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Piers Morgan's illegal receipt of information from the police, his perjury and Operation Elveden part II
January 29, 2013 – 10:43 am
DC Paulette Rooke
Operation Eleveden
New Scotland Yard
8/10 The Broadway
London SW1H OBG
(Tel: 0208 )
CC Gerald Howarth MP
Keir Starmer (DPP)
mark.lewis@thlaw.co.uk
Dear DC Rooke,
As we have not been able speak as yet I will try to expedite matters by ensuring that you have the basic details and by describing what I would like to happen.
The crimes committed
The evidence I have supplied leaves Piers Morgan and Jeff Edwards with no wriggle room. There is the letter from Morgan to the PCC admitting that he received information from the police in circumstances which can only have been illegal; Edwards as the writer of the Mirror article must have been the recipient of the information and both Morgan and Edwards objectively committed perjury by denying receiving information from the police illegally whilst under oath before the Leveson Inquiry. Det Supt Curtis is condemned by his wilful refusal to interview Morgan, Edwards or anyone else at the Mirror after my initial complaint. (I have him on tape promising to interview Morgan et al during my initial meeting with him).
The political dimension
The complaints I have submitted to Elveden are part of a larger scandal which has deep political ramifications. The general scope of these can be seen from the Early Day Motion put down on my behalf by Sir Richard Body on 10 November 1999:
CONDUCT OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MEMBER FOR SEDGEFIELD 10:11:99
Sir Richard Body
That this House regrets that the Right honourable Member for Sedgefield [Tony Blair] attempted to persuade the Metropolitan Police to bring criminal charges against Robert Henderson, concerning the Right honourable Member's complaints to the police of an offence against the person, malicious letters and racial insult arising from letters Robert Henderson had written to the Right honourable Member complaining about various instances of publicly-reported racism involving the Labour Party; and that, after the Crown Prosecution Service rejected the complaints of the Right honourable Member and the Right honourable Member failed to take any civil action against Robert Henderson, Special Branch were employed to spy upon Robert Henderson, notwithstanding that Robert Henderson had been officially cleared of any illegal action.
This motion is now part of the official House of Commons record – see http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=16305&SESSION=702
I bring this to your attention because it was the political dimension which prevented me from getting any redress for complaints I made to the police following the publication of the Mirror story. My experience from 1997 to 2007 when Blair retired was of being in a Kafkaesque world in which, despite being subjected to harassment which ranged from death threats and an internet campaign which incited violence against me by posting my address on social media sites to regular interference with my post, I was unable to get the police to investigate meaningfully any of the complaints which arose from the Mirror's involvement and the harassment which followed. You have a classic example in the failure of Jeff Curtis to investigate the Mirror despite having Morgan's letter admitting to receiving police information.
That my complaints caused considerable concern to the police because of their political nature can be seen from the number of senior officers who got involved in complaints of crimes, most of which would normally be investigated by a Det Sergeant or a Detective Inspector at most. At various times I dealt with the following:
Det Chief Supt Tony Dawson – The Met's Internal Investigations Command
Dept Supt Jeff Curtis
Chief Supt John Yates
Chief Supt Eric Brown
Supt Cliff Hughes
Supt Alex Fish
Chief Inspector Julia Wortley
Chief Inspector Ian West
Det Chief Inspector Stephen Kershaw
Despite their involvement no one was ever charged, unsurprising as no complaint was meaningfully investigated. I also met with the same obstruction from the CPS.
Documents passed to Holborn police
The documents I passed to PC G James 423EK and PC L Scully 471EK from Holborn police station were:
1.Piers Morgan's Letter to the PCC date 16 October 1997 in which he admits receiving information from the police in circumstances which can only have been illegal.
2. A copy of the Daily Mirror story about me dated 25 March 1997 which produced the complaint to the PCC which caused Morgan to write the letter in which he admitted receiving information from the police in circumstances which can only have been illegal.
3. Copies of the then director of Presswise Mike Jempson's correspondence on my behalf with the PCC relating to the Mirror story dated 23 December 1997, 9 January 1998, 20 January 1998, 18 February 1998, 2 March 1998.
4. My evidence to the Leveson Inquiry of Morgan 's perjury dated 23 December 2011
5. My evidence to the Leveson Inquiry of Edwards' perjury dated 25 March 2012
6. My original submission to the Leveson Inquiry dated 25 November 2011
7. Sir Richard Body's Early Day Motion 10th November 1999 which dealt with the general context of the events surrounding the Mirror story with the role of the Blairs at its heart.
8. A copy of my Wisden Cricket Article Is it in the Blood? (from the July 1995 edition). It was my gross mistreatment by the mainstream British media after the publication of the article that led me ultimately to write to the Blairs asking for their assistance after all other available avenues of redress had failed me .
9. A copy of my final letter to Det Supt Curtis dated 2 December 1999, Det Supt A Bamber's reply to that letter 13 December 1999 and the PCA's letter dated November 1999 refusing to investigate further
10. A letter addressed to the new head of Operation Elveden Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Kavanagh dated 21 January 2013. A copy of this is below.
I attach copies of 1,4,5,6 and my final letter to Jeff Curtis (see 9) in digital form.
What I would like to happen
The first step would be for the two of us to have a long talk about this. Because of the political ramifications I would also like to meet DAC Steve Kavanagh .
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From: "Paulette.Rooke@met.police.uk" <paulette.rooke@met.police.uk>View contact detailsTo: anywhere156@yahoo.co.uk
I write out of courtesy just to let you know that I am still looking into your recent correspondence with this office.
I hope that you will receive a reply in the next couple of weeks.
Paulette Rooke
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John Whittingdale MP
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Gerald Howarth MP
Thank you for your email of 25 February. It is now a month since I passed my complaints to Operation Eleveden. I really do think an early meeting between you, me and a senior officer from Operation Elveden (preferably Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Kavanagh) would be fruitful.
I have provided Operation Eleveden with conclusive evidence of Piers Morgan and Jeff Edwards' receipt of information illegally from the police and of their perjury before Leveson. Consequently, most of the investigatory work needed to bring charges has been completed. Apart from the admin involved in getting the cases to court, all that remains to be done is to interview Morgan and Edwards and to inspect the Mirror's records and Morgan and Edwards' private papers to see if information relating to payments for the information exist. I really cannot see what obstacle there is to proceeding with an investigation.
Morgan will not be able to deny the offence because to do so would put him in the absurd position of saying he had not written the letter, that he had no knowledge of it being sent and that the whole thing was done by someone else. That would be ridiculous if it was just a letter sent without any outside stimulation, but this letter is sent in response to a letter from the PCC. Morgan would have to argue that a correspondence initiated by the PCC had proceeded without his knowledge even though the Mirror side was made in his name.
Even without the letter it would be clear that the police had illegally passed information to the Mirror. Information in the story could only have come from the police. In addition Jeff Edwards' story contains this: 'A Scotland Yard source said: "By sending letters in a very unpleasant tone the writer has committed an assault. ' Special Branch, who organise protection for MPs have been informed of the situation". Just for the record my letters were deemed entirely legal by the CPS within hours of their receipt. It was a try-on by the Blairs.
I have spoken to Edwards once. That was on the morning of the publication of the Mirror story. When he discovered who he was speaking to he panicked immediately. I think there is a good chance that when confronted with the evidence of Morgan's letter he will simply come clean. I have never spoken to Morgan, but I would draw your attention to the fact that he has behaved recklessly and dishonestly in the past, most notably in his fabrication of a photos of soldiers when Mirror editor , something which caused his sacking. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/may/14/pressandpublishing.iraqandthemedia). Reckless people tend to be careless and impulsive. Always a plus when an investigation is under way.
My complaint against Det Supt Jeff Curtis is also straightforward. The fact that he did not interview anyone at the Mirror despite having Morgan's letter to the PCC can be verified by checking the Met's case notes.
If the Mirror received information from the police illegally in my case, it is not unreasonable to suspect that this was a widespread practice within the Mirror group. Investigate my complaints and you will almost certainly find evidence of other instances. There is also the advantage for the Met in investigating the Mirror because it shows they are not merely concentrating on the Murdoch papers.
I would greatly welcome a meeting in the near future.
By Robert Henderson | Posted in Elite Mischief, The Scandalous Blairs | Tagged censorship, Leveson Inquiry, liberal bigotry, media, Operation Elveden, police, Tony Blair | Comments (2)
Piers Morgan's illegal receipt of information from the police, his perjury and Operation Elveden
January 24, 2013 – 9:51 pm
On Monday 21 January I went to New Scotland Yard (NSY) with the intention of providing evidence to Operation Elveden of Piers Morgan and Jeff Edwards' receipt of information illegally from the police and their perjury before the Leveson Inquiry when they lied under oath.
I was unable to gain entry. Those on the entrance were insistent that I would have to make an appointment. (I cannot help but wonder what would have happened if I had turned up without an appointment to give, for example, evidence about a murder or terrorist plot: would it have been "Sorry sir, we can't see you without an appointment"?) I rang from outside the NSY to try and arrange an immediate appointment only to be told by the Met's central switchboard that no one was available to make the appointment. I left my details and a civilian worker phoned me later in the day and made an appointment for the local police to visit me at 11.00 am on 22 January. He gave me the case reference CAD 3124/2/Jan.
Two uniformed PCs turned up from Holborn police station (I gave them the details, but as they admitted themselves, the case was more than a little out of their normal range of work. (That was precisely why I had gone directly to the NSY rather than ringing to make an appointment. I knew if I tried to make an appointment I would in all probability be directed to my local police station. Some people may think it is a very curious thing that Operation Elveden does not have a direct phone line or public email address for those wishing to give information to use ). In the circumstances I could do no more than run through the details and pass on to the two PCs the following documents:
1.Piers Morgan's Letter to the PCC date 16 October 1997 in which he admits receiving information from the police in circumstances which can only have been illegal. (https://livinginamadhouse.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/piers-morgan-lied-to-the-leveson-inquiry/)
2. A copy of the Daily Mirror story about me dated 25 March 1997 which produced the complaint to the PCC which caused Morgan to write the letter in which he admitted receiving information from the police in circumstances which can only have been illegal. (https://livinginamadhouse.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/the-failure-to-charge-piers-morgan-with-illicitly-receiving-information-from-the-police/)
4. My evidence to the Leveson Inquiry of Morgan 's perjury dated 23 December 2011 (https://livinginamadhouse.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/referral-of-piers-morgans-perjury-to-the-leveson-inquiry/).
5. My evidence to the Leveson Inquiry of Edwards' perjury dated 25 March 2012 (https://livinginamadhouse.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/leveson-inquiry-jeff-edwards-and-another-prima-facie-case-of-perjury/).
6. My original submission to the Leveson Inquiry dated 25 November 2011 (https://livinginamadhouse.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/the-leveson-inquiry-the-blairs-the-mirror-the-police-and-me/)
7. Sir Richard Body's Early Day Motion 10th November 1999 which dealt with the general context of the events surrounding the Mirror story with the role of the Blairs at its heart. (https://livinginamadhouse.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/when-tony-and-cherie-blair-tried-to-have-me-jailed/)
8. A copy of my Wisden Cricket Article Is it in the Blood? (from the July 1995 edition). It was my gross mistreatment by the mainstream British media after the publication of the article that led me ultimately to write to the Blairs asking for their assistance after all other available avenues of redress had failed me (http://englandcalling.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/is-it-in-the-blood-and-the-hypocrisy-of-the-media/).
9. A letter addressed to the new head of Operation Elveden Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Kavanagh dated 21 January 2013. A copy of this is below.
On the 23 January 2013 I received an email advising me that the information I had given had been forwarded to Operation Elveden and a message was left on my answerphone asking me to contact Operation Elveden on Friday 25 January.
That the two PCs found the matter somewhat daunting is unsurprising as it has a very heavy political loading because of the involvement Tony and Cherie Blair who had attempted to have me prosecuted during the first week of the 1997 General Election campaign under the Malicious Communications Act. So weak was this complaint that, despite the Blairs' celebrity and Labour's almost certain win in the election which would make Blair Prime Minister, the Crown Prosecution Service rejected the complaint with a firm NO CRIME on the same day it was submitted to them by the police for guidance.
I have restricted my complaints to Operation Elveden strictly to that which is within their remit. However, these examples of criminality and misbehaviour by those with power or influence are only a small part of the overall story of the Blair Scandal. My experience from 1997 to 2007 when Blair retired was of being in a Kafkaesque world in which, despite being subjected to harassment which ranged from death threats and an internet campaign which attempted incite violence against me to regular interference with my post, the police did not solve any of the crimes which I referred to them. This was scarcely surprising as they ignored the evidence I provided, no matter how strong it was. The most blatant example of this behaviour was the failure of Det Supt Jeff Curtis of Scotland Yard to question Piers Morgan and Jeff Edwards of the Mirror about receiving information illegally from the police even though they had the letter from Morgan admitting he had received information from the police. The Crown Prosecution Service and the Police Complaints Authority backed up the failure of the police to investigate meaningfully or sufficiently by refusing any complaints of police inactivity which I referred to them.
The complicity of the elite went far beyond crime. The mainstream media engaged in a conspiracy of silence after the publication of the Mirror story, neither allowing me a public voice nor even following up the Mirror story ; The PCC repeatedly failed me; my MP Frank Dobson refused to help in any way, as did institutions such as Liberty and the Index on Censorship. If I went to lawyers they would blanche as soon as they found the Blairs were involved and refused to act for me.
If I manage to get Operation Elveden to prosecute Blair and Edwards, it may be possible to bring the larger story to the mainstream media. Let us hope so because one thing I can vouch for from long personal experience is that where people with power and influence are involved the laws which govern us fall rapidly into abeyance.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Kavanagh
(Tel: 0207 230 1212)
Dear Mr Kavanagh,
I submit conclusive evidence that (1) the editor of a national newspaper received information from the police illicitly and (2) when questioned under oath at the Leveson Inquiry committed perjury by denying that he had ever received information illicitly from the police .
The editor in question is Piers Morgan when he edited the Daily Mirror. The evidence of his receipt of information is beautifully simple: he admitted this in a letter to the PCC dated 16 October 1997 in which he wrote "The police source of our article (whose identity we have a moral obligation to protect". If the information had been given legitimately there would be no reason for protecting the source. Nor, because no charges were laid or investigation made, could there have been a legitimate reason for releasing the information. A copy of the letter is enclosed.
The letter was sent to me after I complained to the PCC about a dramatically libellous article Morgan published about me on 25 March 1997 (copy enclosed). The illicit information related to complaints made about me by Tony and Cherie Blair to Belgravia Police in March 1997. I had written to them seeking their help and, when they refused, I circulated copies of my letters and the replies I received to the mainstream media at the beginning of the 1997 election campaign. The Blairs did not go to the police when I sent the letters, only after I circulated them to the media. The complaints had so little substance that they were dismissed by the CPS with the ruling "NO CRIME" within a few hours of them being submitted to them for guidance by Belgravia Police.
The odds must be heavily on the Mirror having paid for the information because it is difficult to see what other motive a police officer would have for releasing such information. However, by accepting information illicitly from the police, whether or not money was paid, offences relating to Misconduct in a Public Office and the Official Secrets Act were committed, both by the police officer and Mirror employees including Morgan. If money was paid by the Mirror to the police officer, further offences arise under the laws relating to corruption.
The evidence of Morgan's perjury before the Leveson Inquiry is contained in the copy of my submission to the Inquiry informing them of the perjury dated 22 December 2011 which I enclose.
I ask you to investigate both Morgan's receipt of illicit information from the police and his perjury before Leveson.
Jeff Edwards
In addition to Morgan's perjury, the Mirror reporter who wrote the story about me, their then Chief Crime Reporter Jeff Edwards, also committed perjury before the Leveson Inquiry by denying ever receiving information illicitly from the police. The details are included in the copy of my submission to the Inquiry informing them of the perjury dated 25 March 2012 which I enclose .
As Edwards was the reporter who wrote the story to which Morgan referred in his letter to the PCC, he must have been the person to whom the police officer referred to in Morgan's letter gave the illicit information. .
I ask you to investigate Edwards for his receipt of illicit information from the police and his perjury before Leveson.
The original police failure to meaningfully investigate my complaint
In 1997 I made a complaint about the illicit supply of information about me by the police to the Mirror. The case was handled by Detective Superintendent Jeff Curtis of Scotland Yard . No meaningful investigation was undertaken because, as Det Supt Curtis eventually admitted to me during a phone call, the "investigation" was ended without anyone at the Mirror being interviewed; not Morgan, Edwards or anyone else. I enclose my final letter to Det Supt Curtis dated 2 December 1999, Det Supt A Bamber's reply to that letter 13 December 1999 and the PCA's letter dated November 1999 refusing to investigate further. This again is self-evidently absurd because of the failure to question Morgan and Edwards.
I ask you to investigate Ian Curtis for perverting the course of justice by failing to investigate conclusive and incontrovertible evidence of a serious crime.
By Robert Henderson | Posted in Elite Mischief, NuLabour news, The Scandalous Blairs | Tagged authoritarianism, BBC, censorship, free speech, liberal bigotry, Operation Elveden, Tony Blair | Comments (4)
Wages and welfare benefits are not comparable
January 11, 2013 – 11:32 pm
The Coalition's line on benefits will not hold water. The Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith claims it is unreasonable for benefits to rise in line with inflation when wages are not doing so (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9787094/Iain-Duncan-Smith-raising-benefits-with-inflation-would-be-absurd.html). This ignores two things: what it costs to live even at a subsistence level and the effects of those in work drawing benefits, especially working tax credits.
To compare benefits with wages is nonsensical. Wages may be at any level from the plutocratic to that which is insufficient to fund even a basic standard of living. Benefits are fixed and are far from generous. The real question to ask when considering the uprating of benefits is not whether they are too generous but whether they are sufficient to allow someone to live at the subsistence level. To do this the distribution of expenditure at different levels of income must be taken into account. The poorer a person is the more of their money will go on essential such as housing, food, clothing travel and energy. These are items which apart from clothing have been rising rapidly over the past year or two. It could reasonably be argued that those on benefits (whether in work or not) require an increase much larger than the average wage rise.
The idea that people can live the life of Riley on benefits does not hold water. For those who have signed on as unemployed the Jobseekers Allowance is £56.25 (single person under 25), £71 (single person over 25) and £111.45 (couple both aged over 18), £71 (Lone parent 18 or over) £56.25 (Lone parent under 18) https://www.gov.uk/jobseekers-allowance/what-youll-get . If you are single without children or a childless couple, living on benefits is self-evidently not going to be a great deal of fun. (The figures and qualifications for benefits I shall give are those under the present circumstances. These will change when the Universal Benefit goes live in April this year).
What pushes benefits payments up to the high figures often cited by the media are child related benefits and above all housing-related benefits to pay mortgage interest or rent and Council Tax. But to bring in the money for children you need quite a few. Child Benefit is £20 for the first child and £13.40 for each subsequent child. If a family has ten children this would mean they received £140.60. Useful, but not a vast amount when applied to the costs of raising ten children. The benefit goes in full to anyone with children whether working or not, provided their income does not reach £50,000 and in part for anyone earning between £50,000 and £60,000. (http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/childbenefit/payments-entitlements/payments/rates.htm#1). In addition, both the unemployed and employed can draw Child Tax Credit for dependent children (under the age of 18) , which can be up to £2,690 for an able bodied child and up to £4,140 for the most disabled children (https://www.gov.uk/child-tax-credit). Those figures are of course dependent on the family's total earned income where the claimants are in work and the amount of savings whether in work or unemployed. Someone claiming Job Seekers Allowance or Income Support and not breaching the maximum savings before benefit starts to be withdrawn (currently £6,000), the parent (or other responsible adult) will receive £64.99 per week for each child (http://tinyurl.com/anpea3u). The notional family with ten children would get £650 a week in addition to the £140 child benefit, but of course such a family would be very much the exception. The average family with two children wholly dependent on benefits would (excluding mortgage interest or rent and council tax benefit) have £274.85 (£111.45 for the couple; 2 x £64.99 for the JSA/Income support payments for the children and £33.40 child benefit).
The real poison in the benefits system is the cost of Housing Benefit. Those who are unemployed or on low incomes are likely to be living in rented accommodation. Rents have gone through the roof in the past few years as mortgages become hard to get and new build housing has slowed to a trickle. (http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/families-facing-squeeze-as-rents-rise-fastest-in-the-suburbs-8442313.html). To get private rented accommodation in London suitable for a family of four ( a minimum of a three bedroom flat) would cost between £1-2,000 per month even in the cheaper areas. A rental of £1,500 per month is £18,000 per year which takes around 70% of the new proposed cap of £26,000 for total benefits paid to any family. Outside of London rents are not so high, but in many places , especially the South East, they have risen substantially. Here is an example from Croydon in Surrey:
"Henrietta Bergman-Janes lives with her husband Michael and their daughter Adelaide, three, in a privately rented two-bedroom flat in south Croydon.
The family survives on an income of about £19,000 from his job in a bank and £400-a-month housing benefit. The rent of £825 a month leaves just enough to live on — but nothing more. They hardly ever go out, cannot afford holidays and saving for a deposit is out of the question.
Mrs Bergman-Janes, 24, said: "We would love to buy our own place and stop being at the mercy of the whims of a landlord, but we can't even stay out of our overdrafts or pay off our credit cards, how are we supposed to magic up a £25,000 deposit?"
She said rents in Croydon were rising steadily. When the couple were first looking in 2008 small flats were about £600 to £650 a month. "But before we moved into this place we were going to estate agents and said £800 was the most we could afford. They just started laughing at us saying 'you can't get anything for that price'." (Ibid)
An added complication is that millions of those who work also draw various working tax credits or income support (paid to those working less than 16 hours a week – https://www.gov.uk/income-support/overview) which raise incomes to subsistence level. In addition, many of the employed also draw housing (vide the £400 per month claimed in the example above) and council tax benefit. If all benefits are claimed, no individual or couple without children should probably be no worse off than those under state retirement age who are unemployed because in work benefits are on a sliding scale. A family with children or a single parent could be worse off if they have to pay a professional child minder, although even there the state provides subsidy through Childcare tax credits with up to 70% of the costs up to a maximum of £175 per week for a single child and £300 for two or more children. (https://www.gov.uk/help-with-childcare-costs/childcare-tax-credits) . However, those in work will often be no better off than someone who is unemployed.
The Working Tax Credits for the low paid are substantial. For example, a couple with three children with an annual income of £10,000 would qualify for tax credits of £11,815 (http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxcredits/people-advise-others/entitlement-tables/work-and-child/work-no-childcosts.htm ). Working Tax Credit can be paid if a claimant is off sick (http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxcredits/keep-up-to-date/changes-affect/work-changes/no-work-illness.htm).
There is the intriguing possibility that a single parent in work or a couple in work on a low income with two or more children might receive more in overall benefits through Childcare Tax Credit, Child Benefit, Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit than the £26,000 cap for the unemployed coming in with the proposed Universal Benefit in April 2013.
There are pernicious effects of working tax credits. These have the effect of a very substantial subsidy to employers who can keep their wages below subsistence level in the knowledge that the taxpayer will make up the difference between what they pay and what is needed to live. Even if a worker is in full time employment, this is highly unsatisfactory because it distorts the labour market and places an ever growing burden on the taxpayer. It also provides encouragement to the immigrant to work in Britain over and above the great incentive of earning even the minimum wage in the UK which allows them to save a few thousand a year, savings which are worth multiples in terms of purchasing power in their homelands of their purchasing power in this country.
But working tax credit are not restricted to full-time workers. At present the rules for those under 60 who are able bodied are:
What hours do you need to work?
You don't have children
If you're not responsible for children, you need to work the following hours to get Working Tax Credit:
if you're aged 25 or over, you need to do paid work of at least 30 hours a week
if you have a disability and are aged 16 or over, you need to do paid work of at least 16 hours a week
How to work out usual working hours for your tax credits claim
You have children
If you're responsible for children you need to be aged at least 16, and work the following hours to get Working Tax Credit:
if you're single, you need to do paid work of at least 16 hours a week
if you're in a couple, your joint paid working hours need to be at least 24 a week, with one of you working at least 16 hours a week
So if you're a couple and only one of you is working, that person will need to work at least 24 hours a week.( http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxcredits/start/who-qualifies/workingtaxcredit/work.htm#1)
These rules provide strong incentives for people to do just the minimum hours needed to qualify for the tax credit. Imagine the temptation for a single parent who only needed to work for 16 hours a week or a couple with one working who was only required to work 24 hours a week to prefer to do only the hours needed rather than a full week's work. If it is a mundane low paid job, which almost certainly it will be, in either case the pay for the hours worked plus working tax credit would probably be the same as if the person worked a 40-hour week.
The rules also provides an incentive to employers to offer minimum wage part-time jobs with the minimum qualifying hours, which should also allow the employer to avoid both the employers' and employees' national insurance (http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/paye/rates-thresholds.htm#1).
The reality is that no firm line can be drawn between the working and the unemployed. The attempt at resurrecting the Victorian idea of the deserving and undeserving poor, a part from being obnoxious, is a non-starter when so many want a job or are forced to work part-time or take jobs which do not pay a living wage.
Britain's low wage economy
The problem is really Britain's low wage economy. This is a consequence of mass immigration , which has risen to alarming heights in the past ten years and has resulted in both a reduction in wage levels and increased competitions for jobs, the offshoring of huge numbers of jobs, the contraction of public sector employment since the crash following Lehmann Bros failure in 2008 and the reckless inflation of the cost of housing, both purchased and rented, resulting from massive immigration, the loose monetary policy of the Blair and Brown governments and the failure of all governments since Thatcher to build sufficient social housing.
To remedy these ills Britain must regain control over its borders by leaving the EU and repudiating any other treaties which give foreigners the right to settle here; engage in a programme of social housing building on the scale of the 1950s; reserve social housing for those born British citizens; penalise private developers who hoard land by placing a tax on the land while it remains unbuilt on ; subsidise public transport more heavily and engage in judicious protectionism to preserve necessary commerce and industry.
The new social housing and further subsidy for public transport can be easily funded by reducing current public spending massively by ending foreign Aid (saves £11 billion); reducing the per capita Treasury payment to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland by reducing it to the English figure (saves £16 billion) and leaving the EU (saves £11 billion on the difference between what the UK pays in and what it gets out http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/336667/Now-our-payments-to-the-EU-hit-53m-each-day) . That releases £38 billion for the Government to spend.
These steps will have the effect of reducing the price of housing and raising pay both in real terms and because much less of a wage or salary will have to be spent on housing and travel costs. That will gradually reduce the dependence on Working Tax Credits which ideally should be abolished because of their pernicious effects. Higher wages and reduced housing and travel costs will also mean less pressure for women to go out to work when they have pre-school age children. That will reduce the need for highly paid childcare. The long-term aim should be to reach a situation where it is the norm for a single wage to be enough on which to raise a family.
By Robert Henderson | Posted in Economics, Politics, Social Policy | Tagged welfare | Comments (0)


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Herbert Hoover was an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the 31st President of the United States. The humanitarian services for which he is perhaps best remembered were public-private efforts to relieve misery and suffering in the wake of war and disaster. He was also a significant philanthropist in his own right. His personal charitable giving centered on two areas: character building for children, and creating one of the nation's oldest and most distinguished think tanks, the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace.
Hoover was born in 1874 in the small village of West Branch, Iowa. Orphaned at a young age, he went to live with an uncle in Oregon. His character was shaped by the Quaker faith, from which he gained a strong sense of moral virtue, an appreciation for voluntary service, and a relentless work ethic. He enrolled in the inaugural class at Stanford University, and was quickly fascinated by the study of geology. Years later, he authored the first English translation of De Re Metallica, Georgius Agricola's once-authoritative work on mining.
Soon after his graduation in 1895, Hoover found himself in Western Australia, where he applied new technologies to gold mining. One business success followed another, and his career soon took him to China, Russia, and South Africa. (Indeed, Hoover and his wife mastered Mandarin Chinese during their years abroad, and would speak the language in the White House to keep aides from understanding their conversations.) According to George Nash, Hoover's leading biographer, Hoover's net worth in 1913 was approximately $4 million.
Throughout his life, Hoover would be called upon to assume the role of public humanitarian. In 1927, for example, the Mississippi River flooded, leaving 1.5 million Americans homeless. Although it did not fall under the jurisdiction of the Commerce Department, which Hoover then headed, six Governors asked President Calvin Coolidge to put Hoover in charge of the relief effort. He marshaled a massive private-sector response. ("I suppose I could have called in the Army to help," he said years later, "but why should I, when I only had to call upon Main Street?") Two decades later, in the wreckage of postwar Germany, he led a similar effort to bring food and medicine to a devastated Germany. In all, he oversaw the distribution of 40,000 tons of emergency meals, in what was a crucial precursor to the Marshall Plan.
But Hoover's involvement in public humanitarian projects (to say nothing of his political career) should not overshadow his generosity as a private citizen. With his wife, Lou Henry, he had a strong moral sense of responsibility for his fellow citizens. As many biographers have noted, however, Hoover had an equally strong moral sense that his private good deeds should be kept out of the public eye.
Hoover was likewise committed to understanding the principles and policies that led to war or peace, deprivation or prosperity. In the aftermath of World War I, he donated $50,000 to Stanford University to begin collecting documents related to the issues and ideas that had caused the Great War. The Hoover Institution gathered materials on a variety of topics, but came to be a leading repository for scholarship on the dangers of communism. It soon became one of America's leading think tanks, defending the constitutional order and offering public-policy solutions rooted in the principles of liberty and limited government, wielding real influence on foreign and domestic policy throughout the 20th century.


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Can Louisville basketball improve defense at North Carolina?
Pittsburgh shot 52.5 percent during Wednesday's overtime win over Chris Mack's Louisville team. North Carolina will present a huge challenge Saturday.
Chris Mack arrived at Louisville with a vision of how he wanted his new program to defend its opponents, especially the toughest ones.
Through 15 games, he hasn't seen it yet.
"I don't think there's been a point where we felt that our defense is good enough to win against elite teams," Mack said Friday. "We need to do a better job of containing the basketball and keeping it in front of us."
Saturday's noon showdown at No. 12 North Carolina (12-3, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) is dripping with opportunity for a team looking to make an early statement in the ACC, but Louisville (10-5, 1-1) is coming off its second-worst defensive effort of the season.
Pittsburgh shot 52.5 percent – including a 45 percent (9-of-20) clip from 3-point range – during Wednesday night's 89-86 overtime victory over Louisville. Only third-ranked Tennessee (54 percent) shot it better against Mack's Cardinals, who also allowed Kentucky to reach 50.9 percent on Dec. 29 in the team's final game before league play.
"Our defense was terrible (at Pittsburgh)," said Louisville junior Dwayne Sutton. "We couldn't get any stops. They got in the lane pretty easy."
Is it a lack of effort? Well, yes, Mack said. But it's not just that.
A season-high 18 turnovers at Pittsburgh also had a lot to do with allowing easy points on the other end.
"It's everything," Mack said. "If it was one thing, it might be a little easier to fix. ... We're not going to draw up some magical scheme, some magical defense. You just have to be resilient. You have to stick to what you believe in as a coach, and that's what our coaching staff is going to continue to do."
The Tar Heels, who rank second in the ACC (only behind Duke) with 89.9 points per game this season, figure to rank up there with the best teams the Cards have faced so far under Mack.
They've won four in a row since an 80-72 defeat to Kentucky on Dec. 22, including an 85-60 drubbing of the same Pittsburgh team that beat Louisville to open ACC play. UNC followed that with Tuesday's 90-82 victory over No. 16 NC State.
"Carolina is not very complex. They are just very good at what they do," Mack said. "So on one hand, the X's and O's aren't very difficult to prepare for. It's the Jimmy and Joes that are."


Riana Elyse Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health. She received her PhD in Clinical and Community Psychology at the University of Virginia and completed a Clinical and Community Psychology Doctoral Internship at Yale University's School of Medicine. She also completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Applied Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania supported by the Ford and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations. Before joining the University of Michigan, she was an Assistant Professor in Preventive Medicine and the Department of Children, Youth, and Families in the School of Social Work at the University of Southern California.
She uses mixed methods in clinical interventions to study racial discrimination and socialization in Black families to reduce racial stress and trauma and improve psychological well-being and family functioning. She investigates how protective familial mechanisms such as parenting and racial socialization operate in the face of risks linked to poverty, discrimination, and residential environment. Dr. Anderson is particularly interested in how these factors predict familial functioning and subsequent child psychosocial outcomes, especially when enrolled in family-based interventions. She has recently developed a five-session intervention entitled EMBRace (Engaging, Managing, and Bonding through Race) to alleviate racial stress and trauma in parents and adolescents in order to facilitate healthy parent-child relationships, parent and adolescent psychological well-being, and healthy coping strategies.
Anderson, R. E. & Stevenson, H. (accepted; special issue). RECASTing racial stress and trauma: The healing role of racial socialization in Black families. American Psychologist.
Anderson, R. E. (2018). And still WE rise: Parent–child relationships, resilience, and school readiness in low-income urban Black families. Journal of Family Psychology, 32, 60.
Anderson, R. E., McKenny, M., Mitchell, A., Koku, L., & Stevenson, H. (2018). EMBRacing racial stress and trauma: Preliminary feasibility and coping outcomes of a racial socialization intervention. Journal of Black Psychology, 44, 25-46.
Anderson, R. E., Jones, S., Anyiwo, N., McKenny, M., & Gaylord‐Harden, N. (2018). What's race got to do with it? Racial socialization's contribution to Black adolescent coping. Journal of Research on Adolescence.
Anderson, R. E., Jones, S. C., Navarro, C. C., McKenny, M. C., Mehta, T. J., & Stevenson, H. C. (2018). Addressing the mental health needs of Black American youth and families: A case study from the EMBRace intervention. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(5).
Smith-Bynum, M.A., Anderson, R.E., Davis, B. L., Franco, M.G ., & English, D. (2016). Racial coping and dyadic warmth in African American mothers and adolescents: An observational study of family processes. Child Development, 87, 1926-1939.


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Dramarama: The Band That Never Gave Up, Sold Out, or Died
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If you think artists are useless, try spending your quarantine without books, photography, movies and music. With the COVID-19 pandemic in full swing, we might find ourselves with idle time accompanied by the uncomfortable pangs of ennui, for which there is no better remedy than the arts.
If you're bored with the same old playlist, now is the ideal opportunity to explore new musical talent. And because music is great for reflective time alone or background ambiance, as well as motivating during exercise sessions, many people working from home now can relate to these very scenarios at this awkward and surreal time in the history of the world.
As Nietzsche so profoundly stated, "Life without music would be a mistake." And Dramarama has been part of my life for more than three decades. This New Jersey-born, Los Angeles-bred indie cult rock band, founded in the eighties, is still going strong in 2020, and is one of my hands-down favorite musical groups of all time. There's good reason for that.
Dramarama was introduced to me some thirty years ago by one of my hippest LA friends. The band has gone through its fair share of incarnations and personal evolution. They even broke up for a bit before reuniting again in 2003, and have just released a fab, brand-spanking-new album, 'Color TV.'
If you've never heard of Dramarama, that's probably because they are, to borrow from the lexicon of a fellow arts writer, "criminally underrated." I urge you to check out their entire, seven studio album anthology, because it's prolific, it's pure excellence, and it's bloody brilliant. They're the band that, unlike many of their peers, never gave up, sold out, or died. Endowed with longevity, Dramarama has stood the test of time, over and over again.
Singer/songwriter John Easdale is the charismatic frontman, whose writing has taken on a decidedly different angle over the years—less romantic, more poignant social commentary masquerading as lyrics in tunes like "Classic Rot," off the timeless 1991 album 'Vinyl.' John lyrically ponders matters in that song as he croons in his distinct, unmistakable timbre: "Well I'm laughing at the waitress, and they're starving in the streets; and they're charging more for Wonder, and they're burning fields of wheat."
The music is just so good, the lyrics so relevant, and 'Color TV' is Dramarama at their profound best—pure poetry set to rock—two electric guitars, bass and drums, with an occasional acoustic guitar or keyboard thrown in. "Up To Here," dishes more social commentary with a catchy tune, as John chants: "'Cause if everything we try to do just fails; Chill the planet, feed the hungry, save the whales; The Ramones are selling soda pop and beer; I'm surprised we haven't had it up to here."
I keep listening to the most haunting track off the album, "You, You, You," which is the ultimate love song. This is the kind of song that makes me fall in love with Dramarama all over again, after all these years. It's the kind of song women dream of having written about them. It also happens to be John's favorite song on the album he told me in an interview exclusive to BSSTW, not only for the sentiment (John wrote it about his wife), but also due to the way it turned out in the studio.
"When we recorded it," he said, "it featured the whole band." But after stripping away the bass, drums and most of the guitars for a more acoustic version, the final result was unusually indelible—unique and atmospheric. I haven't heard that kind of romantic obsession in Dramarama for a while now, but it definitely reminds me of the longing and preoccupation that you'd find in their manic yet memorable "Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)," off 'Cinema Verité.'
Here, John pleads with the object of his affection in the most beautifully desperate way: "I'll give you candy, give you diamonds, give you pills; I'll give you anything you want, hundred dollar bills." This song sounds just as current as it did 35 years ago, which truly says something about the band and the scope of their talent.
Dramarama tour relentlessly and I've seen them a few times in-person. I must say, they present really well and put on quite a show. Unfortunately due to the pandemic, their plans for the year have been altered. For more information about Dramarama including photos, video and upcoming tour dates visit their official site.
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"Criminally Underated" Thank you! Great article. Their catalog has aged very well. But they still don't get any respect. They need to release the full "Live at the China Club' show. The ep is great and I think that was their strongest period as a band. Thanks again for the article.
I have been a fan of Dramarama since the late 80s… they were the soundtrack to my 20s and the music in the car almost all the time. Great article… you provide a great view into the band. John is a great songwriter and many of his songs reach me at different levels. The band has had great musicians from start to end, Pete and EBoy serving as the foundation, great drummers from Jessie, Clem and now Tony and both Chris Carter and Mike Davis bringing great style to the bass… as well as the many, many other musical partners that have been along for the ride. Songs from Cinema Verite and Stuck in Wonderamaland still get played in our house and Color TV is on CD in the car, the only one in this digital world. Thanks for posting!

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30 Day Song Challenge – Day 13 – A Song You Like From the 70s
Today's challenge invites us to share a song we like from the 70s. This is another huge lift, as so much of the music I grew up with, both at the time it was current, and later when it was the cornerstone of "classic rock" radio formats, came from that storied decade. There's the birth and maturation of heavy metal. There's the cradle of punk. And disco. 1 And that's not even mentioning such mainstays of my record collection as Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, or The Carpenters2
But the more I pondered this, I realised that in my musical pantheon, there is one figure who stands astride all the rest like a colossus. So, for the second time in this challenge, I give you the immortal David Bowie, today with his 1977 single "Sound and Vision"
Hush. It was never cool, but you could dance to it. ↩
who are probably rarely mentioned in the same sentence, but this is my blog, so you have to deal with my eccentricities. ↩
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For albums, I'd probably go for Talking Heads 77 or Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon. A lot of stuff in the early 70s in my mind sounds too much like the 60s. But, if I had to pick one song I was listening to in the 70s, it would be this: https://youtu.be/rVTiDhOR35g
Rikibeth Stein
Excitable Boy is a long-time favorite album of mine.
Rob Wynne
Rikibeth Stein mine too. Zevon is another huge influence on me.
And there's Linda Ronstadt singing backup, and HOW MANY great songs of the '70s wouldn't have been half as good without Waddy Wachtel?
Heather Munn
This song is always near the surface of my mind. And….because I'm a little slow (evidently), I didn't know until today that this is by Gordon Lightfoot. (Cut me a little slack…this song came out a year before I did.)
https://youtu.be/v5tr_L31StI
Like you, I'm a Bowie fan down to my bones. I literally wore out a cassette tape of Ziggy Stardust when I was 14. If I had to pick just one Bowie song from the 1970s, though, it's got to be Rebel Rebel, the apotheosis of glam rock.
https://youtu.be/Vy-rvsHsi1o
Paul Kwinn
Well, it may not be the left field candidate, but there's a reason it's such a classic: https://youtu.be/iXQUu5Dti4g
But for a song I enjoyed as a young child in the '70s (because it made it onto that AM radio station) that I still like today, I'm going to go with America's "Sister Golden Hair".
https://youtu.be/XIycEe59Auc
I love that song hard, both musically, but also because of…how to say…personal resonances. (Oddly, the person associate it with isn't blonde. )
"Would you love me just a little, just enough to show you can?"
I've been one poor correspondent, I've been too, too hard to find…
I did love this as a teen.
Jim Poltrone
Memories of being at the local Putt-Putt miniature golf course when I heard this. Yeah, it's a bit cheesy, but what 70's pop single wasn't? 🙂
Classic song I knew then:
https://youtu.be/JDG2m5hN1vo
One I didn't learn until later:
https://youtu.be/12rUOLtbQDk
Here's another one. Somehow I seem to remember the one-hit wonders. But then, I listened to American Top 40 religiously from 1974-81.
Knew it then:
https://youtu.be/xFrGuyw1V8s
Learned it later:
https://youtu.be/gcbuG2w0Kzo
And, lest we forget:
https://youtu.be/f3t9SfrfDZM
(Damn, I could keep this up all night. As good a distraction as the Sexier Men Than Blake Shelton game.)
I SAID it was a heavy lift!! ?
Rob Wynne So. Many. Genres.
I mean, THIS came out in 1979!
https://youtu.be/OKRJfIPiJGY
Rikibeth I filked that song. 🙂
https://www.autographedcat.com/2013/06/18/boba-fett-isnt-dead/
(Also, I saw Bauhaus in concert, on their 1998 reunion tour 🙂 )
Rob Wynne BITCH!
Then again, in April of 2016, Peter Murphy PUT HIS FACE ON MY FACE.
Bruce Adelsohn
This was, I suppose, technically a song recorded in the 1970s (1970), but there was a time around 1979 when _Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs_ was on my turntable more than was good for the vinyl. As good as the title track is, this is still my favorite song from the album. (Though the acoustic rework of Layla gives it a run for the money.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSzI-JqEN-o
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Home News Obituaries Chadwick Boseman has died of colon cancer
Chadwick Boseman has died of colon cancer
The Black Panther actor was diagnosed with cancer in 2016.
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Actor Chadwick Boseman has died of colon cancer at the age of 42 years old. Boseman's passing was announced via his social media accounts earlier this evening.
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It is with immeasurable grief that we confirm the passing of Chadwick Boseman.
Chadwick was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in 2016, and battled with it these last 4 years as it progressed to stage IV.
A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you many of the films you have come to love so much. From Marshall to Da 5 Bloods, August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and several more, all were filmed during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy.
It was the honor of his career to bring King T'Challa to life in Black Panther.
He died in his home, with his wife and family by his side.
The family thanks you for your love and prayers, and asks that you continue to respect their privacy during this difficult time.
Boseman has played numerous historical figures, including Thurgood Marshall and Jackie Robinson. In comic book circles he's best known for having portrayed King T'Challa in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2016's Captain America: Civil War. In addition to acting, Boseman was also a playwright, director, and producer.
The news of Boseman's passing is shocking, and absolutely gutting. He was a wonderful performer, and following his success as Black Panther he did extensive work for charities supporting children and the Black community.
The Beat's thoughts and condolences are with the family and friends of Chadwick Boseman. He will be sorely missed.
This was amazing. @chadwickboseman surprises #BlackPanther fans while they say what the movie means to them. pic.twitter.com/ZXnfLuV83f
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George 08/29/2020 3:01 pm At 3:01 pm
An awful, shocking loss. I expected to follow him through a long career, like a Paul Newman or a Clint Eastwood. He has that sort of movie star charisma.
Please, fans, wait until he's buried before you start yammering about who should replace him in BLACK PANTHER 2.
Heather 08/29/2020 5:16 pm At 5:16 pm
Thank you George! I was disgusted that some sites were having articles and speculating about BP2 within literally 2 hours of the death announcement. If Chadwick didn't film anything for it, I don't think they should do anything or re-cast it. Chadwick Boseman's death is simply too tragic considering the range of his talent.. he's like in Valentino and James Dean territory now, dying at the height of his powers. :(
That being said, didn't he voice T'Challa for the animated 'What If?'- so we have that performance to still look forward to.
Yes, he voiced T'Challa for "What If?," which is coming next year. He also acted in a Netflix movie, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," which is in post-production.
And he passed away on Jack Kirby's birthday. :(
Geoffrey 08/29/2020 10:07 pm At 10:07 pm
I wish more people had thought better of the BP2 chatter, but as the internet and social media have repeatedly shown us, people don't think before posting whatever comes to their minds at any given time. There are exceptions, but they're few and far between. Echoing condolences to his family and friends.
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AWI-scientist Markus Rex receives Dobson-Award
[25. June 2004]
For his work on interactions between climate change and the ozone layer, Dr Markus Rex of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Research branch Potsdam) received the 'Dobson-Award' on May 31, 2004. The Quadrennial Ozone Symposium in Greece was chosen to present the award for the first time.
Taking the Research Icebreaker to the "Hausgarten"
On June 16, 2004, the German research icebreaker "Polarstern" is scheduled to leave Bremerhaven for her 20th arctic expedition. During the first leg of the expedition, the main emphasis is on measurements of selected pollutants of air, water and snow, as well as on the hydrographic conditions in the Greenland Sea. In addition, any changes in the so-called "AWI-Hausgarten" ("Back Yard"), a long-term monitoring station in the arctic deep sea, will also be of great interest.
Prestigious Oceanography Award for Prof Dr Victor Smetacek
On June 11th, Prof Dr Victor Smetacek, scientist at the 'Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research' (AWI) will be presented with the Manley-Bendall medal for his "work in the field of marine biology, as an expert on plankton and for his worldwide reputation" by the Oceanographic Institute in Paris
Oldest Antarctic ice core reveals climate history
Secrets of the Earth's past climate locked in a three-kilometre long Antarctic ice core are revealed this week in the journal Nature. The core from Dome C, high on East Antarctica's plateau, contains snowfall from the last 740,000 years and is by far the oldest continuous climate record obtained from ice cores so far.
"Polarstern" back from Antarctic expedition
Biologists investigated ecosystem and its changes
After more than seven months, the German research vessel "Polarstern" returned to Bremerhaven on June 2nd from its 21st Antarctic expedition.


Female Soldier Ballads is a cycle of ballads about U.S. military women Lynndie England, Jessica Lynch, Shoshanna Johnson, and Lori Piestewa that I composed and sang. The compositions are printed on decorative lyric sheets that reference 18th century broadsides, the forebearers of today's tabloid newspapers.
The project departs from an early sub-genre of British folk ballads about cross-dressing female soldiers and sailors. Similar ballads are performed today, but the Female Soldier archetype also endures in less obscure forms of media. Since the US invaded Iraq, military women have been featured in such pop culture outlets as People Magazine, FOX News, and personal web logs. Their stories influence our understanding of the conflict through emotional appeals, not unlike the salacious 18th Century balladeers who raced to commit current events to verse.


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A Walking tour of Modigliani's Livorno
June 3, 2019 Jake Lloyd Jones
Do you know about Amedeo Modigliani? He was one of Italy's great Artists and we love his Art so much that we travelled all the way to his birthplace in Livorno to discover where he grew up. If you ever come to this quiet windswept, seaside town on the Ligurian Sea you can follow our steps and take a tour of the important traces that remain from his life.
Livorno's deserted central station, a far cry from the tourist madness of Florence.
On our way out to the bus station who do we find but the great man himself! The Livornese are justifiably proud of their famous artist.
Not many tourists visit Livorno except when a cruise ship docks and busloads of perspiring Americans are shuffled off to the "Must See" destinations of Florence and Pisa, which makes it all the more special and magical to walk the long sun drenched streets.
If you are lucky you will see that the bohemians still gather in Livorno, here a group of Italian hippies have met to sing and play their instruments in the gazebo on the seashore.
Modigliani (or Dedo as he was affectionately known by his family) was the epitome of a tragic artist. Born to a bourgeois Jewish family in Italy, he later shunned his academic upbringing and willingly devolved into a poverty stricken vagabond. He was formally educated as a life painter in his teens, quickly developing a life-long infatuation with nudes. In 1902 he moved to Florence to study at the Academia di Belle Arti, at the "Free School of Nude Studies," and a year later he moved to Venice as a fledgling artist, where he smoked hashish for the first time. It was only after he discovered narcotics that he developed the philosophical belief that the only path to creativity was through defiance of social norms and disorder in life. Thus began a life long affliction with corrupted beauty, which would ultimately end with his untimely death and the tragic suicide of his grief-stricken wife, Jeanne Hébuterne and their unborn child. Their only daughter was left an orphan at only 14 months age.
Modigliani contracted tuberculosis at an early age, which may be one reason why he often engaged in self-destructive behaviour. Living in Paris, he had affairs with many women, drank heavily, smoked hashish, and drank absinthe. He would often strip naked at social gatherings. He railed against all of the excesses of a Bourgeois lifestyle, and stripped them from his life, even destroying paintings that he had made in his earlier years.
Although he purposely created a life in which chaos, poverty, and doom lurked in every corner, he was a prolific artist. He sketched furiously, sometimes drawing over 100 sketches in a day, but many of his works were either lost, given away, or in some cases, destroyed by Modigliani himself. His favorite subject was by far the human form, painting the likenesses of other artists, such as Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Max Jacob, and Juan Gris, who all sat for the artist. His formal works are characterised by an elongation of the human form and mask-like faces, and his work is so unlike any other of his time that it still defies classification.
" I would like my life to be like a rich river flowing joyfully on Earth "- Amedeo Modigliani –
First stop on our tour is the birthplace of Modí, You will find it at Via Roma number 38, ring the bell beside the unassuming door and Elissa will admit you. If you are having trouble finding it look for this bust near the Piazza Attias, If you are facing the bust you are looking towards Casa natale Amedeo Modigliani.
Modigliani was famously born on the day the bailiffs arrived to take possession of the family valuables as an economic downturn in the price of metal had plunged the Modiglianis into bankruptcy. Amedeo's birth saved the family from ruin; according to an ancient law, creditors could not seize the bed of a pregnant woman or a mother with a newborn child. The bailiffs entered the family's home just as Eugenia went into labour; the family protected their most valuable assets by piling them on top of her. Modigliani's resourceful mother later used her social contacts to establish a school and, along with her two sisters, made the school into a successful enterprise, Elissa will show you a photograph of a young Amedeo with his classmates in the backyard of the house.
Elissa stands at her desk in the kitchen of Casa natale Amedeo Modigliani
Second stop not far from the home of Modigliani you will find his high school, Elissa will have shown you his school reports, he did well in French thanks to his French speaking Mother but not so good on comportment, he was an energetic and rather spoilt child. The school is at Via Ernesto Rossi 6 and is one of the oldest schools in Livorno.
Third stop stroll on along Piazza Cavour and cross the canal.
We come to the former location of Caffè Bardi, from 1908 until it closed in 1927 it was the gathering place of bohemian Artists, Poets and Musicians from all over the World, it is now occupied by a Danish stationary shop.
Fourth stop continue now along the Medici canal until you come to the large and beautiful Mercato Centrale (covered market) it's not far. On the first floor of the Market building Modigliani had his studio.
Up these unassuming steps was once the studio of Amadeo.
Most people know Amadeo for his paintings but in fact he really wanted to be a sculptor.
Unfortunately the dust and shavings irritated his tuberculosis too much but the strong symbols of his African influenced sculpture remain in his paintings, the long necks and noses, the concept of the mask and the blind eyes. Modigliani famously said "When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes" and in fact of all his paintings of the beautiful Jeanne Hébuterne only the final one shows her blue eyes.
Amadeo's sculptures were not well received by the pompous and conservative art critics of his time which according to legend led him to angrily throw three of them into the canal that runs past the market.
This gave rise to a wonderful prank and scandal that beautifully targeted some more modern art critics. In 1984, 100 years after the birth of Modigliani, Vera Durbé, the manager of Livorno's Progressive Museum of Contemporary Art, decided to organise an exhibition of Modigliani's sculptures, to celebrate his 100th year. Her idea, however, prompted an interesting challenge: The search for the legendary heads that had famously been thrown into the canal by a young Modi. The quest was supported by the administrative council, who approved the dredging of the canal. The excavation work took place under the watchful eyes of many who stood waiting excitedly for any news of the recovery of these long-awaited works of art. Their wait lasted a week and on the eighth day three stone sculptures, sculpted in the harsh, elongated style for which Modigliani was by now famous for, were successfully excavated, one after the other. They were presented to the many art critics of Livorno, who unanimously declared that the heads were the original work of Modigliani. Only Amadeo and Jeanne's orphaned daughter raised any doubts, denying that they were her Father's work but no one listened to her. Durbé's dream was realised and art lovers from all over the world flocked to Livorno… but they had forgotten that Livorno is a city famous for its pranks and practical jokes, after a month of much self congratulation and awards regarding the three newly-recovered sculptures, three Livornese students: Pietro Luridana, Pierfrancesco Ferrucci and Michele Guarducci, came forward claiming to have sculpted one of the three heads, in the garden of one of their houses, using drills and other tools bought from a local hardware store. They presented photos of themselves in action and the splinters of stone pertaining to the sculpture in question. Then, on national television they re-enacted the creation of the masterpiece.
Not long after, a sculptor named Angelo Froglia laid claim to the other two heads. Angelo Froglia was, in fact, just an ordinary dock worker who was passionate about art and was a talented sculptor. He claimed that he came up with the idea to pretend to have sculpted these pieces as a way of showing how art critics are led more by market trends rather than their own perceptions and the true worth of each individual piece of work. Both the three students and Froglia achieved their goals as in the end the joke was on the art critics who had previously slammed the work of Modigliani.
Only in Livorno could two completely different, unrelated groups of people have come up with exactly the same successful practical joke!
By now perhaps you are hungry? If so you must find the Father and Son who sell the finest cheese in the market, they are a pair of comedians who love to flirt with their female customers (but only if their wives are not working on the stall that day) these gentlemen will serve you a delicious tasting plate of the regions best cheeses and pesto on little pieces of bread, buy a glass of vino blanco at the bar, find a little table and enjoy!
Fifth stop now that you are refreshed you can continue on down to the sea past the rather racist looking statue that the Livornese are so proud of and you will come to the Fosso Reale (Royal Canal) and the streets of the old part of the city, here as a little boy Modigliani often walked in the company of his beloved grandfather, Isaac, they would visit the fishermen and spend entire days talking about history, philosophy, literature and playing chess by the sea. Climb the narrow stairs in the tower of the Fortezza Vecchia and you will have a lovely view of the old city
But be careful to speak loudly on your way up so you don't surprise and embarrass the young lovers who meet there to exchange kisses!
Last of all I will mention this large crack in the wall of the fortress.
During World War 2 the Allies decided to completely flatten Livorno for what strategic reason will never be known but naturally the destruction left deep scars on the city and in the psyche of it's community. More than 500 civilians were killed. It's the reason there are a couple of stops missing from this walking tour, the beautiful synagogue and the studio of Modi's first teacher were both destroyed. The city fell into a long economic decline that it is only now recovering from. When the fortress was repaired after the bombing the crack was retained and now appears as a motif in many Livornese Art works, an architect even included it in the design of one of the cities new schools.
Thankfully Livorno is more peaceful today.
If you want more you can visit the lovely little Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori in Villa Mimbelli, they have a Modigliani painting, a landscape called Tuscan Rd. It's a little unusual because Modigliani pretty much hated doing landscapes!
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