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Criminal barrister strike is no surprise – their pay can start at less than minimum wage

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 5 minutos)

Criminal barristers in England and Wales have voted in favour of an all-out, indefinite strike after years of declining pay. This industrial action will begin in the first week of September and escalates existing instances of withdrawn labour in relation to cases funded by criminal legal aid.

28 Agosto 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Daniel Newman y Jacqueline Kinghan

Alex Jones claimed being deplatformed hurt his income. Vic Hinterlang/Shutterstock

Deplatforming online extremists reduces their followers – but there’s a price

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Conspiracy theorist and US far-right media personality Alex Jones was recently ordered to pay US$45 million (£37 million) damages to the family of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.

27 Agosto 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Emiliano De Cristofaro

Brian Tamaki with Destiny Church members and supporters leading the anti-government march to parliament on August 23. Getty Images

Refusing to rule out working with Brian Tamaki, Luxon gives NZ’s populist right a ‘sniff of credibility’

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The final act in this week’s protest on the lawns of parliament was the announcement by Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki of a new political party. Perhaps this was the whole point of the event, as it was never entirely clear what the protest was actually against in the first place.

26 Agosto 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Richard Shaw

Vladimir Putin en una caricatura de DonkeyHotey vía flickr.

L’inquiétante rhétorique bestialisante de Vladimir Poutine

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« Tout peuple, et en particulier le peuple russe, est capable de distinguer les vrais patriotes de la racaille et des traîtres, et de recracher ces derniers comme un moucheron qui aurait atterri dans leur bouche. Je suis convaincu que cette purification naturelle et nécessaire de la société ne fera que renforcer notre pays. »

25 Agosto 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Laurent Bègue-Shankland

Mar-a-Lago is shown on Aug. 16, 2022, a week after the FBI’s raid. Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago lawsuit spotlights how difficult search warrants are to challenge – by a criminal suspect or an ex-president – until charges are brought

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 7 minutos)

Some observers say that the lawsuit filed by former President Donald Trump on Aug. 22, 2022, challenging the FBI’s recent search of his Mar-a-Lago estate is “filled with bombastic complaints” and will “blow up in his face.”.

24 Agosto 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Clark D. Cunningham

Williams has won 23 grand slams in her career. photoyh/ Shutterstock

Serena Williams: why many female athletes feel pressure to retire after becoming mothers

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Serena Williams has announced she’s retiring from tennis. During her career, the 40-year-old has often been hailed as the best female tennis player, winning 23 grand slam titles. In 2017, Williams won the Australian Open while eight weeks pregnant, returning to play in 2018 after giving birth and even making the Wimbledon final that same year.

23 Agosto 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Candice Lingam-Willgoss

Filmmaker Biyi Bandele (left) directing the TV series Shuga in 2015. He was also a theatre maker and novelist. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

Biyi Bandele, a serial storyteller who elevated Nigerian culture

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

The writer, film-maker and theatre creator Biyi Bandele has passed away at the age of 54, news that has stunned the West African arts community where he was a creative icon who told classic Nigerian stories, sometimes in the Yoruba language, to a global audience.

22 Agosto 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Ezinne Ezepue

Prisons in more than a dozen U.S. states are not fully air-conditioned. Leo Patrizi/Getty Images

Conditions in prisons during heat waves pose deadly threats to incarcerated people and prison staff

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Extreme heat is taking an increasing toll across the U.S. in summertime. People who are incarcerated are among society’s most vulnerable groups and have been especially affected.

18 Septiembre 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por J. Carlee Purdum

Est-ce qu'il existe une limite à l'espérance de vie humaine? (Shutterstock)

Pile ou face : ce que les modèles statistiques nous enseignent sur la probabilité de vivre au-delà de 110 ans

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

La doyenne présomptive de l’humanité, la Japonaise Kane Tanaka, s’est éteinte au mois d’avril dernier dans son pays natal à l’âge de 119 ans. Malgré sa longévité spectaculaire, elle n’a pas réussi à dépasser le record établi par la Française Jeanne Calment, il y a 25 ans jour pour jour.

26 Febrero 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Léo R. Belzile

De quoi Salman Rushdie est-il le symbole ?

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La ville de Chautauqua, située au sud-ouest de Buffalo dans l’État de New York, est connue pour ses conférences d’été. C’est un lieu où les gens viennent chercher la paix et la sérénité. Salman Rushdie, grand écrivain et intellectuel influent, avait déjà pris la parole dans ce cadre.

10 Septiembre 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Vijay Mishra

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Former President Donald Trump, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Aug. 6, 2022, in Dallas. Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images

You don’t have to be a spy to violate the Espionage Act – and other crucial facts about the law Trump may have broken

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

The federal court-authorized search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate has brought renewed attention to the obscure but infamous law known as the Espionage Act of 1917. A section of the law was listed as one of three potential violations under Justice Department investigation.

16 Agosto 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Joseph Ferguson and Thomas A. Durkin

Sam Uffindell was lucky to avoid NZ’s criminal justice system as a schoolboy – but it was the right outcome

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However you look at it, the National Party has selected someone who once committed an act of criminal violence to represent the Tauranga electorate in parliament.

15 Agosto 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por James Mehigan

Selon des chercheurs américains, une baisse de 10 % des taux marginaux supérieurs d’imposition pourrait augmenter de 40 % l’attractivité d’un pays. Shutterstock

«Le pour et le contre» : Faut-il mener une politique de «ruissellement» des richesses ?

(Tiempo de lectura: 1 - 2 minutos)

Dans « Le pour et le contre », Julien Pillot (Inseec) dresse l’inventaire, non exhaustif, des arguments favorables et défavorables que donne la recherche académique sur une question de notre temps. Une boîte à outils qui vous aidera à vous positionner face aux grands sujets de société, à quelques semaines de l’élection présidentielle.

11 Septiembre 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Julien Pillot

Author Salman Rushdie pictured in London in 2017. Grant Pollard/AP

Why Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ remains so controversial decades after its publication

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One of the most controversial books in recent literary history, Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses,” was published three decades ago this month and almost immediately set off angry demonstrations all over the world, some of them violent.

14 Agosto 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Myriam Renaud

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Criminal barrister strike is no surprise – their pay can start at less than minimum wage

Deplatforming online extremists reduces their followers – but there’s a price

Refusing to rule out working with Brian Tamaki, Luxon gives NZ’s populist right a ‘sniff of credibility’

L’inquiétante rhétorique bestialisante de Vladimir Poutine

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago lawsuit spotlights how difficult search warrants are to challenge – by a criminal suspect or an ex-president – until charges are brought

Serena Williams: why many female athletes feel pressure to retire after becoming mothers

Biyi Bandele, a serial storyteller who elevated Nigerian culture

Conditions in prisons during heat waves pose deadly threats to incarcerated people and prison staff

Pile ou face : ce que les modèles statistiques nous enseignent sur la probabilité de vivre au-delà de 110 ans

De quoi Salman Rushdie est-il le symbole ?

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You don’t have to be a spy to violate the Espionage Act – and other crucial facts about the law Trump may have broken

Sam Uffindell was lucky to avoid NZ’s criminal justice system as a schoolboy – but it was the right outcome

«Le pour et le contre» : Faut-il mener une politique de «ruissellement» des richesses ?

Why Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ remains so controversial decades after its publication

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