Exclusive: Jamie Roberts admits ‘serious mistake’ with Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, as he speaks ahead of new film on UK far right The stories told in the controversial BBC documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone still need to be aired, according to a co-director of the film, despite the “serious mistake” he acknowledges it made. In his first interview since the corporation pulled the programme after it emerged its then 13-year-old narrator was the son of a Hamas official, Jamie Roberts apologised for the part his independent production company, Hoyo Films, played in the controversy and said he regretted that it “upset a lot of people”. Continue reading...

Amanda Montell untersucht Kulte über ihre je eigene Sprache. Spannende Einsichten, auch wenn man sich mehr Psycholinguistik gewünscht hätte. Eine Rezension (Rezension zu Cultish von Amanda Montell)

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