c/o RollingStone UK - "U2 surprise-drop politically charged ‘Days of Ash’ EP with six new songs"

The collection delves into ICE, Israel, the West Bank, Ukraine, Iran — and features a guest vocal by Ed Sheeran

U2 (RollingStone UK - Picture: Anton Corbijn) 

By Andy Greene

'U2 have emerged from a long hiatus with a surprise six-song EP, Days of Ash, available now, in which they address political flashpoints around the world, including ICE raids in the US, the Iranian uprisings, the war in Ukraine, and Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

The six songs — ‘American Obituary’, ‘The Tears of Things’, ‘Song of the Future’, ‘Wildpeace’, ‘One Life at a Time’ and ‘Yours Eternally’ (featuring Ed Sheeran and Taras Topolia) — are all on streaming platforms. They’ve also created lyric videos for each one.' 

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Previously: conflict : war : hope : peace

Recovery, Rehabilitation, Reablement by Van Gogh

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The Asylum Garden at Arles, 1889 by Vincent Van Gogh

My source: Van Gogh exhibitions (at least two); and Robin Lane Fox. Two years in Provence, House&Home, FTWeekend, 11/12 January 2025. p.10. 

Image source: https://www.vincentvangogh.org/the-asylum-garden-at-arles.jsp

Assisted Dying Bill - UK

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Choice by dying person of how they die Anticipation of role of AI Where does mental illness 'lie'? Decision needs approval by two doctors Change in relationship between: INDIVIDUAL -	Prognosis of < 6 months Terminal diagnosis Anticipation of role of AI Seek assistance to end their life Decision needs approval by two doctors What of patients who are comatose?^
Profound Societal Change Quality of Life Quality of Death Impact of 'poor' death on others - friends and family Vulnerabiity of certain groups Lest we forget what happened to the nursing and care home sector during COVID*	and the STATE UK - House of Lords Oversight Panel:  Legal figure e.g., King's Counsel; and a Psychiatrist Doctors and care workers not compelled to take part in assisted dying What about the psycho-POLITICS of anorexia, severe depression?

^Brian M. Rosenthal. They woke as doctors prepared to remove their organs. The New York Times International Edition, 11 June 2025, p.6. 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/kentucky-organ-donations.html

*https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/hearings/care-sector-module-6-public-hearings/

Book: 'The Sleep Room' by Jon Stock i

Somewhat indirectly - I must emphasize, a book review reminded me of my Registered Mental Nursing student nursing days; and the mind - body divide. Without realising it then I heard the sound of two keys out of the five in Hodges' model. There were positive role models in the staff nurses involved; plus, learning in the routes and modalities of physical and psychological responses to treatments; in the form of medication and therapy. 

'The Sleep Room' highlights the dangers of unbounded belief in recourse to physical treatments. Such books are designed of course to 'sell', to be emotive, sensational. But mental illness - the asylum systems, presents a history of humanistic intent and mechanistic horrors. If mental illness, severe emotional responses can render us as a rag-doll, pursuit of physicalist solutions to the nth degree, is tantamount to shaking the doll: violently.

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SOCIO-	resistance? -POLITICS of health

More to follow - ii ...

Sansom, I. Abused by a 'hero' of British medicine, Review. The Daily Telegraph, 29 March 2025. p.15. 

Flee Memory Box Europa

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MEMORY BOX

Einav, D. The human face of war and migration, Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 5-6 February 2022, p.15.

Film: Human Flow

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h  u m   a      n	f l            o   w

Human Flow - Film

BBC Radio 4: "We need to talk ... "

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We  (Well, there's an 'i' in humanity..?)	Need
to Talk	Ab-out

Death

BBC Radio 4: We Need to Talk About Death

Human Capital & backseat passengers

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"The average employed person had a "human capital stock" of £471,000 at the end of last year..." The average wealth per person rose by £87,000 to £135,000."	Picture taken August 17, 2016. REUTERS/Mahmoud Rslan
"The value of the UK's  human capital increased by £890 billion to £19.2 trillion  last year."	Knock! Knock! ... ... ... ... Knock!! Knock!! ... ... ... ... What do you want! "Oh... hello. Is this the domain for justice? "NO, you won't find justice here" ?

Office for National Statistics: Human capital estimates Articles

Knowles, T. (2016). Get ready to push the boat out - you're worth £135,000. The Times, 19 August, p.33.

Photograph source:  The Peninsula Qatar
Five-year-old Omran Daqneesh, with bloodied face, sits with his sister inside an ambulance after they were rescued following an airstrike in the rebel-held al-Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria August 17, 2016. Picture taken August 17, 2016. REUTERS/Mahmoud Rslan
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/middle-east/389598/syria-photographer-captures-image-of-dazed-bloodied-boy

"Here I Stand" Stories that Speak for Freedom

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	"HERE I STAND" 12+

Book cover: Walker Books

Amnesty International

The Periodic Table

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Person-centered | | ? ability, age, class, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation
BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation	"Never again!" UN- Periodic or otherwise .... 1945 ... ...?

Periodic Table image:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table

Book image:

https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/184014334744756712/

Care for the ear - Svetlana Alexievich

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"Flaubert called himself a human pen;  I would say that I am a human ear." "I am drawn to that small space called  a human being . . . a single individual."
	"It always troubled me that the truth  doesn't fit into  one heart,  into one mind,  that truth is somehow splintered.  There's a lot of it, it is varied,  and it is  strewn about the world."

Alexievich, S. (2015) 'Speak with a human voice', Life & Arts, FT Weekend, December 19-20. pp.1-2.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Big Utopia

Join the Revolution: For the Lady in the Corner (c/o ST4Health)

ST4Health

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Lady situated assumptions personal experience	one disease - malaria, smallpox, leprosy, TB,  emergency treatment, hospitals, Africa, systems, capacity
people, society, community, village gender, interactions, humanitarian works,	policy, organisations, population health improvement, global health, poverty, economics, outcomes

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BIG PICTURE (above)

My source:  HIFA2015 list