Eric Hobsbawm: a life in quotes | Eric Hobsbawm

 Posted on May 31, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  722 words  |  Kary Bruening

Eric Hobsbawm This article is more than 11 years oldEric Hobsbawm: a life in quotesThis article is more than 11 years oldThe influential historian on communism, capitalism, war, nations and the death of his parentsOn his academic career: "Every historian has his or her lifetime, a private perch from which to survey the world. My own perch is constructed, among other materials, of a childhood in the Vienna of the 1920s, the years of Hitler's rise in Berlin, which determined my politics and my interest in history, and the England, and especially the Cambridge, of the 1930s, which confirmed both. [Read More]

First Turkish journalist arrested under disinformation law | Turkey

 Posted on May 31, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  347 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Turkey This article is more than 1 year oldFirst Turkish journalist arrested under ‘disinformation’ lawThis article is more than 1 year oldSinan Aygül, a journalist in Kurdish-majority Bitlis province, was detained after tweeting about alleged sexual abuse A journalist has been arrested in south-east Turkey for allegedly spreading “disinformation”, his lawyer said on Thursday, marking the first pre-trial detention under a new law that critics say poses a threat to free speech. [Read More]

How the World Thinks review a global history of philosophy

 Posted on May 31, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  999 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Book of the dayPhilosophy booksReviewJulian Baggini’s engaging survey argues that people everywhere grapple with the same moral questions Ancient Greeks often wondered whether non-Greeks could do philosophy. Some thought the discipline had its origins in the wisdom of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Some counted itinerant Scythian sages or Jewish preachers as philosophers. Others said no: whatever the intellectual merits of neighbouring peoples, it is a distinctively Greek practice. A new, angrier version of that ancient debate has arisen amid the culture wars of the last 50 years. [Read More]

Lizzo removes harmful ableist slur from new song Grrrls after criticism | Lizzo

 Posted on May 31, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  481 words  |  Kary Bruening

Lizzo This article is more than 1 year oldLizzo removes ‘harmful’ ableist slur from new song Grrrls after criticismThis article is more than 1 year oldPop star says she ‘never want[ed] to promote derogatory language’ and re-releases song, removing offensive term for spastic diplegia Lizzo has removed an offensive term for disabled people from her latest song after days of public criticism, saying she “never want[ed] to promote derogatory language”. [Read More]

Roy Scammell obituary | Movies

 Posted on May 31, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  858 words  |  Kary Bruening

MoviesObituaryRoy Scammell obituaryFilm and television stuntman whose work ranged from James Bond movies to The Great EscapeRoy Scammell, who has died aged 88 following a short illness, was one of Britain’s leading film and television stuntmen – for more than three decades he was considered the best high-fall man in the business. He stood in for some of cinema’s most famous names during action sequences, including Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas and Deborah Kerr. [Read More]

Barcelona 1-1 Chelsea (agg: 2-1): Womens Champions League semi-final, second leg as it happen

 Posted on May 30, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1724 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

27 Apr 202321.04 BSTSid Lowe's match reportBarcelona hold on to end Chelsea’s Women’s Champions League dreamRead moreClinical Caroline Graham Hansen teaches valiant Chelsea a harsh lesson | Suzanne WrackRead moreEmma Hayes says Barcelona ‘were panicking’ against her Chelsea sideRead moreUpdated at 22.49 BST27 Apr 202320.14 BSTThank you for joining us for this tense second leg where Barcelona have knocked out Chelsea to go through to the Women’s Champions League final. In the first leg Caroline Graham Hansen’s strike separated the teams. [Read More]

Bill Paxton obituary | Film

 Posted on May 30, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  994 words  |  Aldo Pusey

FilmObituaryBill Paxton obituaryActor known for his roles in Aliens, Titanic, Twister and Apollo 13Bill Paxton, who has died aged 61 from complications following surgery, was a lively and endearing character actor. Stocky, with a knack for conveying bareknuckle vitality as well as a more considered intelligence and tenderness, he cropped up initially in some of the sparkiest pulp films of the 1980s, including Kathryn Bigelow’s highly original vampire movie Near Dark (1987). [Read More]

Brian Laundrie died by suicide, autopsy report reveals | Gabby Petito

 Posted on May 30, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  615 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Gabby Petito This article is more than 2 years oldBrian Laundrie died by suicide, autopsy report revealsThis article is more than 2 years old23-year-old Florida man’s disappearance sparked a nationwide hunt after the disappearance and death of Gabby Petito Brian Laundrie, whose disappearance sparked a nationwide manhunt in September after his fiancee, Gabby Petito, went missing and was later found murdered, killed himself, an autopsy report released on Tuesday revealed. [Read More]

Family of man who starved to death in Indiana jail awarded $7.25m settlement | Indiana

 Posted on May 30, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  468 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Indiana This article is more than 1 month oldFamily of man who starved to death in Indiana jail awarded $7.25m settlementThis article is more than 1 month oldAgreement thought to be the largest in state’s history involving an incarcerated person’s death The family of a man who died after starving in an Indiana jail while being held in solitary confinement for three weeks has secured a $7.25m settlement, thought to be the state’s largest ever in connection with the death of an incarcerated person. [Read More]

I love my boyfriend but I really don't want to have sex with him

 Posted on May 30, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  438 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Sexual healingLife and styleI can see a future for us together, but I no longer want to be intimate. It would be preferable to just curl up all day and hug I’m 20 years old and I have been going out with my boyfriend for nearly two years. I love him so much, and have missed him constantly when we haven’t been able to see each other during the pandemic. However, when I do get the chance to see him, I no longer want to be intimate. [Read More]