2 h. ago Former Institute of Directors boss disqualified as a company director

The Insolvency Service said the move followed Covid loan abuse.

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44 h. ago Jews and Israel are not the same. Equating them is a propaganda technique | Norman Solomon

The claim is central to rationales for arming Israel even as leading human rights groups decry genocide in GazaMore than nine months after Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports that concluded Israel was committing genocide – and more than a month since key Israeli human rights groups asserted the same – the American political establishment remains in rigid denial while horrors continue nonstop in Gaza. Virtually all Republicans and most Democrats in Congress still support massive US arms shipments to Israel, so they certainly can’t admit that the weaponry is making genocide possible.Central to rationales for arming Israel is the claim that it is the nation of “the Jewish people”.Norman Solomon is the director of RootsAction and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His latest book is War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Small Acts of Love review – tragedy and tenderness in Lockerbie eulogy

Citizens theatre, GlasgowThe people of a small Scottish town offer hope to bereaved families in the aftermath of the 1988 bombing in a moving music-theatre showWhat a joy to hear applause again in the Citz. The theatre’s seven-year renovation has been hard. In that time, many have been lost, including the victims of the pandemic and, only last month, the mighty Giles Havergal , the company’s artistic director from 1969 to 2003.Fitting, then, that the opening production should be a requiem. Less a drama than a mass, it is a eulogy to those killed in the Lockerbie bombing in 1988, the single biggest terrorist loss of life on UK territory. The powerful act one closing song has just three words: “Let us remember.” Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions draws signatures of top Hollywood actors and directors

Hundreds of prominent Hollywood figures have signed onto a pledge to boycott some Israeli film institutions

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1 week ago Newbuild snag expert reveals the VERY important test every owner should carry out when buying a home... FLUSH THE TOILET

Tom Britton, managing director of HomeSnag, a newbuild inspection company explained to the Daily Mail there are several key snags he constantly finds when visiting new properties.

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1 week ago TONY BLAIR INSTITUTE: Digital ID will help Keir Starmer solve immigration dirty secret

Ryan Wain, executive political director at the Tony Blair Institute, has said digital ID will 'kill the demand' for dodgy employers and said Keir Starmer is right to push the idea forward

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2 w. ago Sanatorium review – Ukraine health resort guests seek sanctuary amid shelling

Poignant documentary by Irish director Gar O’Rourke peers into a faded Soviet-era institution where visitors search for relief while war grinds on outsideThere is something ever so slightly Martin Parr-like about this documentary, filmed inside a shabby rundown health resort near Odesa, in Ukraine. It’s not the colour palette, which is Soviet-era pale beige, but the images of holidaymakers: elderly men strutting about in thongs and playing ping pong in their vests; retirees of both sexes glad-ragged at the disco. Like Parr’s photos, the images are funny but not unkind; everyone retains their dignity. The director is Irish film-maker Gar O’Rourke, who planned Sanatorium before the war, but filmed it after Russia invaded Ukraine, which adds a layer of melancholy to the guests’ search for health and happiness.The huge Kuyalnik sanatorium is a time warp with its brutalist architecture and institutional interiors. Back in its glory days, people must have come here in their thousands. Now...

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3 w. ago North Lanarkshire Council’s Trading Standards Service gets Enforcement Order against Coatbridge firm and company director

Order is against SPM Roofing and Rendering Limited and company director Sean Paul McFarlane and follows a high number of consumer complaints.

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3 w. ago Undertaker who was blasted for making a funeral 'all about himself' with a 'creepy' march in front of grieving family defends actions

The funeral director company posted to TikTok showing an undertaker leading the hearse in what they call a 'centuries-old tradition'.

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4 w. ago ‘If the devil did exist, he’d be just such a gentleman’: Neil Jordan remembers Terence Stamp

The Company of Wolves director on casting the late actor and an unforgettable hour on set involving Stamp, a Rolls-Royce and a shrivelled skullObituary of Terence StampTerence Stamp: a life in picturesWe were making The Company of Wolves. And we had a problem. With Angela Carter, I had written a scene where the devil drives a cream-coloured Rolls-Royce through an imaginary forest, chauffeured by the young dreamer Rosaleen, played by Sarah Patterson.My initial thought was for Andy Warhol to play the devil. Those pale-blue eyes and that blank expression framed by the blond wig. Andy read the script and liked it. Stephen Woolley, the producer, flew to New York to talk to him, but he was recovering from being shot by Valerie Solanas, who seemed to think he was the actual devil. He said he would play the part, if we shot his scenes in New York. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander raises 'serious concerns' with Citroen boss over handling of stop

The Transport Secretary has written to Eurig Druce, UK group managing director of Citroen's parent company Stellantis, calling for 'immediate steps' to improve the recall procedure.

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