Sort of feels like one of those toddler books full of little cardboard flaps that talks back to you in Northern
The memories shared by these children (!) of living under constant threat of bombardment are particularly hard to watch knowing what came later. A young girl predicts with horrible prescience her own ethnic cleansing.
Vibrations from Gaza is available to watch for free on BFI Player until (I think) this Sunday. It's 15 minutes long and is an absolutely harrowing glimpse of what has been destroyed in the last year. player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...
A documentary offering a glimpse into the resilience of Palestinian Deaf children in Gaza, who are living with Israel’s military attacks.
The UK's media infrastructure is in many ways more restrictive and limited than the USA, principally because we have allowed local news orgs to become irrelevant. Press and broadcasting is populated by a tiny fraction of the population who all know each other and went to same schools.
PSA. Yes, the UK has a problem with loudly transphobic voices embedded in the broadcast and print media. Damning the entire population as bigots living on 'Terf Island' is inaccurate and unfair and I have had enough of it.
Skea didn’t say that “humanity has missed its chance”. That’s the paraphrasing of the Telegraph - a British newspaper with a history of climate denialism. What Skea said is that 1.5C is “slipping away from us”
IPCC Chairman Jim Skea: “Humanity has missed its chance of keeping global warming below 1.5C and it will take “heroic efforts” to stay below 2C this century, the scientist leading the global effort to understand climate change has warned” We need to quickly come to terms with this colossal failure
Interview: Prof Jim Skea warns the world risks 3C of global warming by 2100 unless it changes course
Who will speak for the special relationship between the British public and one American military base? The Spectator, that's who!