From England with Love, the latest piece by Israeli-born, London-based choreographer Hofesh Shechter, begins with an octet of dancers subversively decked out in school uniforms – complete with rucksacks – facing us stock still, in an almost divine shaft of light. As Elgar’s Nimrod (arguably England’s wordless national anthem) plays loudly over the speakers, they solemnly mark out an almost classical port de bras, yet this slowly but surely disintegrates. By the time this ninth of the composer’s
U.S. gun manufacturers on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their challenge to Mexico's $10 billion lawsuit seeking to hold them responsible for facilitating the trafficking of firearms to violent drug cartels across the U.S.-Mexico border. Eight companies including Smith & Wesson Brands and Sturm, Ruger & Co in a petition argued that a lower court wrongly concluded the case qualified for an exception to a U.S. law that grants the firearms industry broad protection from lawsuits over the misuse of their products. The 1st Circuit did so after finding that Mexico had plausibly alleged the business practices of the seven gun makers and one distributor it had sued aided and abetted the illegal trafficking of guns to Mexico.
‘Everyone, my friends and neighbours, we just want peace and quiet and just to get on with our lives,’ she said.