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Sir Frederick Barclay, whose fortune was estimated as 6bn as recently as May, faces the possibility of being sent to prison at the age of 87 after a high court judge ruled that he must stand trial for the non-payment of part of a 100m divorce settlement.

The court heard that the former owner of the Telegraph Media Group had considered applying for legal aid to fight a divorce battle with his wife of 34 years.

Barclay, who still owns half of the private island of Brecqhou and whose family sold the Ritz Hotel for an estimated 800m in 2020, is now terrified of being sent to prison for his failure to pay the 50m due to his wife last June.

He was also separately and additionally ordered to pay his wifes legal costs, which are said to be approaching 500,000. The court was told that Barclays nephews, the sons of his twin brother Sir David Barclay, are paying for his legal fees but not those of his wife.

In evidence, Stewart Leech QC, for Hiroko Barclay, said the legal playing field was not level. She owes her lawyers over half a million pounds and Sir Frederick Barclay owes his lawyers virtually nothing.

Earlier this year, the court was told that Barclay had also unilaterally halved the maintenance payment of 60,000 awarded to his wife each month.

The court heard that Barclay, who started life as a painter and decorator alongside his brother, cannot access his fortune, which is held in a complex series of trusts.

Neither Barclay nor his brother, David, who died last year, were beneficiaries of the family trusts, which is essentially divided between Barclays daughter, Amanda, and three of David Barclays sons.

In the high court hearing, it was stated that Barclay said that he had no control over the complex trust structure. I havent got anything, he said.

Both Lady Barclay, 78, and Barclay appeared in court via an online link on Thursday but the judge ordered that both parties would have to appear in person in the three-day hearing due in July as non-payment is a quasi-criminal offence.

Lawyers representing Barclay have indicated that he will mount a defence to Lady Barclays application.

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Scot Young, a property boss, was one of the few men to be committed to prison for contempt of court resulting from the non-payment of a divorce order when he was jailed for for six months in 2013.

In March, the court was told that Barclay had been evicted from his home. His lawyer, Charles Howard QC, told the court that hes got no money and his bank statements show that.

Sir Jonathan Cohen, who is hearing the case, criticised Barclay in his final order last May, saying he had behaved in a reprehensible fashion during the dispute after having sold his luxury yacht and applied the equity for his own use in breach of orders.

During Thursdays hearing, the Guardian applied for documents in the complex case to be released to the media before the committal hearing, which was largely successful.

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June 17, 2022

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Chronicling the faces of Juneteenth with iPadPro and ApplePencil

Illustrator, comic creator, and scholar Ajuan Mance brings the past into the present through portraits of historical Black figures to celebrate Juneteenth

The Combahee River flows southeast through South Carolina, a 40-mile route that spills into the Saint Helena Sound. More than a century and a half ago on June 1, 1863, the Combahee turned the tide of emancipation when Harriet Tubman and her regiment of 150 Black Union troops led more than 700 escaped slaves to freedom aboard two gunboats. For Tubman, the river marked her heroism as the first woman to lead an armed US military operation in the Combahee Ferry Raid. For illustrator, comic creator, and scholar Ajuan Mance, its symbolic of the movement geographically, between the North and the South, and politically, from the Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth, to the Civil Rights Act Tubman and other activists have made throughout history.

Their activism challenged prevailing systems and policies that limited when and how Black people could move through the world, Mance says, comparing Tubman to civil rights activist Rosa Parks. These limits on Black movement were not only the practical tools for oppression, but also the symbols of white control of Black bodies. Harriet Tubman used movement from the South to the North as a tool for freeing other Black people, and Rosa Parks rejected Black peoples conditional access to transportation. These womens activism was really about restoring to Black people the right to move freely throughout their world.

In celebration of Juneteenth, Mance is revisiting a series of digital drawings created on iPad Pro titled The Ancestors Juneteenth, in which she places historical Black figures in present-day settings to reflect on Black peoples journey from the 19th to the 21st century. In these illustrations, Mance draws ink on paper before she snaps an image in Adobe Scan on her iPad Pro. In Procreate, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Fresco, she colors her scanned image non-photo blue, simulating the process of creating comics, while using Apple Pencil to add layers of color a workflow she previously completed using a light table and analog tools.

As an artist who often works on a larger scale, Mance appreciates the ability to zoom all the way in on a snippet of a giant canvas on iPad Pro. iPad and Apple Pencil make it easy for me to draw, manipulate, and add color and effects at the micro level, she says. So the closer people look, the more they will see.

As part of the Juneteenth series, Mance pictures Parks and Tubman at a picnic on the banks of the Combahee River. They were pioneers for whom freedom of movement was so much a part of their impact that they hold this iconic role in our minds. All of the marching Rosa Parks did, getting arrested, walking up the courthouse steps, so that we have less obstacles today than we did during her lifetime; and Harriet Tubman, walking from the South to the North at least 13 times to escort other Black people to freedom both of these women deserve a respite. I thought that all they might want to do today is sit by the river, take a load off of their feet, and just let the water do the moving, Mance says.

Mance describes herself as a history detective. She will spend hours digging through archives, hunting for the unknown in the 19th-century Black experience, and poring over primary sources, religious texts, photos, and other historical documentation. Whether shes preparing for a lecture at Mills College in Oakland, California, where she teaches African American literature, or beginning a new piece of art, she will always start with research to call to mind an image of the people and the time period she is exploring.

For The Ancestors Juneteenth, a work of speculative fiction, as she describes it, Mance contemplates which historical figures across different periods of time would be friends, and even what their dialogue would be. At Parks and Tubmans picnic, intricately detailed down to the books they are reading, she emphasizes that whatever they are saying will have a touch of humor to it.

My goal is to really humanize them, Mance explains. These are esteemed people who I respect, but I also think we need to understand them and experience them as people who walked the earth the same way that we do. That creates a sense of intimacy with our history that I find really empowering and inspiring.

Part of humanizing these historical figures lies in their dialogue, but its also in their features. To bring those features into focus, Mance casts them in a light and mood uncommon to the way the world knows them. For Tubman, who was almost never seen smiling, Mance emphasizes a jovial grin. In all of her portraits, she starts with the nose, works her way down to lips, up to the eyes, and then finally the hair and the shapes it creates. That African heritage that is almost written on the body and that signifies our history all the ways that we wear our heritage are really compelling to me, she says.

Mance first started using iPad Pro and Apple Pencil for her artwork while teaching a digital drawing class at Mills College. She remains impressed with how iPad has streamlined her workflow. I can create a sketch and then ink over it all in the same app and all on the same device, she says.

She also credits iPad for making the arts accessible to her students and equipping aspiring artists with skill sets that work across multiple devices, whether theyre working in Adobe Fresco or Procreate on iPad, or transferring a project to Mac.

iPad has put the production of art into the hands of everyone, Mance continues. Voices and aesthetic visions are getting out there that would not have been able to reach a broad audience just 10 or 15 years ago.

Though the Emancipation Proclamation was signed into law on January 1, 1863, it took more than two years for the legal right to freedom to be recognized for all Black people. On June 19, 1865 celebrated as Juneteenth today slavery officially came to an end in Texas as federal troops marched to Galveston.

Juneteenth is the day when legally all of America saw Black people the way theyd always seen themselves: as human beings with the right to be free, Mance says. My hope is that pairing Black people together from throughout our history and setting them in the present will be a symbol of unity that demonstrates that no matter how spread across the nation we are, even with divided historical experiences of Civil War and freedom, we are one community.

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has doled out over $319 million in grants, awards, and charity to media organizations, including $38 million to so-called investigative journalism centres.

According to Mint Press News (MPN), which sorted through over 30,000 documents, Bill Gates has given roughly $38 million to investigate journalism centres aimed at training journalists. Of this sum, over $20 million has gone to the International Center for Journalists, which builds the expertise and digital skills journalists need to deliver trustworthy news essential for vibrant societies.

The generous donations given to the ICFJ over several years have been given with the express purpose of producing journalists who focus on data-driven health and development news reports to help African media to better contribute to setting development agendas and furthering public accountability, according to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations website.

Producing health-obsessed investigative journalists is a common trend with Gates.

According to the Foundations website, the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism received its grant ($3,800,357) to support sustained high-quality, evidence-based, and solutions-oriented media coverage of global health and development issues in Primary Health Care systems, Agriculture & Financial Inclusion.

Other recipients of over $1 million include The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting ($2,432,552) to support editorial projects focused on global health issues, Fondation EurActiv Politech ($2,368,300), International Womens Media Foundation ($1,500,000), Center for Investigative Reporting $1,446,639, InterMedia Survey institute ($1,297,545), and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism ($1,068,169).

Put simply, it appears Bill Gates wants to install a personal army of professional scrutineers in various media outlets that disseminate his position on healthcare and propaganda about public officials who deviate.

Gates also, of course, funds the journalism programs of several universities, including Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, the University of California Berkeley, Tsinghua University, Seattle University, Rhodes University, and Montclair State University.

Harvard University (of which Gates is a dropout), the University of Southern California, Boston University, and Ahmadu Bello University have also received money from Gates Foundation to take on various media projects.

Producing new journalists isnt the only area in media that Gates is focusing on, though. He also targets experienced journalists in legacy media organizations. According to MPNs report, a total of $166.2 million has been given to well-known legacy media organizations.

The money is generally directed towards issues close to the Gateses hearts. For example, the $3.6 million CNN grant went towards report[ing] on gender equality with a particular focus on least developed countries, producing journalism on the everyday inequalities endured by women and girls across the world, while the Texas Tribune received millions to to increase public awareness and engagement of education reform issues in Texas. Given that Bill is one of the charter schools most fervent supporters, a cynic might interpret this as planting pro-corporate charter school propaganda into the media, disguised as objective news reporting, reports MPN.

Just over one decade ago, Bill Gates was under fire for his attempt to control the media through spread-out donations, but this fire seems to have flickered out until recently.

Beyond their subject matter, these [health report stories] have something else in common: They were all bankrolled by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Seattle Times wrote in 2011.

Better-known for its battles against global disease, the giant philanthropy has also become a force in journalism.

The foundations grants to media organizations such as ABC and The Guardian, one of Britains leading newspapers, raise obvious conflict-of-interest questions: How can reporting be unbiased when a major player holds the purse strings?

Unsurprisingly, the Seattle Times and the Blethen Corporation do not appear to have ever received money from Bill Gates.

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Washington Post columnist Perry Bacon Jr. published an article on Tuesday saying hes "excited" that America looks more poised than ever to start restricting guns.

Bacon started his piece stating that the recent bipartisan gun violence deal "between 10 Republican and 10 Democratic senators is better than nothing" but it doesnt "really address the central problem the broad availability and circulation of guns in the United States."

Though the author claimed hes not worried, because more Americans in general want guns restricted.

"The recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Tex., have cemented two big, important shifts on gun policy that were already happening and wont be slowed by the passage of a minor congressional bill," he wrote.

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"First," the columnist explained, "those involved in public policy who are not accountable to hardcore Republican voters have come to agree that guns are the problem."

Washington Post columnist Perry Bacon Jr. claimed that America is more poised than ever to restrict guns like the AR-15. (AP)

"As a result, many in the media, top Democratic Party officials, think tanks and advocacy groups that dont usually focus on guns are all pushing for policies such as banning the sale and ownership of military-style weapons and high-capacity magazines," Bacon explained.

The author also pointed to the fact that professionals who think that mental health and other circumstances heavily factor into gun violence, also think there are too many guns, is a tell-tale sign things will change. "Just as significantly, the reality-based policy community now agrees that while addressing, say, mental health, gangs and school security might help, what makes gun violence so prevalent in America is the unusually high number of guns in circulation."

The author also claimed that going after guns would address crime more broadly. "Centering guns as the problem unifies issues that are often discussed separately: mass shootings at schools and in other public spaces; shootings that happen among acquaintances or rival gangs; instances where people shoot spouses or partners; and suicides," he wrote.

He argued there was one solution: "fewer guns."

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Bacon moved to the second shift which is "that the national Democratic Party is no longer afraid of gun control." He provided the example of strategists claiming that Al Gore lost the presidential race in 2000 because his support of gun control cost him the south. Though he claimed that Democrats have realized their "struggles in the South were part of a broader political realignment."

Thus, they dont have to be as afraid of gun control. In addition, "the sheer number of catastrophic mass shootings over the past decade has basically forced Democrats to take on this issue," he added.

Optimistically, Bacon admitted that though there arent enough Senate Democrats to push through serious gun control, he claimed that the fact that everyone, except "hardcore" Republicans, now wants to regulate guns is important for several reasons.

Washington Post columnist Perry Bacon Jr. claimed he was excited that more Americans are seeking gun restrictions in the wake of recent mass shootings. (ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images)

"First," he began, "clearly identifying guns as the problem is a big step toward finding actual solutions. Now, wealthy individuals, organizations and the Democratic Party know they must develop a comprehensive agenda aimed at reducing the number of guns in the United States and only backing candidates who believe in that goal," he wrote.

Bacon added, "Second, blue cities and states where Republicans arent a roadblock should pass strong gun regulation." He wrote that "Cities and states as well as philanthropic organizations should also seek innovative ways to encourage people to voluntarily either get rid of guns or not buy them in the first place."

UVALDE SHOOTING 'WORST LAW ENFORCEMENT FIASCO SINCE GEORGE FLOYD', STATE SENATOR SAYS

The authors last reason was that now everyone will start "demanding that GOP-appointed judges, including those on the Supreme Court, accept that some expansive gun-control measures are simply necessary for public safety."

Bacon then claimed that if said judges dont comply, "the only answer will be judicial reforms such as adding justices to shift the balance of the court toward common-sense gun policy."

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A banner hangs at a memorial outside Robb Elementary School, the site of the recent Texas school shooting. (AP/Eric Gay)

"So, no, Im not celebrating this bipartisan guns deal too much. But I am excited to see lots of powerful Americans, including top Democrats, get more serious about reducing the number of guns in the United States," he concluded.

Gabriel Hays is an associate editor at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter at @gabrieljhays.

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The front page of the local newspaper is seen in the media area outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 26. Allison Dinner /AFP via Getty Images hide caption

The front page of the local newspaper is seen in the media area outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 26.

What is the role of journalists when covering America's mass shooting crisis, and how can they responsibly report on tragedies like the recent shootings in Uvalde, Buffalo and Tulsa?

Those are complicated but crucial questions to answer, says Dannagal Young, a University of Delaware professor who studies the impact that news stories have on the public.

In particular, her research looks at whether the media has a bias in favor of covering specific events and individual people, instead of looking more broadly at what leads to tragedies such as mass shootings.

This difference is called episodically framed stories versus thematically framed stories.

Young unpacks why this matters, how the media should cover mass shootings, and the one question she says journalists should ask themselves.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

On episodically vs. thematically framed news stories

There was work that came out in the early '90s looking at whether or not the way that news stories are told could affect the kind of attributions of responsibility that viewers or readers might make. So, if you tell a news story about individual people, individual problems, really following that story narrative arc, is it possible that you're actually going to encourage those readers and listeners to attribute responsibility and look for solutions at the level of the individual in the story?

People visit memorials for victims of the shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption

People visit memorials for victims of the shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

On whether the Uvalde shooting was covered more episodically or more thematically

I think it depends on what outlets we're talking about. I have seen a whole lot of attention paid to more thematically framed coverage that looks at the history of gun control in the United States, rates of gun violence broken out by state, etc. Those thematically framed stories contextualize what happened in Texas within a broader framework a political framework, a cultural framework, a historical framework. That's thematic.

However, as the story began to unfold, and we did learn about failures at the level of the Uvalde Police and the school police in particular, some of those stories really began to focus on the individual people, as opposed to thinking more broadly about gun violence as an epidemic in the United States.

On how people understand news differently when it's more episodic and less thematic

When a story is told in terms of individual people, our brains are going to be activating constructs about this person in this place at this time. And we're naturally going to want to also protect ourselves and say, "Well, this awful thing wouldn't happen to me, because look it happened over there to those people in this place." And we're going to extrapolate from that and say, "If I don't do these things, I'm not in this place, and I'm not those people, this will not happen to me."

As opposed to when covered more thematically, broadly, in terms of systemic factors that may contribute to this trend, that is going to encourage people to think: What could the system do? What kind of legislation might be passed to address this issue?

Buffalo Police on scene at the Tops Friendly Market on May 14 in Buffalo after a gunman opened fire. John Normile/Getty Images hide caption

Buffalo Police on scene at the Tops Friendly Market on May 14 in Buffalo after a gunman opened fire.

On the question all journalists should ask themselves

The question that I wish that all journalists would always ask themselves is: What is going to help Americans understand not just this day, but this broader issue? What is going to help them figure out what action they might be able to take? What legislation might be able to come about? Those are the questions that need to be asked.

On whether she thinks journalists can do this without sounding like advocates in an inappropriate way

I do. Because it sounds as though I'm just talking about how we need to all talk about gun legislation and gun reform. But there are also conversations that need to be had about how we deal with mental health issues in this country, and how we deal with extremist groups in this country. Those are all conversations that would help Americans get closer to an understanding not just of the event, but of the broader issues underlying the event.

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