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
Spectator reporting this week that there was "national outrage" in the UK this week over the Chagos islands lol. Is there a better testament to how out of touch tory journalists are? Nobody cares.
I used to watch Tomorrow Never Dies over and over again on VHS when I was about 8ish. It was my "grown up movie", I would watch on friday evenings with wotsits and coke and I had absolutely no idea what was going on in it. I was besotted with it. Also first time I can remember seeing sex depicted.
