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Police car filmed hitting a cow twice

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According to Surrey Police A police officer who filmed deliberately driving a police car into a cow has been removed from frontline duties. Deputy Chief Constable Nev Kemp said: “ I fully appreciate the distress our handling of this incident has caused  and will ensure that it is thoroughly and diligently investigated. At this time, the officer who was driving the police car has been removed from frontline duties pending the outcome of these investigations.” Beau Lucy, a 10-month-old breeding heifer, has no broken bones and is recovering in a barn with other calves but could still die of shock, … Continue reading Police car filmed hitting a cow twice

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Wilderness to Freedom

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Tina Miles, a National Book Award-winning author of All That She Carried, acknowledges in her fascinating new book Night Flyer, Harriet Tubman is the subject of several excellent modern biographies, most notably  by Kate Clifford Larson and Catherine Clinton. Tubman’s first official “as told to” biography was published as early as 1869 and was written by Sarah Bradford, one of several white abolitionist women who supported Tubman in her work. Tina Miles explains intimately and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand. Harry Tubman, five feet tall, unable to read, … Continue reading Wilderness to Freedom

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E-coli outbnreak in Supermakets sandwiches, wraps

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Food manufacturers have recalled 56 types of pre-packed sandwiches wraps and salads in major supermarkets including Aldi, Tesco, Morrison, Co-op, Asda, because of possible contamination with E-coli bacteria.It is understood the affected items are containing salad leaves. Across UK at least 211 people are known to be affected by E-coli currently up from 113 last week, with at lest 67 people admitted to hospital, according to the UK Health Security Agency. One of the suppliers inovlved, Greencore Group, has recalled 45 different products so far, including  an Aldi Chicken salad sandwich, Tesco tuna Crunch sub and Tesco spicy bean wraps. … Continue reading E-coli outbnreak in Supermakets sandwiches, wraps

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Steam sued for £656m for overcharging

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Valve Corporation, the owner of Steam, the world’s largest digital distribution platform for PC games, is being  sued for £656m, accused of using its market dominance to overcharge 14 million people in the UK. “Valve is rigging the market and taking advantage of UK gamers,” said digital rights campaigner Vicki Schotbolt, who is bringing the collective action claim, which means that one person goes to court on behalf of a much larger group of people. The claim has been filed at the Competition Appeal Tribunal, in London- accuses Valve of shutting out competition in the PC gaming market and says  … Continue reading Steam sued for £656m for overcharging

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Cursed by guilt, enchanted by the allure of mysticism

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Pemi Aguda who grew up in Lagos, a graduate of the writer’s programme at the University of Michigan, details magic and mayhem in the Lagos metropolis riven by crime, corruption and poverty, influenced by supernatural influences. In Ghostroots, unexplained powers which are both benign and malign, although their motivations are good but their impact is devastating, and in some cases act as messengers of divine retribution. The result of an environmental disarray, a place in which power cut are routine, masculinity is malevolent and pentecostal ministers hold sway with parables of salvation, as these ghosts, spirit jesters, unaccountable pestilences and … Continue reading Cursed by guilt, enchanted by the allure of mysticism

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Fuming PrettyLittleThing customer backlash not Pretty

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Fashion brand PrettLittleThing ( part of the Boohoo Group, founded by Mahmud Kaman and retail executive Carol Kane in 2006) is facing a customer backlash after becoming the latest retailer to scrap its free returns policy, as UK customers must now pay £1.99 to return clothes, with the cost deducted from their refund.So for many PrettyLittleThing customers the experience is not Pretty at all. Irate shoppers have posted screenshots on social media showing their PrettyLittleThings apps being deleted from their phones, with many saying they would return fewer items if the brand’s sizing was more consistent. High Street giant brands … Continue reading Fuming PrettyLittleThing customer backlash not Pretty

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Commodification of Intimacy and sexual trauma

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Comedian and podcaster Sofie Hagen had not had sex in 3,000 days ( and counting), and it turns out, she’s not the only one…. Her attempts to find out why we’re not having the sex we want, Sofie asked the questions: can we blame a lacking sex education? Is it all just sexual trauma? Where’s the radical sexual liberation we were promised? What are we going to do about this? How do you overcome being a 35- year-old virgin ( when it come to queer sex, that is)? How do the socially awkward and the neurodiverse have sex? “ I … Continue reading Commodification of Intimacy and sexual trauma

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Central Banks could bring about price stability

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Shock Value tells the untold story of prices and price stabilisation in the United States, many foundational moments in American economic history – the establishment of paper money, wartime price controls, the rise of the modern Federal Reserve- occurred during financial panics as prices either inflated or deflated sharply. The government’s decisions in these moments, intended to control price fluctuations, have produced both lasting effects and some of the most contentious debates in the American’s history. Shock Values reveals how the American state and been shaped by a massive, ever-evolving effort to insulate its economy from the real and perceived … Continue reading Central Banks could bring about price stability

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Can good law topple the powerful

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Jolyon Maugham, a King’s Counsel, charismatic and successful obscure tax barrister, whose memoir cum social action manifesto Bringing Down Goliath, a product of the bird site, and large portions of it cannot really be understood unless the  reader has followed our hero’s perambulations  through Twitter. He started a mild successful blog, which led him advising the Labour Party on tax policy and even to fleeting fantasies of becoming attorney general in the House of Lords in an Ed Miliband government. But what really made him famous was hi energetic consistent abuse of anyone who disagreed with him on Twitter  where he has 420, … Continue reading Can good law topple the powerful

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Psychedelic drug 5-MeO-DMT, found in the Sonoran desert toads

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Scientist have dosed the first participant in a London trial investigating the effects of a psychedelic substance 5-MeO-DMT, found in the Sonoran desert toads on the human brain, The substance causes powerful hallucinations, euphoria  and disassociation. The toads are found in the north-western Mexico and the south-western United States. In 2022, the National Park Service warned people to stop licking the back of the toads to induce a psychedelic  trip, as the amphibians’ skin contains poisonous toxins. Beckley Psych, a biopharmaceutical firm created a synthetic version of 5 MeO-DMT, named BPL -003, as part of the trial  looking into the … Continue reading Psychedelic drug 5-MeO-DMT, found in the Sonoran desert toads