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1 month ago | 
streetphotographymagazine.com | John Simpson |Bob Patterson
Readers of Street Photography Magazine know the value of street and documentary photography, of how these photographs can provoke thought, discussion and, perhaps, action. As such, it seems fitting to note that March is Women’s History Month, an annual observance which highlights the contributions of women to events throughout history and contemporary society.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | John Simpson
Lily Allen remembers hitting her rock bottom when she turned up at her ex-husband’s house after he started a new relationship. “I drank myself into oblivion. I went over to his house and started screaming at him, woke the kids up, you know, really distressed the children,” she says. “They remember that.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
law360.ca | John Simpson
ADVERTISEMENT Don't want ads? Subscribe or login now. By John Simpson (June 12, 2024, 3:04 PM EDT) -- The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), ruling in Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy, found a copyright infringer was liable for damages accruing more than nearly a decade before the infringement was discovered, raising interesting limitations issues....
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
law360.ca | John Simpson
ADVERTISEMENT Don't want ads? Subscribe or login now. By John Simpson (April 26, 2024, 2:44 PM EDT) -- If governments want to restrict the use of commercial profanity, they should be using something other than trademark legislation. ...
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Apr 13, 2024 | 
inews.co.uk | John Simpson
Will Britain adapt to the future better if the Foreign Office dumps the huge 19th-century portraits of imperial grandees from its grand staircase, gets itself a nice modern concrete building with lots of open-plan offices, and, in the process, helps to throw off the last trappings of a Victorian super-power?
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Danny Cohen |John Simpson
Credit: Rii Schroer A few weeks ago, veteran BBC journalist John Simpson criticised me for writing in this newspaper about the BBC’s anti-Israel bias.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
law360.ca | John Simpson
ADVERTISEMENT Don't want ads? Subscribe or login now. By John Simpson (March 12, 2024, 9:56 AM EDT) -- A push to amend U.S. law to extend copyright protection to golf courses raises interesting issues about the types of works that can be protected by copyright....
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Mar 10, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | John Simpson
Schools have an unwritten, but immutable obligation to parents, students and staff to be truthful and transparent on all matters relevant to the duty of care they carry. While observing confidentiality requirements, the truth must always be revealed and appropriate actions taken. Many enlightened schools follow these basic principles.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
newsbreak.com | John Simpson
The GuardianBy John Simpson,1 hour agoThe giant wild goose pagoda in Xi’an, China.The giant wild goose pagoda in Xi’an, China. To our shame, few of us outside China know much about the country’s classical poetry. It doesn’t help that the way the names of leading poets are transliterated has changed so often. Many writers included in Ezra Pound’s groundbreaking collection Cathay, published in 1915, are unrecognisable by name today.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
newstatesman.com | John Simpson
“You f***ing coward – you and your like are too chicken to take a stand for civilisation against barbarism.” That was one response to my efforts to explain why the BBC, like many other respected news organisations, prefers not to call Hamas a terrorist group, even after the unthinkable cruelties it committed in southern Israel. Other responses were blunter: “You utter twat,” “You NAZI c**t.” Well, if you can’t take the occasional insult, you shouldn’t venture on to social media, of course.
