This year’s COP27 in Egypt entailed a vital goal of tackling the issue of funds for climate-vulnerable nations, whilst also helping developing countries transition from a coal-based to a green economy. This topic was named “Loss and Damage” and was a continuation from the failed attempts at COP26 to reach a decisive conclusion. But unfortunately, I wouldn’t exactly call this year’s Climate Summit a success either.
The 2022 movie She Said is based on the story of the reporters, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who set out to write an article about why sexual harassment was so common within the workplace, and ended up exposing the system of abuse within the Hollywood company Miramax, specifically stemming from the leadership of Harvey Weinstein. The title takes the second half of the phrase habitually used to dismiss sexual assault allegations – “he said, she said” – and in doing so, reminds us of the importance of women’s testimony.
I hope by the time everyone is reading this, you have finished (or almost finished) the school week and are settling down under a fluffy blanket and enjoying your tenth mince pie. Or, failing that, you simply escaped Parents’ evening alive. Of course, it’s getting to that time of year once again, where you can’t walk down the street without humming along to ‘All I Want For Christmas’, so to get everyone in the mood, here are a few types of people who celebrate Christmas.
What does good posture look like? Many would say it’s sitting ramrod straight, shoulders back, head up, and that bad posture is a teenager’s slumped shoulders, curved back, eyes glued to their screen below. But the reality is much more complicated than that.
Thanksgiving, which happens annually on the fourth Thursday of November, is an American National Holiday centred around gratitude for the harvest and other blessings of the year. Its history seems to show a peaceful coalition between the Indigenous people of modern-day Massachusetts and the Pilgrims – white settlers who arrived in the 1600s – however research has shown the truth to be much darker. I have found conflicting information online and so will aim to present as balanced a narrative as I can, whilst also assessing the transparency of the celebration through the lens of the marginalised Native Americans.
