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At every level of our society it is under threat Mick Hume Published: 14 June 2015 * * Print Giant pencils became a symbol of the cartoonists' defiance as world leaders gathered in Paris to throw their weight behind 'free speech' Free speech is threatened on two fronts: occasionally by bullets, and every day by buts. Copenhagen, Denmark, February 15, 2015. A meeting in a cafe to discuss free speech and blasphemy, just over a month after the massacre at the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Inna Shevchenko of the Ukrainian feminist protest group Femen opens the discussion, talking about her relationship with the cartoonist Charb — Charlie Hebdo’s editor — and their shared insistence on their right of freedom of expression (Femen are famous for protesting topless). Shevchenko gets to the nub of the argument: “I realise that, every time we talk about the activity of those people, there will always be, ‘Yes, it is freedom of speech, but . . .’ And the turning point is ‘but’. Why do we still say ‘but’ when we . . .” At that precise moment her speech is ended by the sound of gunfire outside. The timing Subscribe now Login Already a subscriber? To see the full article you need to subscribe Subscribe Login No script ads will arrive soon! 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Renald Luzier, known as Luz, said that he was unable to handle the distress that followed the January 7 attack in which the two Kouachi brothers killed 12 people at the weekly’s offices, including Charb, its editor, and three other famous caricaturists. “Each issue is torture because the others are gone. Spending sleepless nights summoning the dead, wondering what Charb, Cabu, [TT_Sale_Teaser_1020376a.jpg] [TT_Winter_Sale_15__1018362a.jpg] Subscribe now Login Already a subscriber? To see the full article you need to subscribe Subscribe Login Behind the story: Hebdo rallies ‘show French racism’ People march in Paris Public rallies after the terrorist atrocities in Paris were a display of right-wing, middle-class Catholic-inspired... Published at May 12 2015 * French military gets €4bn boost after Charlie attack France is to spend an extra €4 billion on defence in the short term to pay for combat and security operations against... 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Does that make him less of a man than Maggie Thatcher, who famously enjoyed Yes Minister? And what about Sir Gerald Kaufman, who even wrote for That Was The Week That Was, between standing for elections? Or is he more of a David Steel, who apparently loathed his Spitting Image alter ego, a tiny figure who sat literally in David Owen’s pocket. So just how much are our current crop of politicians haunted by the spectre of satire? Do they get the night sweats at visions of Russell [TT_Sale_Teaser_1020376a.jpg] [TT_Winter_Sale_15__1018362a.jpg] Subscribe now Login Already a subscriber? 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Successive publishers turned down the novel, which follows the travails of the zealous professor and his sidekick after they become trapped in a snowstorm and have to take refuge with a retired vicar and his wife. “Publishers were running to the hills at the very mention of the idea,” said Rhodes. “They wouldn’t do it without Dawkins agreeing to it. “I grew up with Spitting Image, and I’m pretty sure its producers didn’t have to ask for the permission of those who they were lampooning.” Subscribe now Login Already a subscriber? To see the full article you need to subscribe Subscribe Login No script ads will arrive soon! 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Facebook is testing a “satire tag” that will clearly label fake news stories from well-known satire sites like the Onion as [satire]. No longer will you need to rely on outdated technology such as common sense to realise that content like Area Facebook User Incredibly Stupid is [satire], the square brackets will do it for you. It should perhaps be noted that Facebook isn’t introducing the satire tag because it thinks we’re all morons, but rather because it knows we’re all morons. In a statement, the social network explained that it had “received feedback that people wanted a clearer way to distinguish satirical articles from others”. Some of those people may well be journalists who have had embarrassing lapses of satire-blindness in the past. The Washington Post, for example, was once fooled into reporting that Sarah Palin was, in a somewhat unlikely career move, taking a job at al-Jazeera. And the English-language arm of China’s People’s Daily fell for an Onion article proclaiming the North Korean ruler, Kim Jong-un, the sexiest man alive, even using the accolade as an opportunity to run a 55-image slideshow of him, complete with quotes from the Onion spoof. Although, it’s possible this may itself have been satire – I’m unsure. And that’s the problem. The internet has become so weird, so saturated with cats and lists and Buzzfeed quizzes that it’s difficult to know what’s serious and what’s a spoof any more. I challenge you, for example, to identify the Onion piece from these headlines: • US adults are dumber than the average human • Hazelnut prices soar, fuelling fears of Nutella shortage • Tips For Being An Unarmed Black Teen • Serial chicken smuggler caught in Norway • Definitive Proof Kale Is The Marilyn Of Foods The point of this carefully curated list is that you often can’t tell the difference between satire and real news online. There are several reasons for this. The first is the underlying business model of the internet. We don’t like to pay for stuff online so the internet is funded by advertising; advertising executives demand eyeballs for their dollars; content providers resort to clickbait headlines and shareable content to secure eyeballs and ad dollars; users get addicted to an endless stream of clickbait. The manner in which we’ve monetised digital media means we often reward reaction over reflection and eschew meaning for meme-ing. News can’t just be news; it has to be entertainment. Indeed, the third law of modern media states that for every moderately important news item published, there will be an obligatory roundup of the funniest Twitter reactions to said news story, generally in slideshow format to maximise clicks. The second big contributor to satire-blindness is our diminishing attention span. The average American attention span in 2000 was 12 seconds; in 2013, it was eight seconds. This is less than the average attention span of a goldfish (nine seconds). As Vladimir Nabokov once said, “Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.” But if there’s one thing we’ve learned from the internet, it’s that everyone prefers games to lessons. The problem with satire in an age of finite attention and infinite content is that it makes you stop and think. It interrupts the speed and simplicity of the discover-click-share cycle that makes platforms like Facebook lots of money. By introducing satire tagging, Facebook has helpfully gone some way in eliminating the unhelpful friction of thought and, in doing so, made life easier for us all. Should the satire tags prove to be a success, I’m hoping Facebook will extend the square bracketing and provide clear labelling for every post on my newsfeed. 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Photograph: Mitch Blunt Sunday 7 December 2014 19.04 GMT Last modified on Monday 8 December 2014 00.02 GMT * Share on Facebook * Share on Twitter * Share via Email * Share on Pinterest * Share on LinkedIn * Share on Google+ * Share on WhatsApp The world of social media is a swirling, sometimes dizzying mess of contradictions. A powerful force for mobilising political change, or sometimes a glorified mass of torches and pitchforks; a means to instantly engage and debate with people of all leanings and all continents, or a means to obsessively harass, troll and threaten strangers; a tool to broaden horizons, or to be bombarded with nonsensical junk. But our social media, increasingly, are assuming a role that is crucial in a democracy: satirising and ridiculing the powerful. Take the now flourishing Twitter-land of Trumpton. In a dig at Ukip’s desire to take Britain back to something approximating the iconic 1960s children’s programme, a Trumpton Ukip account was founded. It proved not to be to the taste of the party’s Scottish MEP, David Coburn, who attempted to have the account shut down and even apparently threatened legal action. Big mistake: the powerful attempting to menace those who poke fun at them is the ultimate provocation, and is particularly self-defeating. All Coburn has achieved is to make a relatively small-fry account the Twitter trend of the moment. Political satire is booming online, where taking the mighty and the powerful down a peg or two is a sport. On the web you can find Vine videos of George Osborne looking spaced out at prime minister’s questions; and the mocking of broken political promises, from “We’re all in it together” to the trebling of tuition fees. Some of it is crude, unpolished or just not very funny. But thank goodness social media have taken up the mantle – because there is all too little of it on our TV screens. Satire is so subversive – and often politically fatal for those who rule – because it exposes the absurdities of power. Authority attempts to assert itself partly through a veneer of respectability and seriousness. When that is stripped away, its legitimacy can be lost, along with our subservience. But as Jeremy Paxman asked a few months ago, “Where is the Spitting Image of today? ... Imagine the sport the show could have with Cameron and Clegg. But I don’t care whether it’s puppets or cartoons or real people. Just give us some decent satire.” The humorous ridiculing of the powerful has a proud pedigree in Britain. Back in the mid-19th century, it was Punch magazine that championed satire, being sympathetic to the rising demands of democracy against the country’s oligarchic, unaccountable elite. More recently, satire has episodically flourished on our TV screens: That Was The Week That Was audaciously challenged the stultifying deference of the early 60s; Not the Nine O’Clock News stuck it to the political elite as Thatcherism dawned; more recently, we had Bremner, Bird and Fortune. Yes, we have the likes of Have I Got News For You; and The Thick Of It is a modern classic, even if it doesn’t skewer actual living politicians. But nothing has the bite and reach of Spitting Image. In its 12-year run, it reached up to 15 million people each week. Margaret Thatcher was a hectoring alpha male bullying her pathetically cowardly cabinet; Labour was a shambolic, incompetent mess; and even the royal family got a kicking, once shown moving to a council estate because they couldn’t afford the poll tax. Look at the US, by contrast. Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show reaches a disproportionately young audience, entertaining and informing them. Stephen Colbert takes on the US’s ranting rightwing shock jocks. Depressingly, we’re even exporting satirical talent such as Birmingham-born John Oliver, who presents Last Week Tonight on HBO. There is a counter-argument too: for if there’s one thing we don’t lack in modern Britain, it’s cynicism about our political elite. Our politicians have never been loved, and now they are even less popular than most tropical diseases. But that’s not altogether healthy. Anger at our political elite seldom fuels action to do anything about it, engendering instead an enraged passivity: people scream at the television set rather than taking to the streets. That actually suits the political elite rather well, because it makes them less accountable. It also undermines those of us who want radical change: if you believe all politicians are liars and charlatans, then you are less likely to see politics as a realistic vehicle to transform society. But quality satire does not just scrutinise and ridicule the great and the good. It helps engage those who otherwise find politics tedious. Politics can be made fun, raucous and appealing (at least for those not on the receiving end of it). Maybe – as the likes of Rory Bremner suggest – politics has become stuffed with so many dreary on-message types that there’s too little comedy fodder. But while Ed Miliband is routinely mocked by many newspapers, Nigel Farage and David Cameron have largely escaped such treatment in most of the press. It is all too often those at the bottom of society who are demonised and derided. There’s too little punching up. Where is the scrutinising – and yes, ridiculing – of the poverty-paying bosses, the tax dodgers, or the bankers responsible for economic disaster? Satire can be brilliantly effective at encouraging us to challenge the way our society is run. 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Our writers in Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Pakistan, Iran, Lebanon and Iraq explain where the line is drawn Bassem Youssef Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef gets some last-minute makeup done before appearing on his TV show as an ultra-conservative politician. Photograph: David Degner/David Degner/Getty Images Ian Black, Patrick Kingsley, Manu Abdo, Constanze Letsch, Martin Chulov, Moni Mohsin and Saeed Kamali Dehghan Monday 12 January 2015 19.37 GMT Last modified on Tuesday 13 January 2015 12.10 GMT * Share on Facebook * Share on Twitter * Share via Email * Share on Pinterest * Share on LinkedIn * Share on Google+ * Share on WhatsApp It’s a sweeping generalisation, of course, but Arabs and Muslims really don’t have much to laugh about these days: mayhem and death, war and repression, dictatorship and terrorism are daily fare across the region. Yet satire and humour, much of it fairly black, are alive and kicking, from Iraqis poking fun at the Islamic State (Isis) to Saudi standup comics, and Palestinians grinning and bearing life under a corrupt government and Israeli occupation. There are no crude Charlie Hebdo-style cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad – strictly taboo – but plenty of clever and excoriating images of corrupt and hypocritical leaders – and enemies. Lebanese band the Great Departed use oudh music and untranslatable cultural references to target Isis – “Daesh” in the pejorative Arabic term – to side-splitting laughter in Beirut nightclubs. Jordan’s al-Hudoud, a bundle of irreverent online fun, recently ran a delightful story about the arrest of Father Christmas and the confiscation of presents he was distributing. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed Caliph of Isis, is the object of plain ridicule. Karl Sharro, the London-based Lebanese satirist, brilliantly “re-created” a session between Baghdadi and his psychiatrist. Having declared the caliphate, the jihadi chief is stumped about what to do next. There’s no handbook. The psychiatrist helpfully advises him to try Google. Baghdadi wonders whether to start wearing a big turban, maybe mauve or even pistachio with a silver pin. But he frets that would make him look silly. Fahad al-Butairi is the star of the wildly successful YouTube comedy La Yekthar – tolerated by an autocratic Saudi regime that is currently flogging a jailed liberal blogger and does not allow women to drive – an issue that is brilliantly satirised in Butairi’s Bob Marley-inspired “No Woman, No Drive” video. Surprisingly, the show has survived, perhaps because it uses coded messages about social and economic issues and hints at corruption. Royalty and religion are strictly off limits. Negotiating the red lines laid down by government censors has encouraged extraordinary creativity. The Palestinian comedy team Watan a Watar have enjoyed huge success with their take on an Isis propaganda video featuring a roadblock and a quiz: incorrect answers mean instant execution but these jolly, bumbling jihadis win points to get them to Paradise. It’s gallows humour with a twist. Yet Isis is, in a sense, an easy target in the grim aftermath of the Arab spring – and the dichotomy between jihadis and dictators fashionable but false. “A lot of this is at the expense of satire against counter-revolutionary regimes we are not laughing at any more,” says Sharro. “Now there is a sense of an existential battle so we are linking arms with the Egyptians and Jordanians and Saudi regimes. And that’s very muddling because a lot of the grievances in the region are created by those same autocrats.” Ian Black, Middle East editor Cairo coffee shop Facebook Twitter Pinterest Egyptians watch Bassem Youssef TV show in a coffee shop in Cairo in 2013. Photograph: Khalil Hamra/AP Egypt: ‘If I was on TV, they might shut me down. That’s why I’m on the internet’ In some respects, the state of Egyptian satire can be summarised by the fact that Egypt’s most famous contemporary satirist no longer feels safe to work. And that when he was in work, he came under pressure from every government he lampooned. For a golden period, between 2011 and 2013, Bassem Youssef, a heart surgeon in a past life, was the poster boy of Egypt’s revolution. His political satire show, which he first broadcast on YouTube from his spare bedroom, and which later drew up to 30 million viewers on television, took aim at politicians from across the spectrum. Among all the bloggers, vloggers and comics that the 2011 uprising spawned, it was Youssef’s show that was the most visible emblem of the enhanced public discourse of the post-revolution period. Within two years, Youssef was the most-watched satirist in the Middle East, and became known internationally as Egypt’s Jon Stewart. Like Stewart, Youssef played humorous video clips of his targets, and then mercilessly ripped them apart for whatever blooper they had uttered. But he also found time for both serious soliloquies and low-brow slapstick. In one memorable programme, he wears an absurdly large academic’s hat, a piss-take of a similar, if smaller, hat that Egypt’s first post-revolution president, Mohamed Morsi, once wore in Pakistan. But his experiences under the rule of first Morsi, an Islamist, and Egypt’s first post-revolution president, and then the man who ousted him, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, highlight the limits for satirists in Egypt. Under Morsi, prosecutors detained and questioned Youssef on charges of insulting both the president and Islam in general. A devout Muslim, Youssef never criticised Islam – but he did poke fun of Islamists who, he felt, were tarnishing Islam’s image. “Religion, I’m not touching religion,” he said in these pages that year. “I’m actually attacking people who are using religion and give [it] a bad name.” Youssef’s show survived under Morsi, but with interim president Adly Mansour and then Sisi it was a different story. In September 2013, just as a crackdown on all forms of opposition was getting going, Youssef told viewers: “What we fear is that fascism in the name of religion will be replaced by fascism in the name of patriotism and national security.” Within weeks, his own channel had pulled the show. While the government has locked up other journalists, in his case there was no direct government order to end his satire. According to Youssef, he was the victim of the environment the government had helped create in which media moguls are only too happy to do the authorities’ work for them. “You can always implement some sort of a mood, without actually giving direct orders,” he later told the Observer. Youssef returned on a different channel months later, but again his show quickly folded. Once more, there was no direct order to do so – even from his new employers. But he felt that the threat posed by either the government or its supporters was too great to justify the continuation of his satire. In Egypt’s mainstream media, Youssef’s departure has left a void. But his satirical baton is still carried by a younger generation of cartoonists and writers who push social and (sometimes) political boundaries in a few daring websites, magazines – or to their own substantial followings on Facebook. One such writer is 23-year-old Wageeh Sabry, who started producing satirical sketches on Facebook last summer – ironically around the time that Youssef finally wound down his show. At first Sabry was just talking to his friends, posting idiosyncratic yarns or musings that gently push at social mores. But his writing proved a hit and, six months later, he has nearly 100,000 followers on Facebook and a book of his work out this month. Sabry doesn’t take direct potshots at political figures or events. But the surreal scenes he dreams up are a satire of the Egyptian moment. Recently, he imagined a bizarre conversation with a ghost at an “atheist cafe”, a riff on a recent raid on a cafe the authorities said was run by blasphemers. In another sketch, aliens invade Tahrir Square, and a woman, oblivious to their extraterrestrial nature, robotically chants pro-regime slogans at their commander. “In the mainstream media, there aren’t satirical journalists who talk about religion, sex, politics. The only one who broke these boundaries was Bassem Youssef,” says Sabry, who is mentored by Youssef. “If I was broadcasting on TV, they might shut down my programme, and I might not be able to express myself. But that’s why I work on the internet.” Patrick Kingsley and Manu Abdo Turkey: ‘Erdogan sued, but satire had the last laugh and the prime minister lost’ The Turkish political satire magazine Penguen (Penguin) was founded in 2002 by four Turkish cartoonists, Metin Üstündag, Selçuk Erdem, Bahadır Baruter and Erdil Yaşaroğlu. It has since become one of the country’s most widely read cartoon magazines. Its popularity soared during the Gezi protests in 2013, when Turkish TV channel CNNTurk unwittingly turned the penguin into the mascot of activists; it had aired a penguin documentary instead of reporting from the uprising in Taksim Square. While political caricatures in Turkey go back to Ottoman times, – Sultan Abdülhamid II, who failed to see the humour in satire and the depictions of his large nose, went on to ban them – they saw their golden age in the 1970s and 80s when Oğuz Aral, often considered the father of several generations of Turkish cartoonists, founded the hugely popular magazine Gırgır (Chuckle). Penguen’s co-founders emerged from Aral’s school of political satire. The magazine has never shied away from controversy. After a Turkish court sued caricaturist Musa Kart for depicting then prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as a cat entangled in a ball of wool in 2005, Penguen published a series of animals all sporting the heads of Erdoğan – a Turkish government leader known for his lack of a sense of humour and his love of suing unruly cartoonists – and promptly found itself facing a court case for defaming authority. This time satire had the last laugh and Erdoğan lost. But the threats against political satire and cartoon artists in Turkey, a country that currently ranks 154th out of 175 on the RSF Press Freedom index, are not just of a legal nature. Arsonists attacked the offices of Penguen in 2012 while two cartoonists were still working inside. No one was hurt. The perpetrators were never found. In early 2011, Penguen drew the ire of conservative Turks after it published a cartoon depicting the writing “there is no god, religion is a lie” on the wall of a mosque. The magazine later apologised, but underlined the right to freedom of expression: “We might like or not like a certain caricature, but it is important to protect this freedom. We respect the criticism. We are saddened by the angry reactions, and apologise to those who felt disrespected.” Author Bahadır Baruter, who faced a prison sentence of up to one year for the caricature, later said the outrage expressed in other newspapers and on social media amounted to a “lynching”, and insisted the cartoon reflected his personal opinion and was “not something he had sought to consult over with anyone” prior to drawing it. “As my friends in the magazine have already stated, a magazine column is a space of free speech.” His mosque cartoon again became the subject of heated debate – and threats of violence – after the attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last Wednesday. Ibrahim Yörük, a writer for the newly founded Islamic daily Vahdet, tweeted, using the hashtag #CharlieHebdo: “Look, one does not make fun out of insulting the people’s beliefs @penguendergi, you’d better pay attention to this …” He attached a picture of the controversial caricature, with red arrows pointing to the writings on the mosque wall. Yörük was later dismissed from his newspaper. Constanze Letsch Ali Farzat Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ali Farzat in Damascus in 2010. A year later he had his hands broken for a cartoon lampooning Bashar al-Assad. Photograph: RIM HADDAD/AFP/Getty Images Syria: ‘Ali Farzat was dragged from his car and had his hands broken’ Satire is a popular, and dangerous, political weapon in Syria, where its practitioners choose targets at their peril. Before the uprising that has ravaged the country over the past three years, political enemies of the Syrian regime were considered fair game for cartoonists, television sketches and social media campaigns. While not completely out of bounds, any mocking of senior officials, though, was restricted to a gentle ribbing. After the insurrection, state tolerance for dissent plummeted. Ali Farzat, an internationally renowned cartoonist who in better times had poked fun at Bashar al-Assad, found himself very much out of favour when he drew an image of the Syrian leader sweating and carrying a suitcase after Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was ousted in mid-2011. Farzat was dragged into a car and savagely beaten, and his hands were broken. He said his attackers told him “this is a warning”, and he now lives in exile. Around the same time, a singer of anti-regime songs, Ibrahim Qashoush, was found dead with his vocal chords removed. Now Syrian satirists tend to restrict themselves to safer targets. It is the terror group Isis, which controls part of Syria’s north and much of its east, that has become the focus of pointed satirical attacks from both the opposition and regime. State-run television has begun regularly deriding the group through comedic sketches and cartoons. Martin Chulov Pakistan: ‘Only satire that has the sense to limit its targets is tolerated’ When I sent my collected satirical columns, The Diary of a Social Butterfly – narrated by a ditzy, wealthy socialite in Lahore – to a publisher in India, she snapped it up. Later she told me: “I expected something like this to come out of India. Not from Pakistan.” Those who know Pakistan only from the grim headlines it regularly generates cannot imagine there is much scope there for humour. But in fact Pakistanis have a long tradition of laughing at themselves. Urdu literature is replete with first-rate satirists – Akbar Allah Abadi, Ibne Insha, Mushtaq Yusufi. Bhaands, traditional performers who entertain with fast and furious monologues of cutting political commentary, are widely loved. Mimics are stars and the country’s finest impersonators have their own television shows. There are three separate satirical programmes on Geo, the country’s biggest and most watched independent television channel, where politicians come in for a regular drubbing. It broadcasts Hum Sub Umeed Say Hain (We Are All Expecting), known for its biting political comment, as is Dunya’s satirical programme Hasb-e-Haal. The Friday Times, a weekly from Lahore, has published a series of fictitious satirical diaries over the years: Dear Diary by Benazir Bhutto; Ittefaqnama by Nawaz Sharif (the current prime minister); Mush and Bush, a telephone conversation between General Musharraf and President Bush; Howzzat by Im the Dim (Imran Khan) – all written by the publisher, Jugnu Mohsin. Subversive cartoonists, such as Sabir Nazar, Feica, Zahoor and Javaid Iqbal, whose work is published in leading national newspapers, are household names. So satire is alive and kicking in Pakistan. But only satire that has the sense to limit itself to permissible targets is tolerated. Politicians are fair game, as are celebrities from the worlds of entertainment and sport. The chattering classes, too, are readily ridiculed. And that’s it. The two most powerful actors in the country – religious extremists and the military – are strictly off limits. You take them on at the risk of your life. Religion, generally, is a no-go area. Pakistan has strict blasphemy laws. Blaspheming against Muhammad is punishable by death. Four years ago, Salman Taseer, governor of Pakistan’s most populous province, was gunned down by his own security guard for proposing a review of the law. Leaders of mainstream religious parties are occasionally mocked on TV, but gently, almost affectionately. Few dare to laugh at the army and its feared intelligence wing – the ISI, Inter Services Intelligence. One group that did was the band Beghairat Brigade (Dishonourable Brigade). They released a song on (the now banned) YouTube, called Alu Anday (Potatoes and Eggs) taking a swipe at the military as well as sectarian killers. Its latest single, Dhinak Dhinak, again mocking the army was released in 2013 and promptly blocked on Vimeo. Mohammed Hanif, the award winning novelist, also parodied General Zia and his inner circle in his novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes. But writers of English, because of their comparatively small readership, can sometimes get away with more than Urdu writers. Hence even though The Friday Times published Mush and Bush during General Musharraf’s regime, it escaped censure. The one place that satirists can safely let rip against the military and jihadists alike is cyberspace. One of the country’s foremost wits is an anonymous character on Twitter called Majorly Profound. Ridiculing the military’s propensity for fiddling with the constitution and its vast business interests, he recently wrote: “I demand a constitutional amendment in Pakistan to take back cornflakes manufacturing from armed forces and place it under civilian control.” Moni Mohsin Moni Mohsin’s satirical novel, Duty Free, is published by Vintage Mana Neyestani Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mana Neyestani spent two months in prison for one of his cartoons and now lives in Paris. Photograph: PIERRE DUFFOUR/AFP/Getty Images Iran: ‘Despite restrictions – and floggings – satire is present in everyday life’ Satire in Iran starts with two familiar words: Gol Agha. That was the title of a weekly publication founded in 1990 by one of Iran’s most celebrated satirists, Kioumars Saberi Foumani, who also went by the pen name Gol Agha. It was the first such publication in post-revolutionary Iran, maintaining its dominance for more than two decades after its debut, adding monthly and annual editions as well as producing a new generation of satirists and cartoonists. Throughout the reformist years under Mohammad Khatami in the late 90s and early 2000s, when journalism in the country flourished, Gol Agha had a freer hand in critiquing politicians and other senior figures. In late 2002, Foumani closed down the weekly publication for reasons unknown, although it resumed after his death in 2004 in other forms. At the height of the hardline Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s mandate (2005-13), Gol Agha’s various publications began to disappear, although it serves as a small publishing house today. Iranian satirists and cartoonists face strict red lines in their work, such as longstanding bans on depicting clerics, ridiculing religions or satirising anything to do with the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Many defy those bans online, publishing anonymously if they reside inside the country. The first opportunity Iranian cartoonists had to freely depict an Iranian president came when Ahmadinejad came to power in 2005. He was not a cleric and his eight acrimonious years provided plenty of material. But restrictions were widespread. In 2012, the case of one Iranian cartoonist, Mahmoud Shokraye, drew international condemnation when a local court sentenced him to 25 lashes for insulting an MP. Cartoonists from Iran and across the world stepped forward in his support, drawing their own version of the parliamentarian. In the face of the protest, MP Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani ultimately withdrew his complaint. A number of satirists and cartoonists have been forced to flee Iran in the past decades, including Mana Neyestani. He fell victim to the state’s aggression in 2006 when he spent two months in jail for a cartoon deemed insulting to the country’s Azeri ethnic minority. Neyestani is now based in Paris and has published a graphic novel, An Iranian Metamorphosis, which tells the Kafkaesque story of his time in jail. Neyestani had visited the offices of Charlie Hebdo prior to last week’s shootings and had some of his own cartoons published by the French magazine. He had known some of its cartoonists and told the news website IranWire last week that he was “heartbroken”. Neyestani said he wouldn’t choose to ridicule religion in his own work but defended Charlie Hebdo’s right to do so. “When we talk about free expression, it also means the freedom to ridicule and offend,” he told IranWire. “What is not a joke is the lives of human beings. Even if a cartoonist commits the biggest insult in the world, nobody has the right to take his life away with a bullet.” Despite restrictions, satire is present in everyday life in Iran. State censorship and strict rules imposed on satirical publications or TV and radio programmes mean that mobile phones are perhaps the most popular medium for reading jokes. Tech-savvy Iranians use texts and instant messaging services on a daily basis to share satirical takes on everything from politics to football. Saeed Kamali Dehghan Lebanon: ‘There is more tolerance for satire than elsewhere in the Arab world’ Lebanon has perhaps more space and tolerance for satire in its political discourse than any other country in the Arab world. Each television channel has at least one show that regularly mocks politicians – always those alligned with rival channels’ owners. Cartoonists too often produce sardonic images that shine a light on a feckless political class as well as Lebanese culture and society. Bas Mat Watan, which translates as the Smile of the Nation, is one popular TV show that lampoons Lebanese life. The Christian-owned channel LBC has sometimes been perceived by its targets as having gone too far. In 2006, a skit upset Hezbollah and shortly afterwards, Shia Lebanese attacked Christians in east Beirut in what was thought to be payback. Another Lebanese television show, Douma Kratiye, mocks the country’s claims to be a functioning democracy. Politicians, warlords, wealthy influence brokers and security chiefs are all derided with the aid of Spitting Image-style rubber puppets, much to the enjoyment of citizens who revel in using satire as a means to expose the powerful, when they can’t be held to account in other ways. The feudal lords who run much of Lebanon are all widely known by the caricatures that have appeared for decades in national papers. Even in a relatively free discourse, though, direct criticism is often frowned upon, and mocking of religious figures, or along theological lines, is largely off limits. Martin Chulov State of Myths Facebook Twitter Pinterest Actors during the filming of the television series State of Myths, which ridicules Isis. Photograph: Thaier Al-Sudani / Reuters/Reuters Iraq: ‘Now the country faces the threat from Isis, satire is back with venom’ In the years following the fall of Saddam Hussein, political satire was resurgent in Iraq. New money brought new channels and cable TV. A long-dormant tradition of holding rulers to account through sketches and performances suddenly had a multitude of fresh platforms. The American occupation was castigated. So too were the cultural attitudes of US soldiers and diaspora Iraqis who had returned to take a stake in whatever became of Iraq. State newspapers, which had been mouthpieces for regime views, were discarded in favour of lively, cheeky new titles that spared the new Iraqi rulers few blushes. As the new ruling class squandered, and the Americans floundered, some of the more penetrating, brusque satire ever seen in the Middle East featured proudly in news stands, or on primetime. That didn’t last long though. Iraq’s new political establishment – in particular, former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki – brooked little dissent. Those who derided him were threatened with jail, or lawsuits, and the biting tone of the cartoonists and commentators soon died down. Now, though, with al-Maliki gone and Iraq facing its latest existential crisis – a threat from Isis – satirical venom is back. Isis has been lampooned on state television, which spent a reported $750,000 on a series mocking the terror group. Another channel serialised a cartoon broadcast across the region that ribs Isis jihadists as they try to avoid anything that wasn’t available in the seventh century – an era they consider to have been a utopia and whose way of life their followers are now trying to impose by the sword. There is little self-censorship in satirical depictions of Isis, but some artists and producers have refused to have their names associated with the pieces, for fear of reprisals. On social media, there is a large and growing appetite to resort to dark, irreverent humour, with Facebook groups set up as forums to criticise the government. There are signs, too, that the new government of prime minister Haidar al-Abadi is trying to draw a line between him and his predecessor; state TV is running mildly critical segments on his cabinet’s performance and even touching on the role of the regional neighbours in Iraqi affairs. Criticising Islam remains strictly a no-go zone, though. There are few protections for those who subject prophets, or revered religious figures, to ridicule and few – if anyone – willing to try it. Iraq’s political satirists are testing other boundaries – political, societal and sometimes cultural. For now, they have more room to move than at most points since the fall of Saddam. Martin Chulov Additional reporting by Mais al-Baya’a • This article was amended on 13 January 2015. The original said that Hum Sub Umeed Say Hain (We Are All Expecting) is broadcast by Pakistan’s Dunya channel. This has been corrected. __________________________________________________________________ More features Topics * Comedy (Culture) * Middle East and North Africa * Egypt * Africa * Turkey * (BUTTON) More… * Syria * Lebanon * Pakistan * Iran * Iraq * Comedy (Television & radio) * Television * Comedy (Stage) __________________________________________________________________ * Share on Facebook * Share on Twitter * Share via Email * Share on Pinterest * Share on LinkedIn * Share on Google+ * Share on WhatsApp * Reuse this content View all comments > comments Sign in or create your Guardian account to join the discussion. This discussion is closed for comments. 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Photograph: Xavier Francolon/Sipa/Rex Jonathan Jones Thursday 8 January 2015 14.15 GMT Last modified on Monday 12 January 2015 10.59 GMT * Share on Facebook * Share on Twitter * Share via Email * Share on Pinterest * Share on LinkedIn * Share on Google+ * Share on WhatsApp The massacre at Charlie Hebdo was devastatingly effective. The terrorists objected to jokes about their religion, so they killed the jokers. Now nobody is laughing. Sombre demonstrations do not defeat this assault on free speech. For comedy is killed as stone dead by collective sadness as it is by executing cartoonists. How can we assert the survival of satire and artistic freedom in the wake of such a brutal totalitarian act? One answer can be found on the cover of the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo itself, which caricatures French novelist Michel Houellebecq. Here’s a way that we can not just assert but enact freedom, and the right to laugh. It is to see the humour of Houellebecq. His latest novel Soumission (Submission), just published, imagines a France ruled by an Islamic government. It has been accused by some of siding with far-right paranoia. But I can’t wait to read it because I think Houellebecq is currently Europe’s most exciting novelist. And funniest, if you can stomach his true characteristic, which is not “Islamophobia” but an incredibly pungent melancholy. I was laughing at Houellebecq just a couple of evenings before the Charlie Hebdo murders, as I watched the mock documentary The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, in which the weedy, unhealthy, self-pitying novelist is taken prisoner by a bunch of toughs who turn out to be interested in his books and ideas. He finally loses his temper over a debate with them about Tolkien. “Did I say I was tolerant?” he yells. Yet he seems happier in their care than he did as a free man on the streets of Paris at the start of the film. Certainly, his lifestyle as a kidnap victim looks more fulfilling than the life he imagines for himself in his novel The Map and the Territory, in which he lives in a chaotic bungalow with a fridge full of charcuterie before something truly awful happens to him. Houellebecq is harsher on himself than on any one else. He depicts himself as a sad case, very much like the drawing by Charb on the cover of Charlie Hebdo. The power of Houellebecq’s writing is that of a contemporary Flaubert, obsessed with the banal minutiae of everyday life, extracting the tang of reality from the pantomime of fiction. Provocative ideas are part of his dangerous, intelligent goading of the reader – his determination to make art matter. Like Charlie Hebdo, he refuses to leave Islam out of his free speaking. But there’s a danger of misunderstanding the very nature of art, if we don’t see why these daring creators are drawn to such a controversial subject. It is precisely because Islam is a dangerous subject that bold cartoonists and writers can’t leave it alone. Make something taboo and you make it into material. Novelists, like cartoonists, have long been drawn to the offensive joke. Philip Roth’s great comic novels have got him accused of everything from “Jewish anti-semitism” to misogyny, while Milan Kundera sees comedy as the ultimate dissidence in his novel The Joke. One of the most eloquent statements about Charlie Hebdo was naturally by Salman Rushdie. Testing the limits of free thought is one of the most important things that art can do. Today it is Houellebecq who risks the most as a novelist, and that’s what makes him so entertaining and serious. 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Brian Logan Brian Logan A man being persuaded to compromise on his lofty ideals could make for great comedy – but given the best satire kicks against the strong, it could be hard to wring gags from the underdog Corbyn Jeremy Corbyn Fruitful new realms of satiric possibility … the new Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Photograph: Andy Hall for the Observer Friday 18 September 2015 12.39 BST Last modified on Friday 18 September 2015 12.57 BST * Share on Facebook * Share on Twitter * Share via Email * Share on Pinterest * Share on LinkedIn * Share on Google+ * Share on WhatsApp When Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour party last Saturday, did Britain’s satirists rub their hands with glee, or wring them in despair? On the one hand, Corbyn requires a tricky gear change from political comics, in that he simply doesn’t fit modern satire’s default “they’re all the same, they’re all unprincipled careerists” paradigm. Even his worst enemies would probably acknowledge he is decent and a man of principle – qualities that don’t tend to be considered gifts to comedy. And yet I’m sure cartoonists and comics are delighted by Corbyn’s arrival on the scene. He is a completely new figure to joke about, and that same high-mindedness – as we’ve already seen – opens up fruitful new realms of satiric possibility. Related: Can Jeremy Corbyn ever be funny? Only on my joke Twitter feed | Jason Sinclair So what is satire’s approach going to be? Like the approach to Corbyn more generally, it’s not yet settled. Witness the Sun’s contradictory front pages last Monday and Tuesday: the first berated Corbyn for compromising on his republicanism; the second attacked him for acting on his republicanism. In that light, the treatment meted out to the new Labour leader on last week’s Dead Ringers on BBC Radio 4 was a bit rich. In the first Corbyn sketch, he was mocked for having “muddled and contradictory opinions”. In the second, he was teased for having an out-of-date dress sense. Truly, the new dawn of satire is upon us. Sandwiched between those gags, another Dead Ringers line of attack looks like the one most likely to endure. The joke in question was that Corbyn’s first move on being elected leader would be to expel himself from the party, for being so self-seeking as to pursue the leadership in the first place. It’s a decent joke, about Corbyn’s perceived piety and the impracticality of pure egalitarianism. It implies a man blinded to common sense, not to mention his own absurdity, by the earnestness of his commitment to the democratic socialist cause. In that, the joke recalls this summer’s fleeting media phenomenon, the @corbynjokes Twitter feed, which traded on the perception of Corbyn as a humourless leftybot answering classic gag set-ups with socialist jargon. — @corbynjokes (@corbynjokes) September 16, 2015 Why did the chicken cross the road? I'll be sure to ask the Prime-Minister at the next PMQs Probably this will remain a default Corbyn characterisation – that he’s a joyless socialist calculating machine who’s swallowed a copy of Das Kapital. That’s a lefty caricature bordering on cliche, and there’s probably less mileage in it than in the comedy of a man doomed to have to keep compromising on his lofty ideals. You can wring some humour, but not much, from a staunch republican refusing to sing God Save the Queen. But a staunch republican reluctantly persuaded to sing God Save the Queen? That’s far funnier. Albeit, for fellow republicans like me, more depressing too. Related: Corbyn has re-energised Labour in Scotland – but is it too late? One correspondent on Chortle, who is also promoting a Corbyn-themed comedy gig in Brighton to coincide with this month’s Labour conference in the city, speculated that the “Jez we can” phenomenon might revitalise UK satire, because Tory-bashing jokes are too easy, too familiar and totally ineffective. I doubt that’ll be the case. The best satire derives from moral outrage of the kind it’d be hard to muster against Corbyn. And the best satire kicks against the strong, not the weak – given the volume and virulence of the establishment attacks being directed at him, Corbyn clearly falls (in satire terms at least) into the latter category. It’s revealing that one of the most popular cartoon images of the Labour leader so far doesn’t depict him with Y-fronts over his trousers or a mad, staring eye, but as Obi-Wan Kenobi. Venerable, wise, unflappable, soon to be destroyed by the forces of darkness, but whose spirit will live on. Satire will find worse to throw at Corbyn, but – for him, at any rate – that’s a pretty encouraging start. Three to see Sam Simmons, winner of this year’s Foster’s comedy award at Edinburgh. Sam Simmons, winner of this year’s Foster’s comedy award. Photograph: Richard Davenport Sam Simmons The winner of both the Barry award at the Melbourne comedy festival and the Edinburgh comedy award (a rare double-whammy), Simmons’s Spaghetti for Breakfast by the belligerent Aussie absurdist Simmons takes up residency in Soho. * At Soho theatre, London, from 22 September to 10 October. Box office: 020-7478 0100. Funny Women final The final round of the competition that has helped propel the likes of Katherine Ryan, Bridget Christie and Sara Pascoe to prominence. This year’s gala features 10 up-and-coming female comics and is hosted by Ricky Gervais’s Derek co-star, standup Kerry Godliman. * At Kings Place, London, on 23 September. Box office: 020-7520 1490. Josh Widdicombe The Last Leg star is on the first leg of another UK tour, showcasing his distinctive brand of trivial observational comedy, as matters of very low importance engender high-pitched vexation from the Devon standup. • At Oakengates, Telford, on 23 September. Box office: 01952 382 382. At Cheltenham Town Hall on 24 September. Box office: 0844-576 2210. Then touring until 20 December. __________________________________________________________________ More comment Topics * Comedy (Stage) * Comedy (Culture) * Jeremy Corbyn __________________________________________________________________ * Share on Facebook * Share on Twitter * Share via Email * Share on Pinterest * Share on LinkedIn * Share on Google+ * Share on WhatsApp * Reuse this content View all comments > comments Sign in or create your Guardian account to join the discussion. This discussion is closed for comments. We’re doing some maintenance right now. 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We have not come up with anything a hundredth as good New Labour legacy illustration by Ellie Foreman-Peck Foreman-Peck Illustration by Ellie Foreman-Peck Contact author @HadleyFreeman Wednesday 22 July 2015 19.03 BST Last modified on Thursday 23 July 2015 00.01 BST * Share on Facebook * Share on Twitter * Share via Email * Share on Pinterest * Share on LinkedIn * Share on Google+ * Share on WhatsApp “No one’s interested in my bullshit tonight,” Jon Stewart said on his show on Tuesday night. When his special guest arrived and the audience cheered, Stewart acted as though the cheers were in some way unusual and all for the guest – and considering that guest was Barack Obama, that, in any other circumstances, would be a reasonable assumption. But in fact, the cheers were not significantly greater than they are every night at the beginning of The Daily Show when the lights come up and the audience sees Stewart doing his usual doodling on the legal pad on his desk. People are always interested in Stewart’s bullshit. Obama himself acknowledged as much: “I’m going to issue an executive order: Jon Stewart cannot leave the show,” he said as an opener, and the audience cheered again – partly for the speaker, sure, but mainly because of what the speaker said. Obama is no stranger to talkshows, but it’s hard to imagine him suggesting that even the national-treasure-blah-blah David Letterman should have been obligated to stay on air by law. Related: 'Jon Stewart cannot leave' - Obama says goodbye on The Daily Show Stewart has just commenced his final run of shows before, executive order notwithstanding, ending his 16-year stint of hosting The Daily Show on 6 August. I could pretend to approach this topic with dry objectivity, but the truth is that I am devastated at the thought of life, and especially news, PS (Post Stewart). I am the cliched fan, both in terms of demographic (liberal Jewish New Yorker – or, to use Sarah Palin’s handy shorthand, which I now employ as my email signature, an east coast elite) and loyalty. The show’s format has never been perfect – Stewart long ago stopped pretending he prepared for 90% of the interviews, posing the question why he bothered keeping them on the show – but the quality never dipped. I originally got Sky TV (proprietor R Murdoch) purely so I could watch The Daily Show in the UK – that’s right, in order to learn how to stick it to the man, I had to give money to that man; I think Stewart would enjoy the irony. I am so law abiding I consider driving bang on the speed limit a bit risque. But when those muppets at Comedy Central UK took The Daily Show off the air in May (presumably to make space for those essential reruns of Friends and Two and a Half Men) I got a friend to teach me how to wire up my laptop so I could watch The Daily Show here. If I am hauled off to Pentonville, as I am pretty sure on a nightly basis that I will be, I’ll consider it a price worth paying, though I would ask the judge to give me a reprieve until 7 August, for obvious reasons. Maybe my impeccable driving record will finally come in handy here. Where America has The Daily Show, Britain has Have I Got News for You, kept in coma-like survival In terms of viewer size, The Daily Show remains a mere guppy. And yet there is no US or UK TV host who comes even close to having the cultural impact Jon Stewart had for liberal audiences. Now that an American talkshow’s power is measured by the number of viral music videos it inspires, Stewart’s defiantly unchanging format of mocking the news, dance-free, looks sweetly old-fashioned – and yet his is the one that has had, and will continue to have, the greatest impact on political satire – because he genuinely cares about what he is saying. This, I’ve finally realised, is why The Daily Show still works while other similarly rigid but far lazier and more cowardly shows just look like the walking dead. It is, for example, an indictment of the state of TV political satire in Britain that no UK broadcaster has managed to come up with anything even a hundredth as good as The Daily Show, despite repeated attempts. Where America has The Daily Show, Britain has Have I Got News for You, which feels like it is being kept in coma-like survival by desperate if utterly unnecessary defibrillation. American TV hosts are not known for maintaining a sense of perspective. Conan O’Brien’s fury at being removed as host from The Tonight Show, despite a $45m payoff to him and his staff, is still discussed in the US as though it was a cultural event. When the news anchor Brian Williams was caught telling tall tales, pants on fire, earlier this year, the “scandal” was depicted as a moment of soul-searching for the American media. Yet none of these people have affected news events the way Stewart has. He undoubtedly raised the public profile of the now acclaimed liberal senator Elizabeth Warren (despite Obama’s respect for Stewart, Stewart is definitely to the president’s left), and is widely credited with helping, through his advocacy, to push through the 2010 bill pledging federal funds for the healthcare of 9/11 emergency workers. He is cited as an inspiration to comedians around the world, from Bassem Youssef in Egypt to Trevor Noah in South Africa, who will – Lord help him – attempt to fill Stewart’s Daily Show seat. Not even his enemies in the US, from Fox News to Rush Limbaugh – darling of the talk radio right – can pretend that Stewart doesn’t matter. In fact, the only person who does is Stewart himself, always the first with the self-deflating joke. It is this lack of ego that has let Stewart maintain a clear view of the real issues, a skill Brian Williams et al long ago lost. Stewart’s success is partly a statement of the failure of American TV news, which is now so shamelessly partisan it is pretty much unwatchable. Stewart, in contrast, has always spiked the left as swiftly as he has the right. When I interviewed him earlier this year, I asked how it felt when he laughed in Obama’s face during their infamous 2010 interview and the president admitted a fairer 2008 campaign slogan would have been “Yes We Can but …”. Stewart replied: “It was heartbreaking. That’s what the gig is.” Being a journalist is heartbreaking. Pretty much every interview I’ve ever done with someone I admire has been a disappointment because heroes rarely translate well from my ridiculously inflated fantasy to reality. It turns out that TV and movie screens lie. But Stewart was one of the very few exceptions to this rule. He was as grounded, funny, serious and smart as even I hoped, far more interested in the thoughts of others than the sound of his voice, even though it was his voice I wanted to hear. What I saw onscreen was what I got, which is what makes his departure from nightly TV feel even more of a loss. Heartbreaking, even. __________________________________________________________________ More comment Topics * Television * Jon Stewart * Barack Obama __________________________________________________________________ * Share on Facebook * Share on Twitter * Share via Email * Share on Pinterest * Share on LinkedIn * Share on Google+ * Share on WhatsApp * Reuse this content View all comments > comments Sign in or create your Guardian account to join the discussion. This discussion is closed for comments. We’re doing some maintenance right now. You can still read comments, but please come back later to add your own. Commenting has been disabled for this account (why?) 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Peasants in the Chinese countryside in 1967 recite lines from Mao’s Little Red Book before starting work. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Xiaolu Guo Saturday 4 April 2015 09.00 BST Last modified on Wednesday 15 April 2015 13.51 BST * Share on Facebook * Share on Twitter * Share via Email * Share on Pinterest * Share on LinkedIn * Share on Google+ * Share on WhatsApp The work of the Chinese author Yan Lianke reminds us that free expression is always in contention – to write is to risk the hand of power. The Four Books is an Orwellian satire of life in a re-education labour camp for intellectuals during Mao’s Great Leap Forward. In District 99, one area of a sprawling re-education complex, no one has a real name. Yan’s protagonists are simply the Musician, the Scholar, the Author, the Theologian. Their days involve gruelling physical labour. They are exhorted to inform on each other’s deviant behaviour. Their supervisor, the Communist party personified, is called the Child, and enjoys his system of reward and punishment. As the story develops, the novel touches on a forbidden topic in contemporary China – the Great Famine of the late 50s. Misconduct in food distribution and unbalanced industrial production, fused with natural disaster, produced a staggering death toll – officially 15 million, but independent historians surmise it was closer to 36 million. The novel gives us a strangely abstract, almost disembodied idea of human suffering; it is depicted as an all-pervading atmosphere, from which neither religion nor human love can offer any escape. Reading The Four Books isn’t an easy undertaking, but it is richly rewarding. The English translation comes across as quite precise and poetic to me, a native Chinese speaker. I was hoping to find an original version in Chinese, being curious about the exact form of Yan’s style, but there is no Chinese publication available, either on the internet or as a physical copy. There is talk of a Taiwanese version, but it’s not distributed outside Taiwan. This is another case of a Chinese novel that can never be published in mainland China – and Yan has said that while he was writing the book, he knew he wouldn’t be able to publish it in his native country, so he wrote it with absolute freedom in his heart. Chinese writers generally work under self-censorship. This is a deep troublesome issue for any writer. From a practical point of view, it’s almost a necessity that writers bear in mind the regulations of censorship in composition. But what if the internal censor cannot do its job? The writer who recognises this can choose exile: Ma Jian in London, Gao Xingjian in Paris, Liao Yiwu in Berlin. But not every artist whose internal censor fails to suppress thought can, or wants to, take this option. And for them the only outcome is jail, with all civil rights removed by the state, as in the case of Liu Xiaobo, the poet and Nobel peace prize laureate. For Yan, the situation is complex. He is a well-respected state writer in China, but for most of his books, discussion in the official media is forbidden. Nor can he participate much in the official life of Chinese writers. Yet he is not interested in living abroad, even though he is the winner of the prestigious Franz Kafka prize and has been a finalist for the Man Booker International prize. He encompasses both internal and external contradictions, perhaps not an unusual Chinese predicament. A great writer is able to transfigure harsh reality, tread a path equally absurd and transcendent. In The Four Books, Yan confronts his characters with brutality, but also immerses them in religion and myth, and not just of the Chinese variety. The book of Genesis and the Virgin Mary obsess some of the characters: the Theologian eventually comes to hate the Virgin, whose icon he tramples, while the Child, who struggles to eradicate religious texts and images, perversely triggers his own spirituality. The novel ends with “A New Myth of Sisyphus”, presented as one of the four books on which the Scholar has been working intensely. Yan offers us a different Sisyphus and claims that a hero is “one who can accept the absurdity, hardship and punishment”. Yan seems to accept the idea of God, even though he is living in a post-Mao, atheistic China. As a reader, you close the book with a profound sense of how ideology has permeated and changed every sector of collective human life, from trivial daily matters to the great ruptures of history. • Xiaolu Guo’s I Am China is published by Chatto & Windus. To order The Four Books for £11.99 (RRP £14.99) visit bookshop.theguardian.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. Phone orders min P&P of £1.99. __________________________________________________________________ More reviews Topics * Fiction in translation * Fiction * China __________________________________________________________________ * Share on Facebook * Share on Twitter * Share via Email * Share on Pinterest * Share on LinkedIn * Share on Google+ * Share on WhatsApp * Reuse this content View all comments > comments Sign in or create your Guardian account to join the discussion. This discussion is closed for comments. We’re doing some maintenance right now. 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All rights reserved. -- #publisher alternate (BUTTON) Close Skip to main content sign in * Saved for later * Comment activity * Edit profile * Email preferences * Change password * Sign out subscribe search dating more from the guardian: * dating * jobs change edition: * switch to the UK edition switch to the US edition switch to the AU edition International * switch to the UK edition * switch to the US edition * switch to the Australia edition The Guardian * home * › opinion * columnists * home * UK * world * sport * football * opinion selected * culture * business * lifestyle * fashion * environment * tech * travel browse all sections close Politics Opinion In this rabbit hole of an August, politics is morphing into satire Marina Hyde Marina Hyde Whether it’s the latest ‘Greek crisis’ or Rupert Murdoch endorsing Jeremy Corbyn for Labour leader, it feels like we’ve entered a portal into Wonderland Noma Bar's illustration on politics and satire ‘With the best will in the world, I do not believe Corbyn is going to stop the Tories being in power for 15 years. At least.’ Illustration: Noma Bar Contact author @MarinaHyde Friday 21 August 2015 19.03 BST Last modified on Saturday 22 August 2015 00.21 BST * Share on Facebook * Share on Twitter * Share via Email * Share on Pinterest * Share on LinkedIn * Share on Google+ * Share on WhatsApp “Why can’t you believe that Rupert Murdoch might have actually acquired a conscience?” inquired an email correspondent, incensed at a facetious reference to the News Corp overlord’s professed admiration for Jeremy Corbyn. “You should try it.” Try acquiring a conscience, or try acquiring the belief that Murdoch has just acquired one? (Presumably on the billionaire black market, where I’m told you can purchase the conscience of a dead Victorian child for the price of a mining concession in the Urals or an authenticity algorithm.) I get a lot of this correspondence nowadays, and I’ll level with you: I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more. Once angry lefties start telling you to give Rupert Murdoch a break, I don’t think we’re even down the rabbit hole any longer. Geologists/quantum physicists: is it possible the rabbit hole had a concealed basement, which has recently been opened up, forming a portal into another dimension which makes Wonderland look like a place of absolute suburban unremarkability? One day you’re being presented with the idea of the maximum wage in a bottle marked “Drink me”, and imagining waving all the footballers off to La Liga or Serie A or wherever, finally relieved of the top-flight game we loathe so much. The next, you’re being barred as a red Tory from a club willing to accept Murdoch as a member. For lovers of rolling auto-satire, this is certainly an exciting time to be alive. In this fast-moving WTFscape, the only newspaper which is not cast as Tory or red Tory is the Morning Star, whose circulation must be due a vast spike as all those betrayed and conscientious readers start to dutifully put their money where their mouth is. I have to confess a genuine fondness for the Star over the years, but my feeling is that they do occasionally underplay biggish news. I still retain a 2001 copy of the paper in which the splash was: “Unions Gear Up To Defend Schooling”. Taking up less than a third of page two was a story headlined “Terrorists Destroy World Trade Centre”. Given how many satires are set 20 minutes into the future, there is a certainly a temptation to look at aspects of events in Greece and wonder if they are some blacker forerunner to developments just around the corner for us. Rebels have broken away from Syriza to form a new anti-austerity party, while prime minister Alexis Tsipras has resigned to remind the inventors of democracy that you either use it thrice annually or lose it. I’m not sure if he’s now being called a red Independent Greek or a red Golden Dawner. Perhaps those who instinctively understand this area of the political Pantone chart could get in touch to help the rest of us adjust our records and remain au courant. In this fast-moving WTFscape, the only newspaper which is not cast as Tory or red Tory is the Morning Star More satire back home, where to the delight of those who’d had enough of people banging on about antisemites he may have associated with, Jeremy Corbyn has chosen this moment to announce that he will apologise for the Iraq war if he wins the leadership election next month. Which is, let’s face it, such a Tony move. I know David Cameron has kept the flame alive, issuing a heartfelt soz for Bloody Sunday. But the master of saying sorry for things absolutely everyone knew weren’t his fault was a certain Mr Blair, who kicked off his premiership with a calculated expression of regret for the Irish potato famine – “a complete exercise in moral vacuousness”, Jeremy Paxman later observed – and thereafter moved on to slavery. These pieces of politics are the cynical side of a coin whose sweeter obverse was the Harry Enfield character Jürgen the German, with his catchphrase: “I feel I must apologise for the conduct of my nation during the war.” Whether Corbyn has ever been wrong about anything we have yet to learn, but we must hope that the new politics will be as profuse in its apologies for those errors as the old politics actually always was about things which no one thought were its fault anyway. Whatever happened to August as we once knew it? Remember when this was an annual time of mysterious fins spotted off the coast of Cornwall, or crop circles, or killer Soviet chipmunks, or suggestions that Cristiano Ronaldo might be about to sign for Sunderland? That now looks like what we might call the sensible season, as opposed to a period when making a joke about a Corbyn supporter – one R Murdoch – is regarded as both uncharitable and gauche. Related: Jeremy Corbyn to apologise for Iraq war on behalf of Labour if he becomes leader Against this increasingly malarial backdrop, I have sarcastically tried to acquire the belief that Murdoch has acquired a conscience, and I have honestly tried to feel positive about what seems to be an inevitable Corbyn victory. Neither’s taking. I’m absolutely appalled to say that I fear I have become, in at least these two areas of my life, sensible. Why? Well, presumably it’s some function of parenthood, but I can never really be arsed to lavish much time analysing these things: with three children aged four and under, I find my downtime far better spent drinking margaritas or shouting at the telly. All I can tell you is the facts. I now routinely take baby wipes on train journeys; I mostly check the weather forecast; and, with the best will in the world, I do not believe that Jeremy Corbyn is going to stop the Tories being in power for 15 years. At least. Let me be crystal clear: I do not want to be the person who thinks that, any more than I want to take the wretched Huggies on the train. I’d like the railways renationalised and the tax system intelligently overhauled. I’d love to see this nice chap win a general election and reopen the coalmines in some mysterious green way, and Rupert Murdoch turn out to be a cuddly uncle to the nation – he has favoured Jeremy because he always picks the winners, innit – and I’d love to think Labour could get out of the station without ending up covered in something really quite appalling. But it’s not going to happen. Could the entire Labour leadership be a psychodrama about my lost youthful ideals and the need for babywipes? 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Photograph: Hannah Assouline/Supplied Seth Colter Walls Wednesday 4 March 2015 12.00 GMT Last modified on Tuesday 24 March 2015 19.36 GMT * Share on Facebook * Share on Twitter * Share via Email * Share on Pinterest * Share on LinkedIn * Share on Google+ * Share on WhatsApp Every admirer of Paul Beatty’s latest novel, The Sellout, will likely have a different favorite line. There are more than enough surprising and galvanic jokes in this caustic-but-heartfelt work of satire to make that a possibility. The riff I (currently) admire most comes early on. By then you have already learned that Beatty’s African American protagonist – whose first name is never revealed, and whose last name is Me – is at the supreme court. After sparking up a joint with the help of a sympathetic court officer, Me fantasises about his future legacy as the catalytic agent behind “the latest in the long line of landmark race-related cases”, Me v the United States of America. Me’s own alleged crimes echo the facts underlying the critical American segregation cases of Dred Scott, and Plessy v Ferguson: the holding of a slave (in Obama’s America!), as well as the formal “re-segregation” of Me’s majority-black-and-Latino suburb of southern Los Angeles. (Me hopes to give the town back its essential identity, rescuing it from gentrification. Also, his gambit winds up helping public-school test scores.) The defendant expects that future constitutional scholars will focus on his case as some “unforeseen hip-hop generation precedent”. Me then delivers the punchline via a memory of 2 Live Crew’s landmark obscenity case: “Though if I’d been on the other side of the bench, I would’ve snatched the fountain pen from Chief Justice Rehnquist’s hand and written the lone dissenting opinion, stating categorically that ‘any wack rapper whose signature tune is Me So Horny has no rights the white man, or any other B-boy worth his suede Pumas, was bound to respect.” Using the painful language of the majority opinion in Dred Scott as inspiration for a multicultural denunciation of empty-provocation rap: that right there is the Beatty touch. (It hurts so good, you shouldn’t even bother about the fact that 2 Live Crew’s obscenity case never made it to the high court. Chalk it up to humourist’s license.) Beatty’s wicked wit is the book’s chief source of momentum. And though he avoids the traps of plotless modernism, Beatty’s constant barrage of asides and routines eventually does take precedence over the supreme court plot, for example. The resolution of the trial does not figure much in the end. That, I think, is by design. Beatty wants to address more subjects than that the form of a legal procedural allows. Over the course of the novel his characters’ minds canvass Tolstoy, Kafka, Lee Morgan, the enduring mass entertainment appeal of certain forms of racial stereotyping (no matter how many old cartoons and movies are censored) and ill-advised stand-up jokes written in stilted, American Psychiatric Association paper-abstract format. Meanwhile, Me’s demoted hometown of Dickens, California, is populated with gangland hoods, a struggling public school administrator trying to keep an elementary school out of receivership, the last living member of the Little Rascals (an obscure Buckwheat understudy named Hominy Jenkins, who volunteers himself for slavery) and a flagging order of black intellectuals originally established by Me’s father. (It is that order’s current leader who dubs our protagonist “The Sellout”). Nearby, in a better-off suburb not subject to being purged from America’s official map, lives Marpessa – The Sellout’s ex-girlfriend and one-true-love – who works as a bus driver and is married to a rapper-turned-TV-cop. Beatty’s characters rarely come under so much fire that they can’t also find time for aesthetic engagement. A black father who wants to school his son in the ways of white sexual insecurity instructs the child to whistle at a Caucasian woman – calling to mind the alleged “wolf whistle” that doomed Emmett Till – but is treated instead to the sputtering sound of his offspring trying to blow Ravel’s Bolero through his lips. Describing how his unrequited love manages the challenges of her job, The Sellout says: “Godard approached filmmaking as criticism, the same way Marpessa approached bus driving.” Godard’s name comes up again in the novel. He is even included in a roll-call of heroes (alongside Richard Pryor and Sun Ra), each of whom, regardless of race, reflects The Sellout’s definition of “unmitigated blackness”. (Which is: “Simply not giving a fuck.”) Like Godard’s characters, Beatty’s can speak with a pop-philosopher patois – as well as with an intimidating range of references – that is often judged to be improbable by the standards of realism. But unlike Godard, who can use allusive density to dissuade an audience from identifying with the characters, Beatty’s curation of his references has a more generous effect. First, the longer you stare at Beatty’s pages, the smarter you’ll get. And the more you credit that these characters are perfectly plausible, the more you dismiss the very stereotypes that The Sellout challenges from the opening line of the book: “This may be hard to believe, coming from a black man, but I’ve never stolen anything.” Linking artistic traditions is an explicit preoccupation for Beatty. In his first novel, The White Boy Shuffle, Beatty had a character ask: “What the hell is a street poet?” (He was showing up America’s need for caste-style distinctions in art, based on its place of performance.) In The Sellout, Beatty revisits the point, with a wild yarn about an 80s-era crack dealer “high on his own supply” who refashions Tennyson’s The Charge of the Light Brigade into The Charge of the Light-Skinned Spade. (Which, in The Sellout’s opinion, gives Tennyson partial credit for the birth of gangster rap.) It’s this deliberate subversion of harmful cultural assumptions that makes this daring and abrasive novel a joy to read – the furthest thing imaginable from a selling out of anyone. __________________________________________________________________ More reviews Topics * Fiction __________________________________________________________________ * Share on Facebook * Share on Twitter * Share via Email * Share on Pinterest * Share on LinkedIn * Share on Google+ * Share on WhatsApp * Reuse this content View all comments > comments Sign in or create your Guardian account to join the discussion. This discussion is closed for comments. We’re doing some maintenance right now. 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Photograph: ITV/Rex Thursday 19 February 2015 19.38 GMT Last modified on Friday 20 February 2015 00.06 GMT * Share on Facebook * Share on Twitter * Share via Email * Share on Pinterest * Share on LinkedIn * Share on Google+ * Share on WhatsApp John O’Farrell hopes that the new satire show Newzoids will not opt for the “they’re all as bad as each other” level of faux-satire (Opinion, 14 February). One of the pleasures of satire is imagining the victim reading or viewing it at the same time as me, and is besides his or herself with rage. Anyone who thinks that Spitting Image reached those heights is suffering, in my view, from a kind of false memory syndrome. Many of the “victims” regarded it as a badge of honour to be depicted as a puppet on the show. Indeed, Norman Tebbit positively rejoiced in his skinhead alter ego. I am afraid that Spitting Image, in its early days at least, was funny, but did no more than reinforce political prejudices. 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Could not subscribe, try again later [MAIN-Ice-Cube-pics-mock-refugees-commentators.jpg] Tricked: Creator intended to fool Britain First supporters into sharing post A brilliant pro-refugee satirical Facebook post featuring rap legend Ice Cube has gone viral. Micky Williams posted images of the star in a kayak and brandishing a gun alongside Cypress Hill rapper B-Real. He added English Defence League and Britain First insignia to the post, reports the Birmingham Mail . Those groups have warned that ISIS terrorists could be hiding among the large numbers of refugees trying to get into Europe from Syria. The accompanying message read: “This Muslim convert Isis soldier is pictured here on a boat crossing from Syria into Greece on 23/8/15. “The second picture is the same Muslim convert Isis soldier pictured in a block of high-rise flats in Balsall Heath, Birmingham, on 13/9/15. “They’re here. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.” Satire: The Facebook post Mikey told the Huffington Post he created the post “to basically mock people who consistently share anti-refugee propaganda/Islamaphobic posts”. He said: “I see it all too often on Facebook where people share stuff designed to fear monger others and it works. “I was hoping they would share it and make themselves look a bit stupid. “To be fair this has worked a treat on a fair few of these people with the first comment back to their shared post usually being 'Mate, are you serious? That’s Ice Cube, an American rapper'." Micky said he was amazed by the reaction to the post, which was uploaded on Tuesday and has since been shared more than 20,000 times. Writing on Facebook the same day, he said: “Since I posted this earlier, I’ve had over 100 friend request from Muslims all over the world laughing at the satire behind it and Britain First supporters outraged by it thinking its real. “The internet never fails to amaze me, ever. “Most people get that it’s a joke but a good ten per cent reposted it in disgust. “A fair few felt the need to point out that it’s Ice Cube, the rapper and actor from America, assuming nobody else in the world knew. “Amazing, simply amazing.” The kayak image is from 2005 comedy Are We There Yet while the image of him holding the gun is from his early days with NWA. 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Could not subscribe, try again later Getty / Rex Charlie Hebdo Controversial: French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo is edited by Stephane Charbonnier Masked gunmen have stormed the Paris offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo killing at least 12 people before escaping. French President Francois Hollande said the massacre, which has frequently drawn condemnation from Muslims, is "a terrorist attack, without a doubt". Officials have raised the country's terror alert to the highest level, and reinforced security at houses of worship, stores, media offices and transportation. Emergency services at scene of Charlie Hebdo shooting. Gunman still at large Video Unavailable Click to play President Hollande added that several other attacks have been thwarted "in recent weeks". Read below for all you need to know about newspaper Charlie Hebdo. For the latest on the shootings view our live blog. The murders in Paris are sickening. We stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press. — David Cameron (@David_Cameron) January 7, 2015 What is Charlie Hebdo? Charlie Hebdo, French for Charlie Weekly, is a satirical weekly newspaper published every Wednesday that was first founded in 1969. It publishes cartoons, jokes and 'news' reports. It has a circulation of around 45,000. What kind of stories do they publish? Reuters Charlie Hebdo At work: A journalist in the Paris newsroom of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo The newspaper's tone is known to be rebellious, anti-religious and left-wing, having published several articles about the extreme right and poking fun at several different religions. Its editor Stephane Charbonnier once said its editorial viewpoint reflects "all components of left wing pluralism, and even abstainers". A fierce advocate for free speech, Charlie Hebdo is also known for its satirical, and often controversial, cartoons. Where are they located? The Charlie Hebdo headquarters is based in Paris, France. Why were they targeted? Reuters French President Francois Hollande (C) arrives after a shooting at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo Shock: French President Francois Hollande arrives at the scene of the shooting No official motive for the attack has so far been released but the newspaper is known to have angered Muslims worldwide. In 2011, the publication got fire-bombed after publishing a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad. Two years later, Charlie Hebdo published a comic book biography of Islam's founder. And just hours ago their Twitter feed posted a cartoon mocking the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, with the caption 'Meilleurs vœux, au fait,' which translates as 'best wishes, by the way'. Speaking at the scene, French President Francois Hollande said: "We are threatened because we are a country of liberty." UK Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted: "The murders in Paris are sickening. We stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press." The murders in Paris are sickening. We stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press. — David Cameron (@David_Cameron) January 7, 2015 Who works at the magazine? Rex Stephane Charbonnier Controversy: Stephane Charbonnier is the well-known editor of Charlie Hebdo Since 2012, the editor of the magazine has been Stephane Charbonnier. There is believed to be a small number of staff, including cartoonists and journalists, who work alongside him in putting the paper out on the streets. Early reports suggest 12 people were killed in the shooting and at least 10 were wounded. None of the victims have been formally identified but France24 claim a lawyer for the newspaper named four killed as Jean Cabut (Cabu), the paper's editor Stéphane Charbonnier (Charb), Tignous and Wolinski. An unnamed member of staff from Charlie Hebdo told French media that he and his colleagues received countless threats by email and phone - but did not take them too seriously. Gunshots and woman runs to hide behind car - first scene video from Paris shooting Video loading Watch next (BUTTON) Watch this video again Watch Next Click to play He said: “The last few months, we didn’t feel an immense worry despite the threats. "Of course our offices were under police protection, which reminded us of the threats. "Charb [the magazine's editor] was under police protection but sometimes he would move without policemen, which was a sign that he wasn’t worried at every moment. "Luz and Riss too had police protection but it was stopped about a year ago.…we receive threats by email all the time and phone calls. But we don’t really take them seriously. "We’ve become used to it. Recently we thought the threats we’re pretty much done." 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Equality film gives satirical version of the future * 09:38, 20 Jan 2015 * By Kara O'Neill The short clip addresses issues including racism and sexism in the "future" and has gained a wide range of differing opinions from viewers * * * * * Shares Get daily news by email Enter your e-mail fo Invalid e-mail (BUTTON) Subscribe Thanks for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Equality satirical video Video loading IFRAME: https://www.youtube.com/embed/XM-HJT8_esM?enablejsapi=1&version=3 A short film created by YouTube users takes a unique look at the future by satirising political correctness. Created by Neel Kolhatkar, 20, and titled #Equality, tackles a number of different issues including racism and sexism. The clip appears to be set some time in the distant future, where men are not allowed to argue with women, and everyone is called "Number One", rather than having a name. In a 'twist', the futuristic satire is then revealed to actually be a projection of what life will be like in 2016. Futuristic: The short film takes a satirical look at political correctness Neel, an Australian actor and comedian who also stars in the short film, uploaded the video to YouTube on January 18, where the three minute 42 second footage has already had 230,302 views. On his Facebook page, Neel said: "This is pretty different to what I usually do, it's a short film I made. "Big thanks to Conceptional Media for producing as well as Josh Wade for co-starring." Commenters below the video had a wide range of divided opinions. Poll loading … DailyMirror Recently Published Watch the amazing moment a live SNAKE is pulled out of a car engine Stunned onlookers scream as the large serpent is pulled from the vehicle and stuffed into a sack * The new Angus Young! 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Could not subscribe, try again later YouTube Banksy's satirical film in Gaza Mural: Banksy's graffiti depicting sad kitten on wall in Gaza Guerrilla street artist Banksy has gone undercover in Gaza to film life in the war-stricken territory. The elusive British artist even appears to have created several of his own trademark works in the region - including a giant kitten on the wall of a destroyed building. In a satirical film posted on his website, which is mocked up as a travel advert, Banksy appears to enter Gaza through a series of underground tunnels, before filming children playing among piles of rubble in an area which seems to have been ravaged by war. IFRAME: https://www.youtube.com/embed/3e2dShY8jIo Gaza Strip has been the centre of an ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, with the UN estimating around 2,200 Palestinians and 72 Israelis were killed in a bloody escalation of violence in the region last year. Banksy regularly displays political messages on screen throughout the two-minute clip, such as 'The locals like it so much they never leave (because they're not allowed to)' and 'Development opportunities are everywhere (no cement has been allowed into Gaza since the bombing)'. YouTube Banksy's satirical film in Gaza 'Bomb damage': Weeping depiction of Greek mythological figure A hooded Banksy is also shown using stencils and spray paint to create his iconic graffiti art including 'Bomb damage', which apparently depicts mythical Greek figure Niobe with her head in her hands. Another piece shows children on swings attached to an military checkpoint, accompanied with the caption: "Gaza is often described as 'the world's largest open air prison' because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. "But that seems a bit unfair to prisons - they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day." YouTube Banksy's satirical film in Gaza Film: The two-minute clip shows Banksy enter Gaza via tunnels A large mural of a sad kitten with its paw in the air is captioned. "A local man came up and said 'Please - what does this mean?' "I explained I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet people only look at pictures of kittens." In the video, a local man says: "This cat tells the whole world that she is missing joy in her life. The cat found something to play with. What about our children?" The video ends with a shot of some graffiti on the side of a building which reads: "If we wash our hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless we side with the powerful - we don't remain neutral." Meanwhile, German police are currently hunting a vandal who defaced the country's last remaining Banksy artwork, produced when he visited between 2002 and 2003. 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Video loading Watch next (BUTTON) Watch this video again Watch Next Click to play Has Jack Warner been fooled by The Onion? It would appear so, if his video criticism of the USA is anything to go by, in the aftermath of a week of turmoil for FIFA. The FBI swooped to arrest 14 FIFA officials, in conjunction with the Swiss authorities, as they arrived in Zurich for the congress, and the presidential election. Predictably, Sepp Blatter was re-elected for a fifth term, but that hasn't stopped Warner from hitting out at the USA, albeit with evidence from a very sketchy source. In the video, Warner says: "I look to see [holding up piece of paper with headline from The Onion ] that FIFA has frantically announced a 2015, this year, a World Cup beginning May 27th in the USA. In pictures: 65th FIFA Congress VIEW GALLERY Sepp Blatter "If FIFA is so bad, why is it the USA wants a FIFA World Cup? Why is it they want games on May 27, two days before the FIFA elections? Why is it the US authorities sought to embarrass FIFA in Zurich? "Something has to be wrong. I point out to you over and over, that all this has stemmed from the US' failed bid to host the World Cup." Whoops! The article in question The article, entitled 'FIFA Frantically Announces 2015 Summer World Cup In United States. Global Soccer Tournament To Kick Off In America Later This Afternoon' was published on Wednesday afternoon. Reuters Jack Warner Exhaustion: Warner dancing at a rally shortly after being taken to hospital It was, of course, full of satire, including this extract: "At press time, the U.S. national team was leading defending champions Germany in the World Cup’s opening match after being awarded 12 penalties in the game’s first three minutes." Warner was in the headlines for the wrong reasons once again this week, after he was taken to hospital complaining of 'exhaustion' following his arrest. However, he was seen dancing at a rally soon afterwards. 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Could not subscribe, try again later [bombings-main.jpg] Reprisal? A prayer room (bottom and top right) in France was targeted in the attack. A kebab shop in Narbonne was also caught in an explosion. VIEW GALLERY French police forensic scour the scene of an explosion at a kebab shop damaged following an explosion near a mosque, on January 8, 2015, in Villefranche-sur-Saone, eastern France A French mosque and prayer room were attacked just hours after gunman burst into the offices of magazine Charlie Hebdo and shot dead 10 staff. The Islamic centres of worship were targeted in separate attacks overnight. Three blank grenades were thrown at a mosque shortly after midnight in the city of Le Mans, west of Paris, and shots were fired at a Muslim prayer hall after evening prayers in the Port-la-Nouvelle district near Narbonne in southern France. Luckily, nobody was injured in the incidents, but police found a bullet hole in a window of the first floor of the mosque. In the early hours of this morning an explosion at a kebab shop near a mosque rocked the eastern French town of Villefranche-sur-Saone. Investigators described the attack as "criminal" and said police were investigating. France is on high alert following the deadly assault by a pair of heavily armed, seemingly military-trained gunmen on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo yesterday that left 12 dead. Emergency services at scene of Charlie Hebdo shooting. Gunman still at large Video Unavailable Click to play It was reported that the two killers shouted "God is great" and "The Prophet has been avenged" as they committed the atrocity. There have been fears of a backlash against the Muslim community in France as a result of the shooting. No link has yet been established between the attacks. Port-la-Nouvelle prosecutor David Charmatz told Liberation: "It's obviously someone who has seen fit to avenge whatever or whomever." Charlie Hebdo has come under fire from Muslims in the past as it frequently mocked Islam, as well as other religions. 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Could not subscribe, try again later Reuters Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Beyond a joke: Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize despite his role in Vietnam and Cambodia Satire is a risky business. What may seem hilarious and far fetched can fall flat when the joke is overtaken by events. Reality has this annoying habit of proving time and again to be a whole lot funnier – or sicker – than anything the most gifted comedy scriptwriter could come up with. American comedian Tom Lehrer said satire died in 1973, when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger – who had masterminded the saturation bombing of Cambodia that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. Old Tom, who’s still going strong at 87, might have allowed himself a quiet chuckle over the UK’s former PM Tony Blair deciding to quit his role as Middle East peace envoy, after eight fruitless years, on one of those days when the region was engulfed in flames again. Israel launched waves of air strikes against Gaza in retaliation for rocket attacks on its territory. Islamic State maniacs publicly executed 20 captives at Palmyra in Syria. And Saudi jets killed at least 80 insurgents in the bloodiest bombings yet in the war in Yemen. Time to go, Tone. Job done. Well, sort of. You didn’t bring much peace to anyone. But, hey, you tried. PA Tony Blair Job done?: Tony Blair has stood down as Middle East peace envoy Meanwhile, a story which would be any satirist’s dream was unfolding at home. The BBC had advertised for a new weather forecaster who needed only one qualification. Never mind degrees in geography, meteorology, astrophysics or any of that boring scientific stuff. Because the Beeb was “actively seeking to improve onscreen diversity” the successful applicant would need to be disabled, impaired or somehow restricted. Bizarrely, this came close to a recent storyline in the BBC’s own comedy spoof of itself, W1A, where TV news bosses were determined to employ a Muslim with a beard as television’s “most culturally inclusive weather forecaster”. As it happens, the Beeb was way behind the curve here (that’s how executives talk on W1A). Twenty years ago, the saucy pay channel L!VE TV featured a regular slot entitled Britain’s Bounciest Weather, where a dwarf actor – Rusty Goffe – presented forecasts while bouncing on a trampoline. The further north his forecasts went, the higher Rusty was obliged to bounce. Once when striving to point to the Scottish Highlands he fell off his trampoline and disappeared from view. As far as I know, Rusty – who played an Oompa-Loompa in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, and appeared in at least one of the Star Wars films – is still around. I do hope he goes for that job at the Beeb. Read more news and comment from the Sunday People online. 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Could not subscribe, try again later Getty The co-editor of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, Laurent Sourisseau, nicknamed Riss The co-editor of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, Laurent Sourisseau Two suspected radical Islamists have been arrested for stalking the publishing director of Charlie Hebdo magazine. Laurent “Riss” Sourisseau feared for his life after spotting the potential terrorists around his Paris home. The disturbing development follows leading cartoonist Renald “Luz” Luzier quitting the controversial publication. Luz said he was unable to cope with the “grief, pain and anger” which followed 12 people including many of his colleagues being murdered by Islamist gunmen in Paris in January. They were targeted by Al-Qaeda gunmen after publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Now Riss, who escaped the massacre with a bullet in a shoulder, has added to the sense of panic among surviving staff members by speaking out about his latest ordeal. Getty French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo Witnesses reported seeing two different men on scooters taking pictures of the 48-year-old’s home. Both were arrested, and were found to have close links to criminal groups, as well as radical Islamist movements. During lengthy questioning the men denied any wrongdoing, and were released without charge. Riss told Europe 1 radio: ‘We must be responsible, and rely on the police to protect us.’ Riss , like other Hebdo staff members, is officially under round-the-clock protection but many fear the kind of lapses which contributed to January’s atrocities, when a total of 11 people linked to the magazine died. Colin Lane Je Suis Charlie March in Liverpool Je Suis Charlie March in Liverpool Hebdo, which was close to bankruptcy before the attacks, has made the equivalent of more than £25million since, most of it from mass sales and donations. But the mainly left wing staff believe their management is now solely interested in the profits, while the publication tones down its once biting satire. Hebdo was accused of hypocrisy last week after it suspended a journalist who received death threats for her articles attacking Islamic extremism. VIEW GALLERY People wait outside a newsagents in Paris Zineb El Rhazoui was called to a preliminary dismissal hearing to remind her of her “ obligations” towards the French weekly following “ numerous incidents.” The French-Moroccan columnist accused her employers of trying to ‘punish her’ for speaking out about the direction of the magazine. Hebdo has toned down its insults aimed towards Islam since January, concentrating instead on mocking right wing politicians, such as National Front leader Marine Le Pen, and former president Nicolas Sarkozy. A total of 17 people died in the January terrorist attacks, including Hebdo staff, police and Jewish shoppers. 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Could not subscribe, try again later Bizarre footage taken from a sports channel has caused controversy across the internet as viewers debate whether it is real or fake. The clip, taken from coverage of a women's diving competition, shows the athletes performing complicated dives into a pool, but there's something not quite right. In this particular video, a diver is seen performing a handstand on the board before flipping backwards into the water. * Read more: Real or fake? This could well be the most pointless road sign in the world Censored: A diver has her entire body blacked out during her drop Covered: The TV footage refuses to give anything away as the woman jumps in the pool But the intricacies of her diving prowess are difficult to appreciate since the athlete is complete obscured by a huge black 'censoring' box. The box even continues to cover the diver's entire body as she emerges from under the water and swims back to the edge of the pool. 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By continuing, your consent is assumed. Learn more News... but not as you know it 68.3m shares Trending Nutshell * Home * News + UK + World + Weird + Tech * Sport + Football + Oddballs + Club Metro + Transfer news + Viral videos * Entertainment + Showbiz + TV + Film + Music + Gaming + Celebrity Big Brother + Soaps * Lifestyle + Sex + Fashion + Food + Travel * More + Lifestyle + Blogs + Competitions + Jobs + Property * Search Metro * Follow us Vegemite is racist because it’s black, according to bizarre YouTube rant Matt Payton Matt Payton for Metro.co.ukThursday 1 Oct 2015 5:24 pm Warning: Includes innumerable expletives IFRAME: http://www.youtube.com/embed/EDAOodylljM?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide= 2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent It really is quite a push to accuse white Australians as racist due to their love of the dark spread Vegemite. But this is the accusation that YouTube vlogger, Cassidy Boon, launched at Aussie Vegemite fans in an expletive-laden rant. She informs you, the watcher: ‘If you eat Vegemite, you’re literally what’s wrong with the world. ‘Ever since the 1950s – or whatever – Vegemite has been a way to symbolically make white Australians feel superior to Aboriginals by literally eating their f*****g skin in a jar.’ Yes, we’re aware it’s satire. Or an attempt at satire. MORE: Vegemite (Australian Marmite) could be banned because people are using it to make moonshine MORE: ‘We were full’: London club at centre of racism row denies wrongdoing Vegemite is racist because it's black, according to bizarre YouTube rant Vegemite spread (Picture: Getty Images) You may recognise ‘Cassidy Boon’ as the woman reported to be suing a swimmer who rescued her from drowning for touching her without her consent on satirical website The Portly Gazelle. 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Learn more News... but not as you know it 68.3m shares Trending Nutshell * Home * News + UK + World + Weird + Tech * Sport + Football + Oddballs + Club Metro + Transfer news + Viral videos * Entertainment + Showbiz + TV + Film + Music + Gaming + Celebrity Big Brother + Soaps * Lifestyle + Sex + Fashion + Food + Travel * More + Lifestyle + Blogs + Competitions + Jobs + Property * Search Metro * Follow us My history of video game shops – Reader’s Feature Default author image GameCentral for Metro.co.ukSaturday 20 Jun 2015 1:00 am My history of video game shops - Reader’s Feature Shopping for games is not what it once was Maybe it’s an age thing. but there was a time when video games shops seemed like magical kingdoms, the kind of fantastical emporium you would find in Diagon Alley and be whisked away to a fantastical land. The first video game ‘shop’ I can recall was simply a market stall tucked away at the back of the concrete monstrosity that is the Chelmsford multi-storey car park. As I only had an Atari 2600 and my mate had a 4K Spectrum, the choice was either the outrageously priced console cartridges or the much more pocket money-friendly cassette tapes to choose from. There was a bewildering amount of cheap games on the Spectrum, and often the games that we gambled on where rubbish, nonetheless it was a Saturday tradition to visit the stall and that tradition continued when Software Plus moved into the high street. The shelves where lined with huge boxes (containing small discs) adorning elaborate artwork and the tease of amazing graphics (in full colour no less) that looked almost arcade perfect on computers I knew I would never own (at least for several years). How I ached to play Operation Wolf and Double Dragon on the Amiga, but had to make do with the ‘lesser’ versions. It was also the first time I got to hold a Sega Mater System game box, which had some of the worst artwork of all time, but still, OutRun, Space Harrier, I just needed to have them. And it was always cool to pick up one of the giant PC game boxes with a 15-rating and marvel at the pixelated blood on the back of the box, thinking this must be a really scary game. I then remember visiting a new video game shop in Romford, which actually went to the effort of designing the store to look like a ship from Alien, and loads of playable games to have a go on. The store was a little known shop called GAME that I think went on to have some moderate success. At the time even Boots and the Co-op where selling games consoles, which seems weird now. But Boots the chemist actually had a Nintendo R.O.B. in their store window and inside it was the first time I actually got to play Mario Bros. The Co-op had a full, working Game Boy display, and I would often go in after school just to play Tetris. Debenhams also had fully playable NES with Duck Hunt being a particular favourite. In fact, I could play a lot of games by going store to store. I recall playing New Zealand Story and Batman for hours in a local Comet, once much to the chagrin of the staff. The coolest game shop for me was a local video rental shop, that had one wall full of adult movies and the other full of American and Japanese SNES and Mega Drive imports. It was called Video Screen, because it had giant, well, video screen inside, often showcasing the latest imports. It was important you stood on the right side so as not been seen as one of the sleazy chaps hurriedly renting a blue movie under their breath. At the time video stores where not allowed to rent games, so to get around this, they sold the games and then you could trade them back for slightly less money. A business idea that would surely never catch on. I paid a lot of money for import versions of Street Fighter II and Star Fox but they where worth every penny. (I really don’t know how I funded my games collection with paper round wages.) Unfortunately the shop closed, but then other video stores started to rent games out. It always seemed the best games were never available (remember when you knew if something was available to rent by having a bit of blue card in it?), so I seemed to end up renting Troddlers more times than I really cared for. The last great video game store to open locally was one of the few physical Special Reserve shop, right on my doorstep. A wonderful store, with great staff, game functions, toys and memorabilia, and the first time I played a Dreamcast. I really missed that place when it also closed down, and it’s a real shame game shops don’t seem to offer that cultural vibe anymore. Oh well, back to CEX to see if I can grab some Spectrum cassette priced bargains. Hard to believe Atari 2600 games used to cost the same as current gen games. Nobody should complain about the price of games these days, that’s for sure. 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Learn more News... but not as you know it 68.3m shares Trending Nutshell * Home * News + UK + World + Weird + Tech * Sport + Football + Oddballs + Club Metro + Transfer news + Viral videos * Entertainment + Showbiz + TV + Film + Music + Gaming + Celebrity Big Brother + Soaps * Lifestyle + Sex + Fashion + Food + Travel * More + Lifestyle + Blogs + Competitions + Jobs + Property * Search Metro * Follow us Parents are freaking out over doctor’s warning that kissing your kids on the lips is ‘too sexual’ Francesca Kentish Francesca Kentish for Metro.co.ukFriday 21 Aug 2015 10:44 am Do you think it's wrong to kiss your kid on the lips? This expert does Some people think kisses like these are ‘too sexual’ (Picture: Alamy) Parents are getting involved in a huge debate after a doctor’s comment that kissing your kids on the lips is ‘too sexual’ resurfaced. An article in Your Tango on whether to kiss your kids on the lips or not referenced the controversial statement made by child psychologist and UCLA professor Dr. Charlotte Reznick. Dr. Reznick said: ‘The kiss on the lips can be stimulating … It’s just too confusing. If mommy kisses daddy on the mouth and vice versa, what does that mean, when I, a little girl or boy, kiss my parents on the mouth? ‘If I had to answer when to stop kissing your kids on the lips, it would be now.’ EXF8YY Close up of boy kissing mother in field Is this natural or perverted? (Picture: Alamy) The comments have strongly divided parents and created a heated debate online and on the radio. Some parents can’t even believe that this is a problem I just saw a news headline "Don't kiss your kids on the lips- too sexual." I don't want to live on this earth anymore. — Dylan (@dylannoel82) August 20, 2015 Many are proud to show their love for their kids and still do with a kiss @jonesk1711 plus my kids all kiss me on the lips and I still kiss my parents that way too. Expert my arse. — Catherine Kenny (@C66Kenny) August 20, 2015 Others feel it it’s fine to kiss little ones, but that it’s natural to grow out of the habit I mean I don't kiss my kids on the lips now cause their older but as younger kids it was a show of love & affection. For your child !! :-) — chris threadgate (@CThreadgate) August 21, 2015 But others agree with the ‘expert’ and find it creepy Am I the only one who gets extremely creeped out when parents kiss their kids on the lips? I can't be… — Victoria M. Phillips (@victoriamargaux) August 12, 2015 Some even find the practice perverted I might be a perv, but not kiss my kids on the lips level of perv. — Bloody Mary (@tanialunreal) August 19, 2015 Other experts completely disagree with Dr. Reznick. Clinical psychologist Sally-Anne McCormack told The Sun: ‘There’s absolutely no way that kissing a young child on the lips is confusing for them in any way. ‘That’s like saying breastfeeding is confusing. 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By continuing, your consent is assumed. Learn more News... but not as you know it 68.3m shares Trending Nutshell * Home * News + UK + World + Weird + Tech * Sport + Football + Oddballs + Club Metro + Transfer news + Viral videos * Entertainment + Showbiz + TV + Film + Music + Gaming + Celebrity Big Brother + Soaps * Lifestyle + Sex + Fashion + Food + Travel * More + Lifestyle + Blogs + Competitions + Jobs + Property * Search Metro * Follow us Weekend Hot Topic, part 2: Have you met new friends through gaming? Default author image GameCentral for Metro.co.ukSunday 17 May 2015 1:00 am Weekend Hot Topic, part 2: Have you met new friends through gaming? Destiny – a very social game GameCentral readers discuss how many friends they’ve made through gaming and reading Metro, from BFFs to fiancées… The subject for this weekend’s Hot Topic was suggested by reader Attack on my Titan, who asked whether you’ve ever met new friends online purely through playing a game, posting about gaming on message boards, watching videos, or even reading GameCentral. We expected a good few tales of close friendships forming but in the end we got multiple stories of finding new partners and even wedding bells – some of which can be attributed directly to reading this very site. Something which makes us very proud! GAME for a life I actually met my girlfriend in GAME. The first thing I noticed was her gorgeous Icelandic blue eyes peering over a gondola. Ever since then, we’ve been together and regularly play co-op games. Her favourite game is Kirby’s Epic Yarn and she’s eagerly awaiting Yoshi’s Wooly World. We also tend to watch the other play a game and comment and help as they play, including games like The Wolf Among Us and recently, Ether One. That fateful day in GAME was four years ago now and we’re closer than we’ve ever been. It’s hard to imagine life without my wee co-op buddy now! Paul Conry Strangers in the night Maybe I’m a soft touch but I just can’t say no to a friend request, even if it is from a complete stranger who’s path I crossed online without even realising it. I’ve made loads of good friends through a mutual interest in video games and through actually playing them online. Most of it comes to nothing, just strangers you meet for a couple of games and never really interact with. But others I now think of as genuine friends, even though we’ve never met and I have no idea what they look like or anything. I guess maybe it’s a bit weird that we’ve never organised a meet up or anything, some of us are in the same clan as well, but it’s never really come up. We all just play video games in our spare time and chatting together online before and during is part of that same ritual. I don’t think there’s anything odd or unusual in that, it’s just a different class of friend that didn’t exist in previous generations. Taylor Offline friend I bet I’m going to come across as a lone curmudgeon here but I can’t say that I ever have. I don’t play online a lot and I never have a microphone plugged in, so there’s not much opportunity for me to be making friends on Xbox Live. Nor would I want to really, if I’m going to socialise I’ll go out and do it the old fashioned way – if I want to play a game I’ll set myself up in man cave and do it in peace and quiet. That said I am pals with the owners of my local indie games store, and as you might imagine the only reason I know him is because of our mutual love of games. We play online sometimes, he is on my friends list, but I much prefer just visiting the shop and shooting the breeze in person, mostly about single-player games and role-players. So, yeah. I guess that actually counts anyway. Blender E-mail your comments to: gamecentral@ukmetro.co.uk Keeping in touch The best friend I ever met through gaming was my friend Darren, who I met on the old Edge message boards about… 12 years or so ago now I think. I don’t know if it’s back nowadays but they shut it down at one point and suddenly after a good few years of it being a home from home for me online (this was before Twitter and even Facebook really) we were faced with the reality of suddenly falling out of contact with all these people. I tried to stay in touch with about half a dozen of them via Xbox Live (and MySpace, would you believe) but Dar is the only one I got on with once we were talking over the microphone. After that we met up a few times in London and I’d consider him my best friend really. He lives miles away in Nottingham, so obviously I’d never have met him in real-life without our mutual interests and Xbox Live, so there you go. Video games aren’t the anti-social zombie machines they’re painted as (well, obviously they do play host to a lot of zombies, just the virtual kind not the people that play them). Tolly Any excuse Maybe this is going to sound a bit corny but I think I owe the majority of my lasting friends to video games. I was always pretty shy at school and college but the one thing that I could talk about to the cows come home is video games. That got me into a certain clique of friends and a lot of us have kept in contact ever since. Not that we only talk about video games now of course, but that’s what initially brought us together and although some of us aren’t really interested anymore at least three of us are pretty active and often play things like Destiny and Dying Light together. We’re all pretty munch nerds though, even if our individual interests vary, so if it wasn’t games it would be something else. But of course games make it a lot easier to keep in contact and actually encourage you to speak to each other, and I think that’s an underappreciated benefit. Goldsmith Voted down New friends? What, you mean like people? My word, GC – has not the recent election results proven to you that people just suck? Why would I want to have anything to do with them? Satire. Just about. DMR Reverse topic It’s not easy being a girl online. Let the average person know you’re the opposite sex and there’s a 90 per cent chance you’re going to get either creepy chat-up lines or abuse. Even just having a female character or name is dangerous enough if you just want to get on and have a game. So to avoid just sitting there talking to myself I roped my friend Jess in for games of Borderlands and Destiny. I’m pretty sure she’s just humouring me with a lot of it, but it is a pretty good way to keep in touch and considering all she usually plays is Candy Crush I’ve got her into quite a few different kinds of games now. Although I guess that’s actually the opposite of the Hot Topic really, but that’s all I’ve got. CorrisE Catch up on every previous Games Inbox here Best man I’m only 28, but with a demanding day job, a volunteer role in the police and a young family, finding time to socialise with friends can be difficult. Destiny, and more importantly GC, changed all this for me, as I would be able to game and socialise at the same time. An honourable mention goes to Crazy-Crusha for our time playing Destiny together, however it is the continued friendship of Jones_81 (aka Barny) that has improved my gaming enjoyment tenfold and moved it from a solitary experience, to one that is shared. It’s a weird thing for me, to almost get all soppy, but he really is a top bloke. So top in fact that I even asked him to come to my wedding in November, despite never meeting the man. We talk about food, our youth, movies, and games either on party chat or on Facebook chat and I think my Mrs ObsoletePaul is getting a bit worried. It really is a laugh a minute with this lad and I really do wish the best for him in life, but unfortunately due to distance our friendship will only be a digital one, unless he moves, which is a bit of a shame really. We’ve recently been playing Bloodborne and Borderlands together; the latter I bought specifically to play with Barny. Bloodborne is hilarious when playing over party chat, Barny’s neighbours must be livid from all the howls, screams and swearing coming from his apartment. To hear him getting pummelled by a boss cracks me up every time as I egg him on. The other night we had a conversation and I was literally in tears for laughing so much! Sorry Barny for the gushing ‘man-love’ but as said above, you’re a top bloke and I’m gutted you can’t come to my wedding. ObsoletePaul E-mail your comments to: gamecentral@ukmetro.co.uk The small print New Inbox updates appear twice daily, every weekday morning and afternoon. Letters are used on merit and may be edited for length. You can also submit your own 500 to 600-word 4Player viewer features at any time, which if used will be shown in the next available weekend slot. If you need quick access to the GameCentral channel page please use www.metro.co.uk/games and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter. 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Learn more News... but not as you know it 68.3m shares Trending Nutshell * Home * News + UK + World + Weird + Tech * Sport + Football + Oddballs + Club Metro + Transfer news + Viral videos * Entertainment + Showbiz + TV + Film + Music + Gaming + Celebrity Big Brother + Soaps * Lifestyle + Sex + Fashion + Food + Travel * More + Lifestyle + Blogs + Competitions + Jobs + Property * Search Metro * Follow us Big Brother 2015 line-up: From X Factor stars to socialite twins, meet this year’s housemates [10624769_749403878451337_507444481830992647_n-2.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C5 40px%2C540px&resize=150%2C150&quality=80&strip=all& w=40&h=40] Duncan Lindsay for Metro.co.ukSunday 10 May 2015 9:47 am Polygamous models and X Factor stars: First look at new Big Bro housemates Amy and Sally (Picture: Channel 5) Guys, it’s that time of year again and you’d better get set for the most interesting Big Brother line-up since – well, since Celebrity Big Brother finished, we suppose. As always there’s a real mix of the ditzy, the hot, the arrogant and the lovable but it’s anyone’s game at the moment. Will we fall in love with ‘Pie Face’ or the twins? Perhaps the former X Factor star might do it or the guy who used to date a soap actress? Let’s take a closer look at who’s heading in to Britain’s most famous house when the show returns next week. MORE: Big Brother star Amy Broadbent dishes the dirt on ‘awkward’ Cristiano Ronaldo date Harriet Jackson, 22, cafe worker THIS IMAGE IS STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 10.05.2015 Harriet (Picture: Channel 5) She’s wearing a fried egg dress – she works in a cafe. See what she did there? We have a master of the satire on our hands here. A UKIP voter, Harriet prides herself on being common. So much so, that she wants Alan Carr to play her in a movie about her life. Charming, eh Alan? Eileen Daly, 51, musician and film director THIS IMAGE IS STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 10.05.2015 Eileen (Picture: Channel 5) Remember this girl from X Factor? She sang with her partner, Bo? No? Well, hopefully she’ll be more memorable this time. ‘Kooky’ Eileen claims that she often mistakes herself in the mirror for Nicole Kidman. Obviously. Danny Wisker, 29, demolition man THIS IMAGE IS STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 10.05.2015 Danny (Picture: Channel 5) Here’s this year’s hunk with the ‘fingers on bristly chin’ pose. Once he leaves the house, we’re certain Gillette will be on the phone. Having allegedly dated a handful of former Celebrity Big Brother stars, he’s clearly got the right moves. His BFF is Gucci from Geordie Shore and he once played in the FA Cup so he’s already half way there to the world of fame. Cristian MJC AKA Matthew Clarkson, 20, musician/model/medical student THIS IMAGE IS STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 10.05.2015 Cristian (Picture: Channel 5) Cristian, a clear rival to Danny on the chin stroke pose, has a lot of strings to his bow given that he studies medicine as well as being a model, singer and rapper. Busy lad, how does he even have time to do Big Brother? He claims to have dated a former soap actress. We’re guessing a Hollyoaks star but perhaps we’ll find out more during the series. Chloe Wilburn, 25, office administrator THIS IMAGE IS STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 10.05.2015 Chloe (Picture: Channel 5) This Yorkshire gal thinks that Big Brother is a gap year for chavs, which isn’t an altogether unfair summary. To fit in with the chavvy stereotype, Chloe’s ultimate holiday destination, and second home, is Bendiorm, where she says she is treated like a local celebrity. If she’s lucky she might get that in the UK for an entire week after leaving Big Brother. Amy and Sally Broadbent, 27, nightclub hostess and personal trainer respectively THIS IMAGE IS STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 10.05.2015 Amy & Sally (Picture: Channel 5) Okay, so we’re not sure yet whether these self proclaimed socialite twins count as one contestant or two. Amy has previously dated a famous football star, though and Sally spends £500 a month on beauty treatments so they know how to live the high life. Adjoa Mensah, 22, law student THIS IMAGE IS STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 10.05.2015 Adjoa (Picture: Channel 5) As a pastor’s daughter, Adjoa is a committed Christian, so she’s bound to have her eyes opened in this house. Has she ever even watched Big Brother!? Her first language is Dutch, so if she ever feels the need to have a good rant about anyone, they need never know what she is saying. Aaron Frew, 24, model and personal shopper THIS IMAGE IS STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL THE 10.05.2015 Aaron (Picture: Channel 5) We can imagine that an old lady would be MORE than happy if this guy showed up to help her get her groceries from Waitrose. Aaron is a Calvin Klein model, having shot campaigns alongside the likes of Lara Stone and Pixie Geldof. Most importantly though, his fave movie is the Little Mermaid. Jack ‘Pie Face’ McDermott, 23, fast food manager THIS IMAGE IS STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 10.05.2015 Jack (Picture: Channel 5) With a name like Pie Face, you just know that Jack will be up for a laugh and in a house where everyone takes themselves uber seriously, this will be very welcome. He is a lifelong Plymouth Argyle fan, as a useless little piece of trivia. Jade-Martina Lynch, 24, spiritual model THIS IMAGE IS STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 10.05.2015 Jade (Picture: Channel 5) As well as enjoying the taste of her own fingers, Jade does not believe in monogamy so could we see the first ever BB contestant who has several boyfriends in the house at once? Oh, the drama! Not satisfied with her collection of pet rats, Jade also wants a bat sometime in the future. The kind with wings, obviously. Joel Williams, 19, local councillor THIS IMAGE IS STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 10.05.2015 Joel (Picture: Channel 5) Psssst, Joel, this is Big Brother, not The Apprentice. You haven’t gotten your shows mixed up have you? Aiming to be the next Prime Minister, Joel’s political bants might go down like a lead balloon in the house. He is the youngest councillor in Wales and publishes 3000 copies per issue of his own magazine. Kieran McLeod, 30, radio presenter and former basketball player THIS IMAGE IS STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 10.05.2015 Kieran (Picture: Channel 5) With a varied career as a former basketball player and a restaurant owner, Kieran now wants to turn his hand to breaking in to the showbiz world. His radio show is the first step, Big Brother is clearly the next. Nick Henderson, 19, unemployed ‘rich kid’ THIS IMAGE IS STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 10.05.2015 Nick (Picture: Channel 5) He’s eccentric and he’s loaded, and yet he’s never been in a proper relationship before? Things have to change and perhaps BB is where he will finally find love. Girls love a bad lad and this is a guy who was permanently expelled from two schools. Sarah Greenwood, 24, law student THIS IMAGE IS STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 10.05.2015 Sarah (Picture: Channel 5) She claims to be direct and a stuck up bitch so say hello to this year’s Katie Hopkins wannabe. Declaring that she is not a team player, we reckon it won’t take long for Sarah to upset her fellow housemates. Simon Gross, 46, theatre company owner THIS IMAGE IS STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 10.05.2015 Simon (Picture: Channel 5) Ta-dah! The last, but not least, member of the line-up has been a staple of showbiz for 30 years, apparently. Simon’s ambition is to be the world’s first male Margaret Thatcher, whatever that means. MORE: General Election 2015: Nigel Farage is tipped to enter Big Brother following UKIP defeat MORE: Big Brother 2015 ‘Timebomb’ theme could mean the return of some ‘familiar faces’ Metro Blogs is a place for opinions. These opinions belong to the author and are not necessarily shared by Metro. 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Katie Price has finally replied to a tweet from Kim Kardashian sent seven years ago Katie Price has finally replied to a tweet from Kim Kardashian sent seven years ago 2. Loose Women star reports abusive One Direction fans to police after receiving threatening tweets Loose Women star reports abusive One Direction fans to police after receiving threatening tweets 3. EastEnders spoilers: Another dark Alfie and Kat Moon secret to be dramatically revealed EastEnders spoilers: Another dark Alfie and Kat Moon secret to be dramatically revealed 4. Chris Evans 'unhappy with Top Gear bosses' over production member's resignation Chris Evans 'unhappy with Top Gear bosses' over production member's resignation 5. 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Learn more News... but not as you know it 68.3m shares Trending Nutshell * Home * News + UK + World + Weird + Tech * Sport + Football + Oddballs + Club Metro + Transfer news + Viral videos * Entertainment + Showbiz + TV + Film + Music + Gaming + Celebrity Big Brother + Soaps * Lifestyle + Sex + Fashion + Food + Travel * More + Lifestyle + Blogs + Competitions + Jobs + Property * Search Metro * Follow us 20th anniversary of the Blur/Oasis battle: 14 reasons Blur deserved to win [mary-stringer-copy.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=40&h=40&# 038;crop=1] Mary Stringer for Metro.co.ukMonday 17 Aug 2015 11:00 am 20th anniversary of the Blur/Oasis battle: 14 reasons Blur deserved to win (Picture: Rex) It’s the 20th anniversary of the great 1995 battle of the bands that saw Oasis’s single Roll With It beaten by Blur’s Country House in record sales. Two of the biggest bands in the UK at the time, the talent was real on both sides – but so was the rivalry, and neither band held back, especially when it came to slating each other in the press. Accepting that both bands were brilliant in their own ways, thanks to a very early introduction to a naked Damon Albarn (I was nine, he was naked in the bath on the TV singing about rich people having nervous breakdowns) this unashamed Britpop fanatic is a Blur supporter through and through – so here are 14 reasons why they deserved to win. 1. Clever, edgy and satirical Country House is the better song lyrically. 2. Blur sold 58,000 more records of Country House, a clear win even if Oasis’ did have barcode issues with their single. 20th anniversary of the Blur/Oasis battle: 14 reasons Blur deserved to win 3. Blur’s musicians are multi-talented – drummer Dave Rowntree is a solicitor and political activist, Graham Coxon is an artist, Damon Albarn is a record-producer and multi-instrumentalist and Alex James is a journalist and cheesemaker. MORE: Nine things the kids of today will never understand about Britpop 4. Blur penned the best break up song, No Distance Left To Run, inspired by Damon’s break up with Justine Frischmann. 5. Both bands sang about love very poignantly, but Blur had the edge with elegant love songs like Tender. 20th anniversary of the Blur/Oasis battle: 14 reasons Blur deserved to win 6. Blur were arguably more experimental and expansive in their approach to music than Oasis, sparking eventual departures into new bands – Gorillaz, The Good the Bad & the Queen – and solo projects. 7. While Blur suffered its internal fall outs, there were none to rival the explosive Noel/Liam rift. Although it did come with some superb insults on Noel’s part: ‘Liam is like a man with a fork in a world of soup.’ 8. Blur tended to explore the challenges of modern life in their lyrics, while Oasis’s themes were simpler and often hedonistic. 20th anniversary of the Blur/Oasis battle: 14 reasons Blur deserved to win 9. Blur are better at satire and character assassination – Charmless Man showcases Blur’s weird blend of humour and sadness: ‘He talks at speed / he gets nose bleeds / He doesn’t see / his days are tumbling / down upon him’. 10. Blur didn’t declare themselves to be ‘the next Beatles’ – unlike Oasis 20th anniversary of the Blur/Oasis battle: 14 reasons Blur deserved to win 11. Everybody loves an underdog, and Blur were decidedly that – not only did Oasis beat them in the coolness stakes what with their edgy parkas, long hair and bad behaviour, but they also had a far steadier trajectory in many ways. Blur had some unsuccessful albums, and failed to make a dent in America, unlike Oasis. 12. Blur had a sexier lead singer – Liam had the bad boy reputation but Damon had the come-to-bed eyes. 20th anniversary of the Blur/Oasis battle: 14 reasons Blur deserved to win 13. Blur’s lyrics are much smarter and tighter. They could sum up the loneliness of modern life in a single line: ‘No one here is alone, satellites in every home’. 14. Blur’s personality as a band was more intriguing; they were at once arch, comic, ironic, introverted, artistic, pessimistic, nervy, sexy and utterly captivating. Oasis’ personality as a band was certainly very potent, but it lacked the same complexity. 20th anniversary of the Blur/Oasis battle: 14 reasons Blur deserved to win MORE: What was the biggest selling album in 1995 Britpop Britain? The answer may surprise you MORE: Britpop major news alert! 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Learn more News... but not as you know it 68.3m shares Trending Nutshell * Home * News + UK + World + Weird + Tech * Sport + Football + Oddballs + Club Metro + Transfer news + Viral videos * Entertainment + Showbiz + TV + Film + Music + Gaming + Celebrity Big Brother + Soaps * Lifestyle + Sex + Fashion + Food + Travel * More + Lifestyle + Blogs + Competitions + Jobs + Property * Search Metro * Follow us Leon Brittan’s brother demands apology from Tom Watson ‘for child sex slur’ [amy-willis.jpeg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C423px%2C423px&resize=150%2C150&# 038;quality=80&strip=all&w=40&h=40] Amy Willis for Metro.co.ukFriday 9 Oct 2015 7:41 am IFRAME: http://www.youtube.com/embed/IFykM1iSgqk?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide= 2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent Leon Brittan’s brother has said Labour deputy leader Tom Watson should apologise after police dropped a rape inquiry against the former home secretary. Sir Samuel Brittan accused the MP of making ‘unfounded accusations’ which had prompted police to reopen the case against Lord Brittan. It comes after the Times reported Scotland Yard deputy assistant commissioner Steve Rodhouse had written to Lord Brittan’s widow to apologise for failing to tell the family the peer had been cleared before his death. Leon Brittan's brother demands apology 'for child sex slur' Former Cabinet minister Leon Brittan (Picture:PA) Lord Brittan died of cancer earlier this year, unaware that police had decided there was no case for him to answer over allegations that he raped a 19-year-old student in 1967. Journalist Sir Samuel told the Daily Mail: ‘He should apologise to my sister-in-law for making unfounded accusations against my brother. And he should apologise in public as well.’ The Crown Prosecution Service found in July 2013 that there was not enough evidence for a prosecution, but the decision was never passed on to the peer. The case was reopened last year after Mr Watson wrote to the Director of Public Prosecutions and Lord Brittan was interviewed under caution, when he was seriously ill. Sir Leon Brittan (1939-), British politician, 1996. Home Secretary, Secretary for Trade and Industry. Served on the European Commision of the European Community and the European Union. (Photo by Jewish Chronicle/Heritage Images/Getty Images) Sir Leon Brittan in 1996 (Picture:Getty Images) Former Conservative chancellor Norman Lamont, a friend of Lord Brittan, said police investigations of historical sex abuse risked becoming a ‘witch-hunt’. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he said: ‘I visited Lord Brittan several times in his last days and saw the suffering of a man under the shadow of the vilest accusations. This was an extremely painful time for his wife. ‘After his death came the police raid on his two houses, while his widow was still sorting out his belongings, some of which were carted away. As with Cliff Richard, the police were accompanied by press and television. sam Sam Brittan, Lord Brittan’s brother ‘Before Lord Brittan died, the police, referring to a rape accusation, suggested he should take part in an identity parade. That seems beyond satire. How could a well-known public person, already named and identified by his accuser, usefully take part in such a charade?’ The case had been ‘mishandled at every level’, Lord Lamont added. http://metro.co.uk/2015/09/28/woman-at-centre-of-child-sex-ring-jailed- for-at-least-24-years-5411268/ MORE: Leon Brittan on list of senior figures named in top secret child sex abuse files MORE: Lord Janner will be prosecuted over alleged child sex offences More * [gettyimages-bc5544-001.jpg?crop=68px%2C0px%2C1066px%2C799px&r esize=480%2C360&quality=80&strip=all&w=100&h=75 ] Blue Monday: Tomorrow may be the most depressing day of the year * [oldest-woman.jpg?crop=61px%2C0px%2C1025px%2C768px&resize=480% 2C360&quality=80&strip=all&w=100&h=75] Britain's oldest woman says she feels like she's still 75 * [woman1.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=100&h=75&cro p=1] Sponsored13 life hacks to get you through this winter * [grandfather.jpg?crop=0px%2C216px%2C536px%2C403px&resize=480%2 C360&quality=80&strip=all&w=100&h=75] Grandfather died after collapsing from laughter * [gettyimages-95868084.jpg?crop=68px%2C0px%2C1066px%2C799px&res ize=480%2C360&quality=80&strip=all&w=100&h=75] Cadbury founders would be ‘spinning in their urns' over unpaid corporation tax * [cy6uivcweaaq6pu.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C733px%2C550px&resize=480 %2C360&quality=80&strip=all&w=100&h=75] We've finally hit peak hipster coffee Comments Must read (BUTTON) (BUTTON) (BUTTON) (BUTTON) (BUTTON) What's trending now More trending stories » 1. 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Learn more News... but not as you know it 68.3m shares Trending Nutshell * Home * News + UK + World + Weird + Tech * Sport + Football + Oddballs + Club Metro + Transfer news + Viral videos * Entertainment + Showbiz + TV + Film + Music + Gaming + Celebrity Big Brother + Soaps * Lifestyle + Sex + Fashion + Food + Travel * More + Lifestyle + Blogs + Competitions + Jobs + Property * Search Metro * Follow us Woman turns down second date, so creep demands £4.50 for the drink he bought her Default author image Dave Burke for Metro.co.ukSaturday 26 Sep 2015 4:11 pm This is how not to react to being turned down for a second date (Picture:www.thehourglass.co.uk) This guy sounds like quite a catch. As dispiriting as it must be to get turned down for a second date, he’s given a textbook lesson in how not to react. After a first meeting with a London woman in her 30s, which he obviously thought went swimmingly, he texted and said he would love to meet up again. She was clearly less impressed, but polite, saying she didn’t think they were right for each other, and wished him luck. MORE: 11 things men should never do on Tinder MORE: Tinder’s introduced a ‘Super Like’ option and it’s messing with our brains woman declines second date, date asks her to pay back £4.50 for the drink Credit: www.thehourglass.co.uk What followed is rather cringeworthy, before he eventually got the message – and demanded she pay him back for the drink he bought her. Not letting the refusal deter him in any way, he then offered to cook her dinner – and was again politely turned down. The woman replied: ‘Very kind of you but as I said, I don’t think we are right for each other, so would not want to waste your time.’ text Realising he’s getting nowhere, he throws his toys out the pram and demands that she pays him back for the drink he bought her. He even sent his account number so he could reimburse her with the £4.50 he shelled out, thinking he was going to get more from his date. But this wasn’t before he had voiced his annoyance with her, stating: ‘I’m annoyed that you are unfair and refuse to meet up again and give it another chance on the basis that “you are reserved”.’ The conversation was shared on Twitter by her friend Luke Mackay, who wrote: ‘My friend went on a date with quite literally the worst person in the world. HOW NICE IS SHE THOUGH.’ My friend went on a date with quite literally the worst person in the world. HOW NICE IS SHE THOUGH. pic.twitter.com/6H7pPJGNZS — Luke Mackay (@Lukemackaycooks) September 24, 2015 Here’s what others made of it: @Lukemackaycooks Jesus wept. His bank account must be interesting reading: Friday: Card payment-£9. Monday: Bank transfer-£4.50 EVERY.WEEK — JTW (@RteeFufkin) September 25, 2015 @Lukemackaycooks @McMoop Jesus. She is the nicest person in the planet. I'd have met him again just to kick him in the dick. — Ducking 'Ell (@MsEllaSimone) September 25, 2015 @Lukemackaycooks @FurnessGirl Your friend is lovely. That man is gross & so pushy. I doubt being alone in his flat is a safe place to be. — michelle (@mexx_07) September 24, 2015 @Lukemackaycooks Omg I have dated some terrible people but this might actually beat all of them — Laura Paine (@Laura__Paine) September 24, 2015 @Lukemackaycooks omg he seriously demanded money back for the drink. like he was buying something and didn't get his money's worth. — Sean Manget (@SeanManget) September 25, 2015 @Lukemackaycooks @EscapologistGl Literally embarrassed to be male right now, she dodged a bullet there! — Alan Holmes (@holmesaj1) September 25, 2015 @Lukemackaycooks Wow. Top marks for that lady. And I hope she meets a gentleman next time. — Joseph Nderitu (@jnderitu) September 25, 2015 @Lukemackaycooks this is approx 400x nicer than I would have been. She deserves a prize. Maybe a drink? But a free one for real this time. — Kirsten Schofield (@ennuigo) September 26, 2015 @Lukemackaycooks @Hilary_W I'd pay £4.50 to stop him messaging me. 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Prince Harry with Longa the Loan Shark. Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Prince Harry with Longa the Loan Shark. Picture: James Bass Archant Norfolk Photographic © 2012 It is a 350-year-long tradition that has largely deserted Britain’s seaside resorts. (BUTTON) Share link shares Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Picture: James Bass So Punch and Judy aficionados decided to pull some strings with Simon Cowell, Prince Harry and Boris Johnson to restore the puppets’ popularity. And it seems to have worked – as crowds flocked to see a 21st century take on the classic Punch and Judy on Great Yarmouth seafront yesterday. Puppet master James Arnott, 26, is the man behind Punch and Judy Rebooted and is touring the country with his cast of celebrity dolls. And his script – penned by comedy writers John Phelps and Gary Lawson for TV channel Gold – is full of familiar names. Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Punch with Simon Cowell. Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Punch with Simon Cowell. Picture: James Bass “There’s still an appetite for the traditional stuff,” said James. “It’s lasted 350 years as it’s managed to stay fresh.” A red and white striped stage was set up near to Yarmouth Sealife Centre, and guests young and old enjoyed the quirky performance. Prince Harry took a break from the national headlines to appear, along with Nick Clegg as “Cleggy the Clown”, judge Simon Cowell and bumbling policeman Boris Johnson. Protagonist Punch has evolved into a benefits cheat, Judy is a “wannabe WAG” with new arch enemies Longa the Loan Shark and The EU Sausage Inspector. And James – who started to dabble in puppetry at the tender age of 16 – says the show went down a treat. “It’s been really good bringing it to the seaside,” he said. “There aren’t many towns that have Punch and Judy so it’s great to bring back to where it has a history – and to do so with a new version of it. “The kids really like it and there are jokes for the mums and dads. “Children might not know who Prince Harry is, but they might find some of what he does funny. “There’s a really nice balance with the show.” Professional puppet maker Bryan Clarke, of Kessingland, said he enjoying taking in the afternoon performance. “It’s not just for kids –it’s for the adults too. In Victorian days it was an adult show,” said Bryan, 73. When asked if he felt the show was a success, he referred to the evidence. “Nobody moved very much during the performance,” he said. “If the audience get up and leave there’s a problem. If you’ve got the three Bs you’ll be OK – be seen, be heard and be good.” Punch and Judy Rebooted is touring the UK throughout August and is full of cheeky satire. For more details, see Gold’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/goldtvchannel samuel.russell@archant.co.uk (BUTTON) Close You currently have JavaScript disabled, functionality will be limited Punch and Judy Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Longa the Loan Shark with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg as Cleggy the Clown. Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Punch with Simon Cowell. Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Prince Harry with Longa the Loan Shark. Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Punch with Simon Cowell Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Bumbling blonde policeman called Boris Johnson and Prince Harry with James Arnott. Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Bumbling blonde policeman called Boris Johnson and Prince Harry with James Arnott. Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Bumbling blonde policeman called Boris Johnson and Prince Harry with James Arnott. Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Bumbling blonde policeman called Boris Johnson and Prince Harry. Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouths Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Prince Harry. Picture: James Bass (BUTTON) Share link shares Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Longa the Loan Shark with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg as Cleggy the Clown. Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Punch with Simon Cowell. Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Prince Harry with Longa the Loan Shark. Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Punch with Simon Cowell Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Bumbling blonde policeman called Boris Johnson and Prince Harry with James Arnott. Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Bumbling blonde policeman called Boris Johnson and Prince Harry with James Arnott. Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Bumbling blonde policeman called Boris Johnson and Prince Harry with James Arnott. Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Bumbling blonde policeman called Boris Johnson and Prince Harry. Picture: James Bass Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouths Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Prince Harry. Picture: James Bass * Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Longa the Loan Shark with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg as Cleggy the Clown. Picture: James Bass * Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Picture: James Bass * Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Punch with Simon Cowell. Picture: James Bass * Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Prince Harry with Longa the Loan Shark. Picture: James Bass * Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Punch with Simon Cowell Picture: James Bass * Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Bumbling blonde policeman called Boris Johnson and Prince Harry with James Arnott. Picture: James Bass * Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Bumbling blonde policeman called Boris Johnson and Prince Harry with James Arnott. Picture: James Bass * Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Bumbling blonde policeman called Boris Johnson and Prince Harry with James Arnott. Picture: James Bass * Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouth’s Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Bumbling blonde policeman called Boris Johnson and Prince Harry. Picture: James Bass * Punch and Judy Rebooted being performed in Great Yarmouths Sea Life Centre Gardens, Marine Parade. Prince Harry. Picture: James Bass 0 1 / 9 (BUTTON) Share link shares 6 comments * "Children might not know who Prince Harry is, but they might find some of what he does funny." I don`t think Harry`s commanding officer, his father or the Queen exactly share that point of view at the moment! Report this comment Hereandthere Friday, August 24, 2012 * Remember; what happens in Great Yarmouth stays in Great Yarmouth... Report this comment sprowstongal Friday, August 24, 2012 * Oh what a pantomime! "Where`s Prince Harry?" - "He`s behind you!" More of a muppet than a puppet. Report this comment Hereandthere Friday, August 24, 2012 * This can't surely be Prince Harry? He's got his clothes on! Report this comment Boadicea 1959 Friday, August 24, 2012 * When Harry met the EU sausage inspector!!! such a shame Spitting Image finished yonks back, would've been great fun to run with royal ginger nuts scene. 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Read our Privacy and Cookies policies to find out more. 1. Culture 2. Films 3. Features Stacy Martin: Nymphomaniac actress on nudity in films, Lars von Trier and being set on Hollywood 'I don’t believe in gratuitous nudity or sexuality in a way that is discriminating to women, or even men' * James Mottram * Friday 9 October 2015 08:38 BST * Actress Stacy Martin attends a photocall for 'Taj Mahal' during the 72nd Venice Film Festival Getty If there’s one actress who seemed all over the Venice Film Festival this year, it was Stacy Martin. The young French/English performer, who made her stunning debut two years ago in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, came to the Lido with two films, The Childhood of a Leader and Taj Mahal, and a lead role at Women’s Tales, a program of female-driven films and events sponsored by Miu Miu, the fashion giant that stole a march on its rivals by securing the 24 year-old as the face of its first fragrance, due this month. Factor in her role in British director Ben Wheatley’s ensemble satire High-Rise, which has just premiered in Toronto, and it’s evident that Martin is no von Trier flash in the pan. She smiles at the mention of the Danish director’s name; she owes him everything. “He gave me my first job,” she says. “He gave me faith in myself to actually do what I thought was a hobby. He also made it possible for me to do the kind of work, as an actress, I wanted to do and believed in.” Already, Martin’s CV is a classy affair. She appeared in Matteo Garrone’s deliciously dark fantasy Tale of Tales, which premiered in Cannes this year, appearing opposite Vincent Cassel. Meanwhile, The Childhood of a Leader has just collected two prizes in Venice, including Lion of the Future for for its actor-turned-director Brady Corbet. “I’m much more director-orientated than I thought I would be,” she admits, looking every bit the European ingenue. Nymphomaniac clip On a terrace overlooking Venice, in a blouse and lilac Miu Miu skirt, with her long brown hair in a pony-tail, Martin chatters nervously. “I babble a lot,” she apologises, though she’s being modest. She’s confident and eloquent, particularly on cinema, telling me she’d love to work with the “inspirational” Isabelle Huppert and British auteurs like Lynne Ramsay and Peter Strickland. “She’s incredibly well-read on film,” notes Taj Mahal director Nicolas Saada. “You don’t often talk about Werner Herzog and [Michael] Haneke on the first meeting with an actress.” Nymphomaniac posters * * * * * 14 show all Nymphomaniac posters * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 1/14 Shia LaBeouf In the buff: Shia LaBeouf poses for this Nymphomaniac poster Casper Sejersen/Trust Nordisk * 2/14 Stacy Martin Stacy Martin is a newcomer to the film industry - she'll be braced for anything, now Casper Sejersen/Trust Nordisk * 3/14 Charlotte Gainsbourg Charlotte Gainsbourg is the lead character in Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac Casper Sejersen/Trust Nordisk * 4/14 Connie Nielsen Connie Nielsen appears somewhat moist in this poster for Nymphomaniac Casper Sejersen * 5/14 Christian Slater Christian Slater looks intensely focused in this poster Casper Sejersen/Trust Nordisk * 6/14 Uma Thurman Uma Thurman's locks look a million miles from red carpet perfection in this Nymphomaniac promo Casper Sejersen/Trust Nordisk * 7/14 Udo Kier Udo Kier's character could simply be rolling his eyes in condescension Casper Sejersen/Trust Nordisk * 8/14 Stellan Skarsgard Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard bares (almost) all in a poster campaign for Lars Von Trier's new project Casper Sejersen/Trust Nordisk * 9/14 Mia Goth Actress Mia Goth poses (at least you would hope so) for a Nymphomaniac poster Casper Sejersen/ Trust Nordisk * 10/14 Nicolas Bro Danish actor Nicolas Bro looked to be an enthusiastic participant in the Nymphomaniac campaign Casper Sejersen/Trust Nordisk * 11/14 Jamie Bell We're a long way from Billy Elliot: Jamie Bell stars in Nymphomaniac Casper Sejersen/Trust Nordisk * 12/14 Jens Albinus Jens Albinus posed semi-nude for Nymphomaniac's poster campaign Casper Sejersen/Trust Nordisk * 13/14 Sophie Kennedy Sophie Kennedy looks to be enjoying herself in this poster for Nymphomaniac Casper Sejersen/Trust Nordisk * 14/14 Willem Dafoe Willem Dafoe in a shocking poster, but the controversy won't faze him as he's previously appeared in Lars Von Trier's Antichrist Casper Sejersen/Trust Nordisk It doubtless helps when your debut was a baptism of fire like Nymphomaniac. Despite the copious sex scenes, it didn’t faze her; nudity, she says, is something she’ll do “for the right reasons” if it came up again. “I don’t believe in gratuitous nudity. Or sexuality in a way that is discriminating to women, or even men!” she adds. “My body is my body, and if it’s part of the story and it’s justified… you have to honour what’s written. But never do it if it’s pointless – and a lot of it is – so you have to be very careful.” There’s also an emotional boldness to her performances – which doubtless also stems from her debut for von Trier, in which she played the younger version of the sexually liberated character of the title. In Taj Mahal, she holds together the film in which she plays Louise, a young girl trapped in the Mumbai hotel subjected to the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror attacks in 2008. If the film fails to sustain early tension, Martin can’t be faulted for a hugely challenging turn, playing a real-life character, that sees her largely acting alone. “One of the reasons I wanted to do this was because she’s on her own, and she’s so young and she’s so unequipped to face such a situation,” she explains. There were other reasons – that it wasn’t a role requiring her to be “the girlfriend” or endure a teenage growing-pains crisis. “Also it’s a female lead and we all know there’s just not enough of them. And she’s not naked… which, I know, coming from me sounds a bit weird, but a lot of the time you read scripts and they sort of miss the point.” The Paris-born Martin moved to Japan with her parents when she was seven, spending six years there before returning to France, which helped her tap into Louise’s isolated character. “Just being young in a country you don’t know… that’s something I’ve done quite consistently in my life. I used to move quite a lot. Just not knowing what you want to do is a big thing for young people… and that was a big part of my life. Just wondering what’s going to become of you.” She looks lost in thought for a second. “Does it end? Do you stop wondering?” If it’s a question she’s still asking herself, Martin hasn’t let it stifle her. When she was 18, she left Paris for London, where she now lives with musician boyfriend Daniel Blumberg. “At that age, I was very clear on leaving where I came from,” she says. “I didn’t really think of what I was doing – not in a careless or crazy way. I moved to London, I started studying, without really thinking, ‘I’m going to study to do this job’… I was very of the moment. I was like: ‘Ooh, yeah, I’ll go to London,’ and I went.” The daughter of hairstylist Rene and English mother Anne, Martin funded acting classes with modelling work, studying the Meisner technique at The Actors’ Temple in London, and enrolled in a media and cultural studies course at the London College of Communication. Emerging from this fevered period to such an impressive early career, even she can’t quite comprehend how rapidly she’s risen. “I’ve worked with amazing directors, which is such a great surprise for me,” she says. She points to Brady Corbet. “He’s extremely ambitious and talented.” And there’s no doubt of that, judging by The Childhood of a Leader, a very singular vision of a 1939 short story by Jean-Paul Sartre that traces the tortured upbringing of a young boy raised in 1918 by his German mother (Bérénice Bejo) and strict American father (Liam Cunningham), a diplomat instrumental in First World War peace negotiations. While most of the attention is on the fact that Robert Pattinson co-stars in a small role, Martin is significant as Ada, the boy’s tutor. GettyImages-487571488.jpg Stacy Martin attends a premiere for 'Taj Mahal' Childhood was the only movie in Venice shot on 35mm film – with most now captured digitally, this “is extremely rare for a first-time director”, notes Martin. The actress was bowled over working with Corbet. Like her, his own CV includes films with Haneke (Funny Games) and von Trier (Melancholia). “It was one of those ‘eureka!’ moments,” she says, “where you feel like, ‘great, there’s new voices still being believed in.’” Unlike Corbet, who has turned down a lot of Hollywood offers, Martin refuses to discount the American mainstream. “I have an American agent, who is very aware of how I want to work. Obviously it would be great to work over there. I don’t think you should just confine yourself to independent or art-house cinema. Ultimately my job is an actress. And there’s a much bigger crossover between the two, where you see directors bridging the gap. Even with Ben Wheatley, his cast, his production was much bigger…” Indeed, with a roll-call including Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller and Elisabeth Moss, Wheatley’s adaptation of JG Ballard’s 1975 novel High Rise is one of the most anticipated British films of the year. Martin plays Fay, a cashier working at a supermarket belonging to the ultra-luxurious Modernist (and microcosmic) setting at the story’s core, a building that increasingly descends into anarchy. “It sort of reflects society in a way that the poorer classes are at the bottom and the higher you go, the richer you are,” she says. Read more * Nymphomaniac actress Charlotte Gainsbourg on starring in one of the * Nymphomaniac star Stacy Martin talks sex, nudity and porn doubles * Stacy Martin: From modelling to nymphomania In the midst of all this is her work for Miu Miu, which began with a modelling campaign. “I thought it would be a one-time experience,” she says. Then the company asked her to represent its forthcoming fragrance. “It was quite incredible to see a brand backing and supporting someone who isn’t really in the mainstream arena,” she says. “They did it with Lupita [Nyong’o], they did it with Elizabeth Olsen.” Does she feel like she’s carrying a brand? “Oh god!” she cries. “That’s a big word. I don’t feel like it’s a responsibility.” This dip into commercial activity aside, you won’t find Martin promoting anything other than her movies – not even herself. Wary of over-exposure perhaps, she doesn’t boast a presence on social media. “I just don’t see how it helps me. I’m not ready to take on another big thing you have to sustain. I want my work to matter. I want the actual films or projects that I do to speak for themselves.” For all her courageous early work, Martin isn’t impervious to fear, from the everyday (“I’m terrified of heights”) to the irrational (food poisoning “because I love food”) to the understandable (unemployment). “I’ve been so lucky and I’ve met people that have really worked in the way that I respect,” she says, trying to explain the latter. “So if I’m not working it will probably also go in line with the fact that these people aren’t doing films anymore! So that’s quite scary.” You suspect that, somehow, she’ll survive. ‘High-Rise’ screens at the BFI London Film Festival on October 9 and 11, and goes on general release in 2016. ‘Taj Mahal’ and ‘The Childhood of a Leader’ will also be released next year * More about: * Nymphomaniac * Stacy Martin Comments [i100.png] Most Popular Video Sponsored Features * Follow us: * * * User Policies * Privacy Policy * Cookie Policy * Code of Conduct * Complaint Form * Contact Us * Contributors * All Topics * Archive * Newsletters * iJobs * Subscriptions * Advertising Guide * Syndication * Evening Standard * Novaya Gazeta * Install our Apps [p?c1=2&c2=10476312&cv=2.0&cj=1] [?p=759&g=001&c=1547567&j=0&ctg=arts-entertainment&subctg1=films&subctg 2=features] -- * * * 1. News + Alan Rickman + UK + US + World + People + Politics + Business + Science + Media + Obituaries 2. Voices + GOSH Appeal + Grace Dent + Mary Dejevsky + Robert Fisk + Howard Jacobson + John Rentoul + Mark Steel + Voices in Danger 3. 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World Politics Nobel Peace Prize 2015 awarded to Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet - as it happened The alliance won the award for 'its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia' after the Arab Spring * Lizzie Dearden * @lizziedearden * Friday 9 October 2015 06:53 BST * Chris Jackson/Getty Images Here are the latest updates: * National Dialogue Quartet wins Nobel prize * What the Nobel committee said about winners * What is the National Dialogue Quartet? * All the Nobel Peace Prize laureates since 1980 * Svetlana Alexievich has won the literature prize * The chemistry prize was awarded to DNA scientists * Physics work 'could change understanding of the universe' * Anti-malaria drug wins Nobel Prize in Medicine Please allow a moment for the live blog to load A Tunisian democracy group has won the Nobel Peace Prize for its contributions to the first and most successful Arab Spring movement. The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet "for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy" in the North African country following its 2011 revolution. "It established an alternative, peaceful political process at a time when the country was on the brink of civil war," the committee said in its citation. The prize is a huge victory for small Tunisia, whose young and still shaky democracy suffered two extremist attacks this year that killed 60 people and devastated the tourism industry. The National Dialogue Quartet is made up of four key organizations in Tunisian civil society: the Tunisian General Labour Union; the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts; the Tunisian Human Rights League; and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers. In pictures: Most controversial Nobel Peace Prize nominees * * * * * 5 show all In pictures: Most controversial Nobel Peace Prize nominees * * * * * * 1/5 Edward Snowden 2014: The National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has been nominated by two Norwegian MPs for the Nobel Peace Prize, meaning the US contractor currently claiming asylum in Russia could be awarded the same prize accepted by President Barak Obama in 2009 * 2/5 Vladimir Putin 2013: The Russian President Vladimir Putin was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize because the former KGB agent “actively promotes settlement of all conflicts arising on the planet,” according to the advocacy group that nominated him, at least * 3/5 Barack Obama 2009: US President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” shortly before launching military airstrikes in Libya. The irony was not lost on Mr Obama it seemed, who during a press conference joked: "[Energy Secretary Steven] Chu's the right guy to do this, he's got a Nobel Prize in physics - he actually deserved his Nobel Prize" * 4/5 Henry Kissinger 1973: Henry Kissinger was awarded the prize for his work on the Paris Peace Accords jointly with Le Duc Tho, who turned the Prize down. The American humourist Tom Lehrer later quipped that Kissinger’s award represented the “death of satire” * 5/5 Josef Stalin 1945: Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was nominated for “his efforts to end World War II”. Fellow nominee Vladimir Putin recently said there was no difference between him and Oliver Cromwell, when asked whether he would erect a statue of Stalin in Moscow "The Nobel Peace Prize for 2015 is awarded to this Quartet, not to the four individual organizations as such," the committee said. There were 273 candidates nominated for the 2015 peace prize, five fewer than in 2014. 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Read our Privacy and Cookies policies to find out more. 1. News 2. People Selena Gomez: 'I’m in chemotherapy. You’re a**holes' and other memorable takedowns Gomez spoke of being diagnosed with lupus for the first time this week * Heather Saul * @heatheranne9 * Thursday 8 October 2015 14:14 BST * Selena Gomez Getty Images Selena Gomez has condemned speculation that her decision to cancel a US tour in 2013 could be linked to substance abuse or personal issues after revealing she was actually undergoing chemotherapy for lupus at the time. The 23-year-old finally responded to spurious reports in an interview with Billboard this week, telling the magazine: “I wanted so badly to say, ‘You guys have no idea. I’m in chemotherapy. You’re a**holes’.” As a former Disney child star who grew up in front of the camera, Gomez has constantly faced public scrutiny. Social media has only served to magnify her exposure to negative comments as an adult. 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You can't do that - you've got to live in the now" * 7/30 9 January 2016 International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde dances with some of the orphan children from the La Main Dans La Main charity in Douala, Cameroon * 8/30 8 January 2016 French President Francois Hollande (C), Gilbert Mitterrand (L) and Mazarine Pingeot arrive at the cemetery to attend a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the death of former French President Francois Mitterrand in Jarnac, France * 9/30 7 January 2016 British Prime Minister David Cameron gives a statement after his visit at a meeting of the German conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party in Wildbad Kreuth, southern Germany. 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Read our Privacy and Cookies policies to find out more. 1. News 2. People Businesswoman Annabel Karmel says woman are not as good at certain jobs as their male counterparts She says she advised her daughter against being an oil trader because "she's too sensitive" * Chris Mandle * @chris_mandle * Wednesday 7 October 2015 15:45 BST * Annabel Karmel Businesswoman Annabel Karmel has suggested that some woman cannot cope with failure, and that there are some jobs that women are simply not good at. Karmel was speaking at Cheltenham Literature Festival when she advised women to play to their strengths. “I see a lot of women in business who try to be like a man and become aggressive, and I don’t think that is good for women and women aren’t suited for that,” she said. 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And asked 'Where is morality?' * 18/18 24 September 2015 Puff Daddy secured the number-one spot on the Forbes Hip Hop Cash Kings list, with the publication calculating he made an estimated $60million (£39m) between June 2014 and June 2015. “I think we are sometimes more sensitive than men. We need to pick what’s good for us.” Karmel, who is known for running a luxury children’s food brand, was speaking at a panel called ‘Women In Business’ as part of the festival. 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Read our Privacy and Cookies policies to find out more. 1. Culture 2. Comedy 3. Features Terry Gilliam: How I became an unlikely member of Monty Python How did a US-raised 'barbarian at the gates' and one-time National Guardsman blend so well with a bunch of slick Oxbridge types to create the Monty Python team? Terry Gilliam looks back * TERRY GILLIAM * Saturday 3 October 2015 07:10 BST * Gilliam says: 'Using my animations as links between the sketches freed the others from having to do conventional punchlines' Gilliam says: 'Using my animations as links between the sketches freed the others from having to do conventional punchlines' Getty Images So I finally shrugged off the hand of Uncle Sam's press-gang from my collar in the same year I started working with several of the men who were soon to become my co-Pythons. If a divine power had made a New Year's resolution at the start of 1968 to show me the nature of the good fight I was meant to be fighting, she could hardly have done a better job of it. On the face of it, my new partners in crime would be a respectable bunch – old-fashioned-looking Oxbridge graduates without a tie-dyed acid casualty among them. Appearances can be deceiving, but because they were satirists, they weren't necessarily counter-cultural by inclination. The key to the British idea of comedy was people not being afraid to be ridiculous – everything didn't have to have a higher social purpose. The point of the exercise was just to get everyone to laugh at silly things, rather than to pursue any particular political agenda (although to be fair, it probably is much harder to waterboard somebody if you have a good sense of humour). But in a weird way, they couldn't afford to dismantle the existing system, because then there'd be nothing left for them to have fun taking the piss out of. 5876507.jpg Terry Gilliam with the rest of the Monty Python team I was less conservative than the others in this regard. They were subversive, but they had that typically sneaky, passive- aggressive British way of undercutting the system – which was much gentler > than the blunt American attack I was used to. Whereas my messianic delusions ensured that I was quite happy to bring the whole thing crashing down around us. It's possible some of my fellow Pythons-to-be might have been slightly fearful of me as a result, and I – reluctant as I would've been to admit this at the time, or indeed for many years afterwards – was rather intimidated by them. There was no doubt in either my or their minds as to who was the barbarian at the gates and who were the superior beings. It was their use of language that gave them power over me, especially the ones from Cambridge. They had this really well-honed banter, which I was in awe of. It began with being at university together and by the time I came into their orbit, they'd had years of writing together in various different combinations to sharpen it up still further. Of course, everything they found funny was within certain bounds and based on particular common references, but I didn't know what those references were, so I'd be blindly banging around and crashing into things, like the proverbial minotaur in the crockery retailer's. This rapidly became my unique selling point within the group. Because compared to them (they were so incredibly precise in their verbosity), I must have seemed like some kind of force of nature – a creature that hadn't been neutered by language. I could come in with a big hammer and smash everything up – being the son of a carpenter, I'd hammer in the morning and hammer in the evening – and with so many egos and superegos around, they had a vacancy for an id. 5876509.jpg Stream of consciousness: an example of Terry Gilliam’s Python-era work Some of the violence in my Monty Python animations would come from my frustration at not being able to express myself as clearly as everyone else, and some of it evolved naturally from the limitations of the technique itself. But before those two forces could start to pull me in the same direction – as I strove to unify the verbalisation of my lack of verbosity with the visual articulation of my technical inarticulacy – there were a few uncomfortable social preliminaries to be got through. If you want chapter and verse on the hour and day everything happened, you'd probably be better off reading Michael Palin's diaries. But Eric Idle has ascribed the motivation of "sexual jealousy" to those of his fellow Englishmen who gave me a slightly frosty reception at first, and while it would be immodest of me to agree with him in public, by the time of our early meetings, I had certainly learned to make my transatlantic otherness work for me more successfully than I was doing on my initial arrival in the UK. In the many accounts of these formative encounters that clog up the voluminous Python chronicles, my Turkish suede coat – on the back of which I had by now painted a large sun (shame to waste a canvas of that grandeur) – does seem to get more than its fair share of attention. I was still with Glenys at the time, who I think some of my soon-to-be colleagues were quite impressed by. But like any self-respecting mould or lichen, I took a little longer to grow on them. 5876512.jpg The notorious ‘Sam Peckinpah’s Salad Days’ sketch Eric is the one of us who has always been the most drawn to the new and the exotic and the flamboyant, so he was my buddy right from the off, but Terry Jones and Michael Palin – those two little Oxfordians in the corner with their nasty rodental faces – took a bit more convincing. Now, 45 years later, Mike, Terry J and I all live within five minutes of each other, so I must have made some progress in the intervening decades. And to be fair, it was actually Terry J who established the initial template for my contribution to the group that eventually became Monty Python. The main creative dilemma we were grappling with was how to bring together all the different material we were planning to write without succumbing to the alternate tyrannies of either constructing a linear narrative or having to hobble each sketch with a traditional ending. Terry had very much liked the stream of consciousness element in "Beware of the Elephants", when it went out as part of the second series of Do Not Adjust Your Set, and argued very strongly that the show (which was soon to be christened as below) should have the same free-form feel. The collective decision to pursue this goal by using my animations as links between the sketches was one that would have happy consequences for all of us. The others were liberated from the dominion of the conventional punchline, while I was given a specific task, which was at once thrillingly clearly defined and infinitely variable. I would be given a series of specific starting and ending points, and everything in-between would be up to me. 5876515.jpg The Monty Python Cast in 1983: From left to right, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman and Michael Palin (Rex) This arrangement suited me for a number of reasons. First, because nothing sets you (or at least me) free creatively like having a set of limitations to explore. Second, because my mind tends to work really well that way – making the kind of big connective leaps where this triggers that off, and then that goes there – whereas if I've got too much choice then I'm lost, because I want to explore > all the possible options at once. Third, and perhaps most importantly, the fact that I essentially worked on my own helped define my role within the group as an outsider with a specific contribution to make. The meetings where we got together to discuss which material should and shouldn't be used were – necessarily, but perhaps more so due to the nature of the personalities involved – very strategic affairs. The factions within the group weren't set in stone, but would dissolve and reconstitute along a series of different fault lines – Oxford (and Occidental, the Os often stuck together) against Cambridge, the Do Not Adjust Your Set veterans versus the rest, people whose names were Terry standing up bravely against people whose names weren't Terry – according to the issue in hand. Luckily for me, given first my spectacular lack of aptitude for power-play of this type, and second my complete inability to present my ideas verbally, the fact that I was responsible for the only section of the show into which no one else had any direct input excused me from most of the political in-fighting. My fellow Pythons used to be quite tactical, both in terms of their own contributions and their responses to those of others, for instance not starting with the material that was dearest to them, and/or allotting their laughter as much as a reflection of current alliances as the virtues of the material itself. Because I lacked the need for such manoeuvrings, I actually became quite useful to the group as the genuine laugher – like a comedy-writing version of the mystery shopper. If I thought it was funny, then the chances were it actually was, because I had nothing to gain by taking sides. gilliam-getty2.jpg Terry Gilliam says that compared to the rest of the Pythons, ‘I must have seemed like some kind of force of nature – a creature that hadn't been neutered by language' (Getty) Eric's theory – which I think is a good one – is that we were all slightly mad in different ways, and as a consequence we added up to a single effectively mad personality, which operated in a strangely functional way. I think there was certainly a good work ethic established right from the off, and the fact that each of us had done the odd thing that the others respected helped band us together. There was also a lucky chemical balance between me bringing a bit of fresh brashness and brutality to people who, while not exactly old lags, had certainly done their time in the satirical trenches with David Frost. Read more * Terry Gilliam's fans react to mistaken news of his death as only true * Greece referendum: The Monty Python sketch that (sort of) explains the * Hawking sings Monty Python's Meaning of Life hit 'Galaxy Song' * There’s more to great comedy than Monty Python, Victoria Wood and co * Former Monty Python John Cleese: Political correctness is * Monty Python's 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life' named most The great thing about making the first and second series was the necessity to just churn stuff out. With success and the extra resources that brings, you can second-guess yourself to death, but when you simply have to produce 30 minutes of material in double-quick time, that really frees you up. For instance, if you've ever wondered why all the characters in those animations tend to hop everywhere, that's because it's much quicker and easier to do than making them walk or run. One of the fundamental appeals of animation is that the restrictions of everyday mortality do not apply. People can be squished and stomped, and still bounce back up – like in Tex Avery cartoons. It's almost a glimpse of eternal life. We're free from the limitations of what God made, and in terms of the world I'm working in, I actually become God. There's a famous early animation from the 1920s called "Out of the Inkwell" by the Fleischer brothers, which I stole a lot from. The animator draws a clown, but it's like the sorcerer's apprentice in that the character escapes his control and takes on a life of its own. People knowing how much that cartoon meant to me might assume I identified with the animator, but I actually wanted to be the cartoon. And so my schizophrenic life began... 5876513.jpg The opening titles of Monty Python's Flying Circus That demolition of the fourth wall is essentially what happened when I was doing the Python animations. I'd be throwing all-nighter after all-nighter to get the work done, and at some point in the early hours of the morning, the story would just start making itself. One object would suddenly find itself juxtaposed with another one in a relationship that immediately made sense of something else, even though I didn't necessarily quite know what. When that euphoria kicks in, I'm like a junkie. It's great, and it's flowing and where does this stuff come from? Wow. I'm riding the tiger – let's go! A lot of it is about trying to block out the more sensible part of my brain – the controlling part that tries to be rational, that tries to explain. This is a place artists have sought to travel to by many different means. It doesn't really matter how you get there – from straightforwardly blotting out the super-ego (who is the last caped crusader you want on the scene when you've got a deadline to meet), to the various mind-games of the unconscious, which the surrealists pioneered – but I never bothered with any of that stuff: I always found exhaustion worked best for me. Lack of sleep, lack of time, lack of money and lack of talent – these are the key contributory factors which collude to define the oeuvre. And the same methodology would ultimately carry me on into film-making. When things are really coming together (as opposed to falling apart) on a movie set, I actually feel like the waves of some kind of ocean are carrying us where we need to go, and I'm just the guy holding on to the tiller. Obviously the idea that one's actions are being directed by some kind of invisible external force can be a dangerous one to give in to. ("That's why I had to kill and mutilate all those nuns, because the voices told me to . . . it can't have been me because I'm a really nice guy.") But I suppose that's what being an artist is really: a kind of controlled madness. That's why we're allowed to wander the streets doing the sh*t that we do. This is an extract from 'Gilliamesque – a Pre-Posthumous Memoir', out now, published by Canongate at £30 Terry Gilliam appears at the Southbank Centre, SE1 on Wednesday 7 October * More about: * Terry Gilliam * Eric Idle * Michael Palin * Oxbridge * Cambridge * Terry Jones * Southbank Centre * David Frost Comments [i100.png] Most Popular Video Sponsored Features * Follow us: * * * User Policies * Privacy Policy * Cookie Policy * Code of Conduct * Complaint Form * Contact Us * Contributors * All Topics * Archive * Newsletters * iJobs * Subscriptions * Advertising Guide * Syndication * Evening Standard * Novaya Gazeta * Install our Apps [p?c1=2&c2=10476312&cv=2.0&cj=1] [?p=759&g=001&c=1547567&j=0&ctg=arts-entertainment&subctg1=comedy&subct g2=features] -- * * * 1. News + Alan Rickman + UK + US + World + People + Politics + Business + Science + Media + Obituaries 2. 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Read our Privacy and Cookies policies to find out more. 1. News 2. People Vatican confirms Pope Francis held private meeting with county clerk Kim Davis during US tour He is thought to have praised her 'conscientious objection' over refusing to issue marriage certificates to same-sex couples * Chris Mandle * @chris_mandle * Wednesday 30 September 2015 14:28 BST * Kim Davis went to jail for six days for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, citing her biblical opposition The Vatican has now confirmed rumours that The Pope held a private meeting with Kim Davis and her husband during his US tour. Rumours circulated that The Pope and Davis met at the Vatican embassy in Washington DC last week, where Davis was praised for her “courage” and told to “stay strong” by the Pope. While Vatican spokesman Rev Federico Lombardi refused to confirm or deny the rumours at the time, a spokesman has since confirmed the news to The New York Times, though they offered no further information. In a statement, Davis told Liberty Counsel, a Christian lobby group, that she has been “humbled” by the experience, saying: “I never thought I would meet the Pope. Who am I to have this rare opportunity? I am just a County Clerk who loves Jesus and desires with all my heart to serve him.” People news in pictures * * * * * 18 show all People news in pictures * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 1/18 7 October 2015 Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in an ice hockey match between former NHL stars and officials at the Shayba Arena in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Vladimir Putin spent his 63rd birthday on the ice, playing hockey with NHL stars against Russian officials and tycoons EPA * 2/18 6 October 2015 German designer Karl Lagerfeld (R) and model Cara Delevingne (C) appear at the end of his Spring/Summer 2016 women's ready-to-wear collection for fashion house Chanel at the Grand Palais which is transformed into a Chanel airport during the Fashion Week in Paris, France Reuters * 3/18 5 October 2015 Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne addresses the Conservative party conference in Manchester. The Chancellor argued that reducing the payments to people in low paid jobs would give them “economic security” by reducing the Government’s spending deficit Getty Images * 4/18 4 October 2015 Cowboys captain Johnathan Thurston takes a moment in the centre of the field with his daughter Frankie Thurston, holding dark-skinned doll, after winning the 2015 NRL Grand Final match between the Brisbane Broncos and the North Queensland Cowboys at ANZ Stadium in Sydney. The image quickly became the talking point of Australia’s National Rugby League Final and provoked a strong reaction on social media, with many praising Thurston for giving his child a toy that promotes inclusiveness and diversity Getty Images * 5/18 3 October 2015 Pope Francis gives a thumbs-up as he greets people at the end of an audience to the participants of a meeting organized by the "Food Bank" at the Paul VI audience hall in Vatican Getty Images * 6/18 2 October 2015 Britain's Finance Minister George Osborne (L) throws an American football as he meets with former American football players Dan Marino (2nd R) and Curtis Martin (not pictured) at 11 Downing Street in London, ahead of the New York Jets playing against the Miami Dolphins at London's Wembley Stadium on 4 October Getty Images * 7/18 1 October 2015 An honor guard opens the door as Russian President Vladimir Putin enters a hall to attend a meeting with members of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia * 8/18 30 September 2015 Former Mrs America Lisa Christie, who alleges misconduct by Bill Cosby, holds up photos of her younger self during a news conference at the law office of attorney Gloria Allred in Los Angeles * 9/18 29 September 2015 Matt Damon has defended himself against claims that he instructed gay actors to remain in the closet. He had said “I think you’re a better actor the less people know about you and sexuality is a huge part of that. Whether you’re straight or gay, people shouldn’t know anything about your sexuality” but an appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres show said, “I was just trying to say actors are more effective when they’re a mystery. Right?” Getty * 10/18 29 September 2015 Actor Marion Cotillard has said that there is no place for feminism in Hollywood. Speaking to Porter magazine, she said“Film-making is not about gender/ You cannot ask a president in a festival like Cannes to have, like, five movies directed by women and five by men. For me it doesn’t create equality, it creates separation. I mean, I don’t qualify myself as a feminist." Getty * 11/18 29 September 2015 Actor Paul Walker’s daughter, Meadow, is suing Porsche over her father’s death in a lawsuit that claims he was trapped in the burning car because of design flaws and the seat belt. The Fast and Furious star was killed when the Porsche Carrera GT he was a passenger in hit a pole in California in 2013. The driver, his friend Roger Rodas, also died when the vehicle burst into flames. AP * 12/18 28 September 2015 Robert Mugabe waits to address the United Nations General Assembly. The leader of Zimbabwe reportedly exclaimed 'We are not gay!' as he criticised Western nation's "double standards” and attempts to “prescribe ‘new rights’ that are contrary to our values, norms, traditions and beliefs.” In 2013 he described homosexuals as “worse than pigs, goats and birds.” Reuters * 13/18 28 September 2015 South African comedian Trevor Noah hosts the first 'Daily Show' since taking over from Jon Stewart as host. Stewart had presented the US satirical news show since 1999 and was described by Noah during the show as a 'Political father' 2015 Getty Images * 14/18 25 September 2015 Sir Elton John may have received a phone call from the real Vladimir Putin. Mr Putin's spokesman announced he had made contact weeks after the singer was duped by pranksters pretending to be the Russian President. Getty * 15/18 25 September 2015 Actor Leonardo DiCaprio was mistakenly declared as the artist who produced the Mona Lisa by Fox News anchor Shepard Smith. It was in fact Leonardo da Vinci. * 16/18 24 September 2015 A new biography claims Donald Trump expected to be dead by 40 and never marry. The Guardian says the a new book also claims that in 1980, Mr Trump manufactured a fake vice-president of his real estate conglomerate, whom he called John Baron. * 17/18 24 September 2015 The Dalai Lama has said that Britain's policy towards China is just about 'Money, money, money.' And asked 'Where is morality?' * 18/18 24 September 2015 Puff Daddy secured the number-one spot on the Forbes Hip Hop Cash Kings list, with the publication calculating he made an estimated $60million (£39m) between June 2014 and June 2015. She said Pope Francis was “kind, genuinely caring, and very personable. He even asked me to pray for him.” Davis made headlines for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, sparking a controversy over whether government employees should be given a legal right to refuse service to same sex couples. She was jailed for contempt of court in September after withholding all marriage licenses in 'religious protest' following the national legalisation of same-sex marriage by the US supreme court in June. 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Read our Privacy and Cookies policies to find out more. 1. Voices 2. Comment Is it illegal to have sex with a dead pig? Here's what the law says about the allegations surrounding David Cameron's biography Whether the claims against the PM are true or not, it's an issue worth probing * Myles Jackman * @MylesJackman * Monday 21 September 2015 10:24 BST * David Cameron holds Florence the piglet, one of the two which he donated to Coggs Farm in 2014 David Cameron holds Florence the piglet, one of the two which he donated to Coggs Farm in 2014 David Hartley/REX Shutterstock “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” – George Orwell, Animal Farm Questions of satire, reality and historical anachronism came to mind upon reading yesterday’s revelations about David Cameron. According to a controversial new biography, the Prime Minister inserted a “private part of his anatomy” into a “dead pig’s head” while at Oxford University – an act that was allegedly photographed. Hearing the allegations, I was reminded of "The National Anthem" episode of Black Mirror. In it, the Prime Minister is ransomed into having sex with a live pig on national television. But it also brought to mind some of the more surreal parts of mediaeval law. Under certain laws, animals such as pigs were subjected to criminal trial and execution for infanticide and witchcraft. While these claims about our elected Head of State may well be fallacious, and Lord Ashcroft has said it may be a case of mistaken identity, the legal ramifications deserve probing. Intercourse with an animal According to section 69 of The Sexual Offences Act 2003 a person commits an offence of intercourse with an animal if: * (a)he intentionally performs an act of penetration with his penis, * (b)what is penetrated is the vagina or anus of a living animal. Since the animal in question was not living and nor was its vagina or anus penetrated it would appear no offence could have been committed under the 2003 legislation. Sexual penetration of a corpse According to section 70 of The Sexual Offences Act 2003 a person commits an offence of sexual penetration of a corpse if: * (a) he intentionally performs an act of penetration with a part of his body or anything else, * (b) what is penetrated is a part of the body of a dead person. Since animals are not granted legal personhood at law no offence could have been committed under the 2003 legislation. Outraging Public Decency Outraging public decency is a common law offence, which requires: * 1) An act of a lewd, obscene or disgusting nature which would outrage minimum standards of public decency; * 2) Which is committed in a place accessible to or within view of the public; * 3) In the actual presence of two or more persons, who were capable of seeing it. This would be fact specific, based on the location of the act. Hence were it committed in a restaurant accessible to or within view of the public, and assuming that the colleague and photographer were indeed present, an offence could arise under the common law which would be punishable by unlimited imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine. Possession of an extreme pornographic image According to section 63 of The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, it is an offence for a person to be in possession of an extreme pornographic image of: * 7) (d) a person performing an act of intercourse or oral sex with an animal (whether dead or alive), and a reasonable person looking at the image would think that any such person or animal was real. It is interesting to note that while the act itself is legal, possessing a photograph of it could be a criminal offence attracting up to two years imprisonment. Nonetheless, a defence might exist if it could be argued the image was not pornographic, since: “An image is 'pornographic' if it is of such a nature that it must reasonably be assumed to have been produced solely or principally for the purpose of sexual arousal.” However, according to the Ministry of Justice’s Explanatory Note: “It is not a question of the intentions of those who produced the image. Nor is it a question of the sexual arousal of the defendant.” Therefore, it could be argued that a person might possess such an image for the purposes of satire, political commentary or simple grossness. What can we conclude? Perhaps it is unsurprising, given that animals and cadavers cannot consent, that our Prime Minister voted against the proposal in The Children and Families Bill to teach the value of sexual consent, agency and negotiation in schools. Yet he is in favour of blocking and filtering pornographic images from UK internet service providers. However, David Cameron could be considered fortunate since under European mediaeval law the punishment for bestiality, or offensa cujus nominatio crimen est, was to be put to death along with the animal. 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Read our Privacy and Cookies policies to find out more. 1. News 2. World 3. Europe Eiffel Tower terror alert prompted by three men with backpacks, police source says The tower was closed to visitors on Sunday afternoon after the men were spotted by a police helicopter * Caroline Mortimer * @cjmortimer * Monday 21 September 2015 07:46 BST * French soldiers patrol in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris as the capital was placed under the highest alert status after heavily armed gunmen stormed French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and shot dead at least 12 people in the deadliest attack in F Eiffel Tower Three men spotted carrying backpacks were behind the security alert that saw the Eiffel Tower closed to visitors, according to a police source. The Parisian tourist attraction was shut on Sunday after terror suspects were seen by a police helicopter scaling the 986-foot structure just before 9am local time. A spokesman for the Parisian police told told Le Figaro newspaper they were not ruling out the possibility there were three men involved. The police source said: "There is a strong likelihood that the suspects were able to flee in the morning by parachute before police arrived." Read more * Paris police hunt driver of car that crashed through barricades at Tour de France Hundreds of people were queueing to get into the attraction when they were turned away and a police cordon was set up. It was later reopened at 2pm. France has been on high alert since since the Charlie Hebdo massacre in January when Islamist terrorists murdered 12 people in the offices of the satirical magazine for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. In August, three passengers on a train from Amsterdam to Paris subdued a gunman attempting to open fire. Read more * French prosecutors charge Lyon factory attacker with terrorism and murder A policeman at the site told Agence France Presse the three men could possibly have been extreme sportsmen attempting to parachute off the structure without permission, but that they had to be vigilant. Isis and Al-Qaeda have previously said they would target the Eiffel Tower- which is France’s most popular tourist attraction. So far, no arrests have been made. The Independent has contacted the Parisian police for comment. In pictures: Cities across the world light up landmarks in show of unity with France * * * * * 8 show all In pictures: Cities across the world light up landmarks in show of unity with France * * * * * * * * * 1/8 New York, USA The Empire State Building is lit up in the colors of the French flag to pay tribute to the victims of the shooting by gunmen at the Paris offices of weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in the Manhattan borough of New York * 2/8 London, UK The colours of the French national flag are reflected in the fountains of Trafalgar Square as they are projected in tribute to the Paris terror attacks, on the The National Gallery in London * 3/8 London, UK Tower Bridge is illuminated with the colours of the French Tricolore flag, in support of the victims of recent terrorist attacks in France * 4/8 London, UK The London Eye is alternately lit in the colours of the French national flag in tribute to the 17 people killed in the Paris terror attacks, in London * 5/8 Rome, Italy Rome's city hall (Campidoglio) is lighted with France's colors, blue, white and red in Rome in remembrance of the victims of an attack against Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly which killed 12 people in Paris * 6/8 Berlin, Germany The writing on the facade of the French embassy reads 'Je suis Charlie!' (I am Charlie!) to commemorate the victims of the terrorist attack on French satire magazine 'Charlie Hebdo', during a vigil at the French embassy in Berlin * 7/8 Paris, France A sign on the Arc de Triomphe reads "Paris is Charlie" in solidarity with the victims of the shooting at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris * 8/8 Paris, France As a tribute for the victims of terrorist attack the lights of the Eiffel Tower were turned off for five minutes at 8pm local time, the day after the massacre in Paris * More about: * Paris Comments [i100.png] Most Popular Video Sponsored Features * Follow us: * * * User Policies * Privacy Policy * Cookie Policy * Code of Conduct * Complaint Form * Contact Us * Contributors * All Topics * Archive * Newsletters * iJobs * Subscriptions * Advertising Guide * Syndication * Evening Standard * Novaya Gazeta * Install our Apps [p?c1=2&c2=10476312&cv=2.0&cj=1] -- #alternate spotlight * * Place an advert * Buy a photo * Local Projects * Plus Rewards * Puzzles * Like us * Follow us Login Register Nottingham Post [] ° (*) Site ( ) Directory ____________________Search Phrase (BUTTON) * * News * Sport * What's On * Jobs * Property * Cars * Directory * Offers * Notices * Buy&Sell * Dating * Subscribe * ALL * Crime * Emergency Services * Transport * Health * Politics * Business * Education * Jobs * Shopping * Trending * Nottingham Post Good Deeds * I Believe In Miracles Columnist Richard Baker: Has Nottinghamshire forgotten Charlie Hebdo already? By Nottingham Post | Posted: January 26, 2015 Jazz musician Gilad Atzmon says he wasn't coming to Arnold to talk Jewish politics but to play the sax and clarinet. Jazz musician Gilad Atzmon says he wasn't coming to Arnold to talk Jewish politics but to play the sax and clarinet. Columnist Richard Baker: Has Nottinghamshire forgotten Charlie Hebdo already? (BUTTON) X * Share Tweet Share Pin It Email ____________________ Copy link to paste in your message / * [9380739.jpg] Jazz musician Gilad Atzmon says he wasn't coming to Arnold to talk Jewish politics but to play the sax and clarinet. * [9380739-thumb.jpg] * Six caravans pitch up as travellers move onto Nottingham Business Park Six caravans pitch up as travellers move onto Nottingham... 1 * Arnold teenage missing from home Arnold teenage missing from home 1 * Nottingham volunteer claims he was physically abused by the Israeli military Nottingham volunteer claims he was physically abused by the... 1 Comments (1) THE rights and wrongs of free expression can sometimes seem so complicated that we tie ourselves in knots. Yet a couple of weeks ago they became crystal clear. No matter what offence the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo had or hadn't caused it should never have been censored with a machine gun. You may not agree with its portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad, but the right to poke fun at religion and the right to question belief in the same way that we do politics is well-established in Western society. You don't have to agree with what someone says – you don't even have to listen – but it's wrong to muzzle them. Indeed, how would people be able to question a point of view if they didn't know it existed? Despite that blinding clarity, two organisations in Notts have travelled back in time, put their censorious hats on, and closed the door on discussion in a pretty depressing way. Related content * Six caravans pitch up as travellers move onto Nottingham Business Park * Arnold teenage missing from home * Nottingham volunteer claims he was physically abused by the Israeli military At Nottingham Trent University, the Students Union initially voted to ban an organisation which would have supported UKIP. In Gedling, the Borough Council banned a performance by a Jewish musician after a letter from 13 people protested against things he'd said. In Trent's case, we'll have to pass over the reasons why as the Students Union refused to explain them (an irony in itself) before later changing its mind. Gedling Borough Council was more explicit – though it was short on detail about the 13 people whose views determined that Gilad Atzmon shouldn't be heard on publicly-owned property. Atzmon says he wasn't coming to Arnold to talk Jewish politics but to play the sax and clarinet. He does that pretty well by all accounts, having performed with a few people who do find it possible to share a stage with him: Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams and Sinead O'Connor, for example. It's difficult to see what the Trent Students Union or Gedling Borough Council thought would be achieved by banning UKIP or a saxophonist. Not giving them a stage doesn't make their views go away. In the case of UKIP, a ban was likely to fuel the suspicions of supporters that politics' usual suspects were trying to keep them out. The union revealed a U-turn a day later. Gedling says it has a "responsibility to build and maintain good community relations, including between people of different races and religions" and that allowing Atzmon to perform was "inconsistent" with that. Yet its decision risks being seen as the exact opposite. Those who disapprove of what he says don't have to listen. In allowing him to play a sax on stage the council wouldn't be condoning whatever views he holds. In banning him, it has acted like an archaic official censor. There's a magazine which would have had an awful lot of fun with decisions such as these. Some of its people even died for the right to do so. 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Leave your comment here... max 4000 characters submit Comments * Newest * Oldest * Best Rated * Profile image for jeaniebarton jeaniebarton | February 03 2015, 11:09AM I am sad and frustrated to report that last night's talk where Gilad invited those who have issues with his politics to discuss them with him at the Canalhouse Pub on Canal Street was cancelled last minute by the venue who were so afraid of possible 'trouble' that they shut entirely to protect customers and staff. Now I was told after a good 30 minutes of trying to find out what had happened that the talk had moved to the Salutation - anyone know anyone who made it there? This extreme fear of discussing the issues around Israel and Palestine terrifies me - who are these people to be so intimidating in the face of questioning? The power to shut a pub though fear of free speech? And after cancelling a jazz gig at a council run theatre? This is indeed some terrible bullying... 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"Every time I got a bruise or a broken tooth, rather than get the nurse in, it was, 'Get the cameras in, so we can show you're going through it!'" recalls the 54-year-old. That's because in his latest incarnation, the man known to millions as Mr Darcy, from both the Pride And Prejudice TV series and Bridget Jones movies, has turned action spy and martial arts expert, in the comic book adaptation Kingsman: The Secret Service. "When we were shooting it, the stunt guy would say, 'Let's get the B-roll in to film some of this, because nobody's going to believe it'." Related content * Film review: The Gambler (15) * Film review: A Most Violent Year (15) * Film review: Ex Machina (15) * Film review: American Sniper (15) * Film review: Trash (15) * Film review: The Interview (15) * Film review: Selma (12A) * Film review: Shaun The Sheep Movie (U) Firth, looking handsome in a dark suit and black-rimmed glasses, couldn't believe it either, and is more than aware that his many fans will see it as an unexpected role. "It was unexpected for me too, but it sparked my interest immediately because of that," admits the Hampshire-born actor, who was already intrigued by the director Matthew Vaughn, who also helmed Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class. "I think he's a one-off. There was no script yet, it was a work in progress and he wasn't ready to show it to me, so I just went to hear what he had to say and I found him very compelling," reveals Firth, who was Oscar nominated for Tom Ford's A Single Man in 2010, and walked away with the gold statuette for The King's Speech the following year. "Something in me just went, 'Why not?' It's so unusual for me, that it seemed silly not to take a chance." Early on, Vaughn was "full of dire warning" of the extent of training he'd be required to do. "And how much it would hurt and how much I was going to hate him by the end of it, and was I up for that," Firth adds. "It was three hours a day for about six months, and started off in my back garden with a squat, lunge and somersaults, and then the choreography kicked in. I was learning to use parts of my body that I'd never used - I didn't even know they existed. It was painful, but I warmed to it and found it exhilarating," he continues. "This wasn't the stuff I was doing when I was young. I wasn't one of the more athletic drama students. My recreation was a lot more sedate in my youth, so it was a chance in my 50s to do something completely different, and go into a bit of a physical world for a while." Bar one stunt, involving a rig, it's all Firth on screen. "I said that to somebody, and they looked at me with horrified disappointment that I would tell people such an egregious lie," he notes, smiling. "One of the reasons I feel so driven to tell people, is that I won't have gone through all that pain for nothing." The effort definitely paid off. Not only did Livia, his Italian wife of 17 years, appreciate her newly honed husband ("It got noticed!" he confesses, laughing), but he looks a natural in the role of Harry, an impeccably suave spy and member of the secret organisation, known as Kingsman. Harry recruits street kid Eggsy, played by newcomer Taron Egerton, and trains him up just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius, brought to life by Samuel L. Jackson. A pastiche of the spy movies we all know and love, Firth acknowledges there's a lot of violence - but "it's wildly implausible". "It's like a provocative pantomime, and in some ways I think it's sending up the extremity. I can't imagine how anyone would emulate it, because you'd need to be trained to do that stuff. It's closer to what you get in Monty Python, than it is to the realistic films about the Middle East." He hasn't decided whether he'll allow his two sons - Luca, 13 and Matteo, 11 - to watch it (he also has a 24-year-old son from a previous relationship with actress Meg Tilly). "I'm not going to publicly recommend this to anyone under 15. But it's different, because my children saw me train, and went to set and saw me backstage and saw me in the workplace, so they have a very different perspective." And whether or not people believe it to be gratuitously violent is "a valid conversation" to be had, Firth adds. "There are fights in Punch And Judy and Shakespeare, and there's violence in war films and zombie films. There's violence of all types, and unless you believe they should be extracted from all storytelling, then it has to become a conversation about where your own threshold is," he remarks. "Whatever that threshold is, Matthew likes to go towards the edge of it, and sit there and be provocative and outrageous but without, I think, any intention to horrify. I think the violence in it is comic in tone, satirical and completely silly." There'll be action of a different sort, when Firth starts filming Deep Water with The Theory Of Everything's director James Marsh this spring. "It's about Donald Crowhurst, who was a participant in the round the world yacht race in 1968," he explains. "But nothing's ever set in stone until it's ready to go." Genius, on the other hand, a chronicle in which he plays Max Perkins, the book editor at renowned publisher Scribner, who oversaw works by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, is in the can. The movie marks his third collaboration with Nicole Kidman, following The Railway Man and Before I Go Sleep. He grins when asked if they'll work together again. "Inevitably," Firth replies. "I think we'll go for the multiple box-sets." 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(BUTTON) X * Share Tweet Share Pin It Email ____________________ Copy link to paste in your message / * [9748262.jpg] Guest speakers Kerry Young Srephen Booth and Maureen Duffy at the Writers Conference * [9748262-thumb.jpg] * Nottingham literature fans to launch international online book group Nottingham literature fans to launch international online... 1 * World Book Day: Fancy dress and free reads for thousands of Nottingham pupils World Book Day: Fancy dress and free reads for thousands of... 1 Comments (0) Aspiring and part-time authors were inspired by well-known novelists at an annual writers conference in Nottingham. Guests at the University of Nottingham's Portland Building could pick from a number of talks including how to get agents, self-censorship and writing satire. Organisers from Writing East Midlands said the wealth of talent on show and creative zest in the audience backed up Nottingham's bid for the title of City of Literature. Among the visitors was Christy Fearn, who in the process of writing her second novel based around the Luddites. Related content * Nottingham literature fans to launch international online book group * World Book Day: Fancy dress and free reads for thousands of Nottingham pupils * Former Nottingham beauty queen nominated for national book prize * Children become published authors for first time The author of Framed, who is also a member of the Nottingham Writers' Studio, said: "I've been in a really interesting talk about satire. My books are dark, but do have a humorous undertone and I wanted to create more laughs in my next book." Christy, who's day job is a costume interpreter at Nottingham's crime and punishment museum the Galleries of Justice, has used her historical knowledge as inspiration for her books. "Framed is based on the Luddite movement and features Lord Byron, who is my hero," said Christy, 45, who lives in central Nottingham and has a tattoo of Newstead Abbey's well-known gentleman lothario. "For authors looking to get published, this conference offers a real chance to share ideas with people in a similar position and get tips from writers who have made the leap into full-time." Among the key note speakers was veteran novelist, poet and playwright Maureen Duffy, who gave a talk on self-censorship. She said: "We all self-censor all the time when we decide what our characters say and the writers here now all know they are doing it. "If we have the right to offend then others have the right to be offended. People know this sub consciously and will tweak what they write accordingly." As a friend of Alan Sillitoe before he passed away, Maureen backed Nottingham's bid for the City of Literature title. "There's a great deal going on," she said. "That's what we are celebrating today. I used to baby sit for Alan. He would be proud if the city was given the title." Stephen Booth, the Laxton-based author of detective series Cooper and Fry, explained how he swapped his life as a local news reporter to become a full-time novelist. "I had always kept up my writing and knew it was what I wanted to do," he said. "Sometimes you need that fear factor, that belief in themselves to put it all on the page and that's what we are hoping people will take from this conference." Stephen, who has written 15 novels and is on the board of Writing East Midlands, said the city deserved the City of Literature award. 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The ambitious project, "knitted together" by New Perspectives' artistic director Jack McNamara was unveiled as part of the theatre's 150th anniversary plans at a launch party today. Hosted by pantomime veteran Christopher Biggins - ahead of his star turn in this year's panto Aladdin - 100 guests from the city's creative community were invited to toast the theatre's stone-breaking anniversary - just six months before its official 'birthday' on September 25.. Related content * Celebrity visitors to Nottingham through the decades * Christopher Biggins and Simon Webbe to star in Nottingham's Theatre Royal 2015 Aladdin pantomime * The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time makes its Nottingham debut next week * Soap stars to tread the boards in stage adaptation of novel Dead Simple, at Nottingham Theatre Royal * Opera North week-long visit to Nottingham will bring tales of infidelity, suicide and incest * Review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Theatre Royal * Theatre Royal announces trio of 'birthday' shows to celebrate 150th anniversary * Waterloo Road's grumpy Grantly is Mansfield panto baddie McNamara told the Post it was a huge honour to be involved in the landmark celebration. He said: "I was determined that the theatre's 150th anniversary should be marked by something tangible, something creative and lasting. "We were tasked to look at the Robin Hood myth again but to use seven writers. "So the challenge to me was how do I make it so that seven different writers have six different worlds in this story. "So what we did was to give each of them a rough period and they responded to that in their own way. "I've had to knit them together, coming in and out of different centuries, its not really a time travelling piece but in a way the audience are time travelling "We are looking at how would the robin hood legend change through the period of the Theatre Royal. "Anyone who thinks Robin Hood is all about archery and green tights will be in for a big surprise." HOOD - The Legend Continues will run from Thursday September 17 to 26 and tickets went on sale yesterday. The anniversary celebrations will also include a surprise golden ticket giveway, where 150 prizes worth £3,000 will be hidden in programmes, underseats and in audience members' popcorn, maybe not, as well as a very special theatrical return - Sheridan's comedy The School for Scandal, which was the first play ever to have the curtain rise at the Theatre Royal. The satire on London society has a cast of 21 community actors ranging in age from 19 to a "very young" 75. Students from Nottingham Trent University are making the costumes for the production which will utilise the whole theatre to an audience of 75 people at a time. Biggins, who was in the city fresh from an evening at London's Claridges celebrating Joan Collins Damehood, said the script made for a "great play" which was "very today" and almost "Twitter-ish Speaking about "one of the greatest theatre's in the country" Biggins said: "Oh, it's wonderful. It's spectacular that we still have this magnificent Matcham theatre. I think what they did when they redeveloped it all was wonderful. They put the heart of the theatre into this modern complex and it has worked so successfully. "There's 1,100 seats in this theatre and everyone you feel you can touch. It has an amazing intimacy, you know it doesn't feel like a huge theatre when you are standing on that stage. It's wonderful, simply wonderful." Robert Sanderson, Managing director of the Theatre Royal, said "We have chosen this particular day to launch our anniversary plans as it is 150 years exactly since building work started on the Theatre Royal in 1865. It is a very great privilege to be part of such a special occasion as a 150th anniversary. My team and I want to do everything we can to involve as many people as possible with these celebrations. This wonderful theatre, our Theatre Royal, is one of the most beautiful and well-regarded theatres in the country. 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In the Instagram photo, the millionaire is smiling with one hand on the gun and another on the animal's horns. It is not clear if the animal is dead or alive. The ram is the mascot and nickname of Forest's main rivals, Derby County. Related content * Nottingham Forest 3 Aston Villa 3: Jamie Ward helps win over critics after move from Derby * Daniel Pinillos has 'hunger and desire' Nottingham Forest boss seeking in new additions Forest and Derby next face-off at the City Ground on Friday, November 6. The picture was posted on Fawaz's account on Friday, July 31, the same day Fawaz also posted another picture of himself with a rifle and a stag. The stag is lying on a dirt path. Fawaz, who has more than 14,000 followers on Instagram, has been contacted by the Post to for a comment in relation to the photo. * * Report this article Read more from Nottingham Post * Most Recent * Most Commented * Most Read * Thumbnail image Mobile speed camera locations across Nottinghamshire for week... * Thumbnail image 30 staff leave struggling school in last 8 months * Thumbnail image Indoor gardens, TV screen panels and cooktop extractors coming to... * Thumbnail image Call to bring back Nottingham's tram conductors - as 121 people... * Thumbnail image Bosses say drops in Nottingham tram performance were 'expected' * Thumbnail image Djanogly City Academy student wet herself – because teacher... * Default image £250 million revamp of intu Broadmarsh area to start Friday - but brace yourself for... * Default image ‘Flash in the sky’ filmed above Nottinghamshire road – what was it? * Default image Spooky lights spotted in abandoned Sneinton tower block Do you have something to say? Leave your comment here... max 4000 characters submit 10 comments * Newest * Oldest * Best Rated * Profile image for tonynottm69 tonynottm69 | August 02 2015, 7:52PM The band wagon is in town and far toooooooo many climb aboard. | -6 Report * Profile image for Kettleband Kettleband | August 02 2015, 3:47PM It is not clear if the animal is dead If it wasn't then Fawaz would be in trouble. It could easily kill a man. | -6 Report * Profile image for Kettleband Kettleband | August 02 2015, 3:41PM Why are people so easily offended? Do they deliberately go out looking for some grievance? Fawaz likes hunting and he does so legally. He also posted a picture of a stag so the ram had nothing to do with Derby. You know what you can do with the animals after shooting them? You can eat them. It's more humane than all of the moaners here buying their meat from a supermarket. | -5 Report * Profile image for Surrey Surrey | August 02 2015, 1:35PM What is Fawaz thinking? No doubt thought it was funny to incite the Derby fans by this ill advised gaff. I really think the people of Nottingham (excluding some of the blind faithful) have had enough of this joker. Full of false promises, and what has he done? Reduced Forest to a club that can't even pay its bills. FFP has actually saved us from being in a worse mess. I don't see any solution, as this guy is going to want is 'loans' back before he leaves, and no one is going to buy Forest in its current state. Fawaz has reduced this once proud club into an embarrassment. Rant over. | 13 Report * Profile image for rogerbourne rogerbourne | August 02 2015, 12:51PM The attention seeking idiot decided to post this in the last 2 days on his Instagram. So irrelevant how old the photo is. Why doctor think he did that. In wake of Cecil lion incident he just likes garnering attention. Just like his infamous portrait with Clough. | 10 Report * Profile image for bomdia bomdia | August 02 2015, 12:46PM At least the 'Lost That Loving feeling' web site satire on the picture has some humour to it.If Fawaz has actually posted this (presumably in an attempt at humour) it shows yet again his desperate need for a CEO ,or equivalent,who can curb his ill advised,even if well intentioned,forays into the realms of social media. As it is,he seems determined to lurch from one embarrassment to another.Unfortunately,it's our image as a club that gets tarnished by association. If he's not actually posted the picture,the sooner clarification of the fact,the better | 11 Report * Profile image for andyp74 andyp74 | August 02 2015, 11:17AM An embarrassment to Nottingham Forest Football club | -4 Report * Profile image for andyp74 andyp74 | August 02 2015, 11:16AM An embarrassment the nottingham Forest football club | -3 Report * Profile image for trickygaz trickygaz | August 02 2015, 10:37AM The timing of this so soon after the "Cecil" incident just confirms the judgement of the man. | 7 Report * Profile image for philm philm | August 02 2015, 10:27AM One word Charlie boy: Munto | 4 Report YOUR COMMENTS AWAITING MODERATION Voucher Deals * Voucher Deal Image 25% OFF ALL ONLINE ORDER... Take Away Meal Outlets Print voucher * Voucher Deal Image SMOOTH MOVES - Letting... Letting Agents Print voucher * Voucher Deal Image January SALE!!! Garden Design Print voucher * Voucher Deal Image 10% Discount off the... 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To celebrate the 150^th anniversary of the opening of the Theatre Royal director David Longford, has come up with the very first play performed there, The School for Scandal. Done with verve, flare and originality, the production is a treat. The audience doesn't just get to experience the play. Since this is a promenade production, we're treated to what amounts to a tour of the Royal, backstage and downstairs. The scenes are set at different locations in the place, the final one being the stage itself, with the audience seated facing the splendid auditorium. Sheridan's play is a satirical but strident critique of the outrageous immorality and gossip culture prevailing in 1770s London society, and the text positively bites. But there are some elements of farce – the freely-clad wife hiding behind a bedroom screen, the eavesdropping husband behind a door, the loaded uncle dropping in on his dissolute nephew, and so on. It's a beautifully crafted comedy, and very funny. Related content * Theatre Royal 150th anniversary: The School for Scandal kicks off celebrations * Robert Powell to play Prince Charles in Theatre Royal prodcution * Talking Heads at Nottingham's Theatre Royal: Review * The Office star Ewen 'Big Keith' MacIntosh talks watching Forest, drinks at The Bell and Robin Hood * New breed of WIs aim for another 100 years * Paul Chowdhry at Nottingham's Glee Club: Review * I'm Not From London celebrates 10th anniversary with new Nottingham festival Nearly all the performances are accomplished, possibly for non-artistic, practical reasons, many of the male characters being played, convincingly, by women. Joseph Surface, for instance, the scheming and lascivious brother of Charles (Madison Wales), the upstanding one, is done with tremendous aplomb by Charlie Osborne. Mik Horvath is too young for the decent and un-corrupt, middle-aged Sir Peter Teazle but he acts his way out of the problem. The way he frequently repeats a word to give it new emphasis is subtly comic and realistic. Victoria Murphy is terrific as Lady Teazle, his frivolous and fun-loving but basically loyal new and much younger wife. Deborah Porter-Walker is a horribly compelling Lady Sneerwell, the hostess of regular afternoon gossip-shops set up to destroy reputations. And Jane Robertson is the loyal Mistress Rowley, the most intelligent person in the play. Three weirdly playful clowns (Mercedes Assad, Nikki Disney and Kayleigh Phillips) function in the servant parts, often all three playing one character simultaneously. They also step out of the action proper to shepherd the audience about. The excellent Master of Ceremonies is Longford, playing Walter Montgomery, who directed the original production in 1865. Much of the material in his, to modern ears, comically pompous lines is taken straight from those spoken by Montgomery himself. Costumes and wigs, designed and made by students and staff at Nottingham Trent University, and loosely and wackily based on the 18^th century, are fun, as is the live music. What with the play itself, and the built-in theatre tour – plus a Buck's Fizz on the house – this isn't simply high entertainment: it's a fascinating experience. And knowing that you're helping to recreate history where it happened makes it a moving one as well. 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Julie Scarle: Jokes about disability are fine, within limits (BUTTON) X * Share Tweet Share Pin It Email ____________________ Copy link to paste in your message / * [9349620.jpg] Should we make a joke about blind people doing a parachute jump? * [9349620-thumb.jpg] * Ashley Carter: We can't pick and choose what's offensive Ashley Carter: We can't pick and choose what's offensive 1 * Julie Scarle: Why I'll be bored and fed up this Christmas Julie Scarle: Why I'll be bored and fed up this Christmas 1 * Julie Scarle: Online shopping is tricky but worthwhile Julie Scarle: Online shopping is tricky but worthwhile 1 Comments (0) Is it ever okay to tell offensive jokes? Julie Scarle from Radford says it can be, but not if it deepens divisions. Question: How does a blind skydiver know when to open his parachute? Answer: His dog’s lead goes slack. I first heard this joke told by our charity’s President, Len Jackson OBE, at a packed My Sight Nottinghamshire Annual General Meeting. The audience was full of visually impaired people and their guide dogs, and the joke brought the house down, generating howls of laughter from the audience. Related content * Ashley Carter: We can't pick and choose what's offensive * Julie Scarle: Why I'll be bored and fed up this Christmas * Julie Scarle: Online shopping is tricky but worthwhile * Julie Scarle: Firewalk gave me reason to believe * Julie Scarle: Lots of people out there need help like Alan Barnes * Nottingham students taught how to spot terrorists * Julie Scarle: Without funds the future is bleak for blind people * Julie Scarle: We need to make voting more accessible Over the last few weeks I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about humour and why some jokes are acceptable to minority groups, such as disabled people, while others I’ve heard are simply extremely hurtful and offensive. The joke told by Len was funny because it didn’t in any way incite discrimination or hatred of blind people. When you hear the joke, you think the blind protagonist is quite a brave soul to go skydiving when he can’t see; it’s a story that pokes fun but if anything it encourages admiration of the blind man and his courage in the face of his disability. But when satire and humour is used to incite discrimination or hatred of a minority race, religion or disability, then it crosses a line of what is acceptable and what isn’t. As someone who writes this opinion column regularly, I more than most fully uphold the right to free speech; which includes the right to poke fun from time to time, but with the right to freedom of speech surely also comes responsibility to use this freedom wisely and sensitively. Just because I have the right to speak freely doesn’t mean I should use that right to incite hatred and deepen divisions in the community in which I live. Jokes that portray blind people as stupid and deserving of ridicule on the grounds of their disability are, in my view, highly offensive. They foster ignorance and stupidity, causing real hurt. These jokes are just not funny and serve no purpose other to cause hurt, misunderstanding and division. So, as someone who is blind, do I think it’s okay to make blind jokes? Yes, I think humour can be used to great effect to create better understanding, break down barriers and make difficult subjects like disability, race and religion easier to understand. I do, however, strongly believe that humour and satire need to be deployed sensitively and carefully. Any humour that encourages hatred of minority groups and deepens the divisions in our society leading to a lack of understanding is not only offensive but destructive and dangerous too. It causes distress and pain to individuals and helps to foster intolerance, making it difficult for communities to live in peace together, risking the destruction of those very freedoms we hold dear. The rights we enjoy walk hand-in-hand with responsibility, sensitivity and kindness – otherwise we are as bullying, barbaric and ruthless as those who are trying to remove our freedoms from us by censure and even terror. 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Nottingham author Eve Makis talks about her latest novel (BUTTON) X * Share Tweet Share Pin It Email ____________________ Copy link to paste in your message / * [9972726.jpg] Novelist Eve Makis. * [9972726-thumb.jpg] * Mobile speed camera locations across Nottinghamshire for week... Mobile speed camera locations across Nottinghamshire for... 1 * 30 staff leave struggling school in last 8 months 30 staff leave struggling school in last 8 months 1 Comments (0) With the publication of her latest novel, a feature film on the way and a teenage daughter through to the live semi-finals finals of The Voice in Greece, life is a whirlwind for writer Eve Makis. After her first book Eat, Drink and Be Married was snapped up by publishers to fill a gap in the market for Greek Cypriot fiction, Eve, of West Bridgford, has penned a further three novels. Until now her books have had a strong focus on a culture she is familiar with but for her latest, The Spice Box Letters, she set out to explore a minority community living in Cyprus. As a result, the stirring story of a fractured family shines light on the 1915 Armenian genocide in which up to 1.5m people are believed to have perished. But Eve never set out to write about the tragedy. The mum-of-two explains: "I had a loose plot for a story. I decided to explore one of the minority communities in Cyprus and decided to make my characters Armenian – that was the starting point. "In order to get to know my characters I had to research their history. How had they come to Cyprus? That's when I discovered they'd been expelled from Eastern Turkey, and the tragedy of 1915. "I interviewed the relatives of survivors, I researched on the internet, I read around the subjects, lots of books, not just history books but books about Armenian folk law and listened to Armenian music. "I tried to get a three dimensional picture of the culture as well as the history that just wasn't research into the events of 1915 but reading around the subject and the culture as well." Eve, a former journalist in London and Cyprus, talked to an elderly woman called Azniv Baladouni and well-known artist Vartan Tashdjian. "Their families were expelled from Eastern Turkey in 1915 and some of their family stories have made their way into the book," says Eve, whose Greek Cypriot parents ran a fish and chip shop in Radford after coming to the UK in the 1960s. The Spice Box Letters is a tragic yet humorous and romantic tale of a young woman's emotional journey to piece together her family history after inheriting her grandmother's spice box containing letters and a diary written in Armenian. Eve's cultural references make a big play on food, likely to leave readers with hunger pangs at the thought of shoulder of lamb flavoured with smoked paprika, bulgar wheat pilaf, paklava and sweet mint tea. Eve, who teaches creative writing part-time at the University of Nottingham, explains: "I think food is a massive cultural identifier. That's why it's important, when you describe a culture, food is quite prominent. "Food is also a connection to the past. In the book there is the granddaughter missing the flavours she associates with her grandmother. "It's not food as in just food – it's being part of your history, shaping you. That's why I have made so many references to food. "I do happen to love food. I like reading about food. It paints a picture of eastern flavours. When I've spoken to people that's what they refer to, that's what stands out, that's what they can relate to...that association of that food rather than something you just fill your stomach with." While promoting her latest novel, plans are moving forward for book number three, Land of the Golden Apple, to be turned into a feature film. It will be shown in cinemas in Greece but Eve hopes that it will reach the foreign film circuit so UK movie-goers can see it. "It's being filmed in July. I wanted it in English but it has been translated into Greek. We did um and ah whether it should be in English or Greek but for authenticity's sake it had to be in Greek. "There are some very well known Greek and Cypriot actors but they wouldn't be well known here. I don't know them either, so sorry I can't name drop," says Eve, who is set to fly out for the filming. Before that her daughter Emily, 16, had been due to fly out at the end of this month for the Greek version of The Voice. She had got through to the semi-finals but sadly the talented young singer has pulled out because of a clash with her AS Level exams. "She doesn't want to miss a year of school," says her mum. Eve and husband Tasos, who used to play for the national football team in Cyprus and now teaches tactics and technique online, also have a seven-year-old son George. It was Emily's birth 16 years ago that convinced Eve it was the right time to quit her job as a journalist and write a novel. Bringing up a young child, it took four years to complete Eat, Drink and Be Married, about a Nottingham teenager who dreams of swapping life behind the counter of the family chippy for a university degree. Just three chapters were enough to wow publishers. Instead of the rejection letter she was expecting came a request for the complete manuscript. Mirroring her own strict upbringing as a teenager and parental opposition to her wanting to leave home and study rather than snaring a good Greek husband, Eve says: "It was a write what you know book. It was very much based on my life but also on my generation. "It's water under the bridge now. I thank them now as it gave me something to write about. "When I started writing that book it was a bitter tirade against what I'd been through. "But when I explored my culture and how my parents had come to England and the sacrifices they had made I began to understand why the way they were. That's when the book turned into more of a satire rather than something that was a criticism of what I'd been through." The Spice Box Letters, Sandstone Press, £8.99. 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Nigel Kirk: Still a big market for Bryronic artefacts (BUTTON) X * Share Tweet Share Pin It Email ____________________ Copy link to paste in your message / * [10166317.jpg] The sculpture of Haidee, from Byron's Don Juan, that is being sold by Mellors & Kirk. * [10166317-thumb.jpg] * Nigel Kirk: Brough cars were superbly elegant Nigel Kirk: Brough cars were superbly elegant 2 * Nigel Kirk: Nottingham Coroner’s seal is a rare piece of history Nigel Kirk: Nottingham Coroner's seal is a rare piece of... 1 * Nigel Kirk: Why Hugh Browne’s letters are a hoot Nigel Kirk: Why Hugh Browne's letters are a hoot 1 Comments (0) A marble bust of Byron's Haidee has been discovered near Newstead Abbey. Auctioneer Nigel Kirk has researched its fascinating inspiration. Lord Byron's eventful life can never be far from one's thoughts when reading his works. Another genius, Oscar Wilde, in one of his most famous observations, tells us that "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life." This superb 19th century life sized marble bust is of great interest because it is of Byron's most beautiful female character, Haidee from Don Juan. She is described in the poem as "nature's bride" and she discovered the shipwrecked Don Juan asleep on an island. Byron was not exactly on my mind on the day of house visits throughout north Nottinghamshire in the torrential rain a few weeks ago. On ringing a doorbell the lady and gentleman of the house directed me to their garage. There at the back, in the gloom, was this bust, another of a roman emperor, and a pair of magnificent statuary pedestals, all of sculpted marble. Related content * Nigel Kirk: Brough cars were superbly elegant * Nigel Kirk: Nottingham Coroner’s seal is a rare piece of history * Nigel Kirk: Why Hugh Browne’s letters are a hoot * Nigel Kirk: Bell is a piece of history from Nottingham’s famous lido * Nigel Kirk: Why Victorian art is a good buy right now * Fear of Lord Byron's influence pushed Ada Lovelace into world of science * Nigel Kirk: The orphan who became a memorable Nottingham painter * Nigel Kirk: Artefacts staying in Nottingham after recent auction I went on to discover that the family had lived at Papplewick – quite near to Newstead Abbey – in the 1920s and the owner had 'rescued' both busts and pedestals some years ago from the by then very overgrown garden. Back at the auction house I gently cleaned away the surface dirt and discovered the sculptor's signature. Haidee was carved in Rome by Angelo Bienaime in 1860. The bust could have been sent to England for exhibition and sale, or bought by a well-heeled Byron enthusiast directly from Bienaime's studio. Byron's great mock-epic, satiric poem both shocked and fascinated his readers. He began writing it in 1818 and after 16 cantos left it unfinished at his death in 1823. Unlike the womaniser who was his namesake, Don Juan is the passive recipient of the charms of a series of powerful women. It is the female sexuality and aspects of eroticism that so scandalised polite society. But it wasn't just that; Byron has starving sailors resorting to cannibalism, a theme exactly as depicted in Delacroix's masterpiece The Raft of the Medusa, which was painted at the same time. Haidee and Juan are parted when her father sells him into slavery. She leaves the scene, but for him the action's just beginning – an event from which Byron makes a brilliant allusion to the contemporary 'enslavement' of the Greeks. Throughout the poem there are parallels with Byron's own life and he also took the opportunity to lampoon the lake poets, Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge. How extraordinary it is that poets of such brilliance as Byron, Keats and Shelley, and a host of others writers , philosophers, composers and artists should all appear on the world's stage at the same time. No wonder the profound influence of the Romantics has inspired countless others for more than 200 years. After more than 100 years of atmospheric pollution it is not surprising that Haidee does not look at her best, but I think that this marble bust will respond well to expert conservation. It will be sold by Mellors & Kirk on June 12 and is estimated at between £1,500 and £2,000. Byronic material is highly sought after by collectors worldwide so it will be interesting to see what will be its next destination. 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(BUTTON) X * Share Tweet Share Pin It Email ____________________ Copy link to paste in your message / * [10253000.jpg] "He's an absolute legend, Vernon Coaker, and I'd like to see him get a more senior role in the party really,"... * [10253000-thumb.jpg] * Review: Stewart Francis, Nottingham Playhouse Review: Stewart Francis, Nottingham Playhouse 1 * Review: Dara O Briain, Royal Concert Hall Review: Dara O Briain, Royal Concert Hall 1 * Interview: Mock The Week's 'pun gent' Stewart Francis Interview: Mock The Week's 'pun gent' Stewart Francis 1 Comments (0) Matt Forde helps starts the new series of Mock The Week tonight; Rachel Gorman talks to the local comedian and broadcaster Politicians beware, satirical sharp-wit Matt Forde is tough on politics, tough on the causes of politics. This summer, the 32-year-old, who grew up in Sneinton, will be returning to Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his brand new stand-up show Get the Political Party Started – which pulls apart (as Matt phrases it) "the idiots who govern us and the idiots who tried to win the election". "I'm taking the mickey out of everyone really," the former Labour Party adviser confirms with a chuckle. Related content * Review: Stewart Francis, Nottingham Playhouse * Review: Dara O Briain, Royal Concert Hall * Interview: Mock The Week's 'pun gent' Stewart Francis * Dara O'Briain talks selfies, Mock The Week and Nottingham pub crawls ahead of Royal Concert Hall gig * What time is TFI Friday on tonight? * International comedy stars add Nottingham date to UK tour * Nottingham comedian Matt Forde will join Elton John and Kylie for the Royal Variety Performance "The usual ones get some stick, like UKIP, but there are some new kids on the block now like the SNP and the Greens, so I take the mickey out of them as well." It's probably fair to assume Matt will have a fair few truth bombs in his arsenal following the recent general election. On the night itself, the 8 Out Of Ten Cats writer was hooked on the gripping count results. "I had a night out and I went to a couple of things near Parliament and then me and a mate watched it on a big screen, drinking all night. "I loved it. It was such a dramatic night. It's quite brutal but it's quite cool seeing such big names lose their seats. It's a bit like a World Cup." As part of his monthly live show, The Political Party with Matt Forde, [available on soundcloud] Matt has interviewed the likes of Nigel Farage, George Galloway and David Lammy. "I think it's good to have a grounding in politics and have more of an understanding – other than just 'doesn't this guy look funny?' Even though a lot of them do. "I meet a lot of them and I think it's not always about ideology. There are some people that are just very likeable. "Vernon Coaker in Gedling is one of the soundest people you are ever going to meet in your life. He's an absolute legend, Vernon Coaker, and I'd like to see him get a more senior role in the party really. "But in terms of personalities Farage is just the most hilarious man in politics. No one wants to be disengaged and I think having big personalities helps. I'm always fascinated with the how and why people got into politics and what is their view of the world." An admirer of Charles Kennedy, Matt says the former Liberal Democrat leader's death had "a tragic inevitability about it really". "He obviously died far too young and it's tragic because he was such a thoroughly decent person, but he was clearly struggling for a very long time with his health. He was a sweet man and you don't get many political figures, particularly party leaders, like that. "He had a niche all of his own to be quite honest; decency, honesty, intelligence and wit. I don't think there's anyone else out there like him really." Tonight, Matt can be seen on BBC2 as the new series of Mock The Week kicks off, but the former Becket School pupil says he won't be watching. "I'll be gigging so I won't be able to watch it live, but I don't tend to watch myself on TV. Or I do, but only watch bits of it later. "You start thinking 'oh god I'm fat' and stuff like that. It's not good for you. I guess the closest thing I can compare it to is that nobody likes the sound of their own voice on a tape." One thing he does like (and even miss) is his home town. "My family is still in Nottingham and all my mates. I try to come back for Forest games when I can. And I want to come back for Goose Fair, I love it. I really miss it; I really miss Nottingham. London has never filled that hole in the same way that Nottingham does. "And I really miss the accent. It's quite a quirky place Nottingham, which you don't really realise until you move." Mock The Week, tonight, BBC2, 10pm. 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No wonder we so often feel as if we are trapped in some surreal episode of The Thick Of It Tim Stanley By Tim Stanley 8:47AM BST 08 Apr 2015 Follow Comments Comments Last night’s Scottish leaders' debate was vastly improved by a man in the audience wearing a false moustache. Acts of absurdity like that are very subversive. It smacks of one man’s protest at the falseness of the occasion. In much the same way that turning up at a funeral dressed a clown tells everyone about what you really thought of the deceased. The only question I want answered is THIS #ScotDebates pic.twitter.com/dAuw0UcyrV — Martyn McLaughlin (@MartynMcL) April 7, 2015 This is turning into a funny election – and Channel 4 is cashing in with Ballot Monkeys, a sitcom to be written and broadcast in the seven days running up to the election. All four of the main parties will be satirised, from Ukip preposterousness to Labour ineptitude. Writers Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin are veterans of political comedy (Drop The Dead Donkey was a brilliant indictment of the Major years) and this TV “event” will doubtless be sharp and well executed. But (and I’m sorry to recycle a cliché here) can art be as good as life? Will a sitcom be capable of matching the subtle, strange humour of the genuine election? In my ongoing quest to work out why Britain struggles to do good political comedy these days, I now wonder if comedy and politics are starting to inhabit the same territory – in ways that compromise both. Comedy, for starters, has gotten above itself. Laughter has a role in society as a subversive force that makes it hard for everyone to proceed with a straight face. The New Statesman punctured Thatcherism; The Thick of It made it hard to read a Labour Party policy brief without pondering its demographic appeal to “quiet bat people”. But since rock stars became stand-ups and their brand of irony became the mood music of the culture, some comedians have started to confuse their routines with revolutionary screeds. IFRAME: https://www.youtube.com/embed/LOj4tC0EasI?enablejsapi=1 Charlie Brooker, Russell Brand and David Mitchell remain funny – very funny. But they are also wealthy middle-class liberals with all the prejudices that entails, and one senses that’s something has snapped in them and that they’ve decided that they’re as-mad-as-hell-and-they’re-not-going-to-take-it-anymore. Reborn as Howard Beale prophets of sly Left-wing wit, they’ve invaded the foreign territory of politics. That’s why Ten O’Clock Live didn’t work: was it a rant, was it a sketch show or was it just Mitchell’s chance to get something off his chest? And it’s why the loquacious ramblings of Russell Brand that once would’ve made us titter now make us groan. Because the mad cockney monkey man clearly thinks he’s on to something, all the while losing that self-awareness – the bathos – that ought to be the essence of a clown’s business. When a man turns up to a centre for destitute asylum seekers in a chauffeured car, he ceases to be a legitimate teller of jokes. He becomes one. • Latest election poll tracker Meanwhile, the politicians are slipping about on banana skins. Because this election isn’t debating serious alternatives on tax and spend (there just isn’t enough money to fight over) and because ideology died twenty years ago (The Thick of It astutely parodied an absence of politics in politics), we’re left fighting about character. And what characters this baroque panto provides. For starters, how many kitchens does Ed Miliband have? One for each meal of the day? And if a photo of a house covered in England flags was found in one of these kitchens, would he sack it? Hell yes. Ukip, of the other hand, is turning into one of those seedy Seventies comedies you catch on ITV3 – a wet t-shirt contest judged by Reg Varney. Not a day goes by that a candidate isn’t thrown out the party for some prejudice or other – including one or two that Ukip appears to have invented. Don’t be entirely surprised if an MEP isn’t caught on Facebook inciting violence against the left handed. Meanwhile, the Lib Dem flush is so busted that even Nick Clegg probably won’t be voting for them in Sheffield. And the Tories, like some homoerotic Tammy Wynette, continue to stand by their chairman. Grant Shapps is so bad at his job that Michael Green would probably say that the first way to get ahead in business would be to sack him. Our glorious leaders are providing so much material, Hamilton and Jenkin will probably find they can just let them speak for themselves. As well as being the last great British satire show, The Thick of It was actually an old fashioned family sitcom. Its laughter lay in strong characters in classic love-hate relationships that made everything from Steptoe and Son to One Foot in the Grave work so well. The political setting was really just scenery. Yes, it provided a plot and contextualised the characters’ actions. But it’s hard to think of one concrete, significant Labour policy that was satirised or one philosophy that was scrutinised. At the end of the second series, when the election was called, what did Malcolm Tucker tell the Labour staff they were fighting for? Their jobs. The Thick of It was perfect political satire for an age in which politics as a moral enterprise is slowly dying. What we’re left with is politics as the theatre of personality. And the personalities are ripe for parody. BREAKING: STV staff made @jackmcafee's dad take off his moustache. #ScotDebates pic.twitter.com/a1lABpen0j — Jamie Ross (@JamieRoss7) April 7, 2015 Which is why moustache man’s presence at the Scottish debate felt so right. 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Home» 2. News» 3. World News» 4. North America» 5. USA The Book of Mormon satirical musical arrives in Utah Book of Mormon starts sold-out, two-week run at Salt Lake City theatre just two blocks from the church's flagship temple and headquarters "Book of Mormon" musical at the Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City Photo: AP By AP 9:22AM BST 28 Jul 2015 The biting satirical musical that mocks Mormons today begins a sold-out, two-week run Tuesday at a Salt Lake City theatre two blocks from the church's flagship temple and headquarters. [mormon2_3389540b.jpg] The Tony Award-winning "The Book of Mormon" has earned rave reviews while appalling some with its crudeness. But this will mark the first time the show's gleefully naive missionaries come to Utah, where about two-thirds of residents are estimated to be Mormon. The show's creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone of "South Park" fame, told The Associated Press that bringing the show to Salt Lake City feels like validation, and also brings the creative process full circle. [The-Book-of-Mormon_3361228b.jpg] Parker and Stone first took tours of Temple Square, the Mormon headquarters in Salt Lake City, in the 1990s. They made their first research trip for the show to Salt Lake City with fellow creator Bobby Lopez in the mid-2000s. They waited to bring the show to Salt Lake City until they were invited by a theatre. "It feels like a really cool thing that it finally gets to play Salt Lake City," Stone said. "It just feels very much like it's coming home." Though they won't be able to make it to any of the showings, they are hopeful that the show's jokes will get even bigger laughs in a crowd likely to be more familiar with Mormon culture than most audiences. "It's like playing 'Fiddler on the Roof' to a bunch of Jews," Parker said. 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It has brought extra attention to Mormonism, and most Latter-day Saints can take same ribbing. But he said, "I just wish it didn't go so too far." Bowman said many Mormons, who generally shy away from R-rated movies, are horrified by the vulgarity of the musical. Others are just disappointed that it's the latest in a long line of depictions of them by outsiders that is offensive, Bowman said. But that doesn't mean Mormons don't go see it. Parker and Stone started noticing Mormons, or at least people who knew the religion well, in the crowds on Broadway because they could hear snickers at certain jokes only they would get. "I think it legitimises them," Stone said. "You're not really real until somebody makes fun of you and makes a big Broadway show about you. 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Home» 2. Culture» 3. Theatre Ubu Roi: an unforgiving satire on manners old and modern Almost 120 years after its notorious Parisian premiere, Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi is still an important piece of theatre, says Dominic Cavendish Cheek by Jowl's Ubu Roi at the Silk Street Theatre Cheek by Jowl's Ubu Roi at the Silk Street Theatre By Dominic Cavendish 7:00AM BST 20 Jul 2015 Follow Comments Comments “School-boy humour” tends to get a bad press. But where would theatre be without it? As a golden opportunity arises to watch Cheek by Jowl’s acclaimed production of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi from the comfort of your computer screen – seize it! – it feels only right to bow and scrape a bit before Jarry’s seminal act of juvenile disrespect. On the 10th December 1896, in Paris, this five-act comedy in which a mad-cap Macbeth-like couple called Ma and Pa Ubu gain, then lose, the Polish throne in a frenzy of stupidity, venality and treachery, caused a right old stink. A riot, albeit one part-instigated by its young author – who wanted as much booing as cheering – greeted its cavalier disregard for bourgeois niceties and naturalistic conventions, beginning with what is now one of the most notorious opening lines in modern drama: “Merdre”, or as the Methuen-published translation playfully puts it: “Pschitt!” • Can Dostoevsky be funny? “After us the savage god,” WB Yeats, who was in the audience, wrote that night, as if he’d witnessed the dawn of a new era. It’s a matter beyond dispute that this one work – the basis of which was an 1888 sketch penned for marionettes, and domestic consumption, by the then adolescent Jarry – opened artistic flood-gates even if, in its own terms, it was something of a cul-de-sac (the further Ubu plays he wrote up to his death in 1907 added to the overall corpus but had little of the same impact). Jarry’s influence on the continent – on surrealism, futurism, Dadaism, and the post-war “theatre of the Absurd” too – is widely acknowledged. Picasso was a big admirer. And on this side of the Channel, do we get NF Simpson or the Goons without him? I wonder. [Ubu_2119310b.jpg] ^Simon Stephens's 2012 reimagining of Ubu in The Trial of Ubu (Photo: Alastair Muir) The scale of the work’s legacy can undo its bequest of rebellious insouciance however – inspiring reverence when the template it laid down was to kick against the rules. “Ubu” also has the power to enervate and in the wrong hands can become insufferable. Charles Spencer, reviewing The Trial of Ubu, a 2012 bid by Simon Stephens to marry Jarry with modern-day concerns about war crimes, railed: “His work has always struck me as being juvenile, tiresome and lamentably unfunny.” • Watch interviews with John Simm and Mark Gatiss The virtue of this Cheek by Jowl production, performed in French, is that it confines the body of the drama to middle-class quarters the better to emphasise its qualities of seething mutiny. Instead of attempting the logistically impossible epic – Jarry’s dramatis personae include “the entire” Russian and Polish armies – we have six actors in search of the violent, original Oedipal spirit of the piece. Locating everything within an asphyxiating, sterile, luxury apartment, through which prowls the malcontent teenage son of a pair of smug dinner-party hosts (whom the boy’s vandalising imagination transforms into the rampantly horrible Ma and Pa Ubu), Donnellan lends it the air of an unforgiving satire on deranging modern manners. As I noted in my review, even if the scatological puerility is honoured (the lad takes delight in videoing a toilet-bowl) there’s darkness visible too: “While we’re invited to laugh at the faux carnage that’s unleashed with infantile invention – a food-mixer used to drill inside skulls, a gouged eyeball served up as a tasty morsel – the larkiness conveys a frisson because there are families whose members can flip in a way that’s far from hilarious.” It might sound “un peu de trop” to argue that Ubu Roi can still be a play for today, but by dusting it down, and reframing it thus, that’s exactly what it is. 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Home» 2. Culture» 3. TV and Radio» 4. TV and Radio reviews Radio satire has become dull and predictable Pete Naughton laments how Radio 4's topical comedy can raise no longer raise either a laugh nor an eyebrow The News Quiz host Sandi Toksvig was off sick last week The News Quiz host Sandi Toksvig was off sick last week Photo: BBC By Pete Naughton 7:00AM GMT 25 Mar 2015 Comments Comments Taken separately, the words “topical” and “comedy” are nothing more than an overused adjective and a common-or-garden noun. Combine them and use the resulting phrase to describe a BBC radio series, however, and by some mysterious alchemy they start to radiate ennui. Something’s gone wrong with topical comedy on the radio. The News Quiz (Radio 4, Friday), Britain’s longest-running series in this genre, is also the lead offender here. Worn smooth by nearly 40 years of regular airtime, it is now as cosy and predictable as pie and mash; to my knowledge it hasn’t caused a sharp intake of breath since 2011, when the host, Sandi Toksvig, made a pun about a four-letter-word. Listening to the current – 86th – series, I’ve become convinced that if technicians programmed a computer with a wide-ranging set of News Quiz input-output rules (“Middle East peace talks = joke about Tony Blair”; “Education cuts = ironic reference to Eton,” etc) and fed it the week’s current affairs, they could accurately predict the show’s scripts. The only curveball in this week’s edition was that regular panellist Jeremy Hardy had been asked to chair, as Toksvig was off sick. This seemingly humourless move had been singled out as a rich source of in-joke material by the writers. “I am the host this week because Sandi has been suspended for biting the producer’s knees when her pre-show herring was not chilled to the correct temperature,” Hardy began (Toksvig is 4ft 11in and from Denmark). He later returned to the theme during a limp segment about genealogy: “everyone on this panel will have a little bit of Scandinavian in them; could everybody just make sure they haven’t sat on Sandi?” Unsmiling, I added “ST absence = joke about smallness + Scandinavia” to the list. As a younger show with an “open door” submissions policy – meaning that anyone can send in material for consideration – the topical sketch series Newsjack (Radio 4 Extra, Thursday) ought to be edgier, weirder, less formulaic than that; but ends up, somehow, being just as complacent. Currently fronted by the comedian Nish Kumar, with assistance from a revolving cast of comics and actors, it’s one of a small group of original, non-archival series on 4 Extra. Ep 4 is done! Listen tonight on Radio4Extra at 22:30 with @MrNishKumar @ladycariad @KieranCHodgson & Celeste Dring. pic.twitter.com/1E25ZXeCHj — Newsjack (@NewsjackBBC) March 19, 2015 This week’s half-hour instalment was dispiriting in the way that only really unfunny comedy can be. A skit about a plane that had been forced to land at Heathrow because of a broken lavatory careered out of the radio and landed with a tin clunk on the floor. The nadir was reached during a skit about politicians doing drugs, in which Nicola Sturgeon was represented by someone doing a generic Scottish accent, David Cameron by someone who sounded vaguely like Ed Miliband, Ed Miliband by someone who sounded like a young Janet Street-Porter, and Nigel Farage by a woman making no attempt to do an accent at all. Why does BBC radio so consistently fudge this kind of thing? Neither series is doing anything that pushes a boundary, finds an edge, or ventures anywhere outside of an ideological comfort zone. Chris Morris’s On the Hour, commissioned by Radio 4 nearly 25 years ago, retains more bite in a single sketch than they managed across an hour of broadcast time. Here’s hoping it doesn’t take another quarter-century for the BBC to try something different. When the People Say Not Sure (Radio 4, Wednesday) was a reminder – a mightily welcome one – of the many things that BBC radio does better than anyone else. Presented by the historian Peter Hennessy, it considered the various parliamentary options that could present themselves after the election, in the likely event that no one party returns a controlling majority. Spread across four 15-minute episodes, each of which featured a different political expert, it was an illuminating, historically wide-ranging guide to an issue that often makes the head spin. The consensus – such as there was one – was that post-election negotiations would probably take about a week, and that the possibility of a minority government should not be ruled out. The opening episode of Soundstage (Radio 4, Monday) was a superlative adventure for the ears. Made in conjunction with the wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, it took the form of an “audio postcard” from the Kalahari Desert, based on his recordings there. Microphones had been placed under the bark of acacia trees, buried in sand dunes, left out to catch the roar of a male desert lion, the hissing wake of a sidewinder snake. Very hard not to close the eyes and float away, imagining. 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Home» 2. News» 3. Politics» 4. Labour The Labour leadership election is terrible for satire. Bring back Ed Miliband Spare a thought for Britain's starving satirists, who'll find scant material in the likes of Andy Burnham, Liz Kendall and Yvette Cooper Yvette Cooper has been dubbed the 'ice pixie' by some Photo: General Boles By General Boles 9:13AM BST 17 Jul 2015 Comments Comments When Ed Miliband quit as leader of the Labour Party, I don’t think we truly appreciated quite what we were losing. Not politically, obviously, but rather in terms of his contribution to the gaiety of the nation. We don't have Miliband to kick around anymore, and I for one feel that politics is so much the poorer for it. From a satirical point of view, Ed was gold dust. Ed was box office. Ed was to political comedy what Muhammad Ali was to boxing, and it saddens me that the quartet of Labour MPs running to succeed him seem insufferably lightweight by comparison. [CDJI4ITW8AAeF9i_3276931b.jpg] Where are the laughs going to come from if Andy Burnham is elected to lead the Labour Party? Miliband had a brilliantly quirky and expressive air about him even before he opened his mouth, but Burnham just sports a perpetually miserable look of world-weary pain on his face. Whether this comes from despairing about the perceived lack of social justice in the UK or from gallstones, it’s impossible to tell, but one thing’s for sure - it’s not in the least bit funny. To be fair to Andy, he’s trying his best to make us laugh, what with his impassioned railing against the "Westminster bubble" of which he’s been a part of for over two decades. Burnham’s career has encompassed researcher, special adviser, MP, minister, and secretary of state, but to hear him speak you’d be forgiven for thinking that he was actually a salt-of-the-earth miner who took a day trip to "that London" and accidentally ended up in the House of Commons. ^[Andy_Burnham_miner_3378713b.jpg] If Andy Burnham is doing his level best to paint a less than honest portrait of himself, then his leadership rival Liz Kendall is suffering from certain Labourites colouring her a deep shade of Tory blue. Kendall may or may not have comic potential, but as things stand, her common sense fiscal views have resulted in her being branded as the second coming of Margaret Thatcher. As such, she is unlikely to be facing Cameron across the despatch box come September. [Liz_Kendall_Margar_3378718b.jpg] As for Yvette Cooper, I really begin to despair. I’m sure she’s a lovely woman, a great MP, an effective minister, a loving wife and mother. But apart from her "ice-pixie" nickname there is literally nothing to work with in the comedy department. Satirists will be heading down to Job Centre Plus en masse if she sneaks through on second preferences. That leaves us with just one remaining hope. A very faint, bearded, short-tempered hope, but a hope nonetheless. If certain polls are to be believed (and why wouldn’t they be?), the socialist throwback and "friend" of Hamas that is Jeremy Corbyn could possibly be the next leader of the Labour Party. And as George Galloway has proved, there’s always comedy value in crazy left-wing policies combined with beards and hats. If Labour go for Comrade Corbyn in September, it will go some way to filling the Miliband-shaped hole in all our lives. General Boles is not the Conservative MP for Grantham and Stamford; nor is he a minister within the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. 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Home» 2. Culture» 3. Film» 4. Film news Nicolas Cage will chase Bin Laden in new satire The Oscar-winning actor will play the real-life construction worker who set out to find Bin Laden Tye Sheridan and Nicolas Cage in Joe Tye Sheridan and Nicolas Cage in Joe By Alice Vincent, Entertainment Writer 6:31PM GMT 21 Jan 2015 Comments Comments Larry Charles, the director of Borat, is back with a new near-the-knuckle satire: and he's cast Nicolas Cage as the lead. Cage will star as Gary Faulkner, a real-life construction worker from Colorado who tried to get into Pakistan and Afghanistan on numerous occasions trying to find Osama Bin Laden. Charles' film, Army of One, is loosely based on a US GQ article by British writer Chris Heath about Faulkner's mission, and is set to start filming at the end of March. No casting details have been revealed for Bin Laden. Charles' previous credits include Sacha Baron Cohen films The Dictator and Bruno. 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Home» 2. News» 3. World News» 4. Europe» 5. France The history of Charlie Hebdo, bastion of French satire The legendary French magazine, target of an attack that killed 12 people, has long tested the boundaries of satire and controversy Oliver Duggan By Oliver Duggan 2:54PM GMT 07 Jan 2015 Follow They never shied away from the most controversial of topics. From the death of Charles de Gaulle to the birth of Islamic extremism, the journalists of France's foremost satirical magazine have endured a turbulent history. Founded in 1969 as Hara-Kiri Hebdo, the weekly publication quickly attracted - and eventually adopted as its official slogan - accusations of being "dumb and nasty". The founding editors, humorist Georges Bernier and François Cavanna, enjoyed their first fracas with the establishment in November 1970, joking about the death of a former French president. Charles de Gaulle died at home in the village of Colombey-les-Deux-Églises aged 79, a week after a nightclub fire in south-eastern France killed 146 people. "Tragic Ball at Colombey, one dead" was the magazine's headline. The country's interior minister swiftly banned Hara-Kiri Hebdo, forcing the group to change their name. Related Articles * Bloody end to supermarket siege 09 Jan 2015 * How Charlie Hebdo's editor stood up to terror 04 Feb 2015 * Bomb attack on French satirical newspaper 02 Nov 2011 * Unity rally for Paris shootings: as it happened 11 Jan 2015 Taking inspiration from a monthly comics magazine produced by two of the team and in homage to Charlie Brown of Peanuts, Charlie Hebdo was born the following week. In the decade that followed, the founding group stumbled on while struggling to find an audience. Until, in 1981, reportedly due to a lack of readers, the magazine was closed. It reemerged in 1991 under the control of Philippe Val, a French comedian and journalist who would edit the publication for 17 years. During that time the magazine would become famous for another controversy; its full-throated opposition to religious fundamentalism and restrictions on freedom of speech. It started in February 2006, in the midst of a global row about the publication of images of the Prophet Mohammed sketched by a Danish cartoonist. Under the title "Mohammed overwhelmed by fundamentalists", Charlie Hebdo printed a front-page cartoon of the Islamic figure weeping and saying, "it's hard being loved by jerks". Inside, they reproduced 12 of the controversial Danish cartoons and added more of their own design. The magazine tripled its usual sales and the politicians whose predecessors had once forced Hebdo to close came rushing to its defence. (With the exception of then French President Jacques Chirac, who said: "Anything that can hurt the convictions of someone else, in particular religious convictions, should be avoided.") Six months later, in February 2007, several Muslim groups took Charlie Hebdo to court for publicly "insulting" Islam. Philippe Val described the trial as a "witch hunt" and Francois Hollande, then Socialist party secretary and current President of France, testified in favour of freedom of expression. The magazine was ultimately cleared of "racial insults" for publishing the cartoons and a court ruling upheld Mr Val's right to satire Islamic extremism. Four years later, after little further incitement from Hebdo, its offices were burned in an apparent arson attack on the day after it published an issue with the Prophet Mohammed as its "editor-in-chief". He was depicted on the front page saying: "100 lashes if you don't die of laughter". The magazine was forced to move office from 20th arrondissement to Rue Serpollet, where on Wednesday 10 Hebdo journalists - including Charb, Val's successor - were killed. But Islam was not alone in attracting Hebdo's derision. Past covers include retired Pope Benedict XVI in amorous embrace with a Vatican guard; former French President Nicolas Sarkozy looking like a sick vampire; and an Orthodox Jew kissing a Nazi soldier. Yet the attack has inspired unanimous backing for the magazine's right to free expression from the very people it lampooned. Vatican officials said the assault had targeted not just the magazine's journalists but the liberty of the press in general. Mr Hollande said: "This is an act of exceptional barbarity [...] against freedom of expression, against journalists who always wanted to show thay they could act in France to defend their ideas and specifically to have this freedom that the French republic protects." 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For five hours I experienced the gamut of human emotions – hope, anger, contempt, reverence, revenge and, ultimately, triumph. I was transported by the ecstasy of human involvement and endeavour on the rugby field. It was one of those afternoons when television allows people like me to dive into the humanity of it all – cheering the Welsh, encouraging the Irish and cursing the French. Meanwhile, the rusting political machine clanked on like an early silent movie. The various minnows, sharks, whales and crabs flooded out of the glass bowl of Westminster, and spread inertia in their wake. It was the bull ring without the bull, opera without Maria Callas, and a wet Sunday on the Isle of Man. Contrast this with the general election of 1945, when teenagers were enthusiastic for Labour. A new age was coming. And it did. Now the major parties are slow in giving the vote to the 16-year-olds and they accuse the young of being indifferent; not stopping for a moment to consider that it might be the politicians and policies that cause these young people to refuse to become voting fodder. This is a dying parliament that avoided truth by delaying tactics. The Chilcot report on the Iraq war has been delayed until after the election; add to that the reports of horrifying sexual attacks on children, some purporting to have come from the Palace of Westminster. And yet the Civil Service cover their complacency by kicking the report into the long grass – five or 10 years ahead. The saddest feature on the political landscape is the stifling of satire and criticism. Hecklers are treated as if they are dangerously reeking in body odour. No politician should be beyond criticism, whatever the form (except of course assassination). They have bounced the word irony out of the political dictionary. The BBC has been under constant threat from Tory hard men. A look at the dramatis personae in the theatre of politics shows a Tory front bench who most resemble pork butchers in medieval Lincoln. The Prime Minister himself has become quite a drama queen, and a dab hand at fixing the make-up. Bring back Spitting Image! Ed Miliband plays a more enlightened role, although I doubt if his arranged speeches talking to the faithful will have any effect on traditional Labour, which comes out conscientiously to support them. It is quite astounding to hear Labour say that in government they will operate a Tory budget for a year, repeating the choice made by Tony Blair on his election in 1997. They need to rediscover John Maynard Keynes’s simple economic doctrine to deal with austerity. It is investment, public spending and raising taxes. It does work. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrat Party looks like the retreat from Moscow. Things are made even more ridiculous when Danny Alexander, one of the architects behind the cuts, appears to be a reluctant champion of expenditure. His phony chancellor’s briefcase was appropriately yellow. Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, has obviously been overcome by the ghostly presence of Lord Palmerston, his 19th-century predecessor. Hammond threatened Russia last week, almost in Palmerstonian terms. A warship would be sent to warn Russia about the Ukraine, though obviously it would have to be transported over land first because Ukraine is virtually landlocked. Labour’s is not a happy picture. Its attack troops are not reassuring; too often they have come up from Oxford and never did a 9 to 5 job. Then hope is at hand. Lord Prescott, Labour’s stereotype working-class hero, is summoned to handle matters appertaining to the environment, although to my savage eye it looks as though he has eaten most of it. The remainder of Labour’s troops hanker for a possible job as Mayor of London or police commissioner somewhere. But be assured, a television journalist assured me this morning that Ed Balls is more restrained. He has had his hair cut and has lost a little weight – admirable qualifications for a chancellor. Labour are facing a government which wants to spend an additional £1bn on Trident while, at the same time, social security is requisitioning cars from crippled people. When I was a young member of the Labour Party, old miners would remind us this: Man, we are told, lives to work; but socialists say, No, he works to live. * Add new comment * Tags: * As I Please Comments Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 2015-04-11 11:32. Illtyd Harrington: A dying parliament that avoided the truth Thanks for this, Illtyd. I especially appreciated: "Labour are facing a government which wants to spend an additional £1bn on Trident while, at the same time, social security is requisitioning cars from crippled people." You may also appreciate Dr David Webster on 'Benefit sanctions: Britain's secret punitive system' http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/resources/benefit-sanctions-britains- s... 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Dear White People begins with news coverage of a riot at an Ivy League college which breaks out at a Halloween party with the theme “unleash your inner Negro.” Flashing back five weeks, it then follows the lives of four black students at the predominantly white Winchester University in the run-up to the disturbance. Militant black activist Samantha White (Tessa Thompson), the newly elected head of a traditionally black hall of residence, wants to bring black back to Winchester. Her former boyfriend and head of house Troy Fairbanks (Brandon P Bell) is the preppy son of the university’s dean (Dennis Haysbert), who’s desperate to defy his father’s ambitious expectations and who secretly smokes pot. Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams), a gay sci-fi geek with an impressive afro, is recruited by the otherwise all-white student newspaper to write about black culture — which he knows little about. Meanwhile, the chameleon-like Coco Conners (Teyonah Parris) will do whatever it takes to become a reality TV star. Writer-director Justin Simien’s debut feature, in which he takes college stereotypes and gives them a delicious new twist, is a provocative and stinging satire which is laden with humour. White hosts the no-holds barred radio show Dear White People — in which she warns that “dating a black person to piss off your parents is a form of racism” — even though she herself secretly is seeing a white guy and is a closet Taylor Swift fan. Her staunch defence of her paper on how The Gremlins is an allegory of suburban white fear of black culture is inspired. As she points out: “The gremlins are loud, talk in slang, are addicted to fried chicken and freak out when you get their hair wet.” Thompson is magnificent as White and delivers Simien’s whip-smart dialogue with great passion and sass as she launches a campus culture war and tries to snap her comrades out of their stupor and misguided belief that their white counterparts see them as their equals. Dear White People is an extraordinarily impressive and thought-provoking first film. Simien is one director to watch. Racism Maria Duarte america race Obama Dear White People Justin Simien __________________________________________________________________ ____________________ (BUTTON) Latest David Haye’s return comes during a peak time in heavyweight boxing A class act? Can we stop moaning about fixture pile-ups? Six for ’16 Owned By Our Readers We're a reader-owned co-operative, which means you can become part of the paper too by buying shares in the People’s Press Printing Society. 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The Oscar-nominated Wild Tales comprises six short stories intertwining themes of catharsis, vengeance and destruction. Apparently, they were all penned by Argentinian director Damian Szifron while in his bath, which may go some way to explaining why they are so deliciously bizarre. They include a road-rage attack, a hit-and-run, a wedding from hell, revenge on the man who ruined a family and vengeance on a plane packed with people who all wronged the same person. The latter bears a passing resemblance to I’m So Excited by the film’s producer Pedro Almodovar, while the road-rage tale comes across as a parody of Duel. All the tales feature characters pushed to the limits in situations many will identify with, as in the story of the demolition engineer whose life falls apart when his car is towed away unfairly. His anger and pain as he tries to reason in vain with staff at the car pound can’t fail to invoke sympathy, even though blowing them up is clearly one step too far. And there’s the bride who discovers at her wedding that her new husband has been cheating on her. His mistress is at the reception and the evil and raucous response as she erupts and turns into the bride from hell is vicariously delicious. Most surreal is the story in which a wealthy businessman tries to pay off the authorities to avoid his son going to jail after a fatal hit-and-run, yet who breaks off negotiations when he realises that they are taking him for a financial ride. Backed by superb performances from the Argentinian cast, Wild Tales is outrageous, hysterical — and not to be missed. Maria Duarte Argentina Wild Tales Damian Szifron __________________________________________________________________ ____________________ (BUTTON) Latest David Haye’s return comes during a peak time in heavyweight boxing A class act? Can we stop moaning about fixture pile-ups? 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Paulette Randall’s simmering production certainly makes it worth the wait. Matura’s finely crafted two-acter is a deeply felt work that delivers a historical and social documentation of Trinidad’s turbulent pre and postcolonial history. The action of both acts is played out during Carnival, the major event of the island’s calendar, when many of its population “‘play mas” — masquerade — in the streets of Port of Spain. On both occasions the celebrations turn sour as we observe Samuel’s progression, or more accurately regression, from tailor’s assistant to brutal puppet police chief. Played with transformative brio by Seun Shote, his erratic attempts to try to wrestle some authority for himself have comic but disastrous consequences. Samuel’s archetypal US puppetmaster Chuck Reynolds (Rob Heanley), would perhaps benefit from some greater depth of characterisation, but this is a minor flaw in what is otherwise an enlightening text which brims with humour and dramatic tension. The first scene, in which Samuel and his “coolie” boss Ramjohn, whose veiled frustration is brilliantly conveyed by Johann Myers, quarrel over suit-making and US cinema, is particularly hilarious. Yet it also manages to demonstrate how racial hierarchies created under colonialism manifest themselves in everyday life. The inherent theatricality of the carnival lends itself perfectly to the stage and Randall’s in-the-round production takes every opportunity to bring the colourful vitality of this raucous celebration to the fore. The play’s a designer’s dream and Libby Watson’s costumes perfectly capture the flamboyance of the revelry, while Mark Jonathan’s perceptive lighting enhances the fluctuating pace of the dialogue to throughout. Dedicated to the postcolonial thinker Frantz Fanon for “his struggle to understand and overcome black misery,” this is a play which educates and entertains in equal measure, sustained by Randall’s electric direction. Don’t miss. 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Unfortunately, and despite the best of intentions, Islands by Caroline Horton isn’t that play. Intended as a satirical allegorical exposé of the machinations of the super-rich and powerful, Horton sites the play’s action on Haven — in what appears to be a post-apocalyptic swimming pool — where debauched deity Mary (Horton) rules the roost over two sexually ambiguous offshore overlords (John Biddle and Seiriol Davies). “I’ve got all the cherries,” she croons at the opening and what ensues is a scatological demonstration of exactly what that means for Adam (Simon Startin) and Eve (Hannah Ringham), the caricatural prole inhabitants of Shitworld floating some 30 feet below Haven. They gullibly swallow Mary’s devious blandishments on why unbridled wealth creation is most definitely not for the likes of the toiling masses like them. Eventually, the financial shit literally hits the fan as “Northern Cock” and “Peaman Brothers” melt down and it seems as if the “natural” order might be reversed. But, as Horton cynically demonstrates, that’s nothing a bit of faux-lachrymose soul-searching and promises of more “transparency” can’t fix. And, in what’s a pretty bleak conclusion, it’s clear that Adam and Eve will be ultimately left to foot the bill as they face up to swingeing austerity measures, despite the fact that in the latter’s case the political coin appears to have dropped. The show, directed by Omar Elerian, is an ingenious concept and it’s ably performed and staged. But after close on two hours of relentless allegory the intentionally puerile humour rapidly palls. Reality itself is biting far more sharply than this. 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The atrocity that saw the murder of eight journalists and cartoonists, a visitor, a caretaker and two police officers at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo this week — and the hunt for the killers which at time of writing appeared to be approaching a bloody denouement yesterday — has rightly dominated the global news agenda. It is shocking in this day and age that journalists and satirists should be gunned down merely for the act of poking fun at a concept, albeit one dear to many millions around the world. The use of satire to skewer bloated egos and lance suppurating cankers of hypocrisy on the body politic is, ironically, a great literary and journalistic institution in and of itself. The Oxford dictionary defines satire thus: “Noun: satire: The use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticise people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.” Perhaps the earliest recorded example of the form is the work of Roman poet Juvenal in the first and second centuries AD, although it is highly likely that piss-taking and mockery have been around ever since the first societies were formed. Where a society exists it invariably follows that there are those who feel it is their right to rule it. Equally frequently those who deem themselves as ideal candidates to govern are the least qualified to do so. They seize power through force, or the implicit threat of force, and employ the same measures to retain it. The powerful can, and do, control almost every aspect of our lives. They can cement their always tenuous position through tyranny and brutality. What they cannot do is command respect. They can demand it until they are blue in the face, use threats of violence in a bid to suppress dissent and even profess to have achieved their aim. But deep down, even among the most unhinged despots, there remains a sneaking suspicion that they are being mocked. And it is that which really drives them insane. And that is precisely why it is such a vital part of our society. Someone must always be on hand to point out that the emperor not only wears no clothes but appears to have a particularly nasty rash. Satire is by its very nature savage, scurrilous and iconoclastic — at least if it’s any good. There would be no point otherwise. The term “a gentle satire” gets bandied around quite frequently but what it really means is that it is rubbish and not really funny. That’s like comparing Jerry Seinfeld with Lenny Bruce. Or Roy Walker with Dave Allen — or pretty much anyone else for that matter. True satire grabs you by the throat and shakes you until you collapse either in paroxysms of mirth or convulsed with fury — it doesn’t coyly tickle you with a feather and run away. There are those of course who deride satire as mean-spirited and puerile. Curiously these tend to be the very people being satirised, or those who have had a total sense of humour bypass. As with any medium, quality varies wildly and much of what passes for satire these days does not truly live up to the name. But even a cursory examination of the history of the form throws up such brilliant exponents as Swift, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Bierce and Hazlitt to name but a few, as well as artists of the calibre of Hogarth and Gillray. Satire is the principle weapon of the powerless against the powerful and as such must be cherished and preserved for as long as pomposity, arrogance and the abuse of authority exist. The satirist traditionally ploughs a lonely furrow and the role is fraught with perils, but losing your life for expressing an opinion, however controversial, should not be one of them. What those behind the callous murders this week have failed to comprehend is that satire is synonymous with rebellion and resistance to authority. As such it flourishes in times of puritanism, persecution and adversity. In fact it becomes a necessity. Intimidation and violence do not work to silence dissent, rather they achieve the exact opposite. They merely serve to harden the resolve and, as has been witnessed this week, are capable of uniting usually implacable enemies in a common cause. This column began with a quote attributed to Voltaire and it is fitting to finish on another, this time by Bernard Shaw: “All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. “All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. “Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.” Paddy McGuffin charlie hebdo satire __________________________________________________________________ ____________________ (BUTTON) Latest David Haye’s return comes during a peak time in heavyweight boxing A class act? Can we stop moaning about fixture pile-ups? Six for ’16 Owned By Our Readers We're a reader-owned co-operative, which means you can become part of the paper too by buying shares in the People’s Press Printing Society. Become a Supporter It looks like you've got Adblock Plus installed. 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By John Twomey PUBLISHED: 18:39, Fri, Oct 9, 2015 | UPDATED: 21:10, Fri, Oct 9, 2015 Tom Watson and Lord Brittan GETTYTom Watson raised the allegations against Lord Brittan, who died in January The late politician’s brother called on Mr Watson to say sorry for the distress he caused the former Home Secretary and his widow. Sir Samuel Brittan and Tory grandee Lord Lamont also condemned the Metropolitan Police for bungling the inquiry. Sir Samuel, a distinguished financial journalist, said Mr Watson was guilty of making unfounded allegations and damaging his brother’s reputation. After Lord Brittan’s death from cancer in January, Mr Watson repeated unsubstantiated claims from alleged victims saying the former Home Secretary was “as close to evil as any human being could get”. Lord Lamont GETTY Lord Lamont condemned the Met Police for their handling of the inquiry The words were from a complainant and Mr Watson admitted yesterday that he was wrong to repeat the phrase. But he did not apologise. Writing on a news website, he said: “I have said in the past that I am sorry for the distress Leon Brittan’s family experienced as they grieved for him. I still am. But I wanted the claims made against him properly investigated. “The choice facing anyone who is presented with testimony of this kind is whether to pass it to the authorities or to ignore it. I chose the first option. I felt it was my duty.” Lord Lamont, a friend of Lord Brittan, said aspects of the case were “beyond satire”. Boris Johnson stands with Bernard Hogan-Howe GETTY Boris Johnson asked Met Police chief Bernard Hogan-Howe to investigate the handling of the case Lord Lamont revealed police suggested Lord Brittan take part in an identity parade. How could a well-known public person, already named and identified by his accuser, usefully take part in such a charade? Lord Lamont Writing in a national newspaper he said: “How could a well-known public person, already named and identified by his accuser, usefully take part in such a charade?” London Mayor Boris Johnson has asked the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, to explain the “completely unacceptable” delay in telling Lady Brittan that a rape allegation against him could not be supported. The Crown Prosecution Service decided in July 2013 that there was insufficient evidence to back up a claim that Lord Brittan raped a 19-year-old student in 1967. Tom Watson GETTY Tom Watson was elected deputy leader of the Labour party under Jeremy Corbyn last month The case was reopened last year after Mr Watson wrote to the Director of Public Prosecutions. Although seriously ill, detectives interviewed Lord Brittan under caution. There were no grounds for further action but Lady Brittan was only told he was cleared last Tuesday when she received an apology for the delay. 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By Allan Hall PUBLISHED: 17:00, Tue, Oct 6, 2015 | UPDATED: 17:13, Tue, Oct 6, 2015 Star CONSTANTIN FILMOliver Masucci believes there is an increase in racism and intolerance in Germany Oliver Masucci, the actor who plays Hitler in the satirical film 'He's Back' has revealed racist tensions within Germany despite the country portraying the image migrants are welcome. He travelled around the country for a month speaking with "ordinary people" while dressed as the long-dead Fuehrer. Two cameras rolled to capture their sometimes shocking views. He said rather than being shocked about Hitler's policies, the war and the Holocaust, men greeted him and seemed "happy to see me!" He said: "They forgot relatively quickly that the two cameras were running and began to pour their hearts out to this man, to say what was really on their minds." Oliver CONSTANTIN FILM Masucci went around Germany dressed as Hitler They forgot relatively quickly that the two cameras were running and began to pour their hearts out to this man, to say what was really on their minds Oliver Masucci He spoke out a day after mass demonstrations in Germany against the immigration policies of Angela Merkel's government. While Germany is opening its arms to hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing Syria, the country has an underlying anti-Islamic movement called Pegida. The Dresden-based movement has been at the forefront of protests against the massive influx of refugees into Germany in recent months. The group has been dubbed "Pinstripe Nazis" by commentators because it attracts predominantly middle-class people. Mr Masucci said soon after he started shooting the film he saw the rise of Pegida. He added: "That didn't surprise us that they suddenly went into the streets. Because this middle-class that's swinging to the right, we'd already seen all that on camera. "By the end of our filming, our questions had totally changed. How can it be that so many people react so positively to Hitler, accept him like that?" Masucci CONSTANTIN FILM The actor stars in a new satirical film about the Nazi leader He said he and the director of the movie paid an actor to shout anti-Germany slogans among football fans in Berlin during the 2014 World Cup. He was set upon by a violent group and Wnendt had to call security "so that he didn't end up hung from the nearest tree". Mr Masucci added: "We wanted to see if you could escalate something like that, if it works. And sadly it did work." 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By Tom Parfitt Tom Parfitt PUBLISHED: 00:41, Tue, Oct 6, 2015 | UPDATED: 07:17, Tue, Oct 6, 2015 Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond GETTYFormer Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond Clarkson is preparing to relaunch his career with a new motoring show Amazon Prime after being axed by the BBC in March. The new show, rumoured to be called Gear Knobs, will reunite the petrol head with fellow ex-Top Gear hosts James May and Richard Hammond. But the trio have been recognised for their contributions to the BBC show with a nomination in the Factual Entertainment category. Related articles * Jeremy Clarkson dragged into pig-gate during Have I Got New For You * Jeremy Clarkson reveals he spent a month in a 'Stone Age' rehab... They are up against 15 shows, including 2014 winner Gogglebox, Countryfile, Antiques Roadshow, Storage Hunters and DIY SOS: The Big Build. The star-studded ceremony takes place on Wednesday January 20 and will be broadcast live on ITV. Last week outspoken Clarkson made his return to the BBC by guest-hosting satirical panel show Have I Got News For You. IFRAME: //renderer.qmerce.com/interaction/56130d0f74a791dd4b4acb19 He suffered a verbal battering from the show's guests, Ian Hislop, Paul Merton, comedian Richard Osman and journalist Camilla Long. Encountering a sound problem during filming, Osman told him: "This wouldn't happen on Amazon Prime. Are you sure it's Amazon Prime and not Amazon past-their-prime?" And he made a sly reference to Clarkson's Top Gear successor during a segment about the car maker Volkswagen, saying: "Jeremy, have you got Chris Evans' phone number?" Clarkson replied: "I am not allowed on the BBC to use the C-word. Cars." Jeremy Clarkson GETTY Clarkson was axed in March for punching a producer Jeremy Clarkson GETTY He guest-hosted Have I Got News For You last week The star, 55, recently revealed he checked himself into a "Stone Age" rehabilitation centre after being axed from Top Gear. 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By Nick Gutteridge PUBLISHED: 09:26, Tue, Sep 29, 2015 | UPDATED: 09:55, Tue, Sep 29, 2015 Sylvanian Family characters dressed as ISIS militants lurk in the background of a family picnic scene MIMSYThe artwork mocking ISIS was banned from an exhibition The sinister twist on the popular children’s toys has been pulled from the schedule at the Passion for Freedom exhibition at London’s Mall Galleries after police raised "serious concerns" about the possibility of a terrorist atrocity against visitors. It mocked the Islamist fanatics by showing them lurking in the background of ordinary family scenes depicted as characters from the popular Sylvanian Families toy set. But detectives feared crazed jihadis would take offence and launch a reprisal attack in response to the heavily mocking artwork - which lampooned their group's targeting of defenceless families. Related articles * Britain faces biggest terrorist threat in decades as MI5 stop six... * Now sick Islamic State terrorists urge Britons to join them and... Officers told exhibition organisers they would have to pay £36,000 to hire extra security if the piece was displayed, forcing them to remove it from visitors. The decision provoked outrage from both the artist, Mimsy, and people online, who said the terrorist group should not be able to dictate what the British public can see. Sylvanian Family characters dressed as ISIS militants lurk in the background of a family pub scene MIMSY Police told gallery owners there was a risk of a terrorist attack Sylvanian Family characters dressed as ISIS militants lurk in the background of a family beach scene MIMSY Critics said the terror alert amounted to censorship George Hall tweeted: "Does England already let ISIS control things? Who banned such a work?" Talk Radio host Jon Gaunt blasted the decision as "a real attack on free speech by cowardly cops", while Tory columnist Toby Young raged: "God forbid that we should say anything offensive of the homicidal psychopaths." Author Ben Goldacre added: "Dear The British Police, I want you to protect free speech from violence, maybe spend less time on cannabis smokers?" Many people also pointed out the irony of such a piece being banned from an exhibition where the main theme was freedom of expression. Sylvanian Family characters dressed as ISIS militants lurk in the background of a school scene MIMSY Detectives said the satirical piece was inflammatory ISIS militants raise their guns in the air in the desert GETTY The artwork lampooned ISIS militants God forbid that we should say anything offensive of the homicidal psychopaths Tony Young It showed Sylvanian Families toys including mice, hedgehogs and foxes enjoying family activities like picnics and sunbathing whilst others dressed as ISIS militants lurked in the background. The artwork - which mockingly referred to the group as MICE-IS - was designed to show how ISIS fanatics threaten every aspect of western life. A description for the piece, called ISIS Threaten Sylvania, said: "Far away, in the land of Sylvania, rabbits, foxes, hedgehogs, mice and all woodland animals have overcome their differences to live in harmonious peace and tranquillity. "MICE-IS, a fundamentalist Islamic terror group, are threatening to dominate Sylvania, and annihilate every species that does not submit to their hard-line version of sharia law." It was created by London-based artist Mimsy, who said she was dismayed it will now not be exhibited. She said: "I love my freedom. I’m aware of the very real threat to that freedom from Islamic fascism and I’m not going to pander to them or justify it like many people on the left are doing." Related articles * Vladimir Putin's ULTIMATUM for the West: Want to defeat... * Notorious British jihadis hit with travel bans as United Nations... A spokeswoman for the gallery said: "Mall Galleries was approached by Westminster Police who expressed concern about the potential risks of including Mimsy’s work. "They made it clear there would be an additional policing cost if the work was included in the exhibition and indicated this cost would be passed on either to the artist or to the exhibition organiser." 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By Richard and Judy PUBLISHED: 15:42, Fri, Aug 21, 2015 | UPDATED: 16:03, Fri, Aug 21, 2015 Labour's Jeremy Corbyn GETTYJeremy Corbyn is keeping his cool despite Labour turmoil It was heavy going, the Germans using the bocage country – deeplysunken lanes and thick hedgerows – to great tactical effect. One August morning a massive Panzer tank, isolated from its fellows, attempted to slink across a meadow. It presented a perfect target to the watching Shermans. They opened up and scored direct hits all over the Panzer at practically point-blank range. Jubilation turned to astonishment and then dread as the British realised their shells had inflicted no damage whatsoever on the vastly superior tank. Instead its own gun turret traversed almost casually towards them and fired back. The Shermans were shot to pieces. I was reminded of this episode when reading about the combined attack on Jeremy Corbyn by his party’s big guns. It’s been heavycalibre stuff – Labour’s entire Panzer Lehr division thrown into the assault. Battle tanks included the formidable hunting pack of Blair, Brown and Campbell, the ageing but still thickly armourplated Kinnock and the longrange, super-accurate Johnson and Straw. Related articles * Jeremy Corbyn attacked for comparing ISIS jihadis to US soldiers * Labour's election and the myth of a strong Opposition They’ve barrelled off a fusillade of armour-piercing rounds. And every one of them has bounced off Corbyn like peas off a drum. There’s not a mark on him. It’s incredible. Blair, Brown and co must feel like those shocked Sherman gunners. It’s not even as if Corbyn fires back. Far from it. After each incoming salvo he lets the smoke clear before murmuring soothingly about this all being, “A great opportunity for Labour to reconnect with people across Britain” or that, “Younger people turned off by yah-boo politics are coming into it for the first time… let us be happy – things are going well!” They certainly are – for Corbyn. Bookmakers Paddy Power, one of Britain’s biggest, have already thrown in the towel on the Marxist becoming the next Labour leader. It’s a cinch. He’s gone from 100/1 outsider to runaway favourite. Related articles * Jeremy Corbyn facing questions after 'attending events run by... * Labour leadership: Jeremy Corbyn win so likely bookies pay out... Bookmakers Paddy Power, one of Britain’s biggest, have already thrown in the towel on the Marxist becoming the next Labour leader It’s all over, folks. Nothing to see here. Labour as a party of government are in the toilet. Political history shows us that when parties and regimes implode things have a tendency to fall apart surprisingly fast. Take yourself back to May and the moment those exit polls were revealed. Could you possibly have predicted the carnage Labour would wreak upon itself in the following three months? The collapse of Soviet-style communism, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Romanian president Ceausescu’s dramatic descent from malevolent omnipotence to hunted animal (and a duly executed one) within days. These things often turn on a sixpence. Of course when we look back at such events we usually belatedly recognise that the sell-by date expired considerably earlier – it’s just that no one noticed. But that’s the way with sell-bys. Stuff can still be viable for a while. But when the package eventually starts to stink the game’s up. Labour was decaying long before Tony Blair managed to freshen it up and give it a few more years’ shelf-life. But the rot really set in when the unions shoehorned Ed Miliband into the leadership. Now the party is something to be taken, in tongs, to the bin. But politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum. So what will replace Labour? That’s the question hardly anyone has yet dared ask. J: FELLOW fans of brilliant American horror writer Stephen King may have gulped this week when they read about Jenny Kavanagh, a 45-year old logistics officer from Twickenham. Mrs Kavanagh had an ultrasound when she asked for a new contraceptive coil to be fitted. Doctors spotted a large dark mass growing in her left ovary. They thought it was an enormous cyst (it measured four inches) but decided to remove it as it could have killed Jenny if it ruptured. During a three-hour operation the “cyst” turned out to be Jenny’s unborn twin that had grown inside her since birth. It was baby-shaped and had a face, an eye, a tooth and long black hair – just like Jenny’s. GAAAH! How horrid! Related articles * Revival is one of Stephen King's most satisfyingly disturbing novels * Mr Mercedes by Stephen King: 'The best thriller of the year' Just as terrifying as the plot of King’s 1989 best seller The Dark Half, about author Thad Beaumont, who as a child had an operation to remove what medics thought was a brain tumour. In fact the growth is Thad’s unborn twin brother, absorbed into his body in utero. The neurosurgeon who removes it finds part of a nostril, some fingernails, teeth and a malformed eye. Of course this is a horror story. As an adult Thad writes a series of successful crime novels about a violent killer called Alexis Machine. Because Thad’s usual (not very successful) books are cerebral literary fiction he writes the crime books under the pen name George Stark. When his real identity is discovered Thad and his wife stage a mock burial for Stark at the local cemetery. The epitaph on Stark’s headstone is “Not A Very Nice Guy”. Stark (who is the spirit of the unborn twin) climbs out of the grave as a re-formed physical entity. Furious at his burial he embarks on a murderous rampage which leads to Thad, whose fingerprints are identical to his evil twin’s, being identified as the killer. Jenny Kavanagh’s reaction to her own unborn twin was remarkably sanguine. She said she felt sad at the thought of this sibling, who had become absorbed into her own body while they were both embryos in their mother’s womb. But horribly the twin was still growing and would have almost certainly killed Jenny if not discovered. Related articles * From ghostly nights, to nights in the museum: Most scary and... * Murder victim spirit haunts children I salute Jenny’s compassion. I would have been horrified. But then I am a Stephen King fan. And The Dark Half is one of his most gruesomely terrifying tales. J: REMINISCING about Christmases past with my grown-up kids last week I remembered how mum used to put a “genuine” letter addressed to me from Santa, a blue air-mail envelope with an Icelandic stamp, propped up against our little artificial Christmas tree each year. The tree was always set up on a wide dresser and mum surrounded it with cotton-wool snow, frozen ponds (made from pocket mirrors) tiny houses and miniature skating figures. This little snowscape was magical to me and the presence of Santa’s letter was the door to my conviction that he was real and that he truly lived in an enchanted snowy place far away. Now two young mothers in Dublin, Niamh Sherwin-Barry and Aoife Lawler, have launched a thriving start-up that’s equally and charmingly aimed at creating magic in the hearts of children aged four to nine. Related articles * Peter Pan charm in the grown-up city * Away with the fairies on Trossachs forest walk Called The Irish Fairy Door Company it was set up just two years ago but now sells Fairy Doors in 20 countries. They believe their fairies will one day be “as big as Santa Claus”. A large claim but what is irresistible about this company isn’t the 10cm-tall doors themselves – fairy doors have been around for decades. What is truly magical is the concept. Every week the small possessor of an Irish Fairy Door receives a newsletter from Fairy Valley. It contains stories, bulletins and interactive games. Parents can use the doors to help children chase away bad dreams and to collect milk teeth. The fairy becomes part of the family. More seriously, parents have used the doors to help children come to terms with the death of a sibling. These little doors are appearing in graveyards across Ireland. I’m going to get one for my little granddaughter. I’d love her to get the same thrill of wonder and excitement I used to feel when my mother put up her own gateway to Santa Claus. Related articles * First look: Behind the scenes of Buckingham Palace and Harry Potter * Wanted: New girl with that Potter magic R: "DIVE, dive, dive!” Yup. Russia’s answer to Arnie, Vladimir Putin, is back in tough-guy action again – this time inside an admittedly snazzy mini-submarine which bore him to the bottom of the Black Sea near recently-annexed Crimea. Are there, ahem, no depths to which this man won’t sink for a macho photoopportunity? Of course most of the time he looks anything but macho. Related articles * Historian hits out at 'tough playing' Putin over Moscow move to... * So it WAS Putin? Debris from 'Russian-made missile' found at site... Just very silly, whether he’s riding bareback with a bow and arrow or sitting on a half-track fingering a machine gun. Or maybe he was bareback on the half-track – so many ripe poses, so many chances to misremember them. Tyrants and megalomaniacs are always vulnerable to ridicule. Charlie Chaplin got Hitler down cold in the 1940 satire The Great Dictator, although there has never been anything to beat Mel Brooks’ The Producers, with its show-within-ashow Springtime For Hitler. Remember Adolf’s “All I want is peace! Peace… peace… peace… a little piece of Poland, a little piece of France,” etc. Sublime. But perhaps we could do with an update to mark Putin’s territorial ambitions. With apologies to Brooks here’s a song for Vladimir. All I want is peace… peace, peace, peace… A little piece of Crimea (OK, actually all of it) A little piece of Ukraine (honest, just the eastern bit) A little piece of airspace Above the UK’s shores A little splash of Finnish sea And half of Norway’s fjorrds.” It’d be a smash in Sebastopol. 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By Selina Sykes PUBLISHED: 20:39, Thu, Aug 6, 2015 | UPDATED: 21:05, Thu, Aug 6, 2015 Front page of Charlie Hebdo magazine CHARLIE HEBDOFront page of Charlie Hebdo magazine depicts the discovery of MH370 in poor taste Offended readers think the magazine showed poor taste on its latest cover which pokes fun at the discovery of debris on La Reunion, which yesterday was confirmed to have been from the plane. The cover of the French weekly, which is known for its parody cartoons and non-conformist tone, appears to show two dismembered hands touching coconuts, which are actually a pair of disembodied breasts. The front page reads: "We've found a bit of the pilot and the air hostess". Two onlookers are seen in the background celebrating. Related articles * Angry families of doomed MH370 flight say debris from missing... * Terrorists DID hijack MH370, French prosecutors fear as they... The picture mocks the discovery of plane debris suspected to be from the doomed Malaysia Airlines on the French Indian Ocean island last week. The cover is the latest in a long line of controversial images from Charlie Hebdo, including depictions of the Prophet Mohammed and satirical images of the Pope. Various items and pieces of wreckage have since been founded washed up on the island's shores, adding to the belief that the international search mission is close to finding the missing plane. MH370 disappeared on March 8 last year while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and none of the wreckage or any of the 239 passengers and crew have ever been found, until last week. The full front page cover of Charlie Hebdo CHARLIE HEBDO The full front page cover of Charlie Hebdo The debris is currently being investigated by experts in France, who hope it will provide a clue to one of the greatest aviation mysteries in history. Many people have taken to twitter to blast the magazine cover. One Twitter said: "One Freedom of speech? Distasteful Charlie Hebdo cover mocking the MH370 wreckage." Another Twitter user said: "New Charlie Hebdo cover mocking the MH370 wreckage is distasteful. Attention-seekers. No brainer. No heart." Charlie Hebdo was attacked in January by Islamic terrorists, who killed 12 people including its editor Stephane Charbonnier. 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By Scott Campbell Scott Campbell PUBLISHED: 06:10, Sun, Jul 26, 2015 | UPDATED: 06:18, Sun, Jul 26, 2015 Police pictured during a counter-terrorism training exercise in London GETTYPolice pictured during a counter-terrorism training exercise in London The troops would be sent to cities if multiple attacks were launched on the UK by an extremist group, according to top secret plans accidentally posted online. The soldiers would guard high-risk targets with armed police as Britain’s elite intelligence services hunted down those behind the attacks. Such a deployment would be triggered by the emergency Cobra committee chaired by the Prime Minister. The drastic plans were discussed at the highest levels of government amid fears of a Paris-style terror threat, where extremists launched a series of attacks starting with a mass shooting at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. 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By Peter Henn PUBLISHED: 20:50, Wed, Jul 15, 2015 | UPDATED: 22:30, Wed, Jul 15, 2015 Francois Hollande GETTY IMAGESFrench President Francois Hollande says his country has foiled a terror plot Four people have been arrested after planning to target French military sites. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said their leader was in contact with known French jihadists who are currently in prison. The attackers had planned to strike in January 2016 and were targeting a senior military official in the south of France. The four were aged between 16 and 23 and arrested in different places around France, and one had served in the French military, Mr Cazeneuve said. Charlie Hebdo vigil EPA A vigil after the Charlie Hebdo Shootings The news comes after the Paris terror attacks which left 20 people dead in January this year. It began when brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi entered the offices of Paris-based satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and killed 12. During a three-day reign of terror a policewoman was also shot dead and five people were killed in a siege at a Jewish supermarket. Just minutes before the hostage situation at Hypercacher ended when armed police stormed the building killing the perpetrator, the Kouachi brothers were also shot dead by officers at a seperate location. Woman being arrested in Lyon Lyon A woman being arrested in connection with the Lyon terror attack Last month Yassin Sali, 35, attacked a gas factory near the city of Lyon by ramming his car into an area containing flammable liquids. Sali's boss at a delivery firm was found beheaded along with flags displaying Islamist writings. Sali had tied Herve Cornara's head to a fence in the suburb of Saint-Quentin-Fallavier. Earlier this week armed criminals held up a branch of Primark in the northern Parisian suburb of Villeneuve-la-Garenne. It is still not clear whether it was a terrorism related incident. 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World Migrant Crisis: Refugee numbers reach 60 MILLION – how can Europe house them all? World Migrant Crisis: Refugee numbers reach 60 MILLION – how can Europe house them all? migrant sex attacks refugees grope schoolgirls Austria Salzburg Cologne rapes Merkel migrant sex attacks refugees grope schoolgirls Austria Salzburg Cologne rapes Merkel The cover-up unravels: Yet ANOTHER migrant sex attack exposed by brave schoolgirl victims migrant sex attacks Germany Dortmund refugees Merkel migrant sex attacks Germany Dortmund refugees Merkel ‘German girls are just there for sex’ What migrant told woman as he groped her in street ‘Pretty potheads’ pose for semi-naked snaps as new craze sweeps social media ‘Pretty potheads’ pose for semi-naked snaps as new craze sweeps social media ‘Pretty potheads’ pose for semi-naked snaps as new craze sweeps social media Austrian army brought 1,000 migrants WEEK fake ID Austrian army brought 1,000 migrants WEEK fake ID Austrian army brought in as 1,000 migrants A WEEK arrive with fake ID Swiss confiscate migrants’ valuables take 10% migrant tax from wages Swiss confiscate migrants’ valuables take 10% migrant tax from wages Pay to stay: Swiss confiscate migrants’ valuables and take 10% migrant tax from wages Calais chief hard left activists should be kicked out Calais chief hard left activists should be kicked out Calais chief says BRITISH hard-left activists causing migrant chaos should be 'kicked out' Burkina Faso terror attack travel advice Foreign Office Burkina Faso terror attack travel advice Foreign Office TERROR WARNING: Britons told to 'stay vigilant' amid horror hotel attack in Burkina Faso migrant crisis number refugees arriving boats trebles migrant crisis number refugees arriving boats trebles No end to migrant crisis: Number of refugees arriving by boats TREBLES in a year Explosions gunfire Burkina Faso Explosions gunfire Burkina Faso Sick al-Qaeda fighters kill 20 after attacking hotel used by UN in Burkina Faso return Joyce kidnap beauty queen return Joyce kidnap beauty queen Return of Joyce, the kidnap beauty queen Swimming pool bans migrants Germany Swimming pool bans migrants Germany German swimming pool bans all migrants after girls 'sexually assaulted by Syrian boys' Cologne attacks fury migrant sex cover up refugee event groping Germany Cologne attacks fury migrant sex cover up refugee event groping Germany MIGRANT SEX ATTACK 'COVER-UP': Welcome party for Cologne refugees turned into mass groping Danish zoo dissect second lion three months children Danish zoo dissect second lion three months children GRAPHIC CONTENT: Anger as zoo to dissect second lion in three months in front of children Fears of growing financial crisis as Walmart slashes thousands of jobs and Dow plummets Fears of growing financial crisis as Walmart slashes thousands of jobs and Dow plummets Fears of growing financial crisis as Walmart slashes thousands of jobs and Dow plummets Jewish people abandon skull caps anti Semitic attacks Jewish people abandon skull caps anti Semitic attacks Jewish people forced to abandon traditional skull caps following anti-Semitic attacks Saudi Arabia: Britons do not respect death penalty laws Saudi Arabia: Britons do not respect death penalty laws Saudi Arabia: Britons do not respect our death penalty laws - but they SHOULD Islamic State Uighurs China fleeing Syria boost jihadi ranks Islamic State Uighurs China fleeing Syria boost jihadi ranks ISIS army set for new wave of recruits as 'thousands' of Chinese militants flee to Syria Calais migrants dodge Jungle eviction carry homes French bulldozers Calais migrants dodge Jungle eviction carry homes French bulldozers Chaos as Calais migrants try to dodge Jungle eviction by CARRYING their homes to safety Donald Trump ahead opposition Republican President candidate Donald Trump ahead opposition Republican President candidate Donald Trump steams ahead in polls and looks set to become Republican President candidate Terrorism Russia security expert radicalised Muslims pose threat Putin Terrorism Russia security expert radicalised Muslims pose threat Putin Putin facing 'substantial' threat of homegrown terrorists plotting attacks inside Russia [1] SEARCH ____________________ (BUTTON) CONNECT WITH US * Find us on Facebook * Follow us on Twitter * Check us on Google+ * Subscribe to our rss feed * Check our YouTube channel TODAY'S PAPER todays-paper Sunday, 17th January 2016 See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. 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Magazine * new! Magazine * Star Magazine * Health Lottery Northern and Shell Copyright ©2016 Northern and Shell Media Publications. "Daily Express" is a registered trademark. All rights reserved. -- #publisher Daily Express World RSS Feed Daily Express Search Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. sunday_express_logo ____________________ (BUTTON) * Find us on Facebook * Follow us on Twitter * Check us on Google+ * Subscribe to our rss feed Daily Horoscope Our Apps Top 10 Our Paper Paper Archive Weather 4° London * HOME * News * Showbiz & TV * Sport * Comment * Finance * Travel * Entertainment * Life & Style * UK * World * Politics * Royal * History * Science * Weird * Nature * Obituaries * Sunday * Scotland * Weather * Home * News * World * Terror fears after bomb-making gear is stolen from Army base Terror fears after bomb-making gear is stolen from Army base ENOUGH explosives for several terrorist attacks have been stolen from a French Army base. By John Ingham PUBLISHED: 20:23, Tue, Jul 7, 2015 | UPDATED: 20:34, Tue, Jul 7, 2015 dynamite GETTYExplosives have been stolen from the French army base Plastic explosives, 180 detonators and 40 grenades were taken from the base at Miramas near Marseille. Details emerged on the 10th anniversary of London’s 7/7 terror attacks when four Islamic suicide bombers murdered 52 civilians on the Tube network and on a bus. The weekend raid on the French base was only spotted on Monday. It took place despite heightened security following a spate of terrorist attacks in France. Last month an extremist beheaded his boss and tried to blow up a gas plant near Lyon. In January extremists murdered 17 people in Paris at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and at a Jewish foodstore. The Miramas site serves as a logistical base for the French army’s operations overseas. The country's defence ministry has ordered a review of the army’s military supplies and the protection of ammunition storage units. Related articles * Bungling police leave old explosives outside station for FIVE DAYS sparking bomb scare * US security officials miss WEAPONS and EXPLOSIVES in 95 PER CENT of airport checks * Teens bought bomb-making gear in plot to blow up Houses of Parliament & Buckingham Palace It wasn’t cotton candy that was stolen. These are dangerous munitions. Frederic Vigouroux, mayor of Miramas A separate inquiry is being carried out by the French police. Authorities are understood to be treating the raid as the work of criminals but there are fears they could sell the explosives and detonators to terrorists. Miramas Mayor Frederic Vigouroux said that nine storehouses were affected in the theft. “It wasn’t cotton candy that was stolen,” he said. “These are dangerous munitions.” Colonel Gilles Jaron, a spokesman for French military, said about 160 civilians and soldiers work on the site daily, and guards with sniffer dogs patrol the area. Most Read Stories in World * 1 Polls show nearly half of all Germans fear refugees after Cologne attack Polls show nearly half of all Germans fear refugees after Cologne attack * 2 ‘German girls are just there for sex’ What migrant told woman as he groped her in street ‘German girls are just there for sex’ What migrant told woman as he groped her in street * 3 Officials forced to pull law banning child marriage as Sharia enforcers say it’s UNISLAMIC Officials forced to pull law banning child marriage as Sharia enforcers say it’s UNISLAMIC * 4 WATCH: Shocking moment filmmakers are attacked by gang of males with knives in Calais WATCH: Shocking moment filmmakers are attacked by gang of males with knives in Calais * 5 MIGRANT SEX ATTACK 'COVER-UP': Welcome party for Cologne refugees turned into mass groping MIGRANT SEX ATTACK 'COVER-UP': Welcome party for Cologne refugees turned into mass groping Daily Express Polls half of all Germans fear refugees Cologne attack Polls half of all Germans fear refugees Cologne attack Merkel's nightmare: Almost half of Germans NOW FEAR refugees after Cologne attacks WATCH: Shocking moment filmmakers are attacked by gang of males with knives in Calais WATCH: Shocking moment filmmakers are attacked by gang of males with knives in Calais WATCH: Shocking moment filmmakers are attacked by gang of males with knives in Calais Syrian lottery winner bring entire family France scratch card Syrian lottery winner bring entire family France scratch card Syrian lottery winner will bring ENTIRE FAMILY to Europe BREAKING: Islamic State takes 400 hostages during attack BREAKING: Islamic State takes 400 hostages during attack Islamic State jihadis take 400 hostages during horror siege on town http://games.express.co.uk/quizzes-games?game=arkadiuminc13/a-which-wor ld-leader-are-you road rage shooting Tempe Arizona road rage shooting Tempe Arizona Shooter ‘kills driver in rage leaving five hurt including three kids and pregnant woman' Iran sanctions lifted access billions frozen assets US prisoners freed EU nuclear deal Iran sanctions lifted access billions frozen assets US prisoners freed EU nuclear deal Iran to get access to BILLIONS in frozen assets as sanctions lifted and US prisoners freed Official resigns after disguising van man old lady using wig bizarre PR stunt Official resigns after disguising van man old lady using wig bizarre PR stunt Official resigns after disguising van man as OLD LADY using wig in bizarre PR stunt Pakistani officials forced pull law banning child marriage un islamic Pakistani officials forced pull law banning child marriage un islamic Officials forced to pull law banning child marriage as Sharia enforcers say it’s UNISLAMIC Islamic State ISIS jihadis homeless bomb underground Paris Metro terror attacks Islamic State ISIS jihadis homeless bomb underground Paris Metro terror attacks ISIS jihadis could disguise themselves as HOMELESS people to plant bombs on tube trains World Migrant Crisis: Refugee numbers reach 60 MILLION – how can Europe house them all? World Migrant Crisis: Refugee numbers reach 60 MILLION – how can Europe house them all? World Migrant Crisis: Refugee numbers reach 60 MILLION – how can Europe house them all? migrant sex attacks refugees grope schoolgirls Austria Salzburg Cologne rapes Merkel migrant sex attacks refugees grope schoolgirls Austria Salzburg Cologne rapes Merkel The cover-up unravels: Yet ANOTHER migrant sex attack exposed by brave schoolgirl victims migrant sex attacks Germany Dortmund refugees Merkel migrant sex attacks Germany Dortmund refugees Merkel ‘German girls are just there for sex’ What migrant told woman as he groped her in street ‘Pretty potheads’ pose for semi-naked snaps as new craze sweeps social media ‘Pretty potheads’ pose for semi-naked snaps as new craze sweeps social media ‘Pretty potheads’ pose for semi-naked snaps as new craze sweeps social media Austrian army brought 1,000 migrants WEEK fake ID Austrian army brought 1,000 migrants WEEK fake ID Austrian army brought in as 1,000 migrants A WEEK arrive with fake ID Swiss confiscate migrants’ valuables take 10% migrant tax from wages Swiss confiscate migrants’ valuables take 10% migrant tax from wages Pay to stay: Swiss confiscate migrants’ valuables and take 10% migrant tax from wages Calais chief hard left activists should be kicked out Calais chief hard left activists should be kicked out Calais chief says BRITISH hard-left activists causing migrant chaos should be 'kicked out' Burkina Faso terror attack travel advice Foreign Office Burkina Faso terror attack travel advice Foreign Office TERROR WARNING: Britons told to 'stay vigilant' amid horror hotel attack in Burkina Faso migrant crisis number refugees arriving boats trebles migrant crisis number refugees arriving boats trebles No end to migrant crisis: Number of refugees arriving by boats TREBLES in a year Explosions gunfire Burkina Faso Explosions gunfire Burkina Faso Sick al-Qaeda fighters kill 20 after attacking hotel used by UN in Burkina Faso return Joyce kidnap beauty queen return Joyce kidnap beauty queen Return of Joyce, the kidnap beauty queen Swimming pool bans migrants Germany Swimming pool bans migrants Germany German swimming pool bans all migrants after girls 'sexually assaulted by Syrian boys' Cologne attacks fury migrant sex cover up refugee event groping Germany Cologne attacks fury migrant sex cover up refugee event groping Germany MIGRANT SEX ATTACK 'COVER-UP': Welcome party for Cologne refugees turned into mass groping Danish zoo dissect second lion three months children Danish zoo dissect second lion three months children GRAPHIC CONTENT: Anger as zoo to dissect second lion in three months in front of children Fears of growing financial crisis as Walmart slashes thousands of jobs and Dow plummets Fears of growing financial crisis as Walmart slashes thousands of jobs and Dow plummets Fears of growing financial crisis as Walmart slashes thousands of jobs and Dow plummets Jewish people abandon skull caps anti Semitic attacks Jewish people abandon skull caps anti Semitic attacks Jewish people forced to abandon traditional skull caps following anti-Semitic attacks Saudi Arabia: Britons do not respect death penalty laws Saudi Arabia: Britons do not respect death penalty laws Saudi Arabia: Britons do not respect our death penalty laws - but they SHOULD Islamic State Uighurs China fleeing Syria boost jihadi ranks Islamic State Uighurs China fleeing Syria boost jihadi ranks ISIS army set for new wave of recruits as 'thousands' of Chinese militants flee to Syria Calais migrants dodge Jungle eviction carry homes French bulldozers Calais migrants dodge Jungle eviction carry homes French bulldozers Chaos as Calais migrants try to dodge Jungle eviction by CARRYING their homes to safety Donald Trump ahead opposition Republican President candidate Donald Trump ahead opposition Republican President candidate Donald Trump steams ahead in polls and looks set to become Republican President candidate Terrorism Russia security expert radicalised Muslims pose threat Putin Terrorism Russia security expert radicalised Muslims pose threat Putin Putin facing 'substantial' threat of homegrown terrorists plotting attacks inside Russia [1] SEARCH ____________________ (BUTTON) CONNECT WITH US * Find us on Facebook * Follow us on Twitter * Check us on Google+ * Subscribe to our rss feed * Check our YouTube channel TODAY'S PAPER todays-paper Sunday, 17th January 2016 See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. 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By Sarah Ann Harris Sarah Ann Harris PUBLISHED: 12:30, Thu, Jan 8, 2015 Charlie Hebdo will be published next week despite the attacks AFP & GETTY & REUTERSCharlie Hebdo will be published next week despite the attacks Former Charlie Hebdo journalist Caroline Fourest told ABC that past employees will band together with current workers to ensure that the magazine is published next week. Ms Fourest, who worked for the publication in 2011, said: "We have all decided, the journalists who survived and their ex-colleagues, that we are going to have a meeting tomorrow to publish the next Charlie Hebdo, because there is no way, even if they killed 10 of us, that the newspaper won't be out next week." She added: "All the time when we met we tried to make fun and joke about the crazy stupid people who were violent enough to be afraid of a simple cartoon. "They can continue to be afraid, because there will be more cartoons." **CLICK HERE TO SEE A HISTORY OF TERRORISM ACROSS THE WORLD** Twelve people were murdered in yesterday's attack, including the magazine's editor, seven more journalists and cartoonists and two police officers. France fell silent today in memory of the who lost their lives EPA France fell silent today in memory of the who lost their lives We tried to make fun and joke about the crazy stupid people who were violent enough to be afraid of a simple cartoon Caroline Fourest Thousands of police officers are still searching for French-Algerian brothers Cherif and Saïd Kouachi, aged 32 and 34, who have been named by police as the suspected gunmen. Charlie Hebdo's editor-in-chief Stephane Charbonnier – known as Charb – and cartoonists Jean Cabu, Georges Wolinski and Bernard "Tignous" Verlhac were among those shot dead in the callous attack. French economist and writer Bernard Maris was also killed in the attack. Mr Charbonnier had reportedly received death threats in the past and was under police protection. Pens and pencils left in the Place de la Republique EPA Pens and pencils left in the Place de la Republique The officer guarding him was also killed by the terrorists. This is not the first time that Charlie Hebdo's office has been attacked. The magazine was firebombed in November 2011 after publishing a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad. After the attack, the publication's editor vowed: "I'd rather die standing than live on my knees." 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World Migrant Crisis: Refugee numbers reach 60 MILLION – how can Europe house them all? migrant sex attacks refugees grope schoolgirls Austria Salzburg Cologne rapes Merkel migrant sex attacks refugees grope schoolgirls Austria Salzburg Cologne rapes Merkel The cover-up unravels: Yet ANOTHER migrant sex attack exposed by brave schoolgirl victims migrant sex attacks Germany Dortmund refugees Merkel migrant sex attacks Germany Dortmund refugees Merkel ‘German girls are just there for sex’ What migrant told woman as he groped her in street ‘Pretty potheads’ pose for semi-naked snaps as new craze sweeps social media ‘Pretty potheads’ pose for semi-naked snaps as new craze sweeps social media ‘Pretty potheads’ pose for semi-naked snaps as new craze sweeps social media Austrian army brought 1,000 migrants WEEK fake ID Austrian army brought 1,000 migrants WEEK fake ID Austrian army brought in as 1,000 migrants A WEEK arrive with fake ID Swiss confiscate migrants’ valuables take 10% migrant tax from wages Swiss confiscate migrants’ valuables take 10% migrant tax from wages Pay to stay: Swiss confiscate migrants’ valuables and take 10% migrant tax from wages Calais chief hard left activists should be kicked out Calais chief hard left activists should be kicked out Calais chief says BRITISH hard-left activists causing migrant chaos should be 'kicked out' Burkina Faso terror attack travel advice Foreign Office Burkina Faso terror attack travel advice Foreign Office TERROR WARNING: Britons told to 'stay vigilant' amid horror hotel attack in Burkina Faso migrant crisis number refugees arriving boats trebles migrant crisis number refugees arriving boats trebles No end to migrant crisis: Number of refugees arriving by boats TREBLES in a year Explosions gunfire Burkina Faso Explosions gunfire Burkina Faso Sick al-Qaeda fighters kill 20 after attacking hotel used by UN in Burkina Faso return Joyce kidnap beauty queen return Joyce kidnap beauty queen Return of Joyce, the kidnap beauty queen Swimming pool bans migrants Germany Swimming pool bans migrants Germany German swimming pool bans all migrants after girls 'sexually assaulted by Syrian boys' Cologne attacks fury migrant sex cover up refugee event groping Germany Cologne attacks fury migrant sex cover up refugee event groping Germany MIGRANT SEX ATTACK 'COVER-UP': Welcome party for Cologne refugees turned into mass groping Danish zoo dissect second lion three months children Danish zoo dissect second lion three months children GRAPHIC CONTENT: Anger as zoo to dissect second lion in three months in front of children Fears of growing financial crisis as Walmart slashes thousands of jobs and Dow plummets Fears of growing financial crisis as Walmart slashes thousands of jobs and Dow plummets Fears of growing financial crisis as Walmart slashes thousands of jobs and Dow plummets Jewish people abandon skull caps anti Semitic attacks Jewish people abandon skull caps anti Semitic attacks Jewish people forced to abandon traditional skull caps following anti-Semitic attacks Saudi Arabia: Britons do not respect death penalty laws Saudi Arabia: Britons do not respect death penalty laws Saudi Arabia: Britons do not respect our death penalty laws - but they SHOULD Islamic State Uighurs China fleeing Syria boost jihadi ranks Islamic State Uighurs China fleeing Syria boost jihadi ranks ISIS army set for new wave of recruits as 'thousands' of Chinese militants flee to Syria Calais migrants dodge Jungle eviction carry homes French bulldozers Calais migrants dodge Jungle eviction carry homes French bulldozers Chaos as Calais migrants try to dodge Jungle eviction by CARRYING their homes to safety Donald Trump ahead opposition Republican President candidate Donald Trump ahead opposition Republican President candidate Donald Trump steams ahead in polls and looks set to become Republican President candidate Terrorism Russia security expert radicalised Muslims pose threat Putin Terrorism Russia security expert radicalised Muslims pose threat Putin Putin facing 'substantial' threat of homegrown terrorists plotting attacks inside Russia [1] SEARCH ____________________ (BUTTON) CONNECT WITH US * Find us on Facebook * Follow us on Twitter * Check us on Google+ * Subscribe to our rss feed * Check our YouTube channel TODAY'S PAPER todays-paper Sunday, 17th January 2016 See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. 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By Greg Heffer PUBLISHED: 00:00, Thu, Jan 8, 2015 A person reads Charlie Hebdo in Paris AFP • GETTYA person reads the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo in Paris earlier this morning Regularly publishing articles on the far-right, Catholicism, Islam and Judaism the publication is renowned for being anti-religious and left-wing. In November 2011, its Paris offices were gutted in a firebomb attack. **CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE IMAGES OF OTHER TERRORISM** The magazine's editor-in-chief Stephane Charbonnier - also known only as Charb - said at the time he was convinced the fire was linked to a special edition in which it joked that it had appointed the Prophet Muhammed as its 'guest editor'. He said: "We feel we're just doing our job as usual. The only difference is that this week, Muhammad is on the cover and that's quite rare. "We are against all religious fundamentalism but we are not against practising Muslims. We are for the Arab Spring, and against the winter of fanatics." The edition was renamed as the 'Sharia Weekly' and had a front page cartoon of the Islamic Prophet with the slogan '100 lashes if you don't die laughing'. On the back was a picture of Muhammed wearing a red clown nose, and the words, 'Yes, Islam is compatible with humour'. The depiction of the Prophet's face is strictly prohibited in Islam. Police said at the time they suspected extremists had destroyed the magazine's main office in central Paris with a petrol bomb. No one was injured in the blaze. Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris REUTERS • REX The Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, where a journalist works inside Related articles * Paris shooting: 'Twelve killed and four critical' in gun attack on magazine office Charlie Hebdo - known as a French version of British satirical publication Private Eye - courted controversy again in September 2012 after it published a series of satirical cartoons of Prophet Muhammed The magazine's website was also hacked after the attack, with its home page replaced with a photo of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and a message reading: "No god but Allah". Charlie Hebdo - known as a French version of British satirical publication Private Eye - courted controversy again in September 2012 after it published a series of satirical cartoons of Prophet Muhammed. That edition sold out within hours. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius criticised the timing of publication, as it came after a series of attacks on US embassies in the Middle East, reportedly in response to the anti-Islamic film Innocence of Muslims. Mr Fabius said at the time: "In the present context, given this absurd video that has been aired, strong emotions have been awakened in many Muslim countries. “Is it really sensible or intelligent to pour oil on the fire?” Charlie Hebdo's journalist Gérard Biard commented at the time: "The caricatures are meant to satirise the video and the violence it has stirred and to denounce that violence as absurd. “What are we supposed to do when there’s news like this?” “Are we supposed to not do that news?” In 2006, Charlie Hebdo republished Muhammed cartoons that had sparked worldwide protests when they originally ran in Denmark. A Paris court later threw out an attempt by two Muslim organisations to sue for incitement to hatred. It has previously been reported how Charlie Hebdo must sell 30,000 issues of its weekly magazine from news-stands to keep afloat. It has routinely seen sales double or magazines sell out each time it has run controversial cartoons of Muhammed. 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World Migrant Crisis: Refugee numbers reach 60 MILLION – how can Europe house them all? migrant sex attacks refugees grope schoolgirls Austria Salzburg Cologne rapes Merkel migrant sex attacks refugees grope schoolgirls Austria Salzburg Cologne rapes Merkel The cover-up unravels: Yet ANOTHER migrant sex attack exposed by brave schoolgirl victims migrant sex attacks Germany Dortmund refugees Merkel migrant sex attacks Germany Dortmund refugees Merkel ‘German girls are just there for sex’ What migrant told woman as he groped her in street ‘Pretty potheads’ pose for semi-naked snaps as new craze sweeps social media ‘Pretty potheads’ pose for semi-naked snaps as new craze sweeps social media ‘Pretty potheads’ pose for semi-naked snaps as new craze sweeps social media Austrian army brought 1,000 migrants WEEK fake ID Austrian army brought 1,000 migrants WEEK fake ID Austrian army brought in as 1,000 migrants A WEEK arrive with fake ID Swiss confiscate migrants’ valuables take 10% migrant tax from wages Swiss confiscate migrants’ valuables take 10% migrant tax from wages Pay to stay: Swiss confiscate migrants’ valuables and take 10% migrant tax from wages Calais chief hard left activists should be kicked out Calais chief hard left activists should be kicked out Calais chief says BRITISH hard-left activists causing migrant chaos should be 'kicked out' Burkina Faso terror attack travel advice Foreign Office Burkina Faso terror attack travel advice Foreign Office TERROR WARNING: Britons told to 'stay vigilant' amid horror hotel attack in Burkina Faso migrant crisis number refugees arriving boats trebles migrant crisis number refugees arriving boats trebles No end to migrant crisis: Number of refugees arriving by boats TREBLES in a year Explosions gunfire Burkina Faso Explosions gunfire Burkina Faso Sick al-Qaeda fighters kill 20 after attacking hotel used by UN in Burkina Faso return Joyce kidnap beauty queen return Joyce kidnap beauty queen Return of Joyce, the kidnap beauty queen Swimming pool bans migrants Germany Swimming pool bans migrants Germany German swimming pool bans all migrants after girls 'sexually assaulted by Syrian boys' Cologne attacks fury migrant sex cover up refugee event groping Germany Cologne attacks fury migrant sex cover up refugee event groping Germany MIGRANT SEX ATTACK 'COVER-UP': Welcome party for Cologne refugees turned into mass groping Danish zoo dissect second lion three months children Danish zoo dissect second lion three months children GRAPHIC CONTENT: Anger as zoo to dissect second lion in three months in front of children Fears of growing financial crisis as Walmart slashes thousands of jobs and Dow plummets Fears of growing financial crisis as Walmart slashes thousands of jobs and Dow plummets Fears of growing financial crisis as Walmart slashes thousands of jobs and Dow plummets Jewish people abandon skull caps anti Semitic attacks Jewish people abandon skull caps anti Semitic attacks Jewish people forced to abandon traditional skull caps following anti-Semitic attacks Saudi Arabia: Britons do not respect death penalty laws Saudi Arabia: Britons do not respect death penalty laws Saudi Arabia: Britons do not respect our death penalty laws - but they SHOULD Islamic State Uighurs China fleeing Syria boost jihadi ranks Islamic State Uighurs China fleeing Syria boost jihadi ranks ISIS army set for new wave of recruits as 'thousands' of Chinese militants flee to Syria Calais migrants dodge Jungle eviction carry homes French bulldozers Calais migrants dodge Jungle eviction carry homes French bulldozers Chaos as Calais migrants try to dodge Jungle eviction by CARRYING their homes to safety Donald Trump ahead opposition Republican President candidate Donald Trump ahead opposition Republican President candidate Donald Trump steams ahead in polls and looks set to become Republican President candidate Terrorism Russia security expert radicalised Muslims pose threat Putin Terrorism Russia security expert radicalised Muslims pose threat Putin Putin facing 'substantial' threat of homegrown terrorists plotting attacks inside Russia [1] SEARCH ____________________ (BUTTON) CONNECT WITH US * Find us on Facebook * Follow us on Twitter * Check us on Google+ * Subscribe to our rss feed * Check our YouTube channel TODAY'S PAPER todays-paper Sunday, 17th January 2016 See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. 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Finally a diet that lets you eat chocolate and drink red... 1 * Delicious and healthy Sirtfood diet recipe ideas to try for... Delicious and healthy Sirtfood diet recipe ideas to try... 1 Comments (0) If all publicity is good publicity, then Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's contentious action comedy has been a marketing dream. The film monopolised column inches and airtime last year after hackers calling themselves Guardians of Peace attacked Sony Pictures, releasing confidential data about employees and A-list stars on the company's roster. The scale of the cyber attack against a corporation with a strong technology pedigree was dizzying, culminating in threats against American cinema chains that were planning to screen The Interview. After all of the brouhaha and vociferous debate about free speech, The Interview turns out to be a crass, lumbering and toothless political satire. Trey Parker and Matt Stone's bad taste puppet satire Team America: World Police trampled over similar ground in 2004 with considerably more gumption and style. Their marionettes jumped to a pulsating soundtrack of original songs including "Freedom Isn't Free" but all The Interview can muster is James Franco caterwauling Katy Perry. "Baby you're a firework," he croons. No, baby you're a damp squib. Dave Skylark (Franco) is the gregarious host of entertainment show Skylark Tonight, which prides itself on headline-grabbing celebrity exposes. Long-time producer Aaron Rapaport (Seth Rogen) learns that Kim Jong-un (Randall Park), Supreme Leader of North Korea, is an ardent fan of the show, so he casually approaches the President's advisors for an on-air interview. Miraculously, the notoriously secretive regime agrees. "All questions will be supplied by the Supreme Leader," confirms the President's right-hand woman Sook Yung Park (Diana Bang). Shortly before they depart for Pyongyang, Dave and Aaron meet with CIA Agent Lacey (Lizzy Caplan), who wants the duo to poison Kim with ricin during their private audience. The lads agree but the covert operation gradually falls apart when Lacey discovers her inside men are buffoons. The Interview starts promisingly with a North Korean anthem awash with politically incorrect lyrics against the west and a Skylark Tonight episode devoted to rapper Eminem, who outs himself during a chat with Dave about his homophobic lyrics. "I've been leaving a breadcrumb trail of gayness," explains the rapper, bounding out of the closet. The uncomfortable giggles end there and for the next 90 minutes, Dan Sterling's script careens from one clumsy homophobic interlude to the next, until Dave determines that Kim must die because, "That's the American way!" The central pairing of Franco and Rogen grate before they have departed American soil, long before Kim has proudly shown off a vintage tank, which was a gift to his country from Stalin, and Dave has corrected him: "In my country, it's pronounced Stallone." 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Finally a diet that lets you eat chocolate and drink red... 1 * Delicious and healthy Sirtfood diet recipe ideas to try for... Delicious and healthy Sirtfood diet recipe ideas to try... 1 Comments (0) When Colin Firth was injured during production on his latest movie, it wasn't a medic that was called over, it was a photographer. "Every time I got a bruise or a broken tooth, rather than get the nurse in, it was, 'Get the cameras in, so we can show you're going through it!'" recalls the 54-year-old. That's because in his latest incarnation, the man known to millions as Mr Darcy, from both the Pride And Prejudice TV series and Bridget Jones movies, has turned action spy and martial arts expert, in the comic book adaptation Kingsman: The Secret Service. "When we were shooting it, the stunt guy would say, 'Let's get the B-roll in to film some of this, because nobody's going to believe it'." Firth, looking handsome in a dark suit and black-rimmed glasses, couldn't believe it either, and is more than aware that his many fans will see it as an unexpected role. "It was unexpected for me too, but it sparked my interest immediately because of that," admits the Hampshire-born actor, who was already intrigued by the director Matthew Vaughn, who also helmed Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class. "I think he's a one-off. There was no script yet, it was a work in progress and he wasn't ready to show it to me, so I just went to hear what he had to say and I found him very compelling," reveals Firth, who was Oscar nominated for Tom Ford's A Single Man in 2010, and walked away with the gold statuette for The King's Speech the following year. "Something in me just went, 'Why not?' It's so unusual for me, that it seemed silly not to take a chance." Early on, Vaughn was "full of dire warning" of the extent of training he'd be required to do. "And how much it would hurt and how much I was going to hate him by the end of it, and was I up for that," Firth adds. "It was three hours a day for about six months, and started off in my back garden with a squat, lunge and somersaults, and then the choreography kicked in. I was learning to use parts of my body that I'd never used - I didn't even know they existed. It was painful, but I warmed to it and found it exhilarating," he continues. "This wasn't the stuff I was doing when I was young. I wasn't one of the more athletic drama students. My recreation was a lot more sedate in my youth, so it was a chance in my 50s to do something completely different, and go into a bit of a physical world for a while." Bar one stunt, involving a rig, it's all Firth on screen. "I said that to somebody, and they looked at me with horrified disappointment that I would tell people such an egregious lie," he notes, smiling. "One of the reasons I feel so driven to tell people, is that I won't have gone through all that pain for nothing." The effort definitely paid off. Not only did Livia, his Italian wife of 17 years, appreciate her newly honed husband ("It got noticed!" he confesses, laughing), but he looks a natural in the role of Harry, an impeccably suave spy and member of the secret organisation, known as Kingsman. Harry recruits street kid Eggsy, played by newcomer Taron Egerton, and trains him up just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius, brought to life by Samuel L. Jackson. A pastiche of the spy movies we all know and love, Firth acknowledges there's a lot of violence - but "it's wildly implausible". "It's like a provocative pantomime, and in some ways I think it's sending up the extremity. I can't imagine how anyone would emulate it, because you'd need to be trained to do that stuff. It's closer to what you get in Monty Python, than it is to the realistic films about the Middle East." He hasn't decided whether he'll allow his two sons - Luca, 13 and Matteo, 11 - to watch it (he also has a 24-year-old son from a previous relationship with actress Meg Tilly). "I'm not going to publicly recommend this to anyone under 15. But it's different, because my children saw me train, and went to set and saw me backstage and saw me in the workplace, so they have a very different perspective." And whether or not people believe it to be gratuitously violent is "a valid conversation" to be had, Firth adds. "There are fights in Punch And Judy and Shakespeare, and there's violence in war films and zombie films. There's violence of all types, and unless you believe they should be extracted from all storytelling, then it has to become a conversation about where your own threshold is," he remarks. "Whatever that threshold is, Matthew likes to go towards the edge of it, and sit there and be provocative and outrageous but without, I think, any intention to horrify. I think the violence in it is comic in tone, satirical and completely silly." There'll be action of a different sort, when Firth starts filming Deep Water with The Theory Of Everything's director James Marsh this spring. "It's about Donald Crowhurst, who was a participant in the round the world yacht race in 1968," he explains. "But nothing's ever set in stone until it's ready to go." Genius, on the other hand, a chronicle in which he plays Max Perkins, the book editor at renowned publisher Scribner, who oversaw works by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, is in the can. The movie marks his third collaboration with Nicole Kidman, following The Railway Man and Before I Go Sleep. He grins when asked if they'll work together again. "Inevitably," Firth replies. 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Finally a diet that lets you eat chocolate and drink red... 1 * Delicious and healthy Sirtfood diet recipe ideas to try for... Delicious and healthy Sirtfood diet recipe ideas to try... 1 Comments (0) He's the sharp-tongued satirist who has made a living out of lampooning everything from Benefits Street to Katie Hopkins, but Charlie Brooker's viewing habits might surprise his fans. "The thing I've watched most on TV recently is [kids' cartoon] Adventure Time," says the father-of-two, who also admits to enjoying The Apprentice and wholesome hit The Great British Bake Off with his wife, former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq. He also tunes in to current affairs shows like Newsnight, Sky News and even This Morning, for his BBC Two show Weekly Wipe, which takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the week's news, film, TV and tweets. But after recording an episode of the scathingly satirical show, he admits 'I can't watch anything for a bit'." Brooker is back with a third series this month, joined by the usual cast of comedic characters, including the much-loved Barry Shitpeas (played by Al Campbell) and Philomena Cunk (Diane Morgan). Contributors Doug Stanhope and Limmy (Brian Limond) won't be making an appearance this time ("not through want of trying but because we couldn't get them") but a few newcomers will be joining the cast, and "more women". And that's not the only thing that will be different in this six-part series. "There's been a change in the parody law recently [allowing the parody of copyright works], which slightly frees us up to do a few more things," says Brooker, 43. "So this series will be more of the same, but different. In that we're doing more of the same, but it's different," he clarifies, dryly. Writer and presenter Huq, who wed Brooker in Las Vegas in 2010, also contributes her own ideas (albeit unofficially) to the Weekly Wipe programmes. "I'll be watching footage at home, and she'll chip in with thoughts and observations - they often end up in episodes," her husband notes. It's hard to imagine the longest-serving female Blue Peter presenter having a part in such dark and sinister shows, but Brooker - who has two sons with Huq; two-year-old Covey and Huxley, 11 months - reveals: "I think she's got a darker sense of humour than people probably realise, and weirder." It's been a month since the presenter last graced our screens, with his 2014 Wipe looking back on the "huge, grim events" of the year, and the highly-anticipated Christmas special of Black Mirror - the series Brooker created, which was described by Channel 4 as "the most mind-bending episode yet". The 90-minute episode of tense dystopian satire was a far cry from what most people would normally expect of a festive special. "I suppose it threw people, because it was kind of a horror movie, and it wasn't necessarily flagged as one. I think a lot of people were like, 'Oh my God, how horrible!'" says Brooker. The writer and broadcaster was able to enlist the help of a famous fan, Mad Men's Jon Hamm, for the special. Brooker had written a part for a British "cheeky chappy" figure, but after learning of the American actor's admiration for the series, he emailed Hamm the script, explaining he was thinking of changing the part. "He got back to me pretty quickly," says Brooker. "I was amazed and delighted. He's brilliant in the role, and it's much more interesting with him than the original notion." Reading-born Brooker started out as a writer and cartoonist for a comic called Oink! in the late Eighties, and went on to work for The Guardian as a TV critic. In 2006, he began presenting TV review programme Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe on BBC Four. He was shocked when he saw the recent terror attacks on the news, against the offices of satirical Paris comic Charlie Hebdo. "It took a while to sink in. I was initially like 'Jesus Christ', and then the more I watched and thought about it, I kept thinking, 'This is crazy'," he admits. As "a former cartoonist called Charlie", Brooker adds: "You wouldn't be human if you didn't feel a spike of fear that people have been murdered for creating comedy." He says he has noted an increasing anxiety in recent times, about what can and can't be said in comedy. "In Britain, people are suggesting that Katie Hopkins should be arrested for tweeting jokes. They were s*** jokes, and terrible statements, but they weren't really hate crimes. I don't think any subject should be out of bounds for comedy generally." Although, he adds: "I think everyone's got a responsibly to not fan the flames any further." EXTRA TIME - FUNNIEST 'WIPE' CHARACTERS :: Philomena Cunk - A recurring Weekly Wipe favourite played by Diane Morgan, Philomena's perspective of the week's news and entertainment ("I wasn't sure I'd understand it because I haven't seen One Years A Slave or Two Years A Slave") is consistently hilarious. :: Jake Yapp - Comedian Yapp's 'Take Me Out In 94 Seconds', in which he impersonates Paddy McGuinness plus a male and a female contestant, is a pretty accurate summary of the ITV dating show. :: Limmy - Limmy (Brian Limond), a regular on the second series who speaks to viewers through YouTube-type videos, was head-hunted by Brooker, who enjoyed the Glaswegian's surreal TV series, Limmy's Show. :: Barry Shitpeas - Played by Al Campbell, the director of Brooker's Screenwipe, the dim Barry's insightful TV reviews are always a highlight. :: Tim Key - Performance poet Key's 'topical poetry' reflects on a variety of hard-hitting, important issues... including Deal Or No Deal and the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross controversy. :: Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe returns to BBC Two on January 29 * * Report this article Read more from Gloucester Citizen * Most Recent * Most Commented * Most Read * Thumbnail image Dame Barabara Windsor is set to leave Eastenders for good * Thumbnail image Finally a diet that lets you eat chocolate and drink red wine:... * Thumbnail image Delicious and healthy Sirtfood diet recipe ideas to try for... * Thumbnail image Dame Barabara Windsor is set to leave Eastenders for good * Default image Caught on Camera: Sainsbury's, Next, Paddy Power and B&M report thefts in Gloucester * Default image Snow 'corridor' 100 miles wide could hit parts of Gloucestershire * Default image Winnycroft Lane in Gloucester closed after crash Do you have something to say? 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Longford FC go down 2-1 in narrowest loss yet after... So close... Longford FC go down 2-1 in narrowest loss yet... 50 * Police controller speaks out: 'I hate it. I dread my daughter... Police controller speaks out: 'I hate it. I dread my... 1 * Poll: Derelict Hucclecote toilets set for barber transformation... Poll: Derelict Hucclecote toilets set for barber transformat... 1 Comments (1) Charlie Hebdo magazines are apparently being sold by an Ebay seller from Gloucester for up to £100,100. A bidding frenzy has ensued for four remaining magazines are still to be sold and range in price from £820 to £95,500 with a few hours left to sell - but it seems that people will stop at nothing to get their hands on the magazine. It is the first published work from the satirical magazine since 12 people in its Paris office were killed by Islamic extremists supposedly in retaliation for depicting the Prophet Muhammad. In a show of defiance, and the defence of freedom of speech, the magazine received hundreds of thousands in donations, allowing to do a print run of five million copies, rather its usual 60,000. Despite the large number being printed, it appears there are not enough to fill demand overseas. source: imgur.com The Gloucester seller, lcg1981, has already sold one magazine for £100,100 and another four are seeing hundreds of bids, with all bidding closing by 6.33pm this evening. On the site, he says: “I have a small supply of the Charlie Hebdo magazines available that I can post out Friday 16th January from the UK, these are the special edition with Mohamed depicted that has been released due to the recent tragic events. “Please note that this is the UK version of the magazine that will most likely be printed in English. “You are bidding for one copy of the magazine.” * * Report this article Read more from Gloucester Citizen * Most Recent * Most Commented * Most Read * Thumbnail image So close... Longford FC go down 2-1 in narrowest loss yet after... * Thumbnail image Police controller speaks out: 'I hate it. 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(BUTTON) X * Share Tweet Share Pin It Email ____________________ Copy link to paste in your message / * [9317332.jpg] Charlie Hebdo vigil held in Bristol * [9317332-thumb.jpg] * So close... Longford FC go down 2-1 in narrowest loss yet after... So close... Longford FC go down 2-1 in narrowest loss yet... 50 * Police controller speaks out: 'I hate it. I dread my daughter... Police controller speaks out: 'I hate it. I dread my... 1 * Poll: Derelict Hucclecote toilets set for barber transformation... Poll: Derelict Hucclecote toilets set for barber transformat... 1 Comments (3) A Gloucester eBay user is selling the new and unreleased Charlie Hebdo magazine - featuring the Prophet Muhammad on its front cover. With nine hours remaining until the item expires, bidding for the copy has already surpassed £500. It soared from its original price of 99p to the £532 it currently stands at. The seller from Gloucester says in the item's description: "I have a small supply of the Charlie Hebdo magazines available that I can post out Friday 16th January from the UK. "These are the special edition with Mohammad depicted, that has been released due to the recent tragic events." source: imgur.com Three million copies of Charlie Hebdo’s latest edition are being printed to meet huge public demand in the wake of the killings at the magazine's offices last week. The edition is being printed in French, Italian and Turkish - and digital versions will also be available in English, Spanish and Arabic. Magazine wholesalers, Smith News and Menzies Distribution, confirmed they will be supplying the new edition to British readers. Copies of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo will be on sale in Cheltenham. Forge Newsagent’s in Charlton Kingshas pre-ordered 20 copies of the magazine, which is expected to be in short supply, when it comes out on Wednesday (JAN 14). It is not expected to reach UK shelves until Friday. Owner Ila Aghera said anyone wanting a copy should reserve one from her shop on Church Street. She said: “I already stock another French magazine, so I thought people might want to buy a copy of this magazine, especially as it’s coming out after everything that’s happened. “I asked my supplier if he could get me some and he said it was possible. “The order will be a one-off, though, and I think people might want it as a souvenir. “The shop is near several schools, so I ordered Charlie Hebdo in case the teachers wanted to buy a copy to show their pupils.” source: imgur.com The new front cover features the headline 'all is forgiven' over a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad - weeping as he holds a placard reading 'Je Suis Charlie'. It was drawn by Charlie Hebdo cartoonist, Renald 'Luz' Luzier, who survived the killings because he was late for work that day. However, prominent Muslims have condemned the cover cartoon of Mohammed as highly offensive – and warned it could provoke more extremist violence. * * Report this article Read more from Gloucester Citizen * Most Recent * Most Commented * Most Read * Thumbnail image So close... Longford FC go down 2-1 in narrowest loss yet after... * Thumbnail image Police controller speaks out: 'I hate it. 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Does the seller have a history of selling this magazine to the UK public, or just taking advantage of the press coverage and cashing in off the back of a horrific event in Paris? | -16 Report * Profile image for Lecorche Lecorche | January 14 2015, 9:46AM Take a peek for nowt.. http://tinyurl.com/ocr6ktg | -6 Report * Profile image for SandraPee SandraPee | January 14 2015, 8:06AM It would be nice if the money raised went to charity................... making large amounts of money off the back of such a disaster leaves a bad taste .............. | -8 Report YOUR COMMENTS AWAITING MODERATION Voucher Deals * Voucher Deal Image Double Discount Double Glazing Installers Print voucher * Voucher Deal Image Full bathroom Suite for... Bathroom Planners and Furnishers Print voucher * Voucher Deal Image January Deals! Pubs Print voucher * Voucher Deal Image £490 Full Day Wedding... 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Finally a diet that lets you eat chocolate and drink red... 1 * Delicious and healthy Sirtfood diet recipe ideas to try for... Delicious and healthy Sirtfood diet recipe ideas to try... 1 Comments (0) The son of the much-loved character actor Roy Kinnear and now an established thespian in his own right, Rory Kinnear could be forgiven for feeling a little jaded by the industry - but he's far from it. "It's always exciting," exclaims the 36-year-old. No doubt it is, when you're papped alongside Daniel Craig while speeding along the River Thames for the next Bond instalment - Spectre - due for release later this year. "It was chilly, but there was this beautiful sky and we were out there just looking at the sun rising. I'm unbelievably lucky to be involved in something that reaches so many people," says the Londoner, who reprises the role of Bill Tanner, MI6's chief of staff, for a third time. Paparazzi shots are one thing, but the film recently fell victim to the Sony studio scandal, where staff emails, stars' salaries and even scripts were hacked and leaked to the public. "I haven't followed the story," insists Kinnear. "It obviously hasn't bothered us within what we're doing. Most people want to go to the cinema with some level of surprise in store, anyway. If you turn up knowing everything that's going to happen, it's a bit of a disappointment, really." As glamorous as it is filming the 007 franchise, Kinnear asserts that the buzz he gets is no different to when he's performing on stage at the Royal National Theatre, or shooting a TV programme like Count Arthur Strong, which recently returned to screens. The series stars Steve Delaney, also the show's co-writer, as the titular character, an elderly 'resting' actor with delusions of grandeur. Kinnear plays Michael Baker, a shy writer who's tracked down Count Arthur Strong, the former partner of his late father, to assist with his dad's biography. In this new series, Michael is once again drawn into Arthur's world of ill thought out, innocent but poorly executed scams, schemes and best-laid plans. "It has an incredibly big heart, one that puts together slightly lonely people who discover that, despite their differences, they all need each other and look out for each other," says the actor, of the comedy that started out on the radio, moved to BBC Two and was then promoted to BBC One for the second run. It's filmed in front of a live audience; no doubt the appeal is, in part at least, down to nostalgia - a way of transporting Kinnear back to the days when he'd watch from the sides as his dad appeared in studio sitcoms. Plus, "it's an exciting way of working", he notes, describing how the cast turn up on a Monday for a read-through, hone the script until Thursday and then learn it for filming on Friday. "There aren't that many jobs, particularly in TV, that are like it. It's a bit like putting on a new play every week, and everyone's involved in getting it tighter and better and funnier." His son, with actress partner Pandora Colin, is too young to watch the series, though he did catch a snippet of a DVD - and "was a bit confused why they were calling me Michael". "But as I walked down the street with him the other day, there was a chap with glasses on and he said, 'Look dad, that's your friend', and I said, 'What do you mean?' He said, 'It's your friend, Arthur'. So he's obviously taken it in, in some way." Kinnear was only 10 when his father died from a freak riding accident while filming The Return Of The Musketeers, but his influence, along with his mother's, the actress Carmel Cryan, is clear. After reading English at Oxford, he trained at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and soon established himself as a serious theatre actor before receiving on-screen acclaim as Denis Thatcher in the TV series Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk To Finchley in 2008 - the same year that he appeared in his first Bond movie, Quantum Of Solace. Other notable credits include a Prime Minister forced into a compromising position in Charlie Brooker's satirical drama series Black Mirror, a womanising journalist forced to report on his hometown, following a spate of shootings in 2013's Southcliffe, the title character in Lucan, a drama depicting the Lord's infamous disappearance, and this year he'll be retuning as Frankenstein's 'Creature' in Sky Atlantic's gothic horror drama Penny Dreadful. In 2013, Kinnear also turned playwright, with his debut play The Herd being performed in the capital. He'd like to pen more. "Yes, that's the plan," he confirms. "Family life does take up quite a bit of time, as well as the acting, so I guess it's finding the time, because it's something I want to do more of." Variety is key for Kinnear. "Once I've done a play, I'm interested in doing a film. Once I've done a film, I'm interested in doing some telly. Once I've done some serious stuff, I'm interested in doing some comedy," he says. "I guess that's slightly pendulum-like. 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Finally a diet that lets you eat chocolate and drink red... 1 * Delicious and healthy Sirtfood diet recipe ideas to try for... Delicious and healthy Sirtfood diet recipe ideas to try... 1 Comments (0) One minute he's chief of staff in a Bond movie, the next he's the straight man in a sitcom, and Rory Kinnear's somehow still found time to pen a play. But mixing it up is how he likes it, as Susan Griffin finds out The son of the much-loved character actor Roy Kinnear and now an established thespian in his own right, Rory Kinnear could be forgiven for feeling a little jaded by the industry - but he's far from it. "It's always exciting," exclaims the 36-year-old. No doubt it is, when you're papped alongside Daniel Craig while speeding along the River Thames for the next Bond instalment - Spectre - due for release later this year. "It was chilly, but there was this beautiful sky and we were out there just looking at the sun rising. I'm unbelievably lucky to be involved in something that reaches so many people," says the Londoner, who reprises the role of Bill Tanner, MI6's chief of staff, for a third time. Paparazzi shots are one thing, but the film recently fell victim to the Sony studio scandal, where staff emails, stars' salaries and even scripts were hacked and leaked to the public. "I haven't followed the story," insists Kinnear. "It obviously hasn't bothered us within what we're doing. Most people want to go to the cinema with some level of surprise in store, anyway. If you turn up knowing everything that's going to happen, it's a bit of a disappointment, really." As glamorous as it is filming the 007 franchise, Kinnear asserts that the buzz he gets is no different to when he's performing on stage at the Royal National Theatre, or shooting a TV programme like Count Arthur Strong, which recently returned to screens. The series stars Steve Delaney, also the show's co-writer, as the titular character, an elderly 'resting' actor with delusions of grandeur. Kinnear plays Michael Baker, a shy writer who's tracked down Count Arthur Strong, the former partner of his late father, to assist with his dad's biography. In this new series, Michael is once again drawn into Arthur's world of ill thought out, innocent but poorly executed scams, schemes and best-laid plans. "It has an incredibly big heart, one that puts together slightly lonely people who discover that, despite their differences, they all need each other and look out for each other," says the actor, of the comedy that started out on the radio, moved to BBC Two and was then promoted to BBC One for the second run. It's filmed in front of a live audience; no doubt the appeal is, in part at least, down to nostalgia - a way of transporting Kinnear back to the days when he'd watch from the sides as his dad appeared in studio sitcoms. Plus, "it's an exciting way of working", he notes, describing how the cast turn up on a Monday for a read-through, hone the script until Thursday and then learn it for filming on Friday. "There aren't that many jobs, particularly in TV, that are like it. It's a bit like putting on a new play every week, and everyone's involved in getting it tighter and better and funnier." His son, with actress partner Pandora Colin, is too young to watch the series, though he did catch a snippet of a DVD - and "was a bit confused why they were calling me Michael". "But as I walked down the street with him the other day, there was a chap with glasses on and he said, 'Look dad, that's your friend', and I said, 'What do you mean?' He said, 'It's your friend, Arthur'. So he's obviously taken it in, in some way." Kinnear was only 10 when his father died from a freak riding accident while filming The Return Of The Musketeers, but his influence, along with his mother's, the actress Carmel Cryan, is clear. After reading English at Oxford, he trained at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and soon established himself as a serious theatre actor before receiving on-screen acclaim as Denis Thatcher in the TV series Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk To Finchley in 2008 - the same year that he appeared in his first Bond movie, Quantum Of Solace. Other notable credits include a Prime Minister forced into a compromising position in Charlie Brooker's satirical drama series Black Mirror, a womanising journalist forced to report on his hometown, following a spate of shootings in 2013's Southcliffe, the title character in Lucan, a drama depicting the Lord's infamous disappearance, and this year he'll be retuning as Frankenstein's 'Creature' in Sky Atlantic's gothic horror drama Penny Dreadful. In 2013, Kinnear also turned playwright, with his debut play The Herd being performed in the capital. He'd like to pen more. "Yes, that's the plan," he confirms. "Family life does take up quite a bit of time, as well as the acting, so I guess it's finding the time, because it's something I want to do more of." Variety is key for Kinnear. "Once I've done a play, I'm interested in doing a film. Once I've done a film, I'm interested in doing some telly. Once I've done some serious stuff, I'm interested in doing some comedy," he says. "I guess that's slightly pendulum-like. I just swing from the opposite of what I did last time." 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Longford FC go down 2-1 in narrowest loss yet... 50 * National Lottery: Results for Saturday January 16 National Lottery: Results for Saturday January 16 1 * Severe weather warnings for ice and snow in Gloucester end but... Severe weather warnings for ice and snow in Gloucester end... 1 Comments (1) Solidarity with Parisians has inspired Cheltenham MP Martin Horwood to dust off his storyboard and reignite his cartoon-writing past. The Liberal Democrat has penned a cartoon strip as a mark of respect for the people killed in the terror attacks on the French capital. The killings started at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in retaliation at its depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Politician Mr Horwood opted to create the cartoon strip instead of writing his weekly column for the Citizen’s sister title the Gloucestershire Echo today. In the strip, Mr Horwood said: “This seemed the right week to pick up the pen again for the right to draw and write and think in freedom.” source: imgur.com source: imgur.com He used to draw political cartoons while at university and tried to make a career out of it afterwards. But the reality of trying to make a living bit and Mr Horwood had to seek other avenues to support himself. “I always used to draw while I was at school,” he said. “I probably spent more time at them than doing my homework. “I did political cartoons when I became a student and got involved in politics.” Mr Horwood, who was aware of the Charlie Hebdo magazine and its controversial nature, added: “ I didn’t always agree with the cartoons they published. Some of them were pretty offensive. “The journalists there were unafraid to exploit freedom of speech and I think that’s admirable. 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