Food giants still flouting code on promoting baby milk formula in developing countries | Food & drin

 Posted on March 30, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  853 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

The ObserverFood & drink industry This article is more than 10 years oldFood giants still flouting code on promoting baby milk formula in developing countriesThis article is more than 10 years oldResearch in Pakistan finds companies giving free gifts and misleading literature to mothers and health workersSeveral of the world's leading food companies are breaching an industry code limiting the promotion of breast milk substitutes to mothers with babies under six months old, according to a new report by a leading aid charity. [Read More]

Israel-Hamas war opens up German debate over meaning of Never again | Germany

 Posted on March 30, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  802 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Germany This article is more than 1 month oldIsrael-Hamas war opens up German debate over meaning of ‘Never again’This article is more than 1 month oldIntellectuals clash over country’s traditional commitment to defence of Israel amid bloodshed in Gaza Israel-Hamas war – live updates The phrase “Never again” has been the central tenet of Germany’s political identity since the horrors of the Nazi-led Holocaust of Europe’s Jewish population. But the war between Israel and Hamas has opened up a fiercely fought debate about the phrase’s true meaning, dividing opinion among followers of the dominant German intellectual tradition. [Read More]

Johnny Jenkins | | The Guardian

 Posted on March 30, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  552 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

ObituaryJohnny JenkinsFlamboyant musician who influenced Hendrix and Otis ReddingThe guitarist, singer and songwriter Johnny Jenkins, who has died aged 67 of a stroke, proved a massive influence on acts from his home town, Macon, Georgia, such as Otis Redding and the Allman Brothers, and also those from further afield such as Jimi Hendrix. On a visit to Macon, Hendrix had noted the flamboyance of Jenkins' left-handed, upside-down guitar playing and realised that showmanship, like playing the guitar behind the head, was a very good gimmick. [Read More]

Rockers who flirt with the Heil life | Music

 Posted on March 30, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  706 words  |  Valentine Belue

The ObserverMusic This article is more than 16 years oldRockers who flirt with the Heil lifeThis article is more than 16 years oldBryan Ferry's fascist fancy is just the latest in Nazi dalliances, from Bowie to Primal ScreamIn every dream bunker, a heartache. One can but imagine the atmosphere in Bryan Ferry's recording studio - nicknamed 'the Fuhrerbunker' - this week. A few loose words of praise in a German magazine interview for the aesthetics of the Reich and its main propagandist Leni Riefenstahl, and an entire second career as Marks & Spencer's elder statesman of cool hangs in the balance. [Read More]

The face of cruel Britannia: who is the real Suella Braverman?

 Posted on March 30, 2024  |  19 minutes  |  3902 words  |  Aldo Pusey

The ObserverSuella BravermanAs the daughter of immigrants, the home secretary’s hostility to migrants can seem not only cruel but unfathomable. With many talking of her as the next Tory leader, we ask those who know her best what makes her tick The Tory party conference in Birmingham last October was a bizarre affair by any reckoning. Liz Truss’s leadership had already been self-torpedoed, her chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, was just about to be thrown overboard, and there was a palpable need for someone to rally the troops. [Read More]

To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey review a journey into the Alaskan wilds

 Posted on March 30, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  812 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Peak district … a glacier near Cordova, Alaska. Photograph: AlamyPeak district … a glacier near Cordova, Alaska. Photograph: AlamyFictionReviewThis follow-up to The Snow Child explores the boundary between the human and natural world with compelling results Eowyn Ivey is a deft craftswoman, attentive to the shape and heft of her sentences. Like the couple in her first novel, The Snow Child, who build an icy model of a little girl that magically transforms into a living child, Ivey fashions characters who come to warm and vivid life against her frozen Alaskan landscapes. [Read More]

US brothers freed after 25 years in prison for murder they did not commit | Michigan

 Posted on March 30, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  466 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Michigan This article is more than 1 year oldUS brothers freed after 25 years in prison for murder they did not commitThis article is more than 1 year oldJudge issues apology to George and Melvin DeJesus, wrongfully convicted of 1995 murder of Margaret Midkiff in Michigan Two Michigan brothers who were wrongfully convicted in the murder of a family friend walked free Tuesday and were reunited with their family after 25 years behind bars. [Read More]

Whats it like to watch someone die? Ask a drone pilot | Adrian Chiles

 Posted on March 30, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  769 words  |  Kary Bruening

OpinionDrones (military) This article is more than 1 year oldWhat’s it like to watch someone die? Ask a drone pilotThis article is more than 1 year oldAdrian ChilesTechnology used to distance the military from the deaths they caused. Now everything is up close and personal Microphone in hand, making radio, I don’t half find myself in some odd places. The inside of a shipping container, for example. This one was in an aircraft hangar at an RAF base somewhere in England. [Read More]

A good walk the perfect way to clear your head

 Posted on March 29, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1468 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

The 21st-century yokelLife and styleDistracted by animals in the house and struggling to write, I set out in the fresh Devon air – and was inspired by a one-eyed zombie seaweed snake It’s fair to say that it had not been my best morning. I had smacked my head pretty hard on a ceiling beam, a jackdaw had flown down the chimney while I was cleaning my teeth in the kitchen sink, and I had reached a tricky passage towards the end of my new book. [Read More]

Bernard Stiegler obituary | Philosophy

 Posted on March 29, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1409 words  |  Kary Bruening

PhilosophyObituaryBernard Stiegler obituaryFrench philosopher who denounced the tyranny of digital technologyBernard Stiegler, who has died suddenly aged 68, first robbed a bank in 1976, to pay off his overdraft. At the time, the school dropout and veteran of the May 1968 barricades was running a jazz cafe in Toulouse. “It went really well,” Stiegler recalled of his life of crime. “I got a taste for it and robbed three more.” He always worked alone. [Read More]