A defaced General Lee, in Richmond, VA. Photo credit: Rebecca Manski.
A new podcast, “Lay Led Unions,” hosted by Peter Glover, Liverpool’s Joint District Secretary for the UK’s National Education Union, featured Professor Gerald Horne recently on its inaugural episode. Horne begins:
“…race, pan-Europeanism, fundamentally…was a way to reconcile those who had been warring on the shores of Europe, English versus Irish, English versus Scots, British versus German, German versus Russian, Russian versus Pole, Serb versus Croat, northern Italian versus southern Italian….
All of a sudden, when they crossed the Atlantic–in a maneuver that would make the Madison Avenue advertising industry blush–they’re rebranded as ‘White’ quote unquote. A sort of ‘identity politics’–as the U.S. left likes to say when they try to disparage black politics, interestingly enough,
Local elections 2021: Election goes down to the wire in Liverpool s marginal wards
Labour are looking to hold off a surge from other parties
09:09, 2 MAY 2021
Greenbank ward in south Liverpool takes in Greenbank Park and parts of Ullet Road and Smithdown Road. Photo by Colin Lane.
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For weeks now, Mary McDarby has lived in vaccine limbo.
Her husband qualified for the coronavirus vaccine more than two months ago. Because he has later-stage emphysema, though, his lungs cannot tolerate cold air. Even the short distance between the parking lot and the door of a vaccine clinic could pose a threat.
The other option, bringing the vaccine to him, also has proved impossible. For McDarby, the silence from officials has left her feeling abandoned.
âI thought, thereâs gotta be a lot of disabled people in our situation,â she said. âBut, I canât find any information about it.â
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Reed Smith LLP issued the following announcement on Mar. 2.
Reed Smith was highlighted in 31 practice areas (six of them new), and nine of its lawyers were listed in Band 1, making them leaders in their fields, in Chambers Global 2021 rankings.
Three of the firm’s practices were ranked in Band 1: Asia-Pacific Region Shipping: Litigation; UK Insurance: Mainly Policyholders; and UK Insurance Sector: Policyholder (International & Cross-Border). Individual rankings showed the most strength in insurance, shipping, and dispute resolution.
Practice rankings:
Global-wide Insurance: Contentious
South Korea Dispute Resolution: International Firms
UK Insurance Sector: Policyholder (International & Cross-Border) (Band 1)
USA Capital Markets: Derivatives
Asia-Pacific Region Shipping: Finance