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Id eat an Indian: rivals seize on unearthed Bolsonaro cannibalism boast | Brazil

Brazil This article is more than 1 year old‘I’d eat an Indian’: rivals seize on unearthed Bolsonaro cannibalism boastThis article is more than 1 year oldIn a now viral video of a 2016 interview, the Brazilian president claims he would eat human flesh It was a shocking statement, even for a politician who has glorified torturers and called for rivals to be shot. “I’d eat an Indian, no problem at all,” Jair Bolsonaro bragged to a foreign journalist in 2016, as he described a trip to an Indigenous community where he had purportedly been offered the chance to consume human flesh.

Is YouTube a music industry devil or buzz-making deity? | Music

Internet demon or buzz machine? Photograph: AKP Photos/AlamyInternet demon or buzz machine? Photograph: AKP Photos/AlamyMusic blogMusicIs YouTube a music industry devil or buzz-making deity?Red Hot Chili Peppers’ manager Peter Mensch is the latest to slam the internet company for not fairly paying artists. But there’s more to the online music streaming debate than meets the ear The music industry has never been shy of using exaggeration as a negotiating tactic. Its deployment long precedes the mic drop as a way to shut down a debate.

Jacobean tragedy: of love and death

The Duchess of MalfiWith new productions of The Changeling and The Duchess of Malfi about to open, it seems we can’t get enough of revenge tragedies In a hushed, darkened room inside London's Young Vic theatre, two young people are about to make a terrible mistake. The woman has just been married off to someone she doesn't love; the man is desperate for the two of them to be together. Perhaps, he suggests, he could confront her husband.

Only music reached my wife after dementia hit, says John Suchet | Dementia

The ObserverDementia This article is more than 3 years oldOnly music reached my wife after dementia hit, says John SuchetThis article is more than 3 years oldEx-ITN presenter tells how Abba transformed Bonnie Suchet as study reveals most carers are unaware of the benefits of music When John Suchet discovered the effect that music had on his wife Bonnie’s dementia, it was transformational. “She would close her eyes and love it, beat in time to the music with her hands, tap her feet,” he said.

Sex, jealousy and gender: Daphne du Mauriers Rebecca 80 years on

Daphne du MaurierDu Maurier’s bestselling novel reveals much about the author’s fluid sexuality – her ‘Venetian tendencies’ – and about being a boy stuck in the wrong body, writes Olivia Laing In 1937, a young army wife sat at her typewriter in a rented house in Alexandria, Egypt. She wasn’t happy. Despite coming from an ebullient theatrical family, she was reclusive and agonisingly shy. The social demands that came with being married to the commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards were far beyond her.