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War and life in Ukraine: a year through the lens
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025
Photographer Nikoletta Stoyanova juxtaposes scenes of destruction with moments of celebration and love
Continue reading...A new start after 60: I’d spent my life being ashamed of my hair – now I see it as a forcefield
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025
Tina Shingler was fostered in a white family in North Yorkshire in the 1960s, where her hair was a source of anxiety and stress. Then she wrote a ‘hairmoir’ and now she empowers others to embrace their hair too
Growing up, Tina Shingler didn’t touch her hair like other girls touched theirs. She didn’t preen, stroke or comb – though sometimes she hid pens and cigarettes in it. “I had no respect for it, because no one else had any,” she says.
As a “Barnardo’s child”, Shingler’s hair presented a challenge to her white foster parents, Mary, a housewife, and Jack, a semi-skilled mechanic. She had a happy enough childhood, but every few months was required to kneel in the sitting room in Ripon, North Yorkshire, and rest her head in Mary’s lap to be “shorn”. The language was always animalistic, Shingler says. It was “to bow your head”, and know your hair was “something to be got rid of”.
Tell us: has your life taken a new direction after the age of 60?
Continue reading...TV tonight: the musicians who formed orchestras in Auschwitz
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025
A remarkable documentary about the composer who pieced together lost music in the concentration camp. Plus: Aussie drama Bump. Here’s what to watch this evening
9pm, Sky Arts
Continue reading...I’m an A&E nurse – and in my hospital right now, we can’t give patients the dignified care they need | Susie
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025 • 1 minute
Injured people are being seen in viewing rooms for dead bodies. I love my job, but I don’t know how much longer I can cope
A&E nurses thrive in a crisis. That’s why my colleagues and I came into the profession – to do the best for our patients in their moment of need, even in the most chaotic of circumstances. But the pressure is currently overwhelming. This winter, a bad but by no means unprecedented flu season has put immense strain on already struggling hospitals around the UK. Some patients are waiting days to be seen, with trusts using every inch of space to look after patients in corridors , physio rooms and even store cupboards, often without access to vital lifesaving equipment such as oxygen.
In the London hospital I work in, patients brought in on trolleys are often left for hours in an indoor ambulance bay with an automatic sliding door that opens on to the elements. While they wait for a bed, some are attended to in our viewing room for dead bodies. It’s the only private place left. Everyone knows that “care” is taking place in completely unsuitable parts of a hospital, yet there is no transparent data made available on how many patients are affected, how long their treatment lasts in these inappropriate places and the extent of the harm being done. Wes Streeting and NHS leaders should commit to publishing this data immediately.
Susie (not her real name) is a member of the Royal College of Nursing and a senior nurse in an A&E ward at a London hospital
Continue reading...Elon Musk and hippos pooing: Edith Pritchett’s week in Venn diagrams – cartoon
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025
‘Not a mouthpiece of the regime’: Syria’s state news agency enters new era
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025
Journalists and broadcasters at Sana wait for ‘actions, not words’ but look to future after fall of Assad government
Zyad Mahameed finally has the job he always wanted. In his previous role in the media team for the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, he often thought about the Syrian state news agency – an Assad regime mouthpiece he considered his opposition – and what he would do if he was in charge there. Now he is.
As an appointee of the HTS-led caretaker government, his position is at present temporary but his plans for the Syrian Arab News Agency (Sana) stretch far into the future.
Continue reading...Kristin Davis on what it’s really like to play Charlotte in Sex and the City: the best podcasts of the week
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025
Nineties nostalgia is in full swing with a new podcast packed full of insider info. It’s joined by the return of Louis Theroux’s excellent interview show in our list of the finest listens
Has
Kristin Davis
been typecast by playing Sex and the City’s Charlotte York? It’s not a question that seems to worry her, judging by her new show: a loose nostalgia-fest based around the 90s sitcom. The first episode sees her promising to rewatch, delve into memories and invite guests along in subsequent weeks, before launching into an episode-long reminiscence about how she got her career-defining role. Brace for tons of insider info.
Alexi Duggins
Widely available, episodes weekly
Campaigners call for action as jellyfish threaten Scottish salmon farms
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025
String jellyfish species that has killed millions of salmon in Norwegian sea farms reported in Scotland
A jellyfish species that has been wreaking havoc on Norway’s salmon industry has made its way to Scotland, causing significant damage and prompting calls for urgent action.
The string jellyfish has killed millions of salmon in Norwegian sea farms with officials urging an extermination of affected stocks.
Continue reading...Ninety Palestinians released by Israel as Gaza ceasefire enters second day – live
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025
Palestinian detainees greeted with joy in West Bank after earlier release of three Israeli hostages on Sunday
Among the Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons included 69 women and 21 teenage boys from the West Bank and Jerusalem, according to Hamas.
The prisoners, most of whom were freed from Ofer prison in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, were welcomed by thousands of people celebrating.
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