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Vo stanley cup nz lunteers from Sikh communities 鈥?some from as far away as Coventry 鈥?provide food for stranded lorry drivers in Kent. Scotlands first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, apologises for breaching Covid rules after a newspaper publishes photos of her talking to three elderly women at a wake, socially distanced but standing and not wearing a mask.Not just two very different events, but also two events that represent opposite poles of what we might call public mindedness in the pandemic. One, an act of giving, the other of finger-pointing, both of which have become essential parts of Covid culture, and which expose the tensions that now define our social relations.When the pandemic forced the first lockdown in March, there was much hope that the crisis would bring people together. Community support has flourished this year because it has had to 鈥?volunteer organisation stanley cup s, mutual aid groups, food banks have all stepped in to cover for the failures of the state. What has also flourished, though, is the kind of public mindedness exemplified by the Sturgeon affair 鈥?the calling out of individuals for minor infractions of Covid rules.There is somet stanley mugs hing to be said for greater scrutiny of politicians or other public figures, especially those who impose or demand limits on the behaviour of the public but seem to imagine that such regulations dont apply to them. Yet, if we really want to hold politicians to account it would be far better to challenge the corruption and chumocracy that has bec Slkj The pain is inhumane : how NHS gynaecology delays affect women s health
Shaker Aamer remembers the frantic knocking on the door, the voices screaming for him to get out. Outside, in the dark streets of Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, the soldiers stripped him of his belongings at gunpoint and marched away their latest prisoner.It was November 2001 and Afghanistan was the focus of the furious US response to 9/11. The country that Aamer and his family had arrived in from London five months earlier had descended into chaos. The first US bombing waves had flattened the Kabul school where Aamer had taught English to the stanley cup children of Arabic-speaking expatriates. Terrified, the Aamers fled east towards Pakistan.Aamer had more reason than many to escape. Even when he was travelling with his pregnant wife and three children, Afghan rebels belonging to the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, suspi stanley quencher cious of all Arabs in the country, were likely to consider him a natural enemy.He recounts how, after he had finally been caught and his family were allowed to go, he was driven into the countryside at night, expecting to be executed. Instead, he recalls the throb of a helicopter and friendly accents. He remembers exhaling with relief. Americans! he thought. I am sav stanley termos ed! More than 11 years later, Shaker Aamer has yet to meet his youngest son, Faris, who was born three months after his capture. On the day Faris was born, 14 February 2002, Aamer was airlifted to Guant谩namo Bay, the soon to be notorious US detention camp. The subsequent years have be
Vo stanley cup nz lunteers from Sikh communities 鈥?some from as far away as Coventry 鈥?provide food for stranded lorry drivers in Kent. Scotlands first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, apologises for breaching Covid rules after a newspaper publishes photos of her talking to three elderly women at a wake, socially distanced but standing and not wearing a mask.Not just two very different events, but also two events that represent opposite poles of what we might call public mindedness in the pandemic. One, an act of giving, the other of finger-pointing, both of which have become essential parts of Covid culture, and which expose the tensions that now define our social relations.When the pandemic forced the first lockdown in March, there was much hope that the crisis would bring people together. Community support has flourished this year because it has had to 鈥?volunteer organisation stanley cup s, mutual aid groups, food banks have all stepped in to cover for the failures of the state. What has also flourished, though, is the kind of public mindedness exemplified by the Sturgeon affair 鈥?the calling out of individuals for minor infractions of Covid rules.There is somet stanley mugs hing to be said for greater scrutiny of politicians or other public figures, especially those who impose or demand limits on the behaviour of the public but seem to imagine that such regulations dont apply to them. Yet, if we really want to hold politicians to account it would be far better to challenge the corruption and chumocracy that has bec Slkj The pain is inhumane : how NHS gynaecology delays affect women s health
Shaker Aamer remembers the frantic knocking on the door, the voices screaming for him to get out. Outside, in the dark streets of Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, the soldiers stripped him of his belongings at gunpoint and marched away their latest prisoner.It was November 2001 and Afghanistan was the focus of the furious US response to 9/11. The country that Aamer and his family had arrived in from London five months earlier had descended into chaos. The first US bombing waves had flattened the Kabul school where Aamer had taught English to the stanley cup children of Arabic-speaking expatriates. Terrified, the Aamers fled east towards Pakistan.Aamer had more reason than many to escape. Even when he was travelling with his pregnant wife and three children, Afghan rebels belonging to the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, suspi stanley quencher cious of all Arabs in the country, were likely to consider him a natural enemy.He recounts how, after he had finally been caught and his family were allowed to go, he was driven into the countryside at night, expecting to be executed. Instead, he recalls the throb of a helicopter and friendly accents. He remembers exhaling with relief. Americans! he thought. I am sav stanley termos ed! More than 11 years later, Shaker Aamer has yet to meet his youngest son, Faris, who was born three months after his capture. On the day Faris was born, 14 February 2002, Aamer was airlifted to Guant谩namo Bay, the soon to be notorious US detention camp. The subsequent years have be