Not far from the ancient, north African city of Timbuktu life is hard. Proud cattle herder Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed aka Pino) tries to live peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima (Toulou Kiki), his daughter Toya (Layla Walet Mohamed), and Issan (Mehdi Ag Mohamed), their twelve-year-old shepherd.
In the town the newly arrived, religious fundamentalists strut, with their heavy weapons and driving around in the Toyota, four wheel pickups and motorbikes. Using megaphones they shout their new religious decrees – music banned, cigarettes banned, soccer banned and women must be covered and wear socks and gloves at all times.
We see the local iman, the woman selling fish and others gently and with much dignity resist with dignity. We see the jihadis taking control – hunting down the source of music, punishing people for small digressions. We see them as hypocrites – sometimes brutal. as they tighten the screws, – sometimes stupid, the scene where they try, incompetently, to make a propaganda video is an absolute hoot .
Life is harsh and this is reflected as Kidane ends up in a bitter conflict with a neighbour. This ends up being tried under the very narrow, uncompromising, fundamentalist view of sharia law. I found this section interesting as Kidane’s reaction to these tragic circumstances is very different to that of someone brought up in a western culture.
The location is often very beautiful. The quiet dignity of local people inspiring. The cinematography good. An insight into a very different world and a help to understand the situation of those unfortunate enough to live in an area occupied by ISIS, jihadis or other fundamentalists.
On limited release at present.
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8:47AM BST 07 Jul 2015
Charities are under investigation for exploiting a legal loophole to cold call vulnerable people who had registered on the official “no-call” list and hounding them for cash.
The information watchdog is concerned that people registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS), which is supposed to stop unsolicited calls, are nevertheless being contacted by some of Britain’s charities.
Staff working for the British Red Cross, NSPCC, Oxfam and MacMillan are said to be using a quirk in the law to circumvent TPS restrictions where someone has failed to tick a box on a privacy policy to prevent marketing calls.
Undercover reporters working for the Daily Mail found that one of the call centre agencies used by these and dozens of other charities was telling staff to be “brutal” and “ferocious” in dealing with potential donors.
GoGen staff were taught to “deflect” any objections raised by those who answered the phone. This applied regardless of whether potential supporters were in their nineties, had dementia or admitted to confusion and memory problems.
The Information Commissioner’s Office believes the company could be breaking the law. All the charities denied acting unlawfully and have begun internal inquiries. Oxfam has suspended telephone fundraising and Save the Children said it had already ended cold-calling.
The death of poppy seller Olive Cooke put fundraising tactics in the spotlight
Stephen Eckersley, head of enforcement at the ICO, said: “On the face of it this could be a breach of both the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations.
“We will be launching an investigation into the call centre and charities involved.”
Its inquiry comes with charities already facing scrutiny over the tactics used to solicit donations – particularly after the death of Olive Cooke. The 92-year-old, who was Britain’s longest-serving poppy seller, was battling depression and had expressed her dismay at being unable to answer all 260 charities appeal letters she received each a month.
What the charities say
A spokesman for Macmillan said: “We take the claims made by the Daily Mail seriously and are looking into these as a priority. We do not wish to contact people if we are aware this is unwanted.”
A spokesman for the British Red Cross said the charity was “deeply concerned” by the claims and would seek clarification to ensure it was not in breach of the law.
A spokesman for the NSPCC said it had “contractual arrangements in place with those that fund-raise on our behalf, including strict guidance on vulnerable people, and expect the highest standards of behaviour.”
An Oxfam spokesman said: “Oxfam fights for the rights of poor and vulnerable people across the world and we apply our values to all aspects of our work. We would never exploit an individual’s vulnerability in our marketing.
“Our agencies have clear, regulated policies that help strike the appropriate balance between enabling people with dementia to live as full a life as possible, including supporting their favourite charity, and protecting them from the vulnerability caused by dementia.”
dan.hyde@telegraph.co.uk
The UCLA Library also holds the print archival records for the show: 
The subtitle is ‘How to camp it up and have an absolutely fabulous life’. “Camp” here, means being conscientiously ‘fem’, drunk, obsessed with certain television progs (AbFab for example), and the usual list of Hollywood stars. Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Judy (yawn) Garland. The notion of ‘camp’ as a form of social and cultural subversion does not enter into it: John (christened “Marion”) Wayne with his limp wrist, golf-ball-between-the-arse-cheeks mincing walk, made La Davis look like Mr America.
6 July 2015
A traveling exhibition produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933–1945,” is now on view at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.