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Ukraine war: Russian-held elections seek to normalise illegal occupation and reveal reality of a long war ahead

Ukraine war: Russian-held elections seek to normalise illegal occupation and reveal reality of a long war ahead: Russia has recently held local elections, including – for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine last February – counting votes in the four territories annexed to Russia after a series of illegal and illegitimate referendums last …

Euphemisms such as the casting couch must go – they’ve been used to normalise abuse for too long

Euphemisms such as the casting couch must go – they’ve been used to normalise abuse for too long: Spinning its own tales. Shutterstock Hollywood is in the business of making myths. As the storyteller, it has the capacity to create legends and approximations of real life that develop into something so plausible that it creates …