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Zakynthos police investigate British tourist’s deathPolice on the Ionian island of Zakynthos are investigating the circumstances that led to the death of a 20-year-old British tourist after he fell into a pool at a club.The man is understood to have lost consciousness after falling into the pool at the well-known venue.Despite the efforts of the lifeguard who administered CPR on the man, he was later pronounced dead upon arrival at Zakynthos hospital, where he had been taken by private ambulance.
It doesn’t matter if a girl identified as a cat (she didn’t). The issue is how post-truth politics exploits itI apologise in advance, because this column is about something that didn’t happen. Let’s get the facts out of the way first. At no point did anyone identify as a cat. A short exchange between schoolgirls and a teacher was recorded by one of the girls and then posted on TikTok, after which it went viral, was picked up by Fox News and the rightwing press, and then blessed into respectability by mainstream media and politicians. It was a heated debate, during which one of the girls cited a conversation with another girl about identifying as something other than a girl, such as a cat. “I said, how can you identify as a cat when you are a girl.” She is scolded by the teacher, whose tone and language definitely to my ears from the short recording sounded troubling, and the wrong approach to such discussions. But no one ever identified as a cat, or was criticised for doing so.Cat child didn’t happen, just as Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory were not axed from what was described as the BBC’s “Black Lives Matter Proms”. Nor was Cambridge University “forced to drop white authors”, or a Muslim bus driver allowed to throw his passengers out so he could pray, or an Iraqi caught “red-handed” with a bomb awarded thousands of pounds in compensation for being kept in custody too long.
Stephen Lawrence: BBC names new suspect in UK's most notorious racist murderA major suspect in the Stephen Lawrence murder is publicly named today for the first time, after a BBC investigation.He is Matthew White, who died in 2021, aged 50. The BBC has found the Met Police seriously mishandled key inquiries related to him.
Traffic-related deaths increased again in Greece last yearThe number of fatal road traffic injuries in Greece rose again in 2022, based on the annual report of the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) published earlier in June.The 7th Annual Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) showed that 635 people died in Greece in 2022 compared to 624 in 2021. Most of the victims were pedestrians, cyclists, users of skates and mopeds.
Pothole damage from electric cars is double that of petrol, Telegraph data showExcessive weight could exacerbate problem on already damaged residential roads that are not designed to cope
Greek voters propel new far-right Spartans group into parliament Greece’s general election has propelled a far-right group called the Spartans, a previously unheard-of political force, into the Athens parliament with the help of an imprisoned, neo-Nazi leader of the now-disbanded Golden Dawn party.While the centre-right politician Kyriakos Mitsotakis has won a second term as prime minister, the Spartans have emerged as the fifth biggest group in the 300-seat parliament.With 4.7 % of the vote, it was the Spartans who could claim real victory in a bloc of unabashed neo-fascists, religious fundamentalists and ultra-nationalists catapulted into parliament with two similarly minded far-right groups: Greek Solution and Niki.
QuoteIt doesn’t matter if a girl identified as a cat (she didn’t). The issue is how post-truth politics exploits itI apologise in advance, because this column is about something that didn’t happen. Let’s get the facts out of the way first. At no point did anyone identify as a cat. A short exchange between schoolgirls and a teacher was recorded by one of the girls and then posted on TikTok, after which it went viral, was picked up by Fox News and the rightwing press, and then blessed into respectability by mainstream media and politicians. It was a heated debate, during which one of the girls cited a conversation with another girl about identifying as something other than a girl, such as a cat. “I said, how can you identify as a cat when you are a girl.” She is scolded by the teacher, whose tone and language definitely to my ears from the short recording sounded troubling, and the wrong approach to such discussions. But no one ever identified as a cat, or was criticised for doing so.Cat child didn’t happen, just as Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory were not axed from what was described as the BBC’s “Black Lives Matter Proms”. Nor was Cambridge University “forced to drop white authors”, or a Muslim bus driver allowed to throw his passengers out so he could pray, or an Iraqi caught “red-handed” with a bomb awarded thousands of pounds in compensation for being kept in custody too long.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/26/girl-didnt-identified-as-a-cat-post-truth-politics-media-gender-identity
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