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Royal family ‘hurt’ over Sussexes decision to quit, as newspapers vent anger at couple

• How the couple who were supposed to 'modernise the monarchy' ended up walking away
• How a 2014 play foreshadowed Harry’s decision to quit royal duties
• Palace publicly warns Harry and Meghan over ‘quitting’ statement

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FOX HUNTING IN THE UK
‘Your worst nightmare has just turned up’: Masked pro-hunt gang on quad bikes chase protesters trying to protect foxes


Men filmed screaming abuse and beating on hunt saboteurs’ window as they chase them along road

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A gang of masked hunt supporters on quad bikes have been filmed “threatening” and chasing animal rights activists as they monitored riders and hounds in Wiltshire.

Footage filmed by Bath Hunt Saboteurs shows two men wearing balaclavas and scarves screaming abuse at the group as they watched the Avon Vale Hunt.

In the latest in a string of confrontations linked to the controversial British countryside sport, the hunt supporters are seen banging on the windows on the saboteurs’ Land Rover before pursuing them at speed after they drive off.

Bath Hunt Saboteurs said the video was filmed near the village of Atworth, Wiltshire, on Saturday afternoon.

The group said the men seen in the footage “verbally abused and threatened us”.

“They tried to open the doors of our vehicle and smash the windows,” a spokesperson for the hunt saboteurs added.

“They told one of the male sabs to get out of the vehicle. He did not.

“We felt unsafe, so once we saw the hounds being packed up the decision was made to leave the area.”

The group had initially travelled to disrupt a pheasant shoot seven miles away at Colerne airfield, near Chippenham, on Saturday morning.

As they drove back towards Bath, Somerset, they spotted the Avon Vale Hunt and stopped to monitor the meet.

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Footage filmed from inside the group’s Land Rover shows two activists watching the hunt as a red-coated huntsman on horseback approaches and tells them: “Your worst nightmare has just turned up.” The rider then smiles and rides off.

Moments later, a red quad bike pulls up alongside the activists’ 4x4. Two masked men climb off and begin thumping on vehicle’s windows, yelling “f**k off” and “come on, get out”.

As hunt saboteurs begin to drive off, the masked men jump back on their quad bike and pursue them. At one point, they drive alongside the Land Rover and thump on its windows as the vehicles’ move along the road.

The animal rights activists’ said the chase continued for nearly two minutes before but the quad bike stopped.

The group have not reported the incident to police, saying: “The police never do anything about this type of behaviour.”

An Avon and Somerset Police spokesperson said: “If a crime was reported it would be looked into, assessed, and dealt with accordingly – but it would need to be reported first.”

The Independent has contacted Avon Vale Hunt for a comment.

Hunting wild animals with dogs was banned in England and Wales in 2005, but meets still continue legally with hounds following an artificial scent.

However, opponents say hunts regularly flout the law and saboteur groups across the county seek to disrupt activities and document cases of foxes being killed.

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Shamanism in Nepal: Inside the practices and spiritual world of Jhakri

Photos reveal the rituals and tests that aspiring shamans must complete

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“Jhakri” is the Nepalese word for shaman; in Nepal it refers to practitioners of the ethnic groups of the Tamang, Magar, Rai, Limbu and Gurung people.

Chet Bahadur Thing, 26, a renowned shaman, felt a connection with the spiritual world, and learning from his grandfather, he started practising shamanism at the age of 11. He is now considered a guru in his community. He says: “During ancient times, when there was no medical science or hospitals, shamans used to treat the patients in our village. Even now, people with spiritual problems or body pain visit us for healing or treatment or when doctors cannot heal them.”

Eighteen-year-old Sheela Lamichhane is a student of management in Kathmandu and a practising shaman. Ever since her older sister got severely ill and then was treated by a shaman she has been fascinated by those who practice it.

She even became possessed herself: “I used to run in the middle of the road barefoot like some crazy girl,” she recalls. Her parents took her to Thing, who, after purging the evil spirit, began her shaman training. She passed several tests, including the most important, a seven-day fasting ritual called gufa and a “holy river meditation”.

Gufa typically refers to a cave where aspiring shamans attend fasting and classes over the course of a week. They have to perform puja, a Hindu act of worship, chant mantras, play drums and dance in the middle of the night over burning ashes or coals.
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Shamans believe that they will gain power or energy from God if they are able to dance barefoot over the burning coals. After the completion of this first test, shaman practitioners must go to a holy river for meditation. Half submerged in the river waters, they have to chant mantras and meditate for more than three hours. This ritual is meant to build confidence and provide energy to become a shaman, but not everyone can pass this test.

Lamichhane attends her regular classes at college, before treating patients at home with her parents’ assistance during the afternoon. She will need to pass more tests to get fully certified as a shaman, which should take about two more years.

“I had a dream to be a doctor when I was 10 years old and today people know me as a witch doctor. I feel like I was destined,” she says.

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SEX EDUCATION’S EMMA MACKEY SAYS MEN LIKE PRINCE ANDREW HAVE ‘ARCHAIC’ WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT SEX
'It makes my skin crawl', says actor

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Sex Education star Emma Mackey has criticised "men like [the Duke of York]" for having outdated views on sex.

Speaking to Stylist, the actor was asked to respond to a quote by Prince Andrew from his BBC Newsnight interview.

In the interview, with Emily Maitlis, the royal addressed his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by saying: “If you’re a man, it is a positive act to have sex with somebody."

"It makes my skin crawl," Mackey said. "These men – men like him – are part of a generation who have inherited archaic ways of being and thinking that have always been associated with the male instinct.

"The idea that male sexuality is something very animalistic, that it’s out of their control. But that’s not an excuse any more. We’re not animals!"

Mackey also discussed how men and women should be taught about consent from a young age.

"The way it was when I was at school was so sterile and clinical and scary – there’s no real connection or emotion, which almost leads to people forgetting their partners are thinking, feeling humans," she said.

"I had one sex education lesson at school when I was 12 and it was literally like a biology class, all anatomy and reproductive organs," she explained.

"So for me and a lot of my peers the real education came from discussion with friends over time."


Mackey also credited art and photography for expanding her sexual education horizons, noting Belgian photographer called Charlotte Abramow, whose work champions sexual autonomy and the female experience.

Raise taxes on the rich to tackle inequality, IMF says
'Our research shows that marginal tax rates can be raised without sacrificing economic growth', fund's chief says

It comes as the IMF shifts its attention away from the tax-cutting advice of previous years

Vincent Wood
Wednesday 8 January 2020 19:08 

Increasing the taxes on the rich can help tackle inequality while having little to no impact on the economic growth of a nation, the chief of the IMF has said in a rebuttal to the trickle-down economics favoured by the likes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson.

Both the US president and the British prime minister have previously advocated for tax cuts for the richest to stimulate the economy – with Mr Johnson later backtracking on this approach in the 2019 election when a pledge to ease the tax burden on the wealthiest remained absent from the party’s manifesto.

However the International Monetary Fund’s managing director Kristalina Georgieva has said in a blog post that “progressive taxation” was required to fix the financial inequality that has steadily seen wealth accumulated by the world’s richest.

She added the money could then be reinvested in supporting less advantaged communities, while new technologies could limit corruption and increase the cash available to governments.

Ms Georgieva wrote: “Progressive taxation is a key component of effective fiscal policy. At the top of the income distribution, our research shows that marginal tax rates can be raised without sacrificing economic growth.

“Utilising digital tools in tax collection can also be part of a comprehensive strategy to boost domestic revenue. Reducing corruption can both improve collection and increase trust in government.

“Most importantly, these strategies can secure the necessary resources to invest in expanding opportunities for communities and individuals that have been falling behind”.

Huge global carbon tax hike needed to avert climate disaster, says IMF
It comes as the IMF shifts its attention away from the tax-cutting advice of previous years, spurred on by weak economic growth across the planet and the emergence of greater concentrations of wealth.

Last year an Oxfam study revealed the world’s richest 26 people – a group including Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg – owned as much as the poorest 3.8 billion people on the planet.

The Bulgarian economist went on to advocate for gender budgeting to tackle inequalities between women and men.

She added: “While many countries recognise the need for gender equality and women’s empowerment, governments can use gender budgeting to structure spending and taxation in ways to advance gender equality even further—increasing women’s participation in the work force and, in turn, boosting growth and stability.”

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A mysterious radio signal is coming from a nearby galaxy, scientists say.

And that galaxy looks surprisingly like our own, the astronomers have announced.

Together, the findings could help solve the mystery of fast radio bursts – unexplained, very intense blasts of energy that are being sent through the universe, and could be the result of anything from unknown natural phenomena to alien life, scientists have speculated.

Astronomers have been hunting for the source of fast radio bursts, or FRBs, for more than a decade. Over that time they have detected hundreds of signals, though pinpointed very few.

The search is difficult in part because they last for just miliseconds and could come from anywhere in the sky, making detailed examination of them incredibly difficult.

Astronomers have so far managed to find the precise sources of four of the bursts. Now they have managed to locate another, in a nearby galaxy, taking the total to five.

But they are perhaps more excited about the nature of the galaxy that is sending them out. It appears to be similar to our own, they say.

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"Identifying the host galaxy for FRBs is critical to tell us about what kind of environments FRBs live in, and thus what might actually be producing FRBs," said Sarah Burke-Spolaor, assistant professor of physics and astronomy and co-author on a new paper in Nature.

"This is a question for which scientists are still grasping at straws."

That discovery adds further mystery to the question of where FRBs are coming from. The first of the blasts came from a tiny galaxy made up of metals and newly formed stars, which led scientists to suggest they might be the result of the kind of stars found there – but that would not apply to the newly found galaxy.

That means astronomers will have to consider other explanations of how FRBs are generated, and might suggest there are multiple origins.

The newly discovered source, named FRB ​180916, is only half-a-billion light years from Earth and much nearer than other bursts that have been found in the past. It is seven times closer than the only other repeating burst that has been tracked down.

That could allow for further study of the burst that could give further clues about where the bursts are coming from, scientists said.

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Uri Geller applies to work for Boris Johnson after advert calling for ‘super-talented weirdos’
Entertainer pledges to use ‘psychic powers’ to help Conservative government
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Self-proclaimed psychic Uri Geller has applied for a job with the UK government after Dominic Cummings sent out an invitation for “super-talented weirdos” to work in Downing Street.

In a a bizarre blog post earlier this month​, Boris Johnson’s top adviser asked for unusual people to apply for roles ahead of a planned shake-up of the civil service.

Mr Geller has apparently accepted that invitation and pledged to use his alleged psychic abilities to assist Mr Johnson’s administration.

“You say you want someone on the ‘frontiers of the science of prediction’? Well look no further,” he wrote to Mr Cummings.

“I have genuine psychic powers – just ask Mossad, the CIA and the Pentagon.”

The Israeli-British entertainer told Mr Cummings he has contacts with “world leaders and top CEOs”, and more than 20 years of experience in espionage and intelligence.

Mr Geller said he had worked for the FBI and the CIA on a range of projects including “using Mind Power to erase KGB computer files, tracking serial killers and attending nuclear disarmament negotiations.”

“The CIA concluded that I demonstrated paranormal perception ability in a ‘convincing and unambiguous manner,’” he added.

Uri Geller vows to stop Brexit telepathically if Theresa May does not
Last month, Mr Geller claimed he had assisted Mr Johnson’s election victory by giving his team a spoon energised with positive energy.

The spoon was apparently part of his strategy to use “mind power” to prevent Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn from becoming prime minister.

A source close to Mr Geller told The Telegraph that he was “100 per cent serious” about working in the government.

“He is particularly keen on using his powers to tackle growing tensions in the Middle East,” the source said.

Although Mr Geller is currently in Israel organising the opening of a museum about himself, he said he would “consider a move back to Britain for the right position.”

Mr Cummings’ job advert has been criticised by employment law experts and the head of Britain’s biggest civil servants’ union, who said his comments implied he “wants to hire and fire at will”.

“I’ll bin you within weeks if you don’t fit – don’t complain later because I made it clear now,” the political adviser wrote on his blog.

Mr Cummings was also criticised for using a standard Gmail account to collect CVs for government roles.

Iran plane crash may have been ‘shootdown event’, aviation experts say
Ukraine initially said plane crash was result of technical failure, before retracting statement

Doubts have been cast over Iranian assertions that a deadly Ukrainian plane crash near Tehran was the result of technical failures, with independent aviation operations experts saying a “shootdown” was the most likely explanation.

Iranian officials said technical issues were behind the Ukrainian International Airlines (UIA) crash, which happened shortly after take-off from Imam Khomeini International airport on Wednesday morning, killing all 176 people on board.

The Ukrainian embassy in Tehran initially echoed this stance, but later retracted its statement, and instead said it was for an official commission to determine the cause of the accident.

While some aviation experts said it was too early to speculate, the OPS group, an aviation risk-monitoring group, said: “We would recommend the starting assumption to be that this was a shootdown event, similar to MH17 – until there is clear evidence to the contrary,” highlighting photos of the crash site which they said “show obvious projectile holes in the fuselage and a wing section.”

UIA has also discounted the possibility of technical problems, insisting there was “nothing wrong” with the three-year-old Boeing 737-800, which had undergone a scheduled technical check only two days earlier.

“We guarantee the safety of our aircraft and the high qualification of our crews,” a spokesperson said.

People and rescue teams are pictured amid bodies and debris
One of the engines

Vadim Lukashevich, an independent Russian aviation expert, told The Independent that from evidence in the public domain, it was clear that there was some sort of fire on board, and that the plane broke up upon impact. The rest, he said, was “conjecture”. 

“In any air accident, there are usually three factors: human, weather and mechanical. Here you can add a fourth – the political. We know that a few hours before the crash, Iran sent missiles over to US targets in Iraq. They were expecting a response by air. We know they were on full alert.” 

It is too early to rule out an external strike, he said – even if Iranian claims that one of the engines caught fire turned out to be true. 

“An engine fire does not exclude the possibility that it was caused by a missile strike,” he said. “The fact that Iran immediately discounted all explanations bar mechanical is suspicious.” 

In light of the obvious political tensions in the area, it was a criminal error not to close off airspace to civil aviation, Mr Lukashevich added. “At a minimum, the Iranians tugged a tiger by his ear and didn’t run away.”

Iran has said it will not be handing over the plane’s black box recorder to US plane manufacturer Boeing.

Philip Baum, the editor of Aviation Security International magazine, said it was too early to speculate.

He told The Independent the incident was notable “given the fact it was in Iran and the timing, and if you associate two states with shootdowns, as victims, then Ukraine springs to mind purely because of MH17,” and Iran, given the 1988 US shooting down of an Iranian civilian plane.

But, he added, it could just be “a bizarre coincidence that it should happen at this moment of time”.

“I just think there is nothing to indicate that it was a shootdown, and if it was shot down then by whom?”

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Zeev Sarig, the former head of Ben Gurion airport in Israel, said a technical failure could be behind the plane crash, or an explosive device on board. 

Speaking to Russian news agency RIA, he said that while a full investigation was necessary, the two main possibilities were, “a bomb on board that runs on a timer or altitude monitor, exploding when the plane reaches a certain height” or “a technical malfunction about which we don’t know anything yet. Unfortunately from what I see that looks less likely.”

Qassem Biniaz, a spokesperson for Iran’s road and transportation ministry, said the pilot “lost control of the plane” after a fire broke out in one of its engines.

The aircraft is a predecessor to the Boeing 737 Max 8, which has been grounded for 10 months following the Lion Air crash in 2018 and the Ethiopian Airlines crash in 2019. 

Faulty flight-control software on board those two Boeing 737 Max 8 airliners resulted in the planes nose-diving, leading to the deaths of 346 people.

Airline officials said most of the passengers were en route to the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, transiting through there to other destinations.

Three Britons were among those who died.

On Wednesday morning, Iranian missiles hit US military bases in Iraq, in response to last week’s targeted US killing of top Iranian general, Qassem Soleimani.

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Fox News books then ‘cancels’ Geraldo Rivera after says he will urge Trump to show restraint over Iran

'Supporters of Donald Trump have to have the guts to tell him this war is a stupid idea'

Conservative talk show host Geraldo Rivera has claimed his Fox News appearance was cancelled after he said he would urge Donald Trump to show restraint in the ongoing political crisis with Iran.

 Fox News' Sean Hannity has floated the idea of bombing oil refineries in Iran to create 'major poverty' for its people

In a sign of a split at the network over how to respond to the president’s escalation of tensions, Mr Rivera suggested he was pulled from Sean Hannity’s show over his opposition to military action.

The talk show host, who is a regular Fox News contributor, has repeatedly called for Mr Trump to act as a peace maker in the conflict and avoid another war in the Middle East.

“Supporters of @realDonaldTrump have to have the guts to tell him this war is a stupid idea,” Mr Rivera tweeted on Tuesday.

Fox News’ regular commentators have been deeply split over how Mr Trump should respond to Iranian threats of retaliation after the killing of general Qassem Soleimani.

Host Tucker Carlson has criticised conservatives who have pushed for military conflict with Iran, while contributor Pete Hegseth has cheered on the president's confrontational approach.

The right-wing network is thought to be one of Mr Trump's main sources of news and has been noted as a key guide for his decision-making on political issues.

On Friday morning, a discussion between Mr Rivera and Brian Kilmeade on the channel descended into chaos when Mr Kilmeade said he would “cheer on” military attacks against Iran.

“Then you, like [senator] Lindsey Graham, have never met a war you didn't like,” Mr Rivera told the Fox & Friends presenter.

Fox News has been approached for comment on the alleged cancellation.

Mr Hannity’s show on Tuesday, sans Mr Rivera, included a discussion with senator Ted Cruz, in which Mr Hannity floated the idea of bombing oil refineries in Iran to create “major poverty”. 

“They have three major refineries in Iran, senator. Three,” Mr Hannity said.

“I would imagine those refineries blew up one day, they got themselves a hell of a domestic problem, because that's going to result in major poverty for the people of Iran.”

The Fox News host then suggested the US could encourage regime change in the country by arming citizens who want to take down the Iranian government.

“If they want regime change, that's up to them. Maybe we could help them with arms and help them, you know,” he said.

The political crisis in the Middle East escalated again on Wednesday after Iran launched missile strikes against two US-Iraqi airbases.

Mr Trump tweeted in response that “all is well” following the attack and said assessments of casualties and damages were “so far, so good”.

Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, has suggested the attack is the only retaliation planned for the killing of Soleimani and could signal the end of the conflict.  

“We do not seek escalation or war, but will defend ourselves against any aggression,” Mr Zarif said in a statement.

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It may be a sign of public discontent with returning to work after Christmas that news of supposed plans for a four-day week in Finland spread so rapidly around the world yesterday.

Reports from national publications across Europe, regrettably including this website, noted support from Sanna Marin, Finland’s prime minister, for the introduction of a shorter working week.

The only problem is a four-day week is not part of the Finnish government's plans and is not expected to be government policy in the near future.

An official from Ms Marin’s office told The Independent that the policy was “more of a future vision and a potential future goal for the Social Democratic Party (SDP)”.

Nevertheless, the story spread so widely that the government was forced to issue an official correction on social media, pointing out that there are no mentions of a four-day week in the government’s programme and insisting the issue is not on their agenda.

Even Päivi Anttikoski, the Finnish government’s communication director, has said it is “a complete mystery” how the story ended up being published by so many websites.

Here’s where the story came from and how it spread around the world.
1Where did the four-day week story come from?

There is a small amount of truth to the reports, in the sense that Finland’s prime minister is supportive of a four-day week in theory.

When Ms Marin was the minister of transport and communications in August 2019, she made a brief comment in support of the idea during a panel discussion at the SDP's 120th anniversary event.

“A four-day work week, a six-hour workday. Why couldn’t it be the next step? Is eight hours really the ultimate truth?” she said, according to the Helsinki Times newspaper.

“I believe people deserve to spend more time with their families, loved ones, hobbies and other aspects of life, such as culture. This could be the next step for us in working life.”

Ms Marin also tweeted about the idea after the panel and said “shorter working hours can and should be discussed.”

“A 4-day week or a 6-hour day with a decent wage may be a utopia today, but may be true in the future,” she said.

These comments, which were briefly reported on in Finland at the time, appear to be the entire basis of all the news stories that have emerged in recent days.
2How did the story end up being published in the UK?

The claim appears to have been misconstrued as it was recirculated.

There was understandably a renewed interest in Ms Marin’s political views after she was elected as Finland’s prime minister in December 2019 at the remarkably young age of 34.

A Huffington Post profile soon after her election made a passing reference to her comments, although it incorrectly combined the four-day week and six-hour day ideas to make a 24-hour working week.

The story then floated around the internet for a few weeks, popping up on an Austrian website called Kontrast (on 16 December) and a website called New Europe (on 2 January).

The latter story framed Ms Marin’s suggestion as a “call” for policy change.

According to the website News Now Finland, its opening paragraph said: “Sanna Marin, Finland’s new Prime Minister since early December, has called for the introduction of a flexible working schedule in the country that would foresee a 4-day-week and 6-hours working day.”

The spread of the story then increased rapidly when MailOnline, one of the most visited news websites in the world, published a story entitled “Finland to introduce a four-day working week and SIX-HOUR days under plans drawn up by 34-year-old prime minister Sanna Marin”.

From there, Ms Marin’s comments spread, with varying degrees of scepticism, to news outlets across the world. These outlets included The Independent.
3Is Finland going to have a four-day week?

Ms Marin’s comments were simply stating an aspiration - so in short, you shouldn’t plan on moving to Finland if you’re looking for shorter working hours.

In August, her suggestion was met with opposition from some politicians, such as Arto Satonen (from the centre-right National Coalition Party) who tweeted in response: “Does the SDP live in the real world?”

Similarly, Antti Kurvinen, an MP for the Centre Party, said he did not believe a shorter working week was “a realistic idea in the short or medium term”.

“It does feel difficult to fund our well-being while reducing working time. Our problem is rather that there’s too much unemployment and working doesn’t pay,” Mr Kurvinen told the Finnish newspaper Uusi Suomi.

Most importantly, the government has made it very clear that it is not planning on introducing a four-day week in the near future.

Ms Marin is also unsurprisingly not going to comment on the issue again any time soon, according to Mr Anttikoski.

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