John Chapman, James Henderson and James Kirby were among seven World Central Kitchen workers killed in the strike
Three British aid workers killed during an Israeli air strike on Gaza died from blast injuries, an inquest has heard.
James Kirby, 47, from Street in Somerset, James Henderson, 33, from Falmouth in Cornwall and John Chapman, 57, from Poole in Dorset, died on 1 April.
An inquest into their deaths was opened at Avon Coroner’s Court in Flax Bourton, near Bristol, earlier.
It heard that initial post-mortem results found all three men died from injuries to their head, chest and limbs. The inquest has been adjourned until later this year.
Mr Kirby, who was born in Bristol, was one of seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) workers who died while travelling with a convoy leaving a warehouse in Deir al-Balah, south of Gaza City…
The next time Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) stands in front of a microphone to talk about election integrity, I want you to remember this: Nearly a third of voters in Louisiana are Black, and yet Black voters had control over less than 20% of the state’s congressional districts. White voters make up less than 60% of the electorate yet had control over more than 80% of the power.
When the Democratic governor vetoed attempts to suppress the Black vote, the Republican state Legislature overrode the veto. When a federal judge said another map should be drawn, the Supreme Court delayed action until it had decided a similar question about Alabama…
Johnson’s party has been working to suppress Black votes for decades, so what is he talking about when he trumpets “election integrity”?
His appearance with former President Trump at Mar-a-Lago earlier this month was ostensibly about an election reform bill, meant to address a crisis those two men love to hype: the claim that millions of noncitizens are voting in our elections. The facts show that claim isn’t true. What is true is that within months of taking office in 2017, Trump established a commission to investigate his unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election, and the Republican-led group — which included a handful of conservative secretaries of state — didn’t find anything.
We’ve all seen their works in fixed form, enshrined in museums and printed in books. But there’s something special about watching a great artist at work. Over the years, we’ve posted film clips of some of the greatest artists of the 20th century caught in the act of creation. Today we’ve gathered together eight of our all-time favorites.
Above is the only known film footage of the French Impressionist Claude Monet, made when he was 74 years old, painting alongside a lily pond in his garden at Giverny. The footage was shot in the summer of 1915 by the French actor and dramatist Sacha Guitry for his patriotic World War I‑era film, Ceux de Chez Nous, or “Those of Our Land.” For more information, see our previous post, “Rare Film: Claude Monet at Work in His Famous Garden at Giverny, 1915.”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1915:
You may never look at a painting by the French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in quite the same way after seeing the footage above, which is also from Sacha Guitry’s Ceux de Chez Nous. Renoir suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis during the last decades of his life. By the time this film was made in June of 1915, the 74-year-old Renoir was physically deformed and in constant pain. The painter’s 14-year-old son Claude is shown placing the brush in his father’s permanently clenched hand. To learn more about the footage and about Renoir’s terrible struggle with arthritis, be sure to read our post, “Astonishing Film of Arthritic Impressionist Painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1915).”
The Council of Europe’s human rights watchdog has condemned Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda scheme, saying it raises “major issues about the human rights of asylum seekers and the rule of law”.
The body’s human rights commissioner, Michael O’Flaherty, said the bill, expected to be signed into law on Tuesday after passing its parliamentary stages on Monday night, was a grave concern and should not be used to remove asylum seekers or infringe on judges’ independence.
“I am concerned that the Rwanda bill enables the implementation of a policy of removing people to Rwanda without any prior assessment of their asylum claims by the UK authorities in the majority of cases,” O’Flaherty said, adding that the bill “significantly excludes the ability of UK courts to fully and independently scrutinise the issues brought before them”.
The UK remains a member of the pan-European body that promotes human rights, democracy and the rule of law across the continent.
O’Flaherty warned that the UK was prohibited from subjecting, even indirectly, people to “refoulement” – the act of forcing a refugee or asylum seeker to a country or territory where he or she is likely to face persecution – including under article 3 of the European convention on human rights, under the refugee convention, and under “a range of other international instruments”.
…Oskar Kokoschka not only lived in Vienna, but also in Dresden, Berlin, and as we will see, in many other cities. He joined the army as a volunteer when the First World War broke out and served in a cavalry regiment. He was gravely wounded in battle, but continued to paint and develop his talent… In 1934, he had to flee Austria because the Nazis considered him a degenerate due to his art, and he headed to Prague. But soon the German army began recruiting in Czechoslovakia, and Kokoschka had to flee again, this time to the United Kingdom… After the war, he travelled to the US and did not return to Europe until 1953, choosing to live in Switzerland until the end of his days. He died in 1980 in Montreux.
While rereading Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, I paused to relieve some mild eyestrain. Blinking the eyes, I focused upon three library books parked on the sofa. I had read two of them–Simon Baron-Cohen’s The Science of Evil and Jay Shetty’s Think Like a Monk. The third book, Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees has been untouched since bringing it home from the library. I need to renew Wohllenben’s tome because I want to delve into it.
As I pondered the books, I wondered how many books I’ve read throughout my life. The patron database at the library could reveal how many I’ve checked out from the Norfolk Public Library. Yet, that would be an incomplete sum. I’d need to find out how many were checked out from other libraries, including the college library during my youth. How about the books that were loaned to me by friends? How many did I buy and read? What about the ebooks?
Then I became curious about how many words make up Hesses’ book. How many words are in all the books I’ve read? It boggles the mind to remember that all the books written in the English language consist of words. The words are combinations of 26 letters. The letters remain the same but are arranged in different orders. The words form phrases; the phrases form sentences; the sentences form paragraphs; the paragraphs form chapters; and the chapters form books. Then one must consider these things apply to books I’ve read that were written in other languages–I’ve only read a few.
“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.–essayist and novelist, Donna Tartt
Then I remembered that I’ve reread several books, so those words must be multiplied by how many times those books have been reread. I’ve reread Siddhartha maybe twice or three times–perhaps more because I love that book. It is one of the stories I want to read over and over again. Siddhartha does not have a tricky ending nor is it thrilling in an adrenaline-secreting way. It has become as familiar as a favorite pair of blue jeans. Yet, there is a magical mystery that has already been solved between Hesse and myself.
I was given “Golden Books” as a small child. I read and reread them countless times. I read most of the books in the house. I loved the map atlas and the old medical first aid book that mom read more frequently than her Bible. I was introduced to the public library at a young age and have been addicted to libraries ever since then.
During a five or six year stretch, I was obsessed with self-help books. I read them voraciously until I realized that many of them were boiler-plate formulae and said pretty much the same thing. Then I resumed reading new non-fiction books because they are my favorite genre.
You might say that I’m a lifelong lover of books. I enjoy everything about ink and paper books. There is the sensation of the pages on my fingertips. There is a special aroma about them. The stories and explanations are compelling. I’m doing my best to try to love electronic books. I love the magical communication between the minds of the writers and my own. I’m glad I have a few favorite books that I can read over and over again.
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