#telegraph article

[mizgnomer]

David and Georgia Tennant

Photographed for The Telegraph by Kristina Varaksina

Promoting Staged Season 3

"The more time we spend together the more we get on" - [ link ]

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National Portrait Gallery this is bad history. We know how d'Eon chose to describe her gender during her lifetime. Understanding queer history involves understanding how queer people lived historically and understood themselves historically. It doesn't matter what pronouns d'Eon may have chosen had she lived today it matters what pronouns she used in her lifetime. You are placing modern language on a historical figure when we know what language she used historically.

[world-of-wales]

BREAKING NEWS -

LAUNCHPAD- EARTHSHOT'S NEW VENTURE!

The Prince of Wales will on Monday celebrate his new “match-making” service, intended to introduce small-scale inventors ready to save the planet to the investors who can make it happen.

The Prince is set to issue an impassioned plea to would-be funders to “save our planet” through “collective action” via Launchpad, a new platform created by his Earthshot Prize.

Designed to introduce Earthshot winners and finalists to the global investment they need to scale up their planet-saving solutions, Launchpad is intended to be “game-changing” and is described by the palace as a “landmark moment”.

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You versus the guy she tells you not to worry about

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[richardarmitagefanpage]

Brilliant but cancelled: the great TV shows killed too soon by The Telegraph.

[grandmaster-anne]

Princess of Wales exclusive: Not enough is being done to help the next generation

By Hannah Furness

The Telegraph | Published 25 November 2022

The Princess says she is determined to improve the lives of under-5s and 'shine a light' on crucial early years education

The Princess of Wales warns that “not enough is being done” to nurture Britain’s youngest children, as she pledges to use her role to do “everything she can” to protect the next generation.

The Princess, writing in the Telegraph, says she is determined to “shine a light” on the “crucial” early years, calling the youngest members of society “our future”.

Setting out her mission for the next stage of her life in the Royal family, she speaks of the critical importance of building a “safe and loving world around a child”.

By focusing on the “unique importance” of the first five years of life, she says, it is possible to “create a healthier and happier society for future generations”.

She adds: “There are fantastic examples of what can be achieved when we recognise the unique potential of early childhood and build a safe and loving world around a child.

“But not enough is being done. That is why I am determined to continue to shine a light on this issue and to do everything I can to secure much greater focus on those first crucial few years for the youngest members of our society - they are, after all, our future.”

The Princess’s pledge follows a decade of work in the public eye, in which she has focused closely on early years development.

The Telegraph has published a detailed analysis of the sector, detailing the challenges it faces and how the Princess’s own Centre for Early Childhood is working to improve the lives of young children and those who care for them.

It follows research compiled by the centre highlighting a widespread lack of understanding about the importance of children’s earliest years in their development.

Experts now argue that early intervention is the key to improving life outcomes for all, with one study by the London School of Economics estimating that it costs £16 billion to remedy long-term mental and physical health issues that may have been avoided through intervention in childhood.

The Princess, under her former title of Duchess of Cambridge, has already undertaken a series of campaigns to raise awareness of the importance of early childhood, with a regular programme of engagements designed to boost the sector.

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Last year, the Republican Party of Texas added language to its platform calling for an end to no-fault divorce: “We urge the Legislature to rescind unilateral no-fault divorce laws, to support covenant marriage, and to pass legislation extending the period of time in which a divorce may occur to six months after the date of filing for divorce.”

It’s not just Texas: A similar proposal is presently being workshopped by the Republican Party of Louisiana. The Nebraska GOP has affirmed its belief that no-fault divorce should only be accessible to couples without children. At the Republican National Convention in 2016 — the last time the party platform was overhauled — delegates considered adding language declaring, “Children are made to be loved by both natural parents united in marriage. Legal structures such as No Fault Divorce, which divides families and empowers the state, should be replaced by a Fault-based Divorce.” (It’s unclear whether the party’s twice-divorced nominee for president weighed in on the debate at that time.)

[mistressemmedi]

I wonder how long FIA will hold on to Ben Sulayem, particularly after the last round of allegations 👀

[littlemuoi]

‘We are still a family no matter what’: The Earl and Countess of Wessex on grieving for ‘Grandpa’ by Camilla Tominey Published in The Telegraph Magazine's 5th June 2021

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The Telegraph | 'God told us to exorcise my daughter's demons. I don't regret her death'

By Elizabeth Day

27 November 2005 • 12:01am

[...] From the very beginning, Anneliese's life was governed by fear. Her family was deeply religious. Her father had considered training as a priest and three of her aunts were nuns. But the Michels had a secret. In 1948, Anneliese's mother gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Martha, bringing such disgrace on her family that she was forced to wear a black veil on her wedding day. When Anneliese was born in 1952, her mother encouraged her to atone for the sins of illegitimacy through fervent devotion. But when Martha was eight, she died from complications arising from an operation to remove a kidney tumour. Anneliese, a kind-hearted and deeply sensitive girl, must have felt ever more strongly the pressure to do penance for her mother.

She found herself increasingly surrounded by evidence of sinfulness and increasingly anxious to be rid of it. While other children in the 1960s were rebelling testing the limits of their freedom, Anneliese slept on a bare stone floor to atone for the sins of the drug addicts who slept rough at the local train station. In 1968, aged 17, she began to suffer convulsions. Although initially diagnosed with grand mal epilepsy, she started experiencing devilish hallucinations while praying. By 1973, she was suffering severe depression and considering suicide. Voices in her head told her she was damned. She asked the local priest for exorcism and was twice refused. But gradually, Anneliese slipped further into the abyss. She would perform 600 genuflections a day, eventually rupturing her knee ligaments. [...] In 1975, her third request for exorcism was granted by the Bishop of Wurzburg. "I don't regret it," says Anna Michel firmly. "There was no other way." We shall never know if there was. By this stage, Anneliese had refused further medical intervention from the Psychiatric Clinic Wurzburg. Her symptoms have subsequently been compared to schizophrenia and should have responded to treatment. There has also been speculation that Anneliese might have been influenced by the release of William Friedkin's The Exorcist, in 1973. But whatever lay behind her disturbance, the exorcism could have caused Anneliese to believe her own hallucinations. [...] Her parents buried her next to Martha at the outer edges of the cemetery - ground normally reserved for illegitimate children and suicides. Even in death, Anneliese was not free of the sinfulness she fought so hard to repent of.

Today, the 2000 inhabitants of Klingenberg are unwilling to speak of Anneliese Michel. A gentle enquiry to passers-by is greeted with hostile glares and a shake of the head. "The town is ashamed," says Christiana Metzler, 42, who works in the tourist office. "I was at school when it happened and there were a lot of things covered up. People don't want to talk about it. There is a feeling that it was the parents' fault because they were so religious they didn't see what was happening. Sometimes Catholic pilgrims come to her grave because they think she can save lost souls. But there are not many of them. Now there is this film coming out, we are worried it will all be stirred up again." It is a past that the Church is ashamed of, too. In 1984, German bishops petitioned Rome to review the exorcism rite in the light of the Michel case. Although their recommendations were not adopted, the Vatican published a revised exorcism rite in 1999 - the first update since the 17th century - and has introduced a qualification in exorcism that maks priests undergo medical training. "I wouldn't have carried out the exorcism [on Anneliese Michel]," admits Fr Dieter Feineis, the current priest at St Pankratius Church in Klingenberg. "But both Anna Michel and her husband remained absolutely convinced that what they had done was right. The view of the Church is that it is possible to be possessed, but in Germany there are no more exorcisms." In Italy, however, it is a different matter. According to the Italian Association of Psychiatrists and Psychologists, half a million Italians seek exorcisms each year. There are about 350 practising exorcists worldwide. Earlier this year, a priest and several nuns in a Romanian Orthodox convent in Tanacu believed that Maricia Irina Cornici, a 23-year-old nun, was possessed. They carried out an exorcism ritual and tied her to a cross, pushing a towel in her mouth and denying her food or water, She was dead three days later. [...]

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Louis photographed for the Telegraph

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I’m a psychologist. I’ve never seen so many people use the diagnosis of Narcissist Personality Disorder (NPD) so often and so incorrectly. It’s so annoying! One thing is clear to me: NPD is global and stable. Give that these “issues” only happened once Meghan joined the family…let’s me know that it isn’t true. Just because you don’t like someone/ don’t want to hear from them or like how they handle their stress doesn’t make them have NPD, that’s not how it works 😭. The only goal of the royalists is to protect the BRF at all costs, and never acknowledge when they have done something wrong. I truly feel like Harry and Meghan would be fine to forgive the the whole family, if they just apologized and changed their ways.

It's actually pretty ableist, because they just want to say that Meghan is an unsympathetic monster from a "clinical" perspective, so they call her a narcissist or a sociopath. It really shows how we view people with these disorders and unhuman or monsterous when a lot of them can live normal lives.

A lot of this junk science is just tied into more of the same woo bullshit like body language "experts" and tarot cards or whatever. Sucks that ROTA reporters noramlised this publishing friends of William and Catherine who called Meghan a sociopath for literally no reason.

[cantquitu]

Do you or any of your pals have access to the Telegraph website? They wrote a recent review for Harry and I was interested in reading it.

Here you go:

[asexualone]

none of these words are in the bible

[richardarmitagefanpage]

Richard was mentioned in an article in The Telegraph.