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      38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia by Philippe Sands review – war crimes revisited

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 31 March

    In the final part of a bravura trilogy detailing the struggle to bring war criminals to account, Sands tracks a former SS commander to Chile, where he found a friend in Augusto Pinochet

    This is the concluding part of Philippe Sands’s extraordinary trilogy part history, part moral investigation, part memoir that documents the legal and personal battles to bring to account Nazi war criminals and their disciples.

    In East West Street he recounted the plight of Lviv, the city now in Ukraine, whose Jewish population either fled before Nazi occupation or, like many of Sands’s extended family, was thereafter wiped out. Two Jewish lawyers who got out early were instrumental in creating the legal concepts of crimes against humanity and genocide that were introduced at the Nuremberg trials.

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      Spain’s wild horses in peril – in pictures

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 31 March

    By grazing between trees and removing potential wildfire fuel, wild horses help protect Galicia’s delicate ecosystems, but Europe’s largest herd has declined to just 10,000

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      Living Together review – how Austrians teach immigrants to find their place in society

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 31 March

    New arrivals sit in drab spaces and are learn how to fit in, in a film that quietly addresses the costs of integration to minority groups

    Thomas Fürhapter’s documentary sheds light on the challenges of adjusting to a new culture as it follows a series of “integration classes” offered to immigrants in Vienna. The film opens in the nondescript corridors of an administrative building, which lead into sun-filled but impersonal meeting rooms where these sessions take place. As the participants discuss their worries and uncertainties, these colourless spaces transform into sites of passion and community.

    Conducted in multiple languages, the seminars grapple with culturally specific issues faced by different minority groups. Topics of discussion range from Austrian ways of greeting, to more serious concerns such as racism and domestic abuse. In talking about the present and the future, people also reveal pieces of their past: some moved to Austria for love, others fled the horrors of war. Despite their different circumstances, what unites these individuals from all walks of life is a heartfelt desire to belong.

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      David Dimbleby’s hugely compelling history of capitalism: best podcasts of the week

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 31 March

    The seasoned pro brings us a slick new listen. Plus, Paris Hilton produces a rare story of social media being used for good

    David Dimbleby takes on the history of capitalism . It’s a slick listen that opens in a barrage of air raid sirens and rumbling aircraft engines as Anthony Fisher watches his brother die while they both fly planes during the second world war – before going on to found the free-market thinktank the Institute of Economic Affairs. The half-hour episodes don’t allow for deep dives but are as hugely listenable as anything featuring its host’s voice is. Alexi Duggins
    BBC Sounds, episodes weekly

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      ‘Joni Mitchell’s Blue revolutionised the way I saw music’: Emeli Sandé’s honest playlist

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 31 March

    The singer was a young fan of Mariah and pretends she hates one 70s musical classic, but which aquatic power ballad can she genuinely no longer stand?

    The first song I fell in love with
    Samson by Regina Spektor, when I was 16 and falling in love for the first time. I got introduced to her music when I was working in Virgin Megastore in Aberdeen. Then I met someone in a club.

    The first single I bought
    All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey, from Asda. My dad had played me the Music Box album from when I was about seven, so I loved Mariah. I saw it in the bargain section for £1.99 and thought: “Let’s get it.”

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      ‘Society SUCKS!’ The fanatical diary of a teen scribbler who threw herself into punk

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 31 March

    Don’t live like everyone else! Angela Jaeger met every act going in punk, in New York and London – and had crushes on them all. Now 65, she talks us through her thrill-filled diaries

    There is nothing new to discover, surely, about the birth of punk. But perhaps it depends where you look. Written between 1977 and 1981, the teenage diaries of Angela Jaeger crackle with life. Published as the book I Feel Famous, the New York and London punk scenester’s writing gives us a real-time immersion, with zero revisionism, into not only what happened and who was there, but how it felt to a musically fanatical teenage girl.

    Diary entry for 9 May, 1977, about a Bryan Ferry/Talking Heads gig being sold out: “Shit, damn, piss forever!! What can you do but kick and curse cause you CAN’T GO! It shits bricks solid!!” By 27 June, she’s a dedicated anglophile, a Sex Pistols and Clash obsessive, searching for an identity and asking the big questions: “Why should we be expected to live like everyone else does? What are the reasons behind TEENAGE REVOLUTION!”

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      TV tonight: the inside story of Twitter, told by the people who made it

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 31 March

    The good, the bad and the ugly about the social media platform. Plus: celebrities mark the end of the Islamic month of Ramadan. Here’s what to watch this evening

    9pm, BBC Two
    “This is the stupidest thing ever.” That was a common reaction to Twitter in 2006, according to the San Francisco startup’s “ragtag” founders who created it in just under two weeks. They give their input on the social media platform’s legacy in this documentary (Jack Dorsey, who stepped down as CEO and sold it to Elon Musk in 2022 is noticeably absent), along with former employees, journalists and activists. While Musk’s renamed X may be a hellscape today – and it has been hugely damaging to society – there is plenty of good to be found in its history. All the highs, lows and grey areas are laid out here, including the revelation that Oprah didn’t actually type her first tweet. Hollie Richardson

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      ‘Boys feel increasingly isolated’: teenagers on Netflix’s Adolescence

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 31 March

    Sixth-formers discuss the hit show and what it is really like to be a young male in Britain today

    Everyone from the prime minister down seems to have a view on Adolescence , the Netflix smash about a teenage murder fuelled by social media and toxic masculinity.

    But there is one voice missing from the debate: teenage boys themselves. We gathered a group of sixth-formers from Xaverian college in Manchester to get their views on the show, and find out what it is really like to be a teenage boy in Britain today.

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      Jenny Eclair: Jokes Jokes Jokes review – deliciously carefree and crude

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 31 March • 1 minute

    Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
    At 65, Eclair has faced down adversity, her own ego, sexism and the menopause – and always found a way to keep cheerfully telling the tales

    Standup show or book tie-in? Jokes Jokes Jokes is a bit of both, a panorama of Jenny Eclair’s 65 years on Earth based on her autobiography of last year. It has only chronology to bind it together, which is fine for a book but can leave a stage show feeling – well, a bit lacking. But any deficit of focus or argument is made up by the tremendous carefree vim our host brings to her task. Jokes both good and crude are delivered with a gleeful cackle and a capering lap of (usually dis-)honour, arms aloft, from one side of the stage to the other.

    She deserves to celebrate: the show traces the career of a real trouper, who’s faced down adversity, her own ego, sexism and the menopause, and always found a way to keep cheerfully telling the tales. It opens in 1960 (“just think series 4 of Call the Midwife …”), when Eclair, as she then wasn’t, was born to a mum disabled by polio and a dad who may have been a spy. From the off, she sought fame; “Jenny Eclair” is what she named the “showbiz tapeworm” burrowing away inside her. But fame – via anorexia (after being branded “too fat” at drama school) and performance poetry – was neither easily found nor easily held on to.

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