All posts tagged: Shouting

Robert De Niro denies shouting at pro-Palestine protestors in viral clip

Robert De Niro denies shouting at pro-Palestine protestors in viral clip

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Robert De Niro’s publicist has denied that a viral clip of the 80-year-old actor shows him confronting pro-Palestinian protesters in New York. The 34-second video has been widely shared on social media with the caption: “Robert De Niro stands with Israel!” However, De Niro’s publicist Stan Rosenfield told CNN that the actor was in fact rehearsing a scene for an upcoming television show. “What you saw was a direct scene from the Netflix series Zero Day with Robert De Niro reading lines as written in the script,” said Rosenfield. In the video, De Niro can be seen yelling at a crowd: “This is not a movie! This is not a movie!… Move behind the barricade. You like talkin’ nonsense? Then you gotta go home!” He continues: “That’s dangerous and they say they’re gonna do it again! Again! You don’t want that. You don’t want that. None of us …

BBC presenter ‘threatened’ as she filmed thug shouting racist abuse on London train

BBC presenter ‘threatened’ as she filmed thug shouting racist abuse on London train

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A BBC presenter has told how she was threatened by thugs as she filmed one of them shouting racist abuse on a London train. Mary Mandefield, who presents on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra, was on a Thameslink train travelling from Bedford to Three Bridges in London on Thursday night, when the incident happened. “This group of guys starting on anyone (including a woman in her 70s), racist slurs, throwing punches,” she wrote on X. “As soon as he sees me filming he threatens me.” Footage she shared on the social media site showed a white man shouting racist slurs on a busy train. “Listen, this is England,” he is heard shouting. “Not no f***ing foreign c*** like you f***ing lot.” Passengers who appear to be with the men attempt to calm him down, patting him and saying: “Listen, chill out, relax.” One eyewitness can be heard saying: “How embarrassing.” Ms Mandefield described it as “easily the most horrendous journey and experience I’ve had”, adding it happened on a train she gets every day. “About …

Angry Shouting Aside, Here’s What Biden Is Running On

Angry Shouting Aside, Here’s What Biden Is Running On

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Last night, Joe Biden gave an extremely dark, threatening, angry State of the Union address – in which he insisted that the American economy is doing better than ever, blamed inflation on ‘corporate greed,’ and warned that Donald Trump poses an existential threat to the republic. But in between the angry rhetoric, he also laid out his 2024 election platform – for which additional details will be released on March 11, when the White House sends its proposed budget to Congress. To that end, Goldman Sachs’ Alec Phillips and Tim Krupa have summarized the key points: Taxes While railing against billionaires (nothing new there), Biden repeated the claim that anyone making under $400,000 per year won’t see an increase in their taxes.  He also proposed a 21% corporate minimum tax, up from 15% on book income outlined in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), as well as raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% (which would promptly be passed along to consumers in the form of more inflation). Goldman notes that “Congress is unlikely …

Tears, shouting, procedural tantrums: just your standard day in the Commons, until democracy took a sinister turn | Marina Hyde

Tears, shouting, procedural tantrums: just your standard day in the Commons, until democracy took a sinister turn | Marina Hyde

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For reasons I won’t trouble you with, I missed the events of Wednesday afternoon and evening in the House of Commons. Normally, that would be a cause for anxiety in a person as committed to service journalism/category 5 drama as myself. Like many in the immediate wake of the political upheavals of 2016, I found myself sinking into the dopamine-assisted rhythms of the new normal, where, on both sides of the Atlantic, you sometimes felt you’d missed an entire news cycle if you left a screen to make a cup of tea. In 2022, I did a book tour that involved nightly stage events discussing the political turmoil of the past few years/minutes. Because this coincided with the prime ministership of one Liz Truss, there came a point every evening where I worried my information may not be entirely au courant, and had to ask the audience (who had their phones) whether or not she was still prime minister. And, as you’ll recall, one day she wasn’t. Anyway, the point of all this is that …

Shouting at children linked to depression – but defining what counts as verbal abuse is what will help prevent harmful parenting

Shouting at children linked to depression – but defining what counts as verbal abuse is what will help prevent harmful parenting

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A recent research paper has found that verbal abuse of children, including shouting at them and calling them names, is linked to low mood, drug abuse and delinquency (antisocial behaviour). The authors of the new study argue that because verbal abuse is considered as a part of emotional abuse (a category which includes many different types of harmful behaviour towards children, such as manipulating them, humiliating them and giving them the silent treatment) it is overlooked and a “hidden problem”. They state that childhood verbal abuse should be recognised as its own category of child maltreatment. While there are limitations to the research study, it’s well designed and important, especially in helping to define this type of emotional abuse. Understanding maltreatment Children who are maltreated – who suffer abuse and neglect – are more likely to encounter issues such as poor mental health later in life. One study has suggested that a global reduction of maltreatment by 25% could prevent 80 million cases of anxiety and depression worldwide. Governments have tried to reduce maltreatment by …

‘Shouting doesn’t help’: 10 things I want hearing people to know about deaf people | Shared moments

‘Shouting doesn’t help’: 10 things I want hearing people to know about deaf people | Shared moments

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To us, you’re hearing peopleIf you’re not deaf, you’re generally defined, among deaf people, as a “hearing person”. And you’re not all that popular, for a number of reasons. For a start, it was hearing people who decided to ban sign language from education in the late 19th century. Then there are the ongoing barriers deaf people face in almost every area of life, from work to education, to accessing healthcare. And how do you think hearing people are doing when it comes to, say, running the world? You’re not all bad – some of you are our beloved friends, family members, colleagues and neighbours, but if you’re really honest with yourself you’ll realise hearing folk have a lot to answer for. There’s more than one type of deaf personSome deaf people communicate purely in British Sign Language (BSL), others sign using English word order (Sign Supported English), some speak, some use hearing aids or cochlear implants, some lip-read, and many use a whole mixture of the above – a kind of communication cocktail, depending …