Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants? | Working in development

 Posted on June 25, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  546 words  |  Valentine Belue

Working in development This article is more than 8 years oldWhy are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?This article is more than 8 years oldMawuna Remarque KoutoninSurely any person going to work outside their country is an expatriate? But no, the word exclusively applies to white people Join our community of global development professionals. In the lexicon of human migration there are still hierarchical words, created with the purpose of putting white people above everyone else. [Read More]

Alfred Hrdlicka obituary | Sculpture

 Posted on June 24, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  829 words  |  Valentine Belue

SculptureObituaryAlfred Hrdlicka obituarySculptor whose work probed political and religious themesThe Austrian artist Alfred Hrdlicka, who has died aged 81, was a controversial, radical figure whose work was driven by his political beliefs and profound sense of humanity. His notoriety peaked in 2008 with the exhibition of his painting Leonardo's Last Supper, Restored By Pier Paolo Pasolini. Although the title alone spells trouble, the picture was initially accepted by the conservative Cardinal Christoph Schönborn for the show Religion, Flesh and Power at the Cathedral Museum in Vienna. [Read More]

Banja Luka mosque rises from rubble, 23 years after it was destroyed | Bosnia and Herzegovina

 Posted on June 24, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  925 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

The rebuilt Ferhadija mosque in Banja Luka. The site was razed to the ground by bulldozers on 7 May 1993. Photograph: Fehim Demir/EPAThe rebuilt Ferhadija mosque in Banja Luka. The site was razed to the ground by bulldozers on 7 May 1993. Photograph: Fehim Demir/EPABosnia and Herzegovina This article is more than 7 years oldBanja Luka mosque rises from rubble, 23 years after it was destroyedThis article is more than 7 years oldFerhadija grand mosque, which was blown up by Bosnian Serb militiamen, to reopen after painstaking nine-year reconstruction [Read More]

Does Palin's protest about bare legs sexism really stand up? | Peter Preston

 Posted on June 24, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  169 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Peter Preston on press and broadcastingSarah Palin This article is more than 14 years oldDoes Palin's protest about bare legs sexism really stand up?This article is more than 14 years oldPeter PrestonHere's Sarah Palin on the cover of Newsweek, wearing short shorts because she thought she was posing for Runner's World – and here's a slew of furious controversy. Sexist, exploitative spin (either by Sarah, if you don't like her, or male magazine editors, if you do)? [Read More]

Foo Fighters: Wasting Light review

 Posted on June 24, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  494 words  |  Aldo Pusey

The ObserverFoo FightersReview(Roswell/ Sony)The seventh Foo Fighters album has been heralded as a back-to-basics sort of record, a direct affair impaled squarely on a set of devil's horns. Perhaps in an effort to contrast with the American rock band's last bloated (and yet Grammy-winning) double album, 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, it was recorded on to analogue tape in main man Dave Grohl's garage. The video for album teaser " [Read More]

Hilly Kilmarnock obituary | Books

 Posted on June 24, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1263 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

BooksObituaryHilly Kilmarnock obituaryUnpretentious muse and matriarch to the unruly Amis familyHilary Kilmarnock, known as Hilly, who has died aged 81, came to public attention as the wife of Kingsley Amis and the mother of Martin Amis. She was funny, open, unpretentious, pretty, and liked by everyone who met her. Though her life was not always easy or orderly, she managed it bravely and originally. After the break-up of her marriage to Kingsley, with whom she had three children, she married two more times: disastrously, to the Cambridge classics don DR Shackleton Bailey; then happily, to Alastair Boyd, the seventh Baron Kilmarnock, with whom she had a son. [Read More]

The 10 best jailbreak films | Culture

 Posted on June 24, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1245 words  |  Kary Bruening

The 10 best jailbreak films Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Ahead of blockbuster Escape Plan, we pick the best prison break filmsWho else should have made the list? Have your say in the comments, and your idea could be featured in our alternative readers' 10 best next week Michael Hogan Sat 5 Oct 2013 12.30 EDT First published on Sat 5 Oct 2013 12. [Read More]

Too much mincemeat? 10 delicious recipes to make the most of it or even reuse mince pies

 Posted on June 24, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  881 words  |  Kary Bruening

How to live nowFoodCrumbles, samosas, flapjacks, ice-cream … try a few of the alternatives and you’ll soon be wondering why you settled for the traditional mincemeat-in-pasty arrangement Christmas is coming and, in a burst of uncharacteristic domesticity, you have decided to make your own mince pies. It’s a sensible impulse because the act of eating most shop-bought mince pies is roughly equivalent to force-feeding yourself dry pastry. However, you have mucked up the quantities and now you have buckets and buckets of leftover mincemeat. [Read More]

Weaponization of medicine: police use of ketamine draws scrutiny after Elijah McClains deat

 Posted on June 24, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1233 words  |  Kary Bruening

US policingThe sedative is used more often on Black people – and justified after the fact with questionable claims of ‘excited delirium’ In the summer of 2019, 23-year-old Elijah McClain was stopped by the Aurora, Colorado, police while walking home, after someone called 911 saying he looked suspicious. The incident quickly turned violent, with three police officers piling on the 140lbMcClain, twice putting him in a chokehold that has since been banned. [Read More]

Homeless man who murdered woman and her son jailed for life | UK news

 Posted on June 23, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1102 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

UK news This article is more than 6 years oldHomeless man who murdered woman and her son jailed for lifeThis article is more than 6 years oldAaron Barley, who fatally stabbed Tracey Wilkinson and her teenage son, Pierce, at their home, will serve at least 30 years A homeless man who turned on the woman who tried to help him and killed her and her teenage son has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 30 years. [Read More]