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Idris Elba In 'The Dark Tower' Is The Kind Of Unexpected Awesomeness The Film Needs
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In news that has ignited the Internet on Tuesday, Idris Elba has been cast in The Dark Tower alongside Matthew McConaughey as the main characters in the long-awaited adaptation of one of Stephen King's best-loved series. While there are many details yet to be confirmed (which of the books, for instance, will the movie cover?), this latest casting news has gotten many people hot under the collar for a plethora of reasons. Namely, Idris Elba is super cute, so The Dark Tower has become a way more attractive movie as a result. However, his casting has also been met with some negativity, because the character he'll play Roland Deschain, also known as The Gunslinger, is described as a "grizzled white guy".
It seems completely ridiculous that anyone would take issue with the casting of Idris Elba in The Dark Tower . Not only has he starred in beloved content like The Wire and Luther, he's also been touted as being the perfect candidate for the role of James Bond (I couldn't agree more). If anything, we should be celebrating the fact that everyone involved in The Dark Tower movie has had the foresight to cast a formidable actor who will bring one of Stephen King's best loved stories to life.
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Readers can often be a stickler for character descriptions, and this is not the first time that fans have questioned the casting of an actor in a particular role. For instance, when it was announced that a black actress would be playing Hermione in stage play Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, many fans were unhappy with the news. But even author J.K. Rowling supported the decision, and said on Twitter, "Brown eyes, frizzy hair and very clever. White skin was never specified." While readers may have a particular idea in mind of how a character should look and act, the fact that authors are open to colorblind casting is important.
Much like J.K. Rowling, Stephen King is excited about the movie version of his epic series, The Dark Tower, finally being cast. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, King said of Elba, "I think he's a terrific actor, one of the best working in the business now... For me, the character is still the character... He can be white or black, it makes no difference to me. I think it opens all kind of exciting possibilities for the backstory." Fans of the series should take note of this. Stephen King, who is basically a god at this point, thinks that Idris Elba is the perfect fit for his story, and that's all that matters.
Idris Elba's work speaks for itself. His performance in Beasts Of No Nation recently won him an Independent Spirit Award, alongside nominations at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs. Elba is a fantastic actor, and it's exciting to see him break into the mainstream in such a major way. And something to remember — fans were unhappy when Ben Affleck was announced as the new Batman, but now people are flocking to see the film. Similarly, we'll all look back on Elba's casting in The Dark Tower series as one of the best things that ever happened in the world, like ever. I just know it.


The owners of privately owned 'women only spaces' should be allowed to determine who counts as a 'woman' and thus they can restrict who enters these spaces.
Gender based discrimination in private spaces is legal. For example, actual "
private clubs" are allowed to choose their membership on certain criteria, including discriminating by gender.
Some people might find it emotionally distressing to have their privacy intruded upon by a person they perceive to be of the other gender.
Some public spaces are segregated for cultural reasons, such as washrooms. A reasonable degree of restriction based on identity does not harm anyone.
This would not be acceptable if their criteria was race based, or if it was related to having some other specific medical history. It's hypocritical to have someone's trans status be acceptable as a reason to discriminate.
In instances where the private sector is de facto the only provider of women only spaces, it is necessary for the state to regulate them to ensure women have meaningful access to the facilitates they need.
This opens the door to gender based discrimination.
Rio de Janeiro and many other cities female-only carriages in the metro have been introduced to protect women from harassment on public transport.
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Explained: How Mirabai Chanu, just 49 kg, could lift a massive 113 kg on her way to a CWG gold medal
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"Your windpipe is compressed, so you can't breathe. Your nervous system practically stops functioning, so no signal reaches your brain. You start feeling dizzy. Then, there's a complete blackout."
This is Sathish Sivalingam, a 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games gold medallist, describing what a weightlifter's body experiences while lifting iron that is twice or thrice their body weight.
In the last few days, India's weightlifters have made it look easy. On Saturday (July 30), Mirabai Chanu, whose body weight is a mere 49 kg, lifted 113 kg in clean and jerk while demolishing the rest of the field en route to her gold medal. The next day, Jeremy Lalrinnunga, who weighs 66 kg, snatched 140kg — more than twice his body weight — to set a Commonwealth Games record. And later that evening, Achinta Sheuli, weighing 73 kg, hoisted weights over his head that were almost two-and-a-half times more to complete India's gold medal hat-trick.
They did it with incredible nonchalance and grace, betraying what their bodies were actually going through.
"When someone like Mirabai, who is 49 kg, holds a barbell weighing 119 kg (her world record lift in clean and jerk) at her throat, how do you breathe? The entire body goes numb," Sivalingam, a former national and CWG record holder, said. "It's insanely tough."
The reason lifters like Jeremy and Mirabai made it look so easy, Sivalingam says, is the "thousands of hours" they've logged behind the scenes to perfect their technique.
The three pulls — where precision of technique is everything
Jeremy, said Sivalingam, has a "95 per cent" perfect technique in the snatch segment of the sport — the first part of the competition where the barbell has to be lifted above the head in one smooth motion. "The rest of the 5 per cent is not his fault. During a competition, there are small things that aren't perfect — like the position of your elbow, your head might push a little forward…these things always happen," Sivalingam, who is a part of the national camp in Patiala, said.
Mirabai, he added, has a near-perfect clean-and-jerk, a two-part lift in which the barbell first has to be brought to the shoulders and then jerked overhead to arm's length.
Sivalingam broke down a snatch lift into three key elements to explain why Jeremy's technique is "almost flawless", something that the commentators could not stop raving about.
With the "first pull", the barbell has to be lifted from the floor up to roughly the mid-thigh height. At this point, the "second pull" is initiated, which is to elevate the barbell using legs and hips, from the mid-thigh position to a fully extended position. And lastly, the "third pull" or "receiving" phase, where the lifter requires "explosive speed" to go under the barbell.
"Often, the first pull is decisive. When you pull the barbell from the floor, it has to be at a 90-degree angle. If it's more than that, say around 100, you'll fall backward and if it's less than that, 70 or 80, then you won't be able to perform a full extension for the second pull, the rod will get locked and you'll fall forward," Sivalingam explained.
A trained eye, like the ones of chief coach Vijay Sharma and assistant coach Sandeep Kumar, he added, will simply look at the body position — "for example, the position of the spine or the glutes" — during the first pull and in microseconds, will be able to tell whether the lift will be successful.
Jeremy, he says, has mastered the first pull, largely because of his low centre of gravity. "His feet never come off the platform, not even for a split-second. So, he is able to maintain his position and his balance is almost always perfect."
India's Mirabai Chanu with the gold medal after winning women's 49kg weightlifting category match of the Commonwealth Games 2022 (CWG), in Birmingham, UK, Saturday, July 30, 2022. (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra)
Shorter lifters have some advantage — but there are exceptions
At 5'7", Jeremy is so far the tallest among the four gold medallists at the CWG, with others ranging between 5 feet and 5'6". Mirabai, it must be underlined, is just 4'8". Even those competing in heavier weight classes usually are shorter for their categories.
At a fundamental level, the argument is that shorter lifters have an advantage. If a lifter has long arms, the barbell has to travel that much farther from the floor until the point of full extension for a valid lift. Similarly, if the legs are long, squats become tougher.
"I am careful to generalise but during my years of competing at a national level, the one thing I have observed is that the lifters from the Northeast tend to do well because they have smaller limbs, relatively speaking," Sivalingam said. "At an international level, the Chinese tend to dominate because of this reason."
He underlined, however, that this is not a universal truth — and pointed to the exceptions. "In India, we have Gurpreet Singh who is 6'5", weighs 145 or 150 kg, but lifts incredibly well. And at an international level, we have Lasha Talakhadze (of Georgia) who is almost 6'6" or 6'7", weighs close to 200 kg, and is an Olympic champion."
It comes down to technique, Sivalingam said, especially in clean and jerk, which he said are the tougher of the two segments because "you are lifting heavier weights, in multiple motions, which puts the body under a lot of stress".
He cited the example of Mirabai, a world record holder in the 49 kg category clean and jerk. At the 2014 CWG, Mirabai lifted 95 kg in this part of the competition to finish second. In the eight years that have followed, she has added 24 kg to that weight by "improving her technique, and conditioning of several small tissues, which can take up to four years".
You can't beat gravity but you can trick it — so you don't black out
At the same time, Mirabai also developed a strong physique and worked on her breathing skills to be able to deal with the amount of pressure her body comes under while lifting iron that's more than two times her body weight.
Here, Sivalingam said, lifting and breathing techniques become crucial. Lifting heavy weights, he said, can shut down the nervous system and constrict the windpipe, making breathing difficult.
"So, the technique at that stage is, after you have carried the barbell from the floor to your shoulder, you let it rest for a couple of seconds. At that point, you are standing straight. So, you lift the barbell slightly, before executing the jerk, and in that fraction of a second when you lift the rod up, you consume a maximum amount of air so the body refreshes. You have to do all this in three or four seconds."
The timing, he added, is critical. "When I am lifting 170 kg, each and every second matters. If I let it rest on my shoulder for one extra second, I feel like I am holding 250 kg. After two seconds, it feels like 250 kg and after three, I feel like I am holding 500 kg. Your calories are burning, face turns red and gravity is pulling you down," he said.
But while you can't beat gravity, Sivalingam added philosophically, you can indeed trick it.
"You are crumbling under the weight. So, instead of fighting back, you go down a bit by bending your knees. And then straighten them vigorously. When you do that, you capture the momentum and complete the lift," he said.
"What makes Mirabai great and Jeremy the next big thing? It's these little things — the ability to stick to their technique even when their nervous system stops and they are blacking out."
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Xi's Visit to Saudi Arabia Pressures the United States to Reevaluate its Relationship
James Hinote, A Geopolitical Analyst at CJPA Global Advisors
President Xi Jinping's recent visit to Saudi Arabia seeks to disrupt the U.S.' influence in the region and deepen relationships with one of the largest oil exporting countries in the world, with the signing of multiple agreements. Each move put more pressure on the U.S. to reevaluate its relationship with Saudi Arabia.
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Setbacks in U.S.-Saudi Relations
He Wenping, Research Fellow, West Asia and Africa Studies Institute of the China Academy of Social Sciences
The United States has complained bitterly about the recent OPEC announcement of a cut in oil production, which was seen as providing indirect aid to Russia and as a slap in the face to U.S. President Joe Biden. But U.S. complaints have been met with a sharp backlash from Saudi Arabia as it looks eastward.
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Joe Biden's Three Neglects
Jin Liangxiang, Senior Research Fellow, Shanghai Institute of Int'l Studies
The failure of the U.S. president's Mideast visit in July can be attributed largely to insensitivity over the legitimate concerns of GCC countries. It's yet another example of America's long-standing pattern of pushing for its own agenda at the expense of others' dignity.
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Falling Short in the Middle East
Wang Zhen, Research Professor, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
President Joe Biden's trip didn't measure up to expectations. That's because America's hegemony in the region is not what it used to be. If the Biden administration had recognized this early, U.S. diplomacy would have been more rewarding.
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Biden Seeks Reset in Middle East
Yang Wenjing, Research Professor, Institute of American Studies, CICIR
Locked in a mindset of great power competition, the U.S. president has been trying to find a new balance. Decades of military involvement in the region not only cost the U.S. dearly but also provoked a sort of psychological fatigue.
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Three Tasks for Biden
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China's Oil Deal v.s. the Dollar
American policy in the Middle East has Saudi Arabia thinking about selling oil to China in Chinese yuan rather than U.S. dollars. The shift would weaken the dollar's dominant position in the global oil market.
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China's Role to Increase After Pak-Saudi Spat
Adnan Aamir, Journalist
Recent spats between Pakistani and Saudi leadership may cause a rise in Chinese power in the region. With interlocked interests of oil, infrastructure, and loans between these three nations, China and Saudi Arabia will likely remain on top, while Pakistan's interests are left unfulfilled.
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An Escalation of the US-Iran Confrontation
Saudi Arabia faces the prospect of becoming engulfed in in a war with Iran before it has fully extracted itself from the conflict in Yemen. Adjustments may follow, both diplomatic and domestic.
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Australię na Zimowych Igrzyskach Olimpijskich 1984 reprezentowało 10 sportowców. Chorążym ekipy był Colin Coates. Był to dziesiąty start reprezentacji Australii na zimowych igrzyskach olimpijskich.

Skład kadry

Narciarstwo alpejskie

Mężczyźni

Kobiety

Biathlon

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Biegi narciarskie

Mężczyźni

Łyżwiarstwo figurowe

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Mężczyźni

Bibliografia

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16-27159 - Weapons Complaint
Posted: February 24, 2016 - 12:00 am
At about 9:35 p.m. members of the Halifax Regional Police responded to a report of a man with a gun in a residence in the 2700 block of Fuller Terrace in Halifax. It was reported the man had a hand gun and was going to cause a disturbance. Members of Patrol, K9, and the Emergency Response Team, responded to the area and set up containment. At 10:35 p.m. the man exited the residence and was taken into custody without incident and taken to the Halifax Infirmary for examination. Officers seized a pellet gun from inside the residence and no other weapons were located. The file remains under investigation.
Halifax Regional Police wish to thank the public and residents in the area for their cooperation during this incident.
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After the hype, here's what went wrong at Lighthouse charter school
A student works on a class assignment in the combined sixth and seventh grade class at North Point Lighthouse Charter School on Douglas Ave. in Milwaukee. The charter school will discontinue teaching grades fifth through seventh as of Friday and is scheduled to close for good at the end of this school year. Credit: Angela Peterson
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North Point Lighthouse Charter School opened about four years ago on Douglas Ave. in Milwaukee, just off N. Sherman Blvd., north of W. Silver Spring Drive.Angela Peterson
About charter schools
Charter schools are public schools run by non-profit companies. They exist through a contract with a state-approved entity that allows them freedom from some state rules in exchange for quality performance.
If the school's students don't meet performance goals, the authorizer can close the school.
Charter schools cannot teach religion and have to report the same data as traditional public schools. Most charter schools in Wisconsin are run by school boards. But in the Milwaukee area and Racine, the City of Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and UW-Parkside can authorize charter schools. Those "independent" charter schools usually have more control over staffing and budgeting than district-authorized charter schools.
As of the 2014-'15 school year, independent charter schools received $8,075 per pupil in state aid.
The only time I ever heard anything good about North Point Lighthouse Charter School was before it opened four years ago.
It arrived in Milwaukee with positive buzz. The Lighthouse organization ran charter schools in several states and had a reputation for quality. Its "arts-infused" approach to learning sounded attractive.
The school was located in an area that strongly needed good schools, just off N. Sherman Blvd., north of W. Silver Spring Drive. Talented people were involved. There was even some celebrity appeal — tennis star Andre Agassi cut the ribbon at opening ceremonies in 2012 for the building leased by the school from a venture capital outfit that Agassi was involved in.
But the school never took off. It will close at the end of this school year. The local board of the school announced the closing just ahead of the Milwaukee City Hall charter committee forcing it to close.
"There was no win here for the kids at Lighthouse," said April Knox, who worked for Lighthouse around the time of the launch, later joined the local school's board, and now watches from a distance as she works for the organization Schools That Can Milwaukee.
How not to do things can offer lessons in what needs to be done right. So here are a few lessons from the failure of Lighthouse.
The importance of principals. The school has had six principals in less than four years. That alone tells you a lot. I interviewed several people who are or were involved in the school and they all pointed to leadership as a problem. "Leadership sets the tone for everything happening in a building," Knox said.
Lighthouse moved through several principals in rapid order at the start. Other circumstances around the school may have had an impact, but the bottom line is simply that having a good principal who provides steady, effective leadership is crucial to any school.
The importance of leadership more broadly. Adam Peck, current chair of the local Lighthouse board, summed up what went wrong: "Number one, leadership. You have to have the right leadership in place to run a school. And that's leadership at all levels."
That includes the local board, which has had a lot of turnover and may not have stepped up to some things it should have done, such as more work at the start on the expensive lease with Agassi's organization. And it includes the national Lighthouse organization. There was a major change in leadership early on in the Milwaukee school's life and some involved say that hurt.
The need to know the local landscape. The high quality charter schools in Milwaukee almost all have entirely local roots. A few national charter organizations have tried to open schools here. They generally haven't done well. I can think of only one that seems to be doing better after a hard start, and that is Rocketship on the south side. In general, leaders of national school reform efforts have found Milwaukee a difficult setting.
Why? Maybe we have our own way of doing things in Milwaukee. That includes a very complex school landscape, shaped by wars between and within the three major sectors of local schools and by deep socioeconomic problems. In general, if you want to open a school here and don't know Milwaukee — well, don't say we didn't warn you.
The need to recruit students effectively. There's intense competition for enrolling kids citywide, especially if a school is just starting up. Not enough kids, not enough money, not enough vitality. Those involved in Lighthouse agree the school did not do a good job from the start at recruitment. Enrollment was below projections in each year. The school ended up with a lot of difficult challenges from kids and a lot of student turnover. And under-enrollment fed financial pressures.
The need to meet students' personal needs.This is a huge problem in a large number of schools in Milwaukee. In the case of Lighthouse, tight money meant there was no social worker or psychologist on the staff. The current principal, Beverly Echols, joined the school last fall. She said the first thing she saw was how much help the students needed. She told me, "Until you meet the social-emotional needs, I can't teach you a lot."
The importance of recruiting quality teachers and working well to develop them. Has it been hard to get good teachers? "Extremely," Cindy Bohlen, the board secretary, said. The pool is not huge and it is dwindling.
Knox's advice: "Spend time and capital on the human capital." The school did not.
There are a lot of other questions and maybe lessons. Some think there must be a better way to close a school than to announce it during a school year, which starts an exodus of teachers and kids (and led, in this case, to closing the fifth, sixth, and seventh grades a few weeks ago). But abrupt closure of schools isn't pretty either.
And should things have been allowed to go poorly for four years? Danny Goldberg, a former Milwaukee School Board member who was very involved with Lighthouse in earlier periods, said one important lesson was that schools that are doing poorly should close more promptly. On the other hand, the school is closing, which is not true of some schools in town that don't have much better records.
(By the way, what will become of the building Lighthouse was using? It is almost certain another school will move in there, likely by this fall. One school operator is hoping — hint, hint — to reach agreement soon on opening there).
Lighthouse appears to continue to do well in other locations. A request last week to talk with national leaders about the Milwaukee school brought no response.
But the legacy in Milwaukee is poor results, troubled operations— and the weak consolation of lessons in what not to do.
Alan J. Borsuk is senior fellow in law and public policy at Marquette University Law School. Reach him at alan.borsuk@marquette.edu.
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Trump's First 100 Days: Can he close the deal on health care?
By Abby Phillip
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Here's where things stand heading into Day 64 of the Trump administration:
Now, the rubber really meets the road for the closer in chief, President Trump.
At the urging of the president, Republicans plan to try again Friday to vote on the American Health Care Act after hastily scuttling plans to move the legislation through the House on Thursday afternoon because of a lack of support from Republican members.
So far, there are 30 to 40 Republican members, mostly from the conservative House Freedom Caucus, who are firmly opposed to the bill. Meanwhile, GOP leadership can afford to lose only about 22.
Aides to the president delivered a blunt message to holdouts on the Hill late Thursday night: If they don't approve the bill this week, there won't be another chance. The president, they said, plans to move on to other priorities if the health-care effort fails.
President Trump welcomed members of American Trucking Associations to the White House on Thursday. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
The White House and Republican leadership are offering conservative Republicans changes to the "essential health benefits" currently in the Affordable Care Act.
But that and other concessions were not enough for many conservatives in the Freedom Caucus, who asked for more.
The White House insists that there is no Plan B if this bill fails. Conservatives on the Hill are calling their bluff. So far, by delaying the vote, the White House and House GOP leadership have been the first to blink.
REPEAL AND REPLACE ON THE LINE
So what do all these potential changes mean? According to the Congressional Budget Office, the same number of people will be uninsured in 2026 as under the original Republican proposal. The biggest difference is that the proposed changes make the bill cost more, leading to less deficit savings after a decade than the original measure would have produced.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, left, walks with Mick Mulvaney, Trump's director of the Office of Management and Budget, to a House Republican meeting on Capitol Hill on Thursday. (Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto Agency)
In other words, the bill doesn't help Republicans get more people covered by health insurance. In addition, the CBO predicts that the effects on premiums would be the same as in the original Republican proposal. To recap, the CBO predicted earlier this month that premiums would rise 15 to 20 percent before 2020, then fall roughly 10 percent by 2026 compared with the current law.
But heading into the bill's next vote, more changes were being made, and it is not likely that the CBO will have time to provide a new score on the final product.
WIRETAP MEA CULPA
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes's revelation that the names of Trump transition advisers may have been caught up in surveillance of foreigners was like throwing a hand grenade into his committee's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The California Republican is now under fire for that, especially his decision to brief the president at the White House on information he acknowledged is incomplete. Nunes took a first step to address the concerns by apologizing to his fellow committee members for how he handled the situation.
But pressure is mounting for an independent committee to step in.
And Nunes's blockbuster revelations are also being called into question. Was Trump or any of his aides on any of the intercepted calls? Nunes says he doesn't know for sure.
SUPREME COURT FILIBUSTER ADDED TO THE DOCKET
Things are heating up in the otherwise sleepy hearing for Trump's Supreme Court pick, Neil Gorsuch. Democrats, as expected, are threatening to filibuster, preventing a straight up-and-down vote on Gorsuch's nomination unless Republicans are able to gather 60 votes.
Fifty-two senators caucus with the Republicans — so that means they need at least eight more lawmakers on their side.
It seems like an uphill battle, but already, moderate Democrats appear to be willing to play ball.
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III has already said that "we should have an up-or-down vote" on Gorsuch's nomination.
If Democrats do decide to filibuster, it could force Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to change Senate rules or invoke the "nuclear option," which removes the threat of a filibuster for Supreme Court nominees.
TRUMP HOTEL IN THE CLEAR ON ETHICS
Trump has stepped away from the day-to-day management of his business, including his luxury hotel in Washington.
Flags fly above the entrance to the Trump International Hotel when it opened in Washington in September. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
And because of that decision, government oversight officials said Thursday that Trump's business is in full compliance with its lease with the federal government, which bars an "elected official of the government of the United States" from benefiting from the deal.
Because Trump won't be benefiting directly from the hotel until after he leaves office, the lease is still valid. Trump's son Eric Trump, who oversees the hotel, is acting on the president's behalf until he leaves office.
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Case 'Wicher' – Information from the war diary of Inspectorate 7/VI
In the Second World War the Allies and the Axis fought battles not only with tanks, aircraft and infantry but also in the fields of signals intelligence and cryptology. Both sides tried to protect their communications from outsiders by using complicated cipher procedures and their codebreakers made every effort to solve enemy codes and thus gain valuable intelligence.
The Anglo-Americans were able to gain information of great value from reading their enemies secret communications. In Britain the codebreakers of Bletchley Park solved several enemy systems with the most important ones being the German Enigma and Tunny cipher machines and the Italian C-38m. Codebreaking played a role in the Battle of the Atlantic, the North Africa Campaign and the Normandy invasion. In the USA the Army and Navy codebreakers solved many Japanese cryptosystems and used this advantage in battle. The great victory at Midway would probably not have been possible if the Americans had not solved the Japanese Navy's code.
However the Axis codebreakers also had their successes and they were also able to compromise various Allied crypto system both low and high level.
One interesting question that often comes up in history books is whether the Germans ever suspected that their Enigma cipher machine was being read by the Allies and how the war could have taken a different turn had they managed to discover that it was not secure.
The truth is that the Germans never considered the Enigma to be unbreakable and in fact they had discovered in 1939 that the Poles had solved messages. During the war they continued to investigate the Polish solution of the Enigma, which they called case 'Wicher'. (1)
The plugboard Enigma and the German armed forces
The Germans adopted a modified version of the commercial Enigma machine as their main cipher system in the 1930's. The modification they introduced in the commercial model was a plugboard. This vastly improved the cipher security of the Enigma device.
In 1934 the Army and Navy agreed to use the plugboard Enigma as their main cipher system and in 1935 the Airforce followed (2). At the start of WWII Germany was the only country in the world to use a cipher machine for all its mid and high level traffic.
During WWII tens of thousands of Enigma machines were used by the Germans. It seems that no one knows for sure how many Enigma machines were built however a good estimate, based on their serial numbers, is that more than 40.000 were constructed. (3)
The Germans used the Enigma extensively and they were always worried about the security of their main cipher system. Their cryptologic security departments, scattered across their cryptologic agencies, researched ways to break the Enigma and based on their observations changes were made in operating procedures. Although it is often claimed that they considered the Enigma to be unbreakable the truth is that they constantly upgraded its security, both with physical modifications and with new, more secure cipher procedures.
One of the reasons that they improved the Enigma during the war was that they had learned that in the prewar period the Polish codebreakers had been able to solve messages.
The Polish solution of the Enigma in the 1930's
In the 1930's the rise of Hitler's National Socialist German Workers' Party led to German rearmament and a more aggressive foreign policy. This change in policy alarmed European nations and especially in neighboring Poland there was a great need to keep a close eye on the military developments in Germany.
The Polish state had limited resources but the intelligence service operated efficiently and was able to gather valuable intelligence against the main Polish enemies which were Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The Poles had a tradition in the field of cryptanalysis as their codebreakers had contributed to the defeat of Soviet troops in the war of 1919-1921 by solving the codes of the Red Army.
In the early 1930's the Polish cipher bureau concentrated on the solution of the widely used Enigma cipher machine and for this reason hired three young mathematicians: Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki. Thanks to cipher material obtained through France these codebreakers were able to solve the plugboard Enigma and read German messages. In this task they succeeded where the French and British codebreakers had failed!
German indicator procedures and the 'Grundstellung'
The Polish solution was based on the German indicator procedure. Each Enigma network had its own settings which changed monthly, up to October 1936 when they were changed each day. The key list specified which rotors would be used and their position in the scrambler unit, the ring settings on the rotors and the plugboard settings. In addition the keylist specified the Grundstellung (basic setting) for the network. This was the position of the rotors used to encipher the indicator of each message.
The indicator specified the starting position of the rotors which was different for each message. The way the system worked was that the Enigma operator had to set up the machine according to the instructions of the keylist and then had to select a random starting position for the 3 rotors for each message. This position was communicated to the other party after doubly enciphering it on the basic setting.
So let's imagine that a cipher clerk has set up his Enigma machine according to the daily settings and is ready to encipher a message. He turns the rotors of the machine at random and stops when they are at WJS, which will be his 'message key'. With the wheels at WJS he starts typing out the message and the cipher text is written down by another clerk. In order to send this message to another party he needs to add at the beginning of the message the enciphered indicator so the operator who receives it will know to set his machine rotors at WJS. The procedure used up to May 1937 (for the Navy) and September 1938 (for the Army and Airforce) was to take the initial position of the rotors for the message (in our case WJS) and encipher it twice in succession at the Grundstellung/basic setting. So in our example the cipher clerk would have to set the Enigma rotors to the network's Grund setting, let's say KJW and type WJS twice. Let's assume that the output is HCE VKR. These 6 letters would be placed at the start of the message as the indicator. Then the cipher clerk who received the message would turn his rotors to the Grund setting KJW and type HCE VKR, which would give him WJS WJS. Thus he would know that the message key is WJS and he would be able to decipher the message.
The Polish codebreakers were able to exploit the use of a Grund setting and the double encipherment of the message key. The flaw in this procedure was that there was a connection between the first and fourth, second and fifth and third and sixth letters of the indicator. It is obvious that these letters represented the same initial letters of the message 'key' at three stages apart. Using mathematical theory the Polish mathematicians were able to recover the Enigma settings and the messages keys so they could decode the radio traffic.
However in the late 1930's the Germans upgraded the security of the Enigma by modifying their operator procedures. In May 1937 the Navy introduced an indicator book and encipherment tables for the indicators thus defeating the Polish method. In September 1938 the Army and Airforce abandoned the use of the Grundstellung and each Enigma operator had to choose a random starting position as the message key and encipher it twice at another random position. In our example instead of KJW the operator will choose another rotor position, let's say JME and encipher the message key WJS twice thus giving KDB CUJ. The indicator sent with the message will be JME KDB CUJ. The receiving party will set their Enigma at JME and type KDB CUJ, giving WJS WJS which will be indentified as the message key.
Although the German Army and Airforce abandoned the Grundstellung they continued to encipher the message key twice thus allowing the Poles to compromise this new procedure. However the Polish operation would finally end in December 1938, when two more Enigma rotors were issued (making a total of 5), as the Polish cipher bureau did not have the resources needed to overcome this setback.
The greatest contribution of the Polish codebreakers to the Allied cause came in July 1939 when their officials revealed to British and French codebreakers that they had been solving the Enigma for years and shared their method of attack. This breakthrough allowed the Franco-British alliance to solve some Enigma traffic in the period 1939-1940 and made it possible for Bletchley Park to avoid a costly and time consuming attack on the Enigma.
Der Fall Wicher
In September 1939 Germany invaded Poland and after a brief period of fighting was able to defeat its armed forces and occupy the country. The Polish cipher burau was based in an area south of Warsaw and was evacuated before the German troops arrived but it seems that not all of their documents were properly disposed of. When the Germans examined the area they were able to find documents pointing to a very secret department in the cipher bureau, unusually large payments made to mathematicians and translations of messages thought to have been sent on the Enigma machine (4).
This information obviously alarmed the German officials and during the war they made efforts to locate and interrogate Polish officials that might know more about the Enigma compromise. The German called this investigation case 'Wicher' (der fall Wicher).
Unfortunately the information we have on their investigations is very limited and often contradictory. The NSA article 'Der Fall WICHER: German Knowledge of Polish Success on ENIGMA' by Joseph A. Meyer has a summary of the information from various TICOM reports but some of the statements made are not correct.
At the same time there are a few references to case 'Wicher' in the war diary of Inspectorate 7/VI but I haven't been able to locate any actual reports. It should also be noted that the German cryptanalysts involved in these investigations were not interrogated after the war, so we do not have their side of the story.
German investigations and information from the War Diary of Inspectorate 7/VI
According to 'Der Fall WICHER' and various TICOM reports (5) in 1939 the Germans were able to find incriminating evidence left behind by the Polish codebreakers when they evacuated their headquarters. It seems that the plaintext versions of a few Enigma messages were found thus showing the compromise of the cipher machine. Unfortunately I don't have the 1939 and 1940 reports of the German Army's codebreaking agency Inspectorate 7/VI, so I can't say whether more information can be found there.
In any case the Germans after researching the security of the indicator procedure seem to have discovered on their own that the double encipherment of the indicator was a risk and in May 1940 it was changed. From then on the cipher clerk chose a random message key and enciphered it on another random setting only once. In our previous example this means that instead of sending the indicator JME KDB CUJ, only JME KDB would be sent.
Since the Polish solution was based on the double encipherment of the indicator this change defeated their method. From then on the codebreakers of Bletchley Park had to employ their own method of solution which was based on the use of 'cribs' (suspected plaintext in the ciphertext) and high-speed cryptanalytic equipment called 'bombes'.
However there is no indication that this indicator change was implemented due to the 'Wicher' case. A German Army cryptanalyst named Buggisch said in TICOM report I-92 'Final Interrogation of Wachtmeister Otto Buggisch (OKH/In 7/VI and OKW/Chi)', p5 that the change came as a result of standard security studies:
The war diary of Inspectorate 7/VI, in the report of February 1942, says that an investigation of captured Polish files revealed deciphered German radio messages and this material was forwarded to Inspectorate 7/VI to clarify if the compromise was a result of treason or deciphering and if it was the latter to identify the compromised cipher system.
During the war representatives from the German cipher departments and the military intelligence service Abwehr had meetings on case 'Wicher'. Although 'Der Fall WICHER' says in page 9 that the Naval High Command – OKM did not know about the Polish affair the war diary of Inspectorate 7/VI for the month of April 1942 shows that a meeting took place between the Naval officers Stummel and Singer, the Abwehr officials Dr Schneider and a captain and the Army cryptanalyst Dr Pietsch.
The report says that the naval officers wanted closer cooperation between their department and the Army's on the Enigma investigations.
Another reference to case 'Wicher' can be found in July 1942 when the aforementioned Dr Schneider together with the department head of Inspectorate 7/VI visited imprisoned Polish intelligence officers who had served in the General Staff. The report says that the results were meager as some of those that the police had arrested were the wrong people and those that were interrogated either did not volunteer information or had such a low position that they did not know anything of value. The only admission made by the Poles was that they had solved the hand cipher used by the German Army and Police.
The only other reference I've found is in September 1943 when Dr Schneider, the OKM's Captain Singer and Inspectorate's 7/VI Dr Pietsch visited the Neuengamme concentration camp (near Hamburg) and interrogated the Polish intelligence officer Leja. A report was issued but I'm afraid I don't have it.
After the fall of Poland a few Polish codebreakers were able to reach France and started working for the French signals intelligence organization (codenamed PC Bruno), commanded by Gustave Bertrand. After 1940 this unit changed name (codename Cadix) and location and continued to monitor and decode some German communications, including a few Enigma keys (6). 'Der Fall WICHER' says in page 5 that 'The French cryptanalyst Bertrand was arrested and interrogated at this time, but he did not disclose the ENIGMA work, and it is very likely that he did not know what was happening in England and America on the problem'. This might not be entirely accurate as 'the book Enigma: The Battle for the Code', p319 says that in January 1944 'Gustave Bertrand is arrested by the Germans while working under cover for the Resistance in France. He admits to himself that he will not be able to remain silent if he is tortured, so, in order to obtain the chance to escape, he agrees to collaborate with the Nazis'.
The same source, 'Enigma: The Battle for the Code', p319 says that in March '44 the Polish officers 'Gwido Langer and Maksymilian Ciezki confess to the Germans that the Enigma cipher was broken before the war'. However there is no reference to this event in the war diary of Inspectorate 7/VI, at least in the files I have.
From the information presented so far it is clear that in 1939 the Germans were able to find proof that their Enigma cipher machine had been read by the Poles. However it doesn't seem like they were able to conclusively identify the Polish methods of solution. In any case they correctly dropped the double encipherment of the indicator in 1940, thus defeating the main Polish method of solution. During the war they continued to investigate case 'Wicher' but unfortunately we do not know what kind of information they got from interrogating the Polish officers. Buggisch said in TICOM report I-92, p5 that when Dr Pietsch (head of the mathematical research department of Inspectorate 7/VI) interrogated the two Polish officers in 1944 'he did not bother to get the details of the Polish method'. This seems nonsensical and it's possible that Buggisch either did not know more on the subject or was trying to mislead his interrogators.
In any case the people they interrogated could not have told them what they really needed to know, mainly that the British codebreakers could solve daily keys through the use of 'cribs' and high speed cryptanalytic equipment.
The Germans certainly did not think that the Enigma was unbreakable and they continuously upgraded its security from the 1930's till the end of the war (7). Regarding their investigations on the theoretical solution of the machine so far we know that the Army codebreakers wrote several reports on how the internal settings could be retrieved under different sets of circumstances (8). In 1944 the naval cryptanalyst Frowein showed that the 4-rotor Enigma could be solved on a crib of 25 letters (9).
Unfortunately with different agencies investigating the security of the Enigma and with their reports scattered across different government archives it is difficult to reach a conclusion regarding their investigations. It is up to researchers to locate and study the relevant reports so a conclusion can be reached regarding the German knowledge of possible solution methods for the Enigma.
(1). Der Fall WICHER: German Knowledge of Polish Success on ENIGMA
(2). 'Decrypted Secrets Methods and Maxims of Cryptology', p118
(3) The Journal of Intelligence History article: 'The Admiralty And Cipher Machines During The Second World War: Not So Stupid After All', p3
(4). Der Fall WICHER: German Knowledge of Polish Success on ENIGMA, p3-4
(5). TICOM reports I-78, I-92, I-127, I-200
(6). Intelligence and National Security article: 'Signals intelligence and Vichy France, 1940-44: Intelligence in defeat ', p184: 'According to Bertrand, between October 1940 and November 1942, 'Cadix' decoded 673 Wehrmacht and 3,097 police and SS transmissions pertaining to France and occupied Europe. Bertrand subdivides these decrypts into Wehrmacht Enigma transmissions, police and SS messages, Abwehr agents' instructions and reports, and Armistice Commission signals encoded manually.'
(7). Enigma security measures
(8). TICOM DF-190 series reports
(9). TICOM I-38 'Report on interrogation of Lt. Frowein of OKM/4 SKL/III, on his work on the security of the German naval four-wheel Enigma'
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Drake Dominates Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 With Seven Songs
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Drake's new album Scorpion is dominating streaming services, as further evidenced in the latest Hot 100 data released by Billboard today (July 9). In its opening week, seven of the project's songs landed in the Top 10, including the return of "Nice For What" to the No. 1 spot.
This gives Drizzy the record for most simultaneous Top 10 songs, previously held by The Beatles, who charted five Top 10 songs in April 1964, a few weeks after the band performed in the United States for the first time.
In addition to "Nice For What" landing back on top, "Nonstop" came in at No. 2, previous chart-topper "God's Plan" surged to No. 4, viral dance-boosted "In My Feelings" debuted at No. 6, "I'm Upset" hit a new peak at No. 7, "Emotionless" charted at No. 8, and the Michael Jackson-featuring "Don't Matter To Me" hit No. 9. In total, The Boy logged a record 27 songs on this week's chart, including all 25 songs on Scorpion.
The news follows a historic run for Drake's latest full-length. The LP reportedly broke a single-day streaming record on its day of release, and a single-week streaming record after just three days on the market, on its way to becoming the first album to log one billion global streams in a single week. Unsurprisingly, the album debuted at No. 1 and already went platinum.
These numbers were admittedly boosted by an unprecedented promotional campaign on Spotify that briefly featured images of Drizzy in every editorial playlist on the platform. But the viral success of the #InMyFeelingsChallenge, recently joined by G Herbo, 6ix9ine and more, testifies to the 6 God's persisting market dominance.
"Nice For What" unseated Cardi B's "I Like It" in the top spot, while XXXTentacion's "Sad!" dropped to No. 10. You can view the full chart over at Billboard.
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Are you a perpetrator, a spectator or a victim of change? The chances are that in a given working week you are all three. Externally, we find ourselves in an unpredictable economy with turbulent markets, self-eclipsing technology and dramatic demographic trends. Inside our organisations the goal posts constantly shift, the cultural and subcultural mix grows ever more divergent and people remain as inflexible as ever! It is timely to draw a breath and reflect on the processes, pathways and precipitous outcomes of change.
How do you implement a project that you have not originated with a team you have not chosen?
Why do some managers thrive on ambiguity while others are frozen by its complexity?
Do internal and external change-agents have a role in the successful facilitation of change?
Top-down change is more often endured than enduring. Why is this and what can be done to make change stick?
Is change ever rational? What planning assumptions apply to diferent types of change?
These and other change conundrums have been brought together to provide a set of readings for students on the Open University Business School diploma level courses on Managing Change, DMS and MBA students and line managers generally will find here a rich store of practical applications and provocative research.
Charles C. Snow, Raymond E. Miles and Henry Coleman, Jr.
This was mandatory reading when I took my MBA. If you can, skip it.
It exists tidbits in the articles that have some interest, but they are too few and far between, so it is not worth it.


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Breaking Myths
The Melbourne Cup – Sports' Ugly side
By Zushan Hashmi
The Melbourne Cup is arguably one of the cruellest and most violent events on Australia's sporting calendar. Horses are fragile animals, and racing them is likely to result in injuries for some and even deaths for others. However, the Cup might also be one of the most lucrative sporting events in the country!
November is upon us, which means the Melbourne Cup is here! Put on your fanciest hats, place in the brightest flower you can find, and don't forget your finest 3-piece, hipster, suit!
Let us all drink until our bodies can't handle anymore. Ohh, and I almost forgot, do put a $100 down on the horse with the most glamorous name!
Meanwhile, let's also watch a horse get overworked and die, or at least, be euthanized after a catastrophic injury. 6 horses – dead in 6 years. The stats speak for themselves.
In 2017, the Victorian Government saw revenues of $444.5 million from the Melbourne Cup Carnival (this includes the race itself, and all the other support events), as a whole!
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the Melbourne Cup is arguably one of the most violent and cruel events on Australia's sporting calendar. Horses are fragile animals, and racing them is likely to result in injuries for some of them and even deaths for others. However, the Cup might also be one of the most lucrative sporting events in the country.
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Before looking into the bleak reality of the nation (along with our cousins in New Zealand) stopping to watch an event with horses that have to be put down, and horses that die instantly, let's look at the money involved…
Since 2010, around a million people have attended the Melbourne Cup. That's a staggeringly large number, and when you consider that 83,471 people attended in 2018, these numbers are more than a single day of the 2018 Boxing Day Test and roughly 16,000 less than the 2018 AFL Grand Final. This event is massive, there is no doubt about that.
So much so that in 2017, the Victorian Government saw revenues of $444.5 million from the Melbourne Cup Carnival (this includes the race itself, and all the other support events), as a whole! On top of this, according to Racing.com, the carnival employed 20,000 staff and contractors. The economic benefit to the state of Victoria cannot be questioned.
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Not to mention, we haven't even discussed the betting side of the business yet! According to Nick Toscano, of the Sydney Morning Herald, 'The Melbourne Cup is the biggest betting event on the Australian calendar, and the sheer number of bets placed in the lead-up is extraordinary.'
He added, 'Punters with TAB placed nearly 11 million bets on Cup Day and wagered more than $90 million on the Melbourne Cup itself'. Tab Corp, which he referred to, is one of Australia's largest gambling entertainment companies and its press release stated that it held revenues of $115 Million from the 2018 Melbourne Cup alone.
These numbers are also huge and this is by far Australia's biggest betting event. It also does not look like it will be stopping any time soon. Even if that means a horse dying every year, several horses being whipped, and dozens of horses bleeding internally.
That's the unfortunate and horrible reality or the other side of this economic powerhouse of an event. As I stated, 6 horses either died or had to be put down over the last 6 years of the Melbourne Cup.
Most recently, The Cliffsofmoher was euthanised after breaking his shoulder on track in 2018. Reports even stated that he did not look up to the task prior to the race, and it would have been worth leaving him out for the race.
He, however, followed Regal Monarch, Red Cadaeux, Araldo and Verema, who were euthanised in 2017, 2015, 2014 and 2013 respectively. Meanwhile Admire Rakti suffered a heart attack and died in 2014 as well.
Following the death of The Cliffsofmoher, RSPCA Australia's spokesperson, Jane Speechley said "RSPCA Australia has long voiced its concerns about the welfare of racehorses, including the use of inhumane devices such as whips and tongue ties, as well as the risk of injury and death during races."
Since 1890, over 800 riders have died, and at least 13 jockeys have been killed in the past 15 years. Additionally, over 100 horses died on race tracks in Australia between August 2018 and July 2019.
Yes, over whipping is common in horse racing, and it does in fact hurt. Pure adrenaline during sport can result in such outcomes and jockeys can get out of control. In fact, in true fashion, during the 2018 Melbourne Cup, star jockey, Hugh Bowman was suspended for 35-meetings, 8 of which came from over whipping. The remaining 35 were made up of 21 suspensions for being overweight and 12 for reckless riding. Yep! 13 more suspensions for being 500 grams overweight, compared to hurting his thoroughbred horse.
This only goes to show that the industry does not do enough to punish injuries, often stating that horse deaths are an unfortunate and more or less, acceptable aspect of the race. This also seeps into wider Australian horse racing, and horse deaths in the country.
In fact, since 1890, over 800 riders have died, and at least 13 jockeys have been killed in the past 15 years. Additionally, over 100 horses died on race tracks in Australia between August 2018 and July 2019. The vast majority of these deaths, according to data collated by The Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses, were due to front limb injury, while other causes also included bleeds and cardiac failure.
As brutal as it is, it's important to note that Australian races are far safer for horses than other nations, such as the UK and the US. In the UK, the fatal injury rate is approximately 0.8 per 1,000 starts, and the USA is 1.6 per 1,000 starts.
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Also, it would be naïve of me to say that carers and staff attached to these horses do not provide proper care and love for them. In fact, it is often these people who care the most for their horses, providing them with the dedication that is required to keep them in tip-top shape.
Yet, no matter how precise you are, just as is the case with any sport that does not involve animals, we as humans, can end up overlooking key issues, which may result in the death or injury for these horses.
Perhaps, it would be a completely different situation, if the narrative around the cup was not as focused on it being an opportunity to have a wild day out and if the amount of money that generated was far lower.
Another positive sign is that these problems are becoming more prevalent in both conventional and social media, for example with the hashtag #NupTotheCup trending on twitter on Race day. And similarly, an increasing number of news agencies have started covering these horse and jockey fatalities and injuries.
It may never be the case though that people across the country and around the world, view this as the brutal sport that it is, simply because there is too much money, fun and entertainment involved.
Zushan Hashmi is a sports enthusiast who works in the policy space in Australia. He is an avid fan of climbing, football, cricket and all things sport. You can follow him here on Twitter.
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UK Labour Party reinstates controversial member accused of Islamophobia: Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn MP is still denied the party whip
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The Labour Party has become embroiled in another major race row following its decision to readmit Trevor Phillips to the party just over a year after he was suspended for alleged Islamophobia. The 67-year-old writer and broadcaster is one of the most high-profile members of the party. As the former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the head of its forerunner the Commission for Racial Equality he made a name for himself as an anti-racism campaigner. When he speaks about race, people tend to take him seriously.
According to the Guardian, Phillips was reinstated by the party "at least three weeks ago", without the matter going to a National Executive Committee disciplinary panel. "A Labour source said that the investigation into Phillips is ongoing and its procedures allow for this to happen even after a member's suspension has been lifted."
With Labour embroiled in an ongoing civil war over a number of issues, including its handling of alleged racism within the party, the decision to reinstate Phillips, who has a track record of making highly offensive comments considered by many to be Islamophobic, has fuelled anger and accusations of double standards. Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn MP is still denied the party whip in parliament over comments he had made last year following the publication of a report by the EHRC on anti-Semitism within Labour.
The report was based on a 17-month long investigation which found no evidence of anti-Semitism attributable to the former leader, or any evidence of institutional racism within the Labour Party. It has been pointed out that there is a strong case to be made that the EHRC findings were further confirmation that Labour's anti-Semitism "crisis" was fuelled by a right-wing faction in order to undermine Corbyn. This was the conclusion of an internal 851 page report by the Labour Party's Governance and Legal Unit.
As the party turned to the right under current leader Sir Keir Starmer, Corbyn's suspension triggered a civil war within Labour. Suspending Corbyn, Starmer claimed that his predecessor had "undermined" the EHRC report with his comments that the scale of anti-Semitism in the party had been "dramatically overstated". Starmer is on record saying that he "support[s] Zionism without qualification."
While Corbyn waits to have the whip restored, several Labour members are still serving suspensions for alleged anti-Semitism. Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, a senior member of Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) is one of those suspended under questionable circumstances. Wimborne-Idrissi is also vice-chair of her local party. She and the chair, Gary Lafley, were both suspended last December for asking questions about Corbyn's suspension.
"I feel bloody uncomfortable seeing damned good comrades and friends of mine being suspended from this party for doing nothing more than trying to discuss the questions which led to Jeremy Corbyn's unjust suspension," said Wimborne-Idrissi following Starmer's move against Corbyn. "We know it was unjust because he was readmitted, and then the question of the whip being taken from him which is almost certainly unconstitutional in the party."
The obvious double standard has been pointed out by senior Labour MPs. "The continuing refusal to restore the Labour whip to Jeremy Corbyn becomes even more bewildering and unjustifiable in the light of this decision," tweeted former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP, following Phillips' reinstatement.
The divisions of the past five years have resurfaced with Labour MPs questionings their party's pledge to take Islamophobia seriously.
"Anything less than a full apology before readmittance makes a mockery of the idea that Labour takes Islamophobia seriously," said the Coventry South MP Zara Sultana. She cited comments made by Phillips about Muslims which many consider to be racist and Islamophobic and led to his suspension. Muslims, he claimed, "see the world differently from the rest of us"; they are a "nation within a nation".
South African author and former politician Andrew Feinstein tweeted that, "Trevor Phillips' reinstatement despite his Islamophobic comments shows again that the Labour party has a hierarchy of racism. Many anti-racist Jews remain suspended for supposed anti-Semitism while Islamophobe readmitted. U r either antiracist or u r part of the racism problem!"
The Labour Party leadership is accepting & tolerant of Islamophobia, while suspending anti-racist Jews for supposed antisemitism. U r either anti-racist, & oppose all racism equally & unequivocally, or u r part of the racism problem. The Labour party is part of the racism problem https://t.co/LwSYdrZfko
— Andrew Feinstein (@andrewfeinstein) July 6, 2021
The perception of double standards is fuelled in large part because many see Labour adopting a casual attitude towards explicit bigotry and hatred against Muslims. Meanwhile, it takes a harsh approach against alleged anti-Semitism even though the latter is often conflated with legitimate criticism of the policies and practices of the state of Israel.
Peter Mandelson was best man at Trevor Phillips's wedding. Mandelson is also opposed to reforming Labour's disciplinary system to make it 'independent', as the EHRC requires.
Join the dots. It's Mandelson and other New Labour Islamophobes who now again run the Labour Party.
— عمار الكاظمي ?? (@AmmarKazmi_) July 7, 2021
Phillips' comments are cited as a clear example of how it is acceptable in 21st century Britain to talk about Muslims in ways that would be wholly unacceptable about any other minority. In an article in the Sun, for example, he said that placing a Christian girl into Muslim foster care was "akin to child abuse". He is accused of peddling unfounded claims about Muslims that not only align with those made by far-right Islamophobes, but are also used by anti-Muslim groups to justify their divisive targeting of Muslims.
His reinstatement by Labour while others who have been suspended are left out in the cold risks splitting the party even more.
"We are once again in a position where we must express the deep disappointment and frustration of Muslim members and supporters across the UK," said the Labour Muslim Network in an official statement. "Trevor Phillips' case is one of the most high-profile recent examples of Islamophobia within the Labour Party and quietly readmitting him behind closed doors, without apology or acknowledgement, will only cause further anxiety and hurt amongst Muslims."
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