Have you ever had the experience of getting tantalisingly close to a big opportunity in your creative career a but not quite making it? Maybe it was a pitch, or a competition, a publishing opportunity, a senior role, or a funding application. Maybe you got really positive feedback. They said you were great, your work [â¦]
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When the Covid 19 pandemic struck in 2020, human life on earth was massively disrupted. Not only the human tragedy of millions of lives lost, but also the social and economic damage caused by the virus and our attempts to control it. As a writer and a coach for creatives, I have been particularly concerned [â¦]
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Welcome to Episode 10 of the Creative Disruption season of The 21st Century Creative, where we are hearing stories of creatives around the world who came up with a creative response to the challenges of the pandemic. Itas been my most ambitious season yet, with creatives from 5 continents and probably the closest Iall ever [â¦]
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Welcome to Episode 9 of the Creative Disruption season of The 21st Century Creative, where we are hearing stories of creatives around the world who came up with a creative response to the challenges of the pandemic. This week we are off to Tokyo, to meet Ichi Hatano, a wonderful artist whose work has deep [â¦]
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Welcome to Episode 8 of the Creative Disruption season of The 21st Century Creative, where we are hearing stories of creatives around the world who came up with a creative response to the challenges of the pandemic. Have you ever had the idea for a creative project that youave never quite got round to starting? [â¦]
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If you work on your own a in your office or studio, or your bedroom or at your kitchen table a it can feel like no one is watching. So it doesnat matter whether you show up. If you skipped a day on your novel, who would know? If you didnat go to the studio [â¦]
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Welcome to Episode 7 of the Creative Disruption season of The 21st Century Creative, where we are hearing stories of creatives around the world who came up with a creative response to the challenges of the pandemic. Today weare focusing on a creative sector that is close to my heart, which was massively disrupted but [â¦]
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A few months ago I was listening to the DavidBowie: AlbumtoAlbum podcast, a terrific show about Bowie hosted by Arsalan Mohammed. In Season 3 episode 11 Arsalan spoke to Donny McCaslin, the leader of the jazz band that Bowie discovered in a New York club, and asked to work with him on what turned out [â¦]
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Welcome to Episode 6 of the Creative Disruption season of The 21st Century Creative, where we are hearing stories of creatives around the world who came up with a creative response to the challenges of the pandemic. Today we are off to Australia in the company of Charlotte Abroms, a music manager based in Melbourne [â¦]
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Last week I suggested that if youare serious about achieving your creative ambitions, you need to think in terms of projects, not tasks. Because if you get up every morning and ask yourself aWhat should I work on today?a you risk making decisions based on what feels urgent right now, rather than what will make [â¦]
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Welcome to Episode 5 of the CREATIVE DISRUPTION season of The 21st Century Creative, where we are hearing stories of creatives around the world who came up with a creative response to the challenges of the pandemic. Today we are going to look at one of the biggest challenge for many people during lockdown, whether [â¦]
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When we think of productivity we typically think about tasks and to-do lists, working habits and routines. We focus on how to make the most of our time on a daily or at most a weekly basis. All of which is great, but if this is all we focus on, thereas a danger of getting [â¦]
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Welcome to Episode 4 of the CREATIVE DISRUPTION season of The 21st Century Creative, where we are hearing stories of creatives around the world who came up with a creative response to the challenges of the pandemic. Today we meet Amrita Kumar, the co-founder and CEO of Candid Marketing, an innovative marketing agency in India. [â¦]
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Marketing is a word that strikes fear into the heart of a lot of creatives. Itas an area where a lot of us feel we donat have a natural talent a weare far more comfortable making work than telling the world about it, let alone trying to get people to buy it. One reason for [â¦]
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Welcome to Episode 3 of the CREATIVE DISRUPTION season of The 21st Century Creative, where we are hearing stories of creatives around the world who came up with a creative response to the challenges of the pandemic. Today we are looking at the world of film and TV production, which was massively disrupted by the [â¦]
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A lot of creative professions involve submitting work to gatekeepers of various kinds: agents, editors, publishers, gallerists, funders, producers, studios and competition judges and so on. Yes, the 21st century gives us plenty of options for creating things without gatekeepers a you can sell direct, build your own platform, launch your own event, self-publish or [â¦]
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Welcome to Episode 2 of the CREATIVE DISRUPTION season of The 21st Century Creative, where we are hearing stories of creatives around the world who came up with a creative response to the challenges of the pandemic. This week we are off to South Africa, to hear from Earl Abrahams, an artist and filmmaker who [â¦]
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aEat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.a This quote is often attributed to Mark Twain. Apparently thereas no hard evidence linking it to him, but that hasnat stopped it from concentrating the minds of many people when they ask themselves [â¦]
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Today we kick off Season 6 of The 21st Century Creative, the podcast that helps you thrive as a creative professional amid the demands, distractions and opportunities of the 21st Century. The theme for this season is CREATIVE DISRUPTION. Every episode will feature an interview with a creator whose work was disrupted by the Covid-19 [â¦]
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I hope this finds you as well as can be. Here in the UK weare bracing for what we are assured will be a large wave of Omicron. I know things may be very different for you, depending on where you are in the world. But whatever the circumstances, I hope you are finding your [â¦]
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Today is the launch of my new podcast, and itas something Iave been planning and dreaming of sharing with you for years. Itas called A Mouthful of Air. And in several ways, itas the opposite of my 21st Century Creative podcast. I designed the two shows to work together from the start, although itâs taken [â¦]
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Last night I was about to go to bed when I suddenly remembered an idea Iad had for an article a few months ago. Though I say so myself, it was a great idea, and I was keen to revisit it, so I opened up the Scrivener project where I had written it downa| and [â¦]
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Todayas guest on The 21st Century Creative is Michael Bungay Stanier, a returning guest whose interview way back in Season 1 proved very popular. And his book The Coaching Habit turned out to be even more popular, as it went on to sell three quarters of a million copies. Michael is back with some excellent [â¦]
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A lot of productivity advice tells us that we need to stop procrastinating, beat Resistance, and get things done. The Americans like to talk about ashippinga, meaning finished and sent out for delivery. This emphasis on getting things done and out to market is part of their extraordinary entrepreneurial culture. Famously, Guy Kawasaki even said [â¦]
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Todayas guest on The 21st Century Creative is Krystal Lauk, an illustrator who took an unconventional path by creating illustrations for tech companies, and founded a studio that counts Google, Uber, Facebook and The New York Times among its clients. Itas a fascinating story of discovery and enterprise at what Krystal calls athe intersection of [â¦]
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Iave recently started taking one-to-one Japanese conversation lessons. It hasnat been easy. In fact, itas been a bit of a humbling experience. Between work and family responsibilities, I only have 30 minutes a day to study Japanese, and Iave spent this time every day for the past two years memorising kanji characters, vocabulary and grammar [â¦]
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Todayas guest on The 21st Century Creative is Cynthia Morris, a coach for creatives who shares insights on the book-writing process, based on her latest book The Busy Womanas Guide to Writing a World-Changing Book. So if you are contemplating writing a book â whether itas your first one or your twenty-first â there is [â¦]
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If you think about overhearing something, you probably think of listening to someone elseas conversation, whether deliberately or accidentally, and picking up a titbit of information that you would never otherwise have been privy to. It might be funny, or shocking or useful, or â as in the case of so many loud phone calls [â¦]
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Todayas guest on The 21st Century Creative is Emily Kimelman, a thriller author who has travelled the world in a boat and criss-crossed the USA in an Airstream trailer while writing and publishing her books, and selling hundreds of thousands of copies in the process. Emilyas adventurous spirit shines through in her writing as well [â¦]
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Discussion aleans more towards infiltration than attacka says anonymous Iranian official as US says Israel has carried out military operation
Itas 7:24am in Tehran and 6:54 In Tel Aviv. Letas get a reminder of what we know so far:
US officials have confirmed that Israel has carried out military operations against Iran but did not describe those operations.
The Israeli military has told news agencies including Agence France-Presse and Associated Press: aWe donat have a comment at this time.a
Iranas state media reported explosions in the central province of Isfahan Friday
Air defence systems over several Iranian cities were activated, state media reported, after the countryas official broadcaster said explosions were heard near the city of Isfahan.
Iranas Fars news agency reported athree explosionsa were heard near the Shekari army airbase in the north-west of Isfahan province, while Iranas space agency spokesperson Hossein Dalirian said aseverala drones had been asuccessfully shot downa.
Nuclear facilities in Isfahan were reported to be acompletely securea, Iranas Tasnim news agency reported, citing areliable sourcesa.
Flights were suspended across swathes of Iran on Friday. aIranas air defence has been activated in the skies of several provinces of the country,a Tehranas official IRNA news agency said.
Mehr news agency reported that aflights to Tehran, Isfahan and Shiraz, and airports in the west, northwest and southwest have been suspended.a
Flight-tracking software showed commercial flights avoiding western Iran, including Isfahan, and skirting Tehran to the north and east.
There was no immediate comment from Dubaias Emirates airline, which was operating several of the planes.
Blasts were also reported in southern Syria, according to a local activist group. aThere were strikes on a Syrian army radar position,a said Rayan Maarouf, who runs the Suwayda24 anti-government website that covers news from Sweida province in the south, reports AFP.
Oil prices surged more than three per cent in early Asian trade on Friday after the reports of explosions.
Continue reading...Iranian state media reports that drones have been shot down over Isfahan province in attack on Friday and that the nuclear site there is acompletely safea
US officials have confirmed that Israel has carried out airstrikes against Iran as explosions were reported in the sky over the cities of Isfahan and Tabriz, while the Iranian government sought to play down the scale of the attack.
Officials in Washington said Israeli forces were carrying out military operations against Iran but did not describe the character or scale of those operations. Iranian state media said that drones had been shot down over Isfahan province in the early hours, and showed live shots of morning traffic in Isfahan city after sunrise to show that the situation was calm.
Continue reading...US officials have confirmed that Israel carried out a military operation against Iran, while state media reports air defences are active near the city of Isfahan
US officials have confirmed that Israel has carried out military operations against Iran. The officials said Israel warned the Biden administration earlier on Thursday that a strike was coming in the next 24 to 48 hours. According to CNN, the Israelis assured their US counterparts that Iranas nuclear facilities would not be targeted.
Iranian state media reported that air defence batteries had been activated after reports of explosions near a major airbase close to the city of Isfahan. The Iranian government appeared to play down the scale of the attack, with a senior commander in Iranas army saying there was no damage in Isfahan, according to state TV.
Isfahan is home to sites associated with Iranas nuclear program, including its underground Natanz enrichment site. State television described all sites in the area as afully safea and the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), confirmed there was no damage to any nuclear sites.
The airbase close to Isfahan has long been home to Iranas fleet of American-made F-14 Tomcats a purchased before the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Airports in Tehran, Shiraz and Isfahan were closed and flights have been cleared from the western half of Iran, flight tracking website FlightRadar24 reported. Local warnings to aviators suggested the airspace may have been closed. At 8am local time some airports lifted restrictions, local media in Iran reported. Although UAE based FlyDubai cancelled all flight to Iranas capital on Friday.
Tensions across the region remain high after Iran launched hundreds of drones as well as cruise missiles towards Israel on Saturday, in the Islamic Republicas first ever direct attack on the Jewish state, in response to the 1 April strike on an Iranian diplomatic building in the Syrian capital, Damascus, which killed a senior figure in Iranas Islamic Revolutionary Guards and eight other officers.
On Thursday, Iranas foreign minister told CNN that if Israel chooses to retaliate, Tehranas response would be immediate. aIf the Israeli regime commits the great error once again our response will be decisive, definitive and regretful for them,a Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said.
Prime minister to express concern about aover-medicalisinga normal worries with diagnoses as mental health conditions
Rishi Sunak will today claim Britain is suffering from a asicknote culturea, as he warns there is a risk of aover-medicalisinga normal worries by diagnosing them as mental health conditions.
In a speech on how to reduce people being signed off sick from work, the prime minister will say the government is planning to trial getting awork and health professionalsa to issue fit notes, shifting away from GPs carrying out this role.
Continue reading...Husband of Nicola Sturgeon was rearrested ain connection with the embezzlement of fundsa from party, say police
Peter Murrell, the husband of the former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, has been charged in connection with embezzlement after being arrested for a second time by police investigating allegations regarding the funding and finances of the Scottish National party.
Murrell, the former chief executive of the SNP, was first arrested and interviewed as a suspect by Police Scotland detectives in April 2023 at the home he shared with Sturgeon in Glasgow, but was released later that day pending further investigation.
Continue reading...Exclusive: 80% of Welsh dairy farms inspected, 69% of English ones, 60% in Scotland and 50% in Northern Ireland breaching regulations
The majority of UK dairy farms are breaking pollution rules, with vast amounts of cow manure being spilled into rivers.
When animal waste enters the river, it causes a buildup of the nutrients found in the effluent, such as nitrates and phosphates. These cause algal blooms, which deplete the waterway of oxygen and block sunlight, choking fish and other aquatic life.
Continue reading...Swifties take to social media to dissect lyrics and celebrate Swiftas 11th album on Friday as the musician releases 15 more songs
The Tortured Poets Department is just out but it is already splitting Taylor Swift fans a between those who have already listened to it after it leaked online early, and those who refused to listen out of loyalty to their favourite singer.
Swiftas 11th studio album was released on Friday but all 16 tracks and lyrics began appearing on social media on Wednesday. Some fans a known as Swifties a refused to listen to the leaked album, insisting that atrue fansa would wait for the official release, while others shared false links to the leak in attempts to stop people finding it.
Continue reading...First phase in worldas largest democratic exercise begins, with 969 million people eligible to vote over six-week period
Voting has begun in Indiaas mammoth general election, as Narendra Modias Bharatiya Janata party hopes to increase its parliamentary majority amid allegations that the countryas democracy has been undermined since it came to power 10 years ago.
Indiaas elections are the largest democratic exercise in the world, with more than 969 million voters, amounting to more than 10% of the worldas population. The voting began at 8am on Friday, when polling opened at 102 constituencies across the country, and will continue over the next six weeks, in seven phases, until 1 June. All the results will be counted and declared on 4 June.
Continue reading...Exclusive: Under Whitehall blueprint for water company some lenders could lose up to 40% of their money
Thames Water could be renationalised, with the bulk of its APS15.6bn debt added to the public purse, under radical plans being considered by the government, the Guardian can reveal.
The blueprint, codenamed Project Timber, is being drawn up in Whitehall and would turn Britainas biggest water company into a publicly owned armas-length body. Some lenders to its core operating company could lose up to 40% of their money under the plans.
Continue reading...Exclusive: India seeking to use approach of UK election as bargaining chip and any exemption would be controversial
India is demanding an exemption from the UKas planned carbon tax as part of negotiations aiming to finalise a free trade deal before the UK election.
Indiaas negotiating team have spent this week in London in a surprise set of talks to try to overcome the remaining hurdles to an agreement.
Continue reading...Campaigners say underclaiming is a result of restrictions on taking on paid work and harsh penalties for accidental rule breaches
As many as half a million unpaid carers in the UK who look after frail, ill and disabled loved ones are failing to claim the APS4,200-a-year careras allowance despite experiencing high levels of poverty, according to new estimates.
Campaigners said unpaid carers may have not claimed the benefit partly because of the strict limits dictating the amount of paid work they can undertake on top of their care duties, and the harsh penalties they face if they breach those rules.
Continue reading...Pilot to explore how to repurpose unused school space to increase capacity for funded childcare
An estimated 85,000 additional childcare places would be required by September 2025 to enable the governmentas planned expansion of funded childcare for working parents in England, according to the Department for Education.
A pilot will explore how to repurpose unused school space to support childcare and increase capacity. If successful, the scheme will be rolled out to expand funded childcare for eligible families of children as young as nine months old.
Continue reading...Press Awards recognise cross-platform Cotton Capital series, and there are wins for several Guardian reporters
The Guardian has won a diversity award at the prestigious Press Awards after its exposA(c) on its foundersa links to transatlantic slavery, while one of its reporters took home the award for news reporter of the year.
Judges at the Press Awards called the Guardianas cross-platform Cotton Capital series, encompassing news articles, long-form essays, podcasts, video, a magazine, a 15-part newsletter and social media content, a abreathtakingly honest mea culpaa.
Continue reading...Davina Ware applied for benefits to help look after husband Mike, 72, who has lived with Parkinsonas for 20 years
The pain cuts through Davina Wareas voice as she describes her experience of careras allowance, the meagre weekly benefit given to those heralded by the government as Britainas aunsung heroesa.
She feels ahumiliated,a adevastated,a and atreated like a conniving thiefa by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) since she received its demand, three months before her retirement, to repay nearly APS4,000.
Continue reading...Flights have been pushed back to summer after the House of Lords spoke out for Afghans and refugees a hereas what to expect over the coming weeks
Rishi Sunakas plan to fly people seeking asylum to Rwanda this spring appears to have been put back to the summer after House of Lords insisted on changes to the scheme.
On Thursday the prime ministeras spokesperson said the Lords were responsible for any delay after attaching unwanted amendments to the deportation bill.
Continue reading...Process has coincided with a rise in price in the past and is due to take place again on Saturday
Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin, still has an influence on the cryptocurrency nearly 14 years after disappearing.
This week the protocol designed by Nakamoto a an individual or group of individuals who went silent in December 2010 a will trigger what is known as a abitcoin halvinga, a process that has coincided with price increases in the past. The latest halving is expected to take place on Saturday.
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Subtly detailed album splits the difference between 1989as glossy pop-rock and Midnightsa understatement a and lets her ex Matty Healy have it in no uncertain terms
The two cliches used to describe the new release by a major star are that itas long-awaited and eagerly anticipated. You could hardly describe Taylor Swiftas 11th studio album as long-awaited a itas barely 18 months since her last album, Midnights, a blink of an eye in the release schedule of a pop superstar. Sheas also put out another three hours of music in the interim, in the shape of bonus track-packed re-recordings of 2010as Speak Now and 2014as 1989. But The Tortured Poets Department is certainly eagerly anticipated. The torrential nature of Swiftas output is one reason behind her current position as not just popas biggest star, but a figure who dominates pop culture to such a preposterous degree you struggle for a historical comparison: we live in a world where her endorsement of a candidate is considered a potentially deciding factor in the US presidential elections and where the prime minister of Singapore is embroiled in a row with his Thai counterpart over exclusivity rights to the south-east Asian leg of Swiftas Eras tour.
Among the countless other factors in her rise to omnipresence a her keen understanding of todayas altered media landscape and a desire for collective experience in a music world obsessed with individualised experiences a is, of course, her music, which can dim in comparison to the media noise. Thatas a shame, because, as The Tortured Poets Department underlines, Swift is an authentically skilled songwriter: melodically gifted, thoughtful, witty and willing to take risks in a risk-averse era for pop.
Continue reading...What are the big takeaways from Swiftas new album? Sheas refining her sound, confronting elements of her fanbase and done with romantic idealisation
aC/ Read Alexis Petridisas four-star review of the album
Swift named an entire album after the concept of her reputation and has been engaging with public perceptions of her as far back as 2010as Speak Now; songs such as Mean, Blank Space and the gothic half of Reputation lash out directly at critics. But sheas never openly condemned her listeners before her new album The Tortured Poets Department, in songs that constitute some of its most daring moments. Whoas Afraid of Little Old Me? feels like a deservedly bitter, barbed update of the cutesier and more cloying Anti-Hero that suggests Swift is the way she is because of the twisted culture she grew up in and had to contort herself to fit into: aYou taught me, you caged me, and then you called me crazy,a she seethes, sounding quite high on the fearsome power commentators have ascribed to her.
Iall tell you something right now
Iad rather burn my whole life down
Than listen to one more second of all this bitching and moaning
Iall tell you something about my good name
Itas mine alone to disgrace
More than 50% of the planetas species live in the soil, but only a fraction have been identified a so far
Read more: No birdsong, no water in the creek, no beating wings: how a haven for nature fell silent
The sound of an earthworm is a distinctive rasping and scrunching. Ants sound like the soothing patter of rain. A passing, tunnelling vole makes a noise like a squeaky dogas toy repeatedly being chewed.
On a spring day at Rothamsted Research, an agricultural research institution in Herefordshire, singing skylarks and the M1 motorway are competing for the airways. But the attention here is on the soundscapes underfoot: a rich ecosystem with its own alien sounds. More than half of the planetas species live in the soil, and we are just starting to tune into what they are up to. Beetle larvae, millipedes, centipedes and woodlice have other sound signatures, and scientists are trying to decipher which sounds come from which creatures.
Continue reading...Cinemovel is screening Oscar-nominated Io Capitano to packed houses around the country, highlighting the perils migrants face on the journey to Europe
At about 1pm on Monday a 35-seater bus arrived in Pikine, a city east of the Senegalese capital, Dakar. A portable screen, projector, sound system and generator were unpacked to set up a temporary cinema in a lively neighbourhood where the scent of hibiscus and orange blossom fill the air.
Pikineas cultural centre was the first stop for Cinemovel, a travelling cinema that is showing the Oscar-nominated Italian film Io Capitano in the streets and villages of Senegal. It is part of an initiative run by the Cinemovel Foundation, an Italian group that has been bringing a touring cinema to remote parts of Africa since 2001.
Continue reading...Mina confronts Tom, but little sister Layla would rather keep the peace. You decide whoas right in this sister act?
Find out how to get a disagreement settled or become a juror
Confronting Tomas toxic attitudes is good practice for my sister and will boost her confidence
Mina wants to make a stand, but after a row, itas me who has to deal with the aftershocks at home
Continue reading...Top rated retrofits: from a grand listed city centre penthouse dating back to the 1700s to a converted church in a pretty village
Continue reading...The prestigious photographer of the year title has been awarded to Juliette Pavy for her series Spiralkampagnen: Forced Contraception and Unintended Sterilisation of Greenlandic Women. Pavy was selected from the 10 winners in the professional category; she receives a $25,000 prize, Sony equipment, and the opportunity to present a new body of work at the Sony World Photography Awards 2025 exhibition
aC/ Gallery a the Sony World Photography awards
Juliette Pavyas documentary series explores the severe and lasting impacts of an involuntary birth control campaign led by Danish authorities in Greenland in the 1960s and 1970s. It examines the Spiralkampagnen, in which several thousand Inuit women and girls, some as young as 12 years old, had intrauterine devices implanted without their consent. The project traces the programmeas origins through to the present day, including the ongoing investigation by the Danish government.
Placing the victimsa perspectives at the forefront, the narrative structure of Pavyas project is shaped by difficult and important reflections on the collective trauma experienced by a community. The series uses a variety of photographic formats, from situating shots of the city of Nuuk and its clinical spaces to X-ray imagery and archive photographs of the young women involved, alongside recent portraits of victims, doctors who worked in Greenland during and after the programme, and the Danish parliamentarian investigating the Spiralkampagnen today.
Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, is located on the west coast and has a population of about 19,000.
Continue reading...From camping beside glacial lakes in Montenegro to birdwatching in Poland, the continent has no shortage of inspiring wilderness adventures
One of the most incredible bird scenes in Europe took place as I hiked through the Bielawa nature reserve in northern Poland, about 40 miles north of Gdansk. I had left the village of SAawoszyno via a dirt track and was heading towards KAanino, the open countryside and fields disappearing from my sight as the hedgerows grew taller either side of me. As I stepped forward, a gap appeared in the hedge and in front of my eyes a flock of nearly 100 cranes, which had been silent, took off across the field, honking with their red-tinged heads and faces, and feathery wing feathers flapping. I could almost touch them. The 19,000-hectare (47,000-acre) park is a mix of forest, wetland and coast.
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Marcus Decker dared to protest on climate and was punished. Now he could be deported. Is that a humane democracy?
When the traditional ruling class was obliged to concede to demands for democracy, it gave away as little as possible. We could vote, but it ensured that crucial elements of the old system remained in place: the House of Lords, the first-past-the-post electoral system, prerogative powers and Henry VIII clauses, and above all a legal system massively and blatantly biased towards owners of property.
In combination, these elements ensured that the system remained predisposed to elite rule, even while it pretended the people were in charge. The portcullis excluding us from power has never been properly lifted since the Norman conquest. The relationship between rulers and ruled remains, in effect, a relationship between occupier and occupied.
Continue reading...I fear we are forgetting lessons from that terrible history
I donat usually talk about my great-uncle Walter. Gen Walter Warlimont, as my grandfatheras brother was formally known, was head of the national defence department in the high command of the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany. Only two people were between him and the FA1/4hrer in the chain of command. Walter worked so closely with Hitler that the failed assassination attempt in July 1944 injured his arm. The orders he signed during wartime a about who to shoot to kill, about how to treat prisoners a meant he had hundreds of thousands of lives on his conscience.
Not that Uncle Walter was the only one in the family who facilitated the Third Reich and the Holocaust. My paternal grandparents were very proud to have been among the very earliest members of Hitleras party. My maternal grandfather a Walteras brother a was the head of a factory in Vienna that made the guidance systems for the V2 rocket, a factory that was staffed by Russian and Ukrainian slave labourers.
Continue reading...The scandal, revealed by the Guardian, didnat occur in a vacuum. The rightas casting of the poor as parasitic benefits cheats underpins it all
The unpaid careras allowance in this country is APS81.90 a week. Itas hard to see what serious thought went into arriving at that figure a any calculation of how much it costs to live on, for instance, or how much an unpaid carer is saving the government. Being without discernible curiosity about the lives of unpaid carers, or their contribution to society, it looks very much like a benefit handed down from on high; so at the very least, youad expect the Department for Work and Pensions to keep on top of its administration.
That is not what happened. Unpaid carers are allowed to earn APS151 a week before it affects the benefit. In nearly 30,000 cases last year, people breached that limit, itas thought almost always unknowingly, and the DWP allowed debts to rack up, sometimes running to thousands of pounds. This wonat be the first time itas been observed how bureaucracies that seem lackadaisical and unequal to their own responsibilities become unbelievably tenacious and forceful when it comes to the debts of others. It is accused of intimidatory tactics, against people who may have committed only minor breaches, rewarding them with criminal records and penury that has forced some to sell their homes.
Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist
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True crime dramas, in which nobody wins but the lawyers, are not the kind of films that made Hugh Grant famous. His starring role in the long-running legal action against the Sun newspaper for phone hacking instead proves that real life is far more flawed and frustrating than film.
After more than a decade of leading a campaign against what he called the aworst excesses of the oligarch-owned pressa, Grant settled with Rupert Murdoch when offered such an aenormousa sum of money that to proceed would have seen him liable for even bigger costs.
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