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Exhibition brings London HQ of Rastafarian faith back to life

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

Echoes Within These Walls aims to dispel myths about the religion by telling story of temple at St Agnes Place

The headquarters of the Rastafarian faith in the UK is being brought back to life with an exhibition its organiser hopes will help to dispel myths about the religion, which continues to be a big influence in popular culture from music and food to fashion.

Echoes Within These Walls will tell the story of the temple at St Agnes Place in south London, which was founded in 1972 after Rastafarians took control of the building.

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‘A therapist shouldn’t be giving you hugs’: readers share bad counselling experiences

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

From inappropriate behaviour to encouraging patients to stop medication, reckless therapists can cause real damage

Government urged to regulate psychotherapists and counsellors

When Karin Blak’s troubled marriage ended, she was recommended a therapist by a friend. But she grew increasingly uncomfortable as he made inappropriate personal disclosures, including around his sexual health, touched her and invited her into his home.

It later emerged that although he was a practising psychotherapist with other clients, he was unqualified, having dropped out of his psychotherapy course “because he didn’t want to adhere to the rules”. The bad experience culminated with him touching her and telling her: “If I was 10 years younger, I’d be sitting next to you by now”.

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Tim Dowling: two of my sons are home – and have brought Covid with them

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

Sitting at my kitchen table, waiting to be fed and watered, enjoying the pets, no housework. I wouldn’t mind being ill myself

It’s been a year since the last of my three sons moved out, leaving my wife and I to live alone with animals. Of course, grown children never truly leave home – they have keys.

In principle, I am free to do as I like – to behave erratically, dress eccentrically and allow my hair to find its own topiary shapes. But, in practice, I have to present more or less normally, in case a key turns in the lock without warning, as it does several times a week. Generally speaking, my sons drop by either to play with the pets or steal my socks, depending on whether they find me in or not. But sometimes their motives are not readily apparent.

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Ed Davey urges Starmer to ‘Trump-proof’ UK with closer European ties

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

Lib Dem leader says government should work with Trump but be prepared for him to act on security and trade threats

Ed Davey has urged Keir Starmer to “Trump-proof” the UK by urgently seeking closer European cooperation over military aid for Ukraine and economic ties, after the US president-elect’s threats about security and trade wars.

The Liberal Democrat leader, whose party is the third biggest in the House of Commons, argued that while the UK government should seek to work with a Donald Trump administration, it should also be as prepared as possible if he were to abandon Ukraine or impose sweeping tariffs.

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MPs urge government to regulate UK psychotherapists and counsellors

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

MPs with experience in mental health say lack of statutory regulation leaves people vulnerable to harm

‘A therapist shouldn’t be giving you hugs’: readers share bad counselling experiences

MPs with experience in mental health have urged the government to introduce statutory regulation for all psychotherapists and counsellors, warning that the current system is leaving people vulnerable to harm.

Unlike most other healthcare roles, “psychotherapist” and “counsellor” are not protected titles nor statutorily regulated professions in the UK. Only art therapists and art psychotherapists, drama therapists and music therapists are protected titles. This means that anyone can set themselves up as a therapist without qualifications, and can continue to practice after misconduct.

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When time stands still – or passes in a flash: the Edith Pritchett cartoon

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

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TV tonight: David Baddiel’s outrageous and deeply personal standup

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

The comedian overshares his mother’s wildest anecdotes. Plus: the return of indie legends Pixies. Here’s what to watch this evening

10pm, Sky Arts

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Blind date: ‘Hopefully he thought I was funny, as I do try pretty hard’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

Florence, 25, a political science master’s student, meets Joe, 28, a civil servant

What were you hoping for?
At the very least a story and an entertaining evening, good or bad.

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Paddington in Peru to Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light – a complete guide to the week’s entertainment in the UK

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

The marmalade-obsessed ursidae goes back to his roots, and we begin the final series of Hilary Mantel’s Mark Rylance-starring Tudor drama

Bird
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One of the UK’s greatest film-makers, Andrea Arnold, returns. Her latest is is a dreamy, textured film about an adolescent girl (Nykiya Adams) who befriends a mysterious man named Bird (Franz Rogowski) in the Kent neighbourhood where she lives with her dad Bug (Barry Keoghan) and his fiancee Kayleigh (Frankie Box).