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INQUEST: David Wearing AN INQUEST into the death of a former Ulverston Victoria High School technician is due to take place this month. David Wearing, who was a well known figure in the community with the Duke of Edinburgh Award programme, died on February 18 at the age of 64 in his hometown of Ulverston. The hearing is scheduled to take place at The Coroner s Court in Cockermouth on July 13 at 12pm. The coroner overseeing the inquest, which is estimated to take an hour to come to a conclusion, will be Dr Nicholas Shaw.
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DURING the 2020 US election, Joe Biden pledged to make Saudi Arabia “the pariah that they are.” This was a calculated move designed to insinuate a significant material change in relations that would never occur.
The unbreakable nature of this relationship was demonstrated after September 11, when the US worked alongside the Saudi government to cover up the scale of Saudi involvement in the attacks.
In the context of the US election, it would put clear water between the two campaigns on a current foreign affairs issue. However, since Biden’s victory, the reality has been one of a largely cosmetic relationship recalibration in line with US imperialism.
Design: Bronte Dow
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Ten years ago, a wave of popular uprisings erupted across the Middle East, threatening not only local monarchs and dictators but the strategic interests of the Western powers that backed them. In this series, David Wearing looks back on these events, their causes and consequences, and asks what they can teach us about the nature of imperialism in the twenty-first century.
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In a small, beleaguered pocket of north-western Syria, the aspirations of the original 2011 uprising somehow endure. Sarah Kasem was 12 years old when those first protests began, spending her teenage years living under indiscriminate regime bombardment in Homs. Her family finally escaped to Idlib, one of the few areas still outside of Bashar al-Assad’s control, where she is now a student. “My generation is still carrying the same hopes for justice and freedom”, she tells the Guardian. “We will not give up on what the older generation started.”
Design: Bronte Dow
Ten years ago, a wave of popular uprisings erupted across the Middle East, threatening not only local monarchs and dictators but the strategic interests of the Western powers that backed them. In this series, David Wearing looks back on these events, their causes and consequences, and asks what they can teach us about the nature of imperialism in the twenty-first century.
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The Arab uprisings arrived in earnest in Syria ten years ago this week, with large demonstrations marking the culmination of weeks of brewing unrest. What followed was one of the worst conflicts and humanitarian disasters of the modern era. But while the sheer scale of the catastrophe was almost unique (save for the current war in Yemen), the key factors at play were the same here as elsewhere in the region.