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Uprising by Tahmima Anam review – a fiery novel of female rebellion | Fiction

Uprising by Tahmima Anam review – a fiery novel of female rebellion | Fiction

Published by Sam Flores

‘Yes, you will leave this place,” the chorus of child protagonists in a community of sex workers say at the start of Tahmima Anam’s incantatory and fiery new novel of female defiance, Uprising. “This story will save your life,” we were told three times in Deepa Anappara’s 2020 debut, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, also featuring precarious children dwelling in the margins. What is the distance between imagination and action, lived realities and dreams? How can solidarities be forged in such circumstances? Uprising holds within its pages some answers and a deep conviction – for a better life, a more just world – and then reaches out and fights for it. As a journalist, Anam visited the infamous “floating brothel” Banishanta in Bangladesh; her new novel, set on an isolated island “at the end of the country, in the middle of a river that emptied into the sea”, fictionalises the island’s community and ecological precarity. Here, a generation of daughters grow up watching their mothers trapped in sex work – “we knew that the …

Cable, Gilts Under Pressure As UK PM Starmer On The Brink As Rebellion Spreads

Cable, Gilts Under Pressure As UK PM Starmer On The Brink As Rebellion Spreads

Published by Jenni Sidey

UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, is on the brink this morning as The Telegraph reports that six Cabinet Ministers reportedly call on him privately to quit and the number of MPs on the record saying he must go reaches 84. The Telegraph learnt before the meeting that six ministers – Shabana Mahmood, John Healey, Ed Miliband, Lisa Nandy, Yvette Cooper and Wes Streeting – had been expected to demand Sir Keir’s resignation. However the Prime Minister did not give Ministers a chance to speak against him and instead set out his case on why he should remain in office. He told Ministers: “The Labour Party has a process for challenging a leader and that has not been triggered. The country expects us to get on with governing. That is what I am doing and what we must do as a Cabinet.” He then spent the rest of the hour discussing policy issues and the impact of the Iran war. Rebecca Long-Bailey, who served under Jeremy Corbyn and was sacked from Sir Keir’s shadow cabinet …

How wired headphones became a stylish rebellion against Big Tech

How wired headphones became a stylish rebellion against Big Tech

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Unpair your AirPods and chargers be damned. Wired headphones – the once infuriatingly tangled white cord tethering us all together – are booming after five straight years of tech advancements and subsequent declining sales. We are plugging back in, so much so that there was a 20 per cent wired headphone revenue surge in the first six weeks of 2026, bringing the tech accessory back from the brink after it suffered a $42m (£31.2m) drop in 2024. For the style set, this isn’t a surprise. Vogue declared the “humble” wired headphones to be on the up as far back as 2019, heralding the model – and Gen Z’s all-round Y2K fashion It-girl – Bella Hadid, the leader of the movement after she was spotted …

A Property Tax Rebellion Is Emerging In America

A Property Tax Rebellion Is Emerging In America

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times, At a petition table inside a Cleveland area gun show on a drizzly Saturday afternoon, citizens talk of an American Dream derailed. There’s the elderly couple who paid off their mortgage decades ago but can’t afford the property taxes on their home. Their local government, theoretically, can seize the property and auction it off to someone else if the annual bills remain unpaid. Then there’s the recent retiree who took a part-time job at Lowe’s to pay property taxes on his rental property and avoid raising his tenants’ rent.   Add empty nesters who can’t downsize to smaller houses because interest rates are too high,  farmers describing an impossible situation, and recent college graduates groaning about moving further away from home to an affordable place. Show goers, guns and ammo in hand, pause at Beth Blackmarr’s table on their way out and share with her those concerns. If 413,000 residents throughout the Buckeye State sign a petition before July 1, a public vote to eliminate local property taxes …

There’s a Mass Rebellion Against AI in the Workplace

There’s a Mass Rebellion Against AI in the Workplace

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech With consumers roundly panning generative AI slop wherever it’s found, tech companies have set their sights on a more captive audience as a source of revenue: the world’s boardrooms and cubicle farms. But the office, it turns out, is also failing to provide fertile ground for its overtures. A new survey by the SAP-owned software company WalkMe of 3,750 executives and employees found a major discontent growing in large companies across the globe. According to the findings, 54 percent of workers reported avoiding their company’s in-house AI tools in order to complete tasks themselves. A full third of workers reported never using AI at all. The survey also identified a massive rift between workers and their bosses when it comes to AI. While 61 percent of executives surveyed said they trust the tech for complex, “business-critical” decisions, only nine percent of workers said the same. A further 88 percent of corporate bigwigs expressed confidence that the AI tools …

Politics Home | Labour MP Says “Harmful” Jury Trial Reforms Are A “Distraction” As Rebellion Grows

Politics Home | Labour MP Says “Harmful” Jury Trial Reforms Are A “Distraction” As Rebellion Grows

Published by Sam Flores

3 min read1 hr The plan to reduce the use of jury trials is a “distraction” from the real reasons for the court backlog, a Labour MP has said, as the government braces for the prospect of a major backbench rebellion over the reforms. Writing in The House on Friday, Labour MP Cat Eccles said that the proposal is “not only misguided but harmful”, and that the focus should be on addressing “chronic underinvestment, poor coordination, and systemic inefficiencies” in the justice system. The MP for Stourbridge said she had recently visited Birmingham Crown Court, the second-largest court in the country, where one barrister told her: “You won’t find a single person in this building who thinks juries are an issue.”  Justice Secretary David Lammy has said that the reforms are a bold but necessary way to help tackle the national court backlog in England and Wales. Under the changes, announced by the Labour government in December, juries would no longer be used for crimes with sentences of less than three years. More extreme offences, such as rape and murder, will still be …

Historians dispute link between drought and rebellion in Roman Britain

Historians dispute link between drought and rebellion in Roman Britain

Published by skeptic

Hadrian’s Wall marked the northern border of Roman territory in ancient Britain HISTORIC ENGLAND/HERITAGE IMAGES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Researchers are at odds over a claim that droughts helped trigger conflicts in late Roman Britain. Climatologists identified evidence of drought coinciding with unrest and battles, but historians say they have misread key written sources. The dispute highlights the ongoing difficulties researchers face when trying to integrate data on past climates into the historical record. “You see this time and time again,” says Dagomar Degroot, a climate historian at Georgetown University in Washington DC. In a study published last year, a team led by Ulf Büntgen, a geographer at the University of Cambridge, analysed tree ring data from oak trees from southern Britain and northern France to reconstruct the climate between AD 288 and 2009. The researchers identified a series of severe summer droughts in southern Britain between the years 364 and 366. They linked this to the so-called “Barbarian Conspiracy” of 367, when warriors from Britain and Ireland inflicted a series of defeats on the Roman Empire, …

Passover’s matzah isn’t just simple food. It’s a quiet act of rebellion.

Passover’s matzah isn’t just simple food. It’s a quiet act of rebellion.

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — Last week, at Shabbat dinner, someone at the table asked me, “Would you like some farro?” Without missing a beat, I replied: “Didn’t you hear? We don’t serve Pharaoh anymore.” A groaner? Perhaps. A classic rabbinic pun? Definitely. But like many Jewish jokes, it turns out there was more truth in it than I realized. Farro is not just a trendy grain that shows up in upscale salads and artisanal soups. It is a category of ancient wheats that people have cultivated for over 10,000 years. It is hardy, resilient and able to grow in poor soil and harsh climates. It is rich in fiber and nutrients. It was perfectly suited for early civilizations. Including ancient Egypt. Farro grew along the Nile. It sustained the population. It fed workers, including our ancestors. The Egyptians used farro to make bread, porridge and even beer. Archaeologists have found grains of it in tombs — because, apparently, you needed your carbs in the afterlife, too. And yes — farro acquired a nickname, “Pharaoh’s grain.” Which brings …

Jury trial changes survive Labour rebellion to clear first Commons hurdle | Politics News

Jury trial changes survive Labour rebellion to clear first Commons hurdle | Politics News

Published by Sam Flores

Legislation to restrict jury trials for all but the most serious cases has passed its first major Commons hurdle – despite a rebellion by some Labour MPs. The Courts and Tribunals Bill passed its first vote by 304 votes to 203, a majority of 101. Ten Labour MPs voted against the plans, while 90 didn’t vote at all. All those who voted against are from the party’s left wing and have previously had vocal disagreements with the government on other policies. It had been thought the government might face a larger rebellion – although Justice Secretary David Lammy was bullish on Monday that the bill would pass. Not all of those who didn’t vote will have actively abstained, as some will have been otherwise busy. Sky News understands that party managers were not forcing attendance at the vote. Chief political correspondent Jon Craig said that despite the few actual votes against the bill, this was still a major rebellion and an “ominous warning for the government”. The Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Reform UK, Greens, and Your …

Starmer facing new Labour rebellion as MPs fight to extend porn ban | Politics News

Starmer facing new Labour rebellion as MPs fight to extend porn ban | Politics News

Published by Sam Flores

The government is trying to find a solution to banning depictions of step-incest in online pornography amid warnings of a “significant rebellion” from female MPs. Ministers have been accused of “losing the plot” after promising to ban depictions of incest in online porn but not step-incest. Politics Live: Reeves ready to support release of oil reserves The debate is part of efforts to crackdown on harmful pornographic content online, following a review by Conservative peer Baroness Gabby Bertin. Her amendment calling for step-incest to be included in the ban was backed by 144 votes to 143 in the House of Lords last week, meaning it could now face a vote in the Commons. Sky News understands efforts are ongoing to find a way around what ministers regard as a key complication – that relationships between adult step relatives are not illegal in real life. Ministers believe this will make banning their depiction in pornography difficult to enforce. However a “significant number” of female Labour MPs are prepared to rebel if the government does not back …