salah

and the Greek international nodded

inevitably came in the last ten, when

and Luis Diaz. But Norwich may feel

it inside to Sadio Mane on the edge of

another outstanding long pass from

they had the best chance of all when

the six-yard box. It was a little behind

Henderson this time reached the

to the bottom of the Premier

Teemu Pukki was put clean through

Mane, but he produced a stunning

Reds' recently-recruited Colombian

League,

on goal and fluffed his attempt to put

near-bicycle kick to fire past Angus

star, Luis Diaz, on the edge of the area.

creditable features of their

the ball past Alisson Becker.

Gunn, triggering a deafening roar of

Diaz took the ball in his stride

football.

celebration from the Kop.

between the Norwich centre-backs

Liverpool are just starting

or

Trent

Henderson,

showing

Liverpool did not get frustrated at

Norwich bravely steadied the

Norwich are now rooted despite At

top,

and chipped an illustrious finish over

to

a goalless first half, but they were

It took just a couple more

Gunn into the opposite corner for his

Manchester City's necks.

suddenly feeling concern shortly

minutes for Salah, best player in the

first Liverpool goal – and at the Kop

after

world surely, to have his inevitable

end too.

half-time

when

Kosovo

breathe

the

many

down

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Liverpool just about stay upright while City stumble

The EPL title race is on

I

n what could prove a key turning-

points with thirteen games left. If Liverpool

point in the Premier League season,

can win their game in hand, then the head-

the race for the title may have been

to-head between City and Liverpool at the

brought back into the balance as of

Etihad Stadium on 9th April would happen

Saturday 19th February. Defending

with just three points separating them.

champions Manchester City are still top and are still the favourites, but the previous

champions

Liverpool

The title race that was dismissed as

are

'over' just a couple of weeks ago has life in it

closing in.

yet.

By Martin Odoni

The Reds surprisingly fell behind in the 3pm kick-off at Anfield against a sprightly Norwich City who are fighting bravely to avoid relegation. The Canaries got a lucky break when a shot from Milot Rashica was

So with Liverpool having dodged a

deep, deep into injury time for Harry Kane.

deflected past Allison Becker. But Liverpool

bullet, the evening kick-off saw Manchester

City, firm favourites, never led at any stage,

fought back with a burst of three goals in

City and Tottenham

and were a little lucky to equalise twice after

just over fifteen minutes to claim three points and reduce the gap to six. In the

process,

Mohamed

Salah

Hotspur produce one of

the

most

dramatic matches

good goal disallowed and still win

of

fiftieth goal for the club in just

season.

New

two hundred and thirty-three

signing

Dejan

The defeat means

appearances, and exciting new

Kulusevski was

City have sixty-three

signing Luis Diaz struck his very

Spurs' star as he

first goal in English football, both

struck a shock early

entire

have what appeared to be a perfectly

scored his one hundred and

after Sadio Mane pitched in with

the

falling behind. Spurs could even afford to

goal,

an acrobatic equaliser. (Full report

and set up

on p31.)

a winner

previous champion s Liverpool are closing in

3-2. (Full report on p30.)

points games

with left,

Liverpool have

fifty-

seven

twelve while

Manchest City are st er ill to

p