WHO and ECDC launch indicator framework to evaluate the public health effectiveness of digital proximity tracing solutions
WHO and ECDC launch indicator framework to evaluate the public health effectiveness of digital proximity tracing solutions

Countries have readily employed innovative technologies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to support the implementation of public health and social measures. Digital proximity tracing—using smartphones or purpose-built devices to capture anonymized interactions between individuals then issuing alerts—emerged during the pandemic as a new means of support to government-led programmes for contact tracing.

ECDC and WHO developed this indicator framework in consultation with public health experts globally. The framework will provide countries with a standardized approach for evaluating their use of digital proximity tracing solutions. It will also assess the extent to which these solutions have aided national contact tracing strategies for COVID-19.

“This new indicator framework has been developed through a strong collaboration between ECDC and WHO.  It offers countries a standardized approach to gather the evidence and assess the contribution that digital proximity tracing technology has made to large-scale contact tracing efforts for COVID-19. We anticipate that it will become an invaluable tool,”

said Dr Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Director of the Division of Country Health Policies and Systems at WHO/Europe.

“Digital proximity tracing technology is a new tool for a new challenge – COVID-19. It is vital that we evaluate its public health effectiveness in order to understand how best to use this technology right now as well as for future pandemics,”

said Vicky Lefevre, Head of Unit for Public Health Functions at the ECDC.

“This indicator framework provides a concrete approach for countries to gather and evaluate evidence on the use and performance of national digital proximity tracing solutions. This knowledge will be vital in our understanding of the public health impact that such approaches have had during the COVID-19 pandemic and their potential to be applied in mitigating future public health threats”

said Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist, World Health Organization.

The framework proposes a list of indicators to assist public health authorities in measuring:

  • the extent to which digital proximity tracing solutions have been used;
  • the extent to which they have been successful in detecting contacts at risk of infection;
  • the speed at which digital proximity tracing approaches can notify potential contacts, when compared to conventional contact tracing; and
  • enablers and barriers to their usage.
In a joyously candid book, LORRAINE CANDY reports from hormone HQ
In a joyously candid book, LORRAINE CANDY reports from hormone HQ

Over a long career in journalism, I have explored parenting dos and don’ts with many experts. I’ve interviewed neuroscientists, family therapists, bestselling parenting gurus and professionals working on the front line of teenage mental health.

As editor of Cosmopolitan, Elle, and in executive roles at various newspapers, I’ve quizzed young female staff about their relationships with their mums, I’ve read parenting books new and classic and devoured every possible weighty ‘think piece’ on adolescence.

And I’ve had more than my fair share of frontline experience as a mum of four children (Sky, 18; Grace, 17; Henry, 14; and Mabel, ten).

But, I confess, I have been knocked sideways by the teenage years, particularly female adolescence. I was confused by the girls’ sudden change in behaviour — and if you have a teenage daughter, there’s every chance that you’re feeling confused, too.

Lorraine Candy (pictured) recounts how her daughters changed when they became teenagers, in a candid new book

Lorraine Candy (pictured) recounts how her daughters changed when they became teenagers, in a candid new book 

Maybe you are wondering what you did wrong to have produced such disapproving, changeable creatures, and are fearful of what is going to happen next.

Perhaps, like I was, you’re in maternal shock, jolted from one stage of mothering into the next, not a single klaxon going off beforehand to warn you.

No one really talks about this aspect of mothering. There are no NCT-like support groups for the mothers of teenage girls.

This switch from adorable to unpredictable can feel harsh, the rejection brutal. One minute you’re secretly sniffing the top of their delicate heads as you slip on their Ladybird wellies, the next you are the mother of dragons, putting out fires everywhere.

It’s like being in the room with a wasp: they are constantly buzzing around you, drawn to you like wasps to sugar, potentially about to sting at any moment.

Of course, I was aware of the traditional narrative of adolescent hormones: the huffy door-slamming, the mess that’s so awful you need a biohazard suit to clear it, love bites, poor decisions on alcohol volumes. But I had not foreseen the loneliness and shame that can come with parenting at this stage because it is rarely acknowledged or voiced. And it is visceral and unpleasant.

The little girl who once worshipped you now has to untether herself from you, and it seems she sometimes has to use a surprisingly mean, self-righteous moral superiority to do that. It’s her adolescent weapon of choice.

Suddenly everything is your fault. You become the most unpopular girl in class in your own home, courtesy of your own offspring.

Lorraine said teenagers aren't being spoilt or rude, they’re just coping with huge physiological and psychological change. Pictured: Lorraine with her daughters

Lorraine said teenagers aren’t being spoilt or rude, they’re just coping with huge physiological and psychological change. Pictured: Lorraine with her daughters

Your teenager begins to view you as the biggest nitwit anyone could meet. The person you love most in the world is occasionally so repulsed by you that she can’t bear the sound of you breathing.

The phrase ‘Mum, what is wrong with you?’ is tacked onto the end of every sentence.

Even if I said ‘I discovered the cure for cancer just now’, my teenage daughter would still look at me with mingled fury and disbelief, and answer, ‘What is wrong with you?’ as if I’d done something so inexplicably bad I should be hanging my head in shame.

It can sometimes feel like living with the worst boyfriend you ever had, but with whom you are still crazy in love.

The person you love most is so repulsed she can’t even bear the sound of you breathing  

He’s rude to you, criticises your appearance and absentmindedly pokes holes in your deteriorating self-esteem. But you can’t leave him and you won’t hear a bad word about him from anyone else because in the sunlight of his rare approval there lies the deepest love of all.

This seemingly overnight change in personality and behaviour can feel disappointing, but much of it is down to neurology. The rapid change in girls’ brains between the ages of 12 and 17 means they test the extremes of their possible new identity. They’ll test the good and bad bits and usually reject the more OTT stuff as they head into their 20s. You get your real daughter back again when the brain is done rebuilding.

So hang in there. They are not being spoilt or rude, they’re just coping with huge physiological and psychological change. It really isn’t all their fault and if you know it’s coming, you can wait patiently for this developmental phase to pass.

Lorraine (pictured) admits she found the lack of empathy from her teenage daughters a hard pill to swallow during her midlife years

Lorraine (pictured) admits she found the lack of empathy from her teenage daughters a hard pill to swallow during her midlife years

Teenage girls seem to have no empathy with their mums whatsoever, which I found the hardest pill to swallow during my midlife years.

Indeed, it is an ill-timed quirk of biology that finds women going through the fury and upheaval of midlife hormones at exactly the same time as their daughters hit adolescence. It is a perfect storm of domestic unrest.

Obviously, what a perimenopausal, rage-filled woman needs to calm her nerves in that moment, just as the ship is becoming untethered from the dock and flung into a stormy sea, right in the middle of her demonic unravelling, is to live with a teenage girl. Or two, in my case. It’s a combination that touches every part of your soul because at times it can feel brutally personal.

When my eldest was about 14 and I was quizzing her on some minor details of her next escapade, I remember her saying: ‘Oh my God, Mum, what is the point of you?’

This seemed like a particularly harsh blow because I had been sitting quietly on the bottom of our stairs, on my way up with the clean washing, and was already questioning the point of me anyway. Midlife will do that to you.

So much questioning is going on that it’s doubly hard to deal with a bright young thing dismissing your life as she swishes out of the room, all ponytail and hi-top trainers.

Frankly, the whole world should be giving you a break at this point. But there is one person who won’t, and that is the one you gave birth to.

Lorraine (pictured) said the speed at which your teenage girls seem to be growing up somehow hastens the speed at which you are getting old

Lorraine (pictured) said the speed at which your teenage girls seem to be growing up somehow hastens the speed at which you are getting old

Before perimenopause, you could just roll your eyes and twist the lid back on the milk, but now ‘the rage’ stands in your way and before you know it, you are a fireball.

Of course you could be quietly patient about your best breadknife being tossed carelessly into the bin by accident, your missing ‘good mascara’, the cup stain on your wooden table, because none of this is a big deal in the scheme of things. But when you are grappling with what feels like vengeful, vicious grief, you have no patience, just lack-of-hormone-fuelled anger.

Often I just didn’t know what to do, what to think, how to smooth the edges and not feel quite so rejected, panicked or overwhelmed with self-doubt. And on many occasions, I was just absolutely furious.

These things can make you a bit shouty (I am underplaying it with this description). Perhaps when they say, ‘What is wrong with you?’ you should say, ‘Lack of oestrogen’.

Still more annoyingly, the speed at which your teenage girls seem to be growing up somehow hastens the speed at which you are getting old. Time is all stretchy for them, but has suddenly gone rigid for you.

It has felt, at times, as if I’m in the middle of a great experiment — a scene from Doctor Who or a dream — and I should be able to press a button or hold my nose and be transported back to where I rightfully belong: pushing a double buggy, holding the small hand of the child walking alongside it, leaving a trail of raisins behind us.

Lorraine (pictured) admits she romanticised about happy shopping trip and romcom movie nights when her daughters were growing up

Lorraine (pictured) admits she romanticised about happy shopping trip and romcom movie nights when her daughters were growing up

Some days, I watch my girls come into the kitchen and the pain of not being able to hold them close as I did when they were little is unbearable.

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1 Bedtime gets later and later and you lose control of it completely at weekends. This means you can no longer watch what you want to on TV, and soon you start to go to bed first.

2 School parents’ evening becomes peppered with new rules about what you wear, how you speak and to whom you speak. So much glaring and so many unsaid admonishments. You spend the evening feeling as if you are in trouble, but you don’t know what you’ve done. Don’t ask too many questions; don’t smile too enthusiastically; don’t chat too long to other parents on the imaginary ‘not approved’ list.

3 Piercings. These come overnight. Usually in pairs. Your teen is either talking about them or getting them done. They have strange names: tragus, conch, helix. You’ll be amazed they can endure the hideous pain of a cartilage piercing, but lie on the floor writhing in agony if a sibling bumps into them by accident.

4 Love bites. Shocking to witness over breakfast — and hypocritical, because if your partner shows any outward sign of affection to you, your teen will make vomiting noises or mutter ‘Disgusting’ as they leave the room in haste.

5 G-strings and big, ugly shoes are left all over the place. Most trainers are second-hand (#savetheplanet), so they smell a lot. Some teen girls have scant regard for personal hygiene, but are outraged if you infringe any hygiene rules. They cannot, for example, eat an apple if you’ve touched it.

6 They say ‘Can we go now?’ every time they appear in the kitchen. Which means they want you to take them somewhere at 45 seconds’ notice.

7 ‘My friend was . . .’ This phrase enters the room at about 13. You used to know all their friends, but they meet new friends at other places, not just school, and won’t share their names — possibly because they’re boys.

8 The 4pm phone call. This is the after-school request for something: food, money, an extension to previously agreed coming-home times, being able to go to a party 400 miles away.

9 Calling you by your first name. It’s the cruellest separation tool, and probably a passive-aggressive way to undermine your authority. It means they are discovering their new identity while playing fast and loose with the ‘motherhood’ part of your identity.

10 Oscar-winning hypochondria. You will not have enough painkillers, TCP or plasters (Boots doesn’t sell that many) for this.

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As my girls were growing up, I romanticised about happy shopping trips, romcom movie nights, rainy Sundays in art galleries. I looked forward to a whole cultural life, but I didn’t anticipate my own role as clown-in-chief. I anticipated fun times, not being-made-fun-of times.

I quickly discovered, however, that the words ‘mum’ and ‘cool’ cancel each other out. And although it is disappointing, you have to abandon any ‘best friends’ dream you may have had as soon as your daughter turns 11.

I remember asking my then seven-year-old son why his then 13-year-old sister was suddenly ignoring me all the time, not replying to calls, shutting herself away to chat to friends on the phone, and leaving a room if I entered it. ‘Maybe she was just pretending to love you all along?’ he replied.

If you have daughters, it seems you will lose the following the moment they hit 13: nail scissors, white trainer socks, tweezers, cream jumpers without stains on, expensive gym leggings, box-fresh trainers, fancy chocolates, small mirrors that enlarge things, eyelash curlers, moisturiser (even if it says anti-ageing on the front), your good hairbrush, tiny earrings, hoop earrings, Eighties band T-shirts, luxury conditioner.

To stop my kids stealing my phone charger, I stuck a picture of a bare bottom on the charger plug. I told the girls it was my bottom. It wasn’t, but the thought revolted them so much that the charger never went missing.

I wasn’t just being selfish about my charger, or petty — the knock-on effect of my phone running out of battery is more stressful for me because being on call to the teenage girls in your life requires 100 per cent battery at all times.

I have another version of the bum picture. My knicker drawer. It’s where I put covetable belongings. This is my safe stash place. It’s my version of licking something so no one else wants to eat it.

You should also know, if you have a teenage girl, that even if you have Madonna’s private live-in chef taking personal orders every single morning and preparing freshly made sushi that has been flown in from Fiji that day, there will still come a moment when she’ll say: ‘I cannot eat this. You know I don’t like carrots [insert name of veg she has been happily eating since the day she first had solids]’ — unless she is at someone else’s house, in which case she’d eat cat food to be polite.

One minute they are vegetarian, then vegan, then only vegan on Mondays (unless it has pepperoni on it, which doesn’t count), veggie during the week and vampire carnivores at the weekend.

My first baby didn’t sleep through the night until she was four, but parenting newborns and toddlers can feel easier than parenting adolescents. The teen years require superhuman effort and vigilance from all involved.

Frankly, I marvel at the army of midlife warrior women being everything to everyone, just soldiering on, so many of us awake at 4am grappling with anxious thoughts but still getting up and walking through the day.

We are ‘getting teenage done’ in the same way that Boris and his cronies aimed to ‘get Brexit done’, except the PM hasn’t the slightest inclination of how much harder mothering teenage girls can be than running the country.

Lorraine (pictured) said parenting newborns and toddlers can feel easier than parenting adolescents

Lorraine (pictured) said parenting newborns and toddlers can feel easier than parenting adolescents

Adapted by Louise Atkinson from Mum, What’s Wrong With You? 101 Things Only Mothers of Teenage Girls Know, by Lorraine Candy (£14.99, Fourth Estate), published on June 10, © Lorraine Candy 2021. To order a copy for £13.34 (offer valid to 4/6/21; UK P&P free on orders over £20), visit mailshop.co.uk/books or call 0203 308 9193.

4 arrested in takedown of dark web child abuse platform with some half a million users
4 arrested in takedown of dark web child abuse platform with some half a million users

Four have been arrested in a multi-agency operation sparked by a German investigation into one of Europe’s most prolific child sexual abuse platforms on the dark web.

These arrests were made in Germany (3) and Paraguay (1) earlier this month. The arrested individuals – all German nationals, had various roles in relation to the site seized. 

The dark web platform, known as Boystown, has been taken down by an international taskforce set up by the German Federal Criminal Police (Bundeskriminalamt) which included Europol and law enforcement agencies from the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, Canada and the United States. 

This site focused on the sexual abuse of children and had 400 000 registered users when it was taken down. Several other chat sites on the dark web used by child sexual offenders were also seized on the same occasion. 

The case illustrates what Europol is seeing in child sexual abuse offending: online child offender communities on the dark web exhibit considerable resilience in response to law enforcement actions targeting them. Their reactions include resurrecting old communities, establishing new communities, and making strong efforts to organise and administer them.

The image and video data seized during this investigation will be used for Victim Identification Taskforces organised on a regular basis at Europol. More arrests and rescues are to be expected globally as police worldwide examine the intelligence packages compiled by Europol.

The following authorities took part in this investigation:

  • Germany: Federal Criminal Police (Bundeskriminalamt)
  • The Netherlands: National Police (Politie)
  • Sweden: National Police (Polisen)
  • Australia: Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE), Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Queensland Police Service (QPS)
  • United States: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
  • Canada: Royal Canadian Mounted Police 
Teddy Jamieson: Do we need another Beatles book? Probably
Teddy Jamieson: Do we need another Beatles book? Probably

HOW many books have been written about the Beatles down the years? I reckon – and this is, fair warning, only the roughest of guesstimates – the answer must be somewhere in the region of “lots”. I might even go so far and suggest it’s “lots and lots”.

You want numbers? Well, hundreds at least. Maybe it stretches into the thousands now. I haven’t got time to count them. More than you could work your way through on a bank holiday weekend, that’s for sure. I mean, Mark Lewisohn’s The Beatles: All These Years alone is the best part of a 1,000 pages long. And it’s only the first volume of three.

Clearly, we can’t get enough of the Fab Four. And yet none of these books are from the horses’ (should that be insect’s?) mouths.

None of the Beatles has written a memoir. George Harrison published I Me Mine, a record of a conversation he had with the Beatles press officer Derek Taylor about his past and the inspirations behind his songs, in 1980. Ringo Starr has published a couple of photography books. And John Lennon? Well, he was killed before he could get around to it.

So, yesterday’s announcement that Paul McCartney (I can’t imagine he asks anyone to call him Sir Paul) is to publish a two-volume book – another 900 odd pages – this autumn may be the closest we’re going to get.

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But this is not a memoir either. The Lyrics tells the story of 154 of Macca’s songs, from his teens to his solo work, with a commentary on each based on conversations he’s had with the Irish poet Paul Muldoon.

It’s quite a coup for the publisher Allen Lane and it looks like it’s going to be a handsome book (at £75 it should be). The involvement of the Pulitzer and TS Eliot prize winner Muldoon should be a bonus and maybe his involvement will guide the book beyond McCartney’s (understandable) tendency to keep burnishing his own long-established, primarily matey take on the band he was once in. Time – November to be exact – will tell.

Given those hundreds (maybe thousands) of books already published do we need another book on The Beatles, you might ask? In this case, probably, given the source.

And it’s another thing to own, of course, another item to join the box sets, vinyl reissues and limited-edition hardbacks we baby boomers are so keen on.

We still love the idea of ownership, don’t we? Of having the physical object, even in this age of streaming.

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Maybe it’s just habit. But I wonder if it’s more than that. I wonder if those of us born between the 1950s and 1970s are using the formats we grew up with as a way to try to hold onto the past. To comfort ourselves that these things still matter and therefore so do we, as retirement and old age loom?

Still, we could do worse than take McCartney as a role model. He’ still going strong at 78. He’s even got a new book coming out. Had you heard?

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Dr. Seuss books shoot to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list
Dr. Seuss books shoot to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list

Books by Dr. Seuss have flooded Amazon’s U.S. bestseller list after it was announced that six of the author’s publications were being pulled over racist imagery.

“The Cat in the Hat” is currently the bestselling book on Amazon’s U.S. store, closely followed by “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish” and “Green Eggs and Ham,” along with several other titles by the late Theodor Seuss Geisel. In total, 15 Dr. Seuss publications were in Amazon’s top 20 list on Friday morning.

“Green Eggs and Ham” and “The Cat in the Hat” also appeared in Amazon Canada’s top 10 bestselling books list.

This comes after Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the business running the late author’s estate, said Tuesday it made the decision last year to cease publication and licensing of six of his books: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” “If I Ran the Zoo,” “McElligot’s Pool,” “On Beyond Zebra!,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!” and “The Cat’s Quizzer.”

“These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises said in the statement, with some of the author’s books having faced criticism in recent years over racist imagery.

The announcement came on Read Across America Day on Tuesday, which would have been Geisel’s 117th birthday and has been associated with the author.

President Joe Biden left any mention of Dr. Seuss out of his Read Across America Day proclamation on Monday. Former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama mentioned Dr. Seuss in their previous speeches.

After rumors of a ban on Dr. Seuss books, the school district of Loudoun County, Virginia, issued a statement last weekend to clarify that it hadn’t done so but had provided “guidance to schools during the past couple of years to not connect Read Across America Day exclusively with Dr. Seuss’ birthday.”

“Research in recent years has revealed strong racial undertones in many books written/illustrated by Dr. Seuss,” the statement said.

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The Lyrics of Syd Barrett - new bookJust published (last Thursday, February 18th) in Europe by Omnibus Books, is The Lyrics of Syd Barrett. In North America, you’ll have to wait a little bit as it comes out over there on May 6th.


Featuring 52 songs and a foreword by Pink Floyd’s first manager, Peter Jenner, and an introduction by Rob Chapman (author of Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head), this beautifully illustrated and official 96-page book compiles Syd’s extraordinary lyrics together for the very first time. David Gilmour has been a key person behind this book, working his way through Syd lyrics checking them for accuracy before the book went to the printers.


As the publisher’s rightly note, “legendary Pink Floyd founding member Syd Barrett’s songwriting was unique, memorable and utterly brilliant.” This book is sure to be a popular choice for many; Syd’s lyrics were captivating, sometimes playful, sometimes dark and painful, but always unforgettable. Alongside the lyrics are a number of photos and artwork.


Having just got our hands on this, we’ve been very impressed with it. It’s very nicely produced (and slightly larger format than we were expecting) and finally we have what must be considered the definitive version of Syd’s song lyrics – with David Gilmour listening to the isolated vocal track on the original tapes at times to nail exactly what Syd was singing at various points, specifically for this book, that should settle any arguments over the lyrics for these songs.


We’d love to know what you think about the book, particularly if you have your copy already. Did anything come as a surprise to you? Do let us know at the normal email address!


For those who would like to add this to their Floydian bookshelves, you can order it through the following direct links. Ordering through our links also helps with BD’s ongoing running costs, and we really appreciate it:
Amazon UK, Amazon.com, Amazon Canada,
Amazon France, Amazon Germany, Amazon Spain and Amazon Italy. Alternatively, London based TheFloodGallery.com are also selling the book, and they were doing a book and print bundle, although these now seem to be sold out.

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                 -                                                                          Belgium                                                                                            






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                 -                                                                         Freiburg im Breisgau,                                                                                             












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In new book documenting Yup’ik culture, elders share teachings about the more-than-human world
In new book documenting Yup’ik culture, elders share teachings about the more-than-human world

“Nunakun-gguq Ciutengqertut, They Say They Have Ears Through the Ground: Animal Essays from Southwest Alaska”

By Ann Fienup-Riordan with Alice Rearden, Marie Meade, David Chanar, Rebecca Nayamin and Corey Joseph. University of Alaska Press, 2020. 382 pages. $39.95.

’Nunakun-gguq Ciutengqertut, They Say They Have Ears Through the Ground: Animal Essays from Southwest Alaska”

The essays or articles in this book are the result of regional gatherings and discussions with Yup’ik elders from Southwest Alaska to document human and animal relations within their shared environment. Anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan, who has spent decades working with elders to compile Yup’ik history and oral traditions, has acted as scribe to record knowledge the elders wish to pass down to their descendants and to others who may learn from it. The texts are not meant to be “facts.” Rather, they reflect conversations about relationships — conversations through which the world as known to participants is allowed to unfold.

“They say they have ears through the ground” expresses the Yup’ik belief that all animals (and indeed other more-than-human entities) have minds and are responsive to thoughts, words and deeds. Animals know what people are thinking and saying, and they reciprocate their treatment. Treat them with respect, and you will be rewarded. Be wasteful, brag or otherwise show disrespect, and animals will withhold themselves.

As Fienup-Riordan observes in her introduction, Southwest Alaska was late to be colonized compared to the rest of Alaska, and the region has retained social patterns and traditional knowledge that has been largely lost elsewhere. The building blocks of Yup’ik education, still, are “qanruyutet,” rules for right living. These exist as sayings and adages and are embedded into teaching stories.

The material compiled here includes creation and traditional stories passed down for generations, stories shared by the elders’ parents and grandparents, and the experiences and knowledge of the elders themselves. Fienup-Riordan has organized all this into three parts. The first, which she has called “Thinking on the Page,” draws together the words from gatherings with other references to better understand and express what she had learned. Chapters in the second part bring together stories about particular animal groups — king salmon, “big animals” (moose and bear), sea mammals and birds. The third section, centered on a town hall meeting in Toksook Bay in 2006, shows how community members respected and employed traditions to work with the Alaska Department of Transportation to reach an agreement about the routing of a road.

The decline of king salmon on the Yukon River is much discussed in the first chapter, which draws upon the history of communities on the lower river and the changes in fishing and fish runs over time. It’s telling that the word “neqa” means both fish and food. Elders stressed that the availability of fish (and food generally) depends on the care given to it. Many traditional practices, such as taking only what you need and not wasting, assure reciprocity. As Fienup-Riordan concludes, in the Yup’ik view, crashes in animal populations are not biological processes that can be separated from social relations but are essentially driven by morality. Fisheries management based on western science and calculations does not address the problem of right relationship that is so fundamental to Yup’ik understandings.

King salmon are again discussed in chapter six, which collects knowledge from a gathering of elders. These elders contribute a deep and nuanced understanding of the lives of salmon, various stocks, run timings, methods of fishing, methods of preparation and preservation, history of use, cultural practices including honoring the first salmon of the season, and the role of salmon in village life and economies. With fishing closures and the abandonment of fish camps, the elders worry that the teaching and learning about salmon (and other matters) has been declining along with the salmon themselves.

Chapters devoted to marine mammals, bears and moose and birds are equally packed with intimate knowledge of animal behavior, accompanied by many personal stories of hunting and otherwise knowing the environment. The elders share how Raven and Pacific Loon came together to paint one another’s feathers, why spotted seals are smarter than the other species of seals and how geese taste in different seasons. The ocean itself is presented as a living being, as sensitive as sea mammals to a person’s attitudes and actions. Traveling on the ocean requires not only close attention and intimate knowledge of currents, wind and ice conditions, but speaking respectfully of it and obeying certain codes of conduct.

Although climate change was not a central subject for any of the conversations, the elders were well aware of environmental change and spoke of ice thinning and retreating, moose and beaver moving into the area, and changes to vegetation and in the arrival and departure times of birds. They mention repeatedly that change is a constant, through history and in their lives. They recall their own elders telling them that the region used to be much warmer.

The elders who participated in sharing some of the wealth of their knowledge did so with the hope that their experience — including what they’d been taught as young people — could help guide the youth of today. One who asked if their words would appear in a book said, “I am asking because many in our village no longer have people to instruct them. Truly, if you put these into books and they are read by those who wish to read them, how great that would be!”

Great it is that Fienup-Riordan and her collaborators, with the support of the Calista Education and Culture organization, have brought together what amount to encyclopedias of Yup’ik knowledge, for the benefit of younger generations and the world at large. The value of what can be learned from and about the more-than-human world, especially in a time of change, is matched by lessons in how we all might live more responsibly.

Censor sensibility: The books you can’t read in New Zealand, and why
Censor sensibility: The books you can’t read in New Zealand, and why

If you have grand plans of lying back on the beach and relaxing with a copy of The Great Big Narcotics Cookbook this summer, bad news: You won’t be finding it at your local library or bookshop.

It’s one of the nearly 1300 books that are either banned or restricted by New Zealand’s Office of Film and Literature Classification.

On the list you’ll find a fair stack of books along the lines of Virgins in the Hayloft, Spanking Illustrated volume two (but interestingly not volume one), or the very subtly-named Doing It. Many bannings are vestiges of the 1960s and 70s when books were held to different moral standards.

These days books are rarely blacklisted, except if they’re considered to promote either extreme violence or certain sexual acts involving coercion, exploitation of children, bestiality, necrophilia, use of urine, or use of excrement.

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Some newer books and writings on the list are the Secrets Of Methamphetamine Manufacture 8th Edition and the Christchurch terrorist’s manifesto, which New Zealand’s chief censor David Shanks described as a “quite disturbing and destructive piece of writing”.

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Ted Dawe’s book Into the River was left out in the cold in 2013 when a review panel slapped an R-14 restriction on it.

These are books which Shanks and his team of 20 at the Office of Film and Literature Classification believe can cause harm to society.

“What we do can be likened to an asbestos removal crew,” Shanks said.

“We’re dealing with inherently harmful and toxic material, and we have to take that seriously and take all due precautions.

“The reality is that with some of this material once you’re exposed to some of it, you’re never going to forget it and it will have an impact.”

Shanks has the power to classify any publication. That means anything containing text, images, audio, video – analogue or digital.

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Chief Censor David Shanks says his job exacts a toll on him and his staff at the OFLC.

It’s an incredibly broad brush that has allowed predecessors to censor everything from soda cans to camper vans.

Among the publications banned in 2019 was a video game which put the player in the role of the Christchurch terrorist.

While banning books might seem antiquated to some, Shanks believes it has a place in New Zealand.

“When we look at a book we’re not just thinking about the classification of that book, we’re thinking about what it represents as a category and what it represents as a potential harm and in some cases a potential benefit and looking to balance that,” Shanks says.

Yet just because books end up on the list, doesn’t mean they’re there forever. After three years, a book can be re-submitted for review. Some pass the test, others don’t.

Books that have been removed from the list or reclassified include Jackie Collins’ best-seller The World is Full of Married Men. The ban here and in Australia even helped boost sales in the United States and the United Kingdom back in the late 1960s.

Into the abyss

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‘Into the River’ is a coming of age story set at an Auckland boarding school.

New Zealand author Ted Dawe felt the power of censorship when in 2013, his book Into the River was hit with an R-14 rating by the New Zealand Film and Literature Board of Review.

Dawe said he wasn’t too worried as Fifty Shades of Grey had made it past the censor without any redactions, and “the only places which ban books are banana republics”.

But the book – a coming of age story about a young boy who goes to boarding school and encounters intimacy, sex, drugs, racism and death – ended up being restricted to those 14 and over.

Because of that it was pulled from the shelves of libraries across the country, which Dawe said meant the book “effectively vanished”.

Prior to that it had won both the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year prize and the top gong in the Young Adult category at New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards, and was selling well.

“It wasn’t fair, because any kid who wanted to borrow it had to bring proof of age to the library, and [the book] would be brought up from the stacks or from under the counter – presumably in a brown envelope – and that didn’t do much for the book,” Dawe said.

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The popular erotic novel ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ was not restricted in New Zealand.

“It basically went from a very popular, very well-borrowed and well-sold book, to a book that was going nowhere.”

But the censorship didn’t sit well with librarians. Auckland Libraries appealed the decision and – after a public outcry – the age restriction was overturned.

During the proceedings the book was completely prohibited for six weeks while the panel came to a decision.

That meant it was a crime to supply, display, or distribute the book in any way.

Individuals and organisations who knowingly supplied the book were liable to fines of up to $3000 and $10,000 respectively.

“The censorship law worked very well up to the point they convened the appeal board. Any little board of five people, if it’s got strong-minded people with a barrow to push, the decisions may be skewed.

“The censor [who made the initial decision to leave the book unrestricted] was a very well-read woman and was able to put it into context of other books in the genre and other banned books.

“But these amateurs who were drafted in to be a panel of five fair-minded people seemed as though it would be a good idea, but I don’t think it worked too well.”

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Just under 1300 books are currently banned or restricted in New Zealand. (File photo)

Delivered to your door

Surprisingly also reclassified – albeit with heavy restrictions – was 1993’s literary classic Bazooka: How to build your own.

The book is banned for all those who don’t hold a firearms or dealers licence, but it’s still easily purchased from Amazon where the description reads: “If you get a bang out of the flash and thud of an explosion and are intrigued by soft munitions, propellants and weapons, why not build your own bazooka?

“Anthony Lewis takes you through the process, from constructing the cartridge, barrel, grip and sights to mixing the propellant and igniter to assembling, loading and test-firing.”

Not to worry though, at the bottom it reassures us it’s “for information purposes only”.

It’s this internet loophole that has really thrown a spanner in the works for Shanks and his counterparts around the world.

Anyone can log on to a book delivery website located in a country where a book isn’t banned, order the offending tome, and have it delivered to their doorstep.

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‘Bazooka: How to Build Your Own’ is available to purchase on Amazon.

When Shanks’ powers were enshrined in the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993, the internet was in its infancy, not the sprawling content machine it is today.

“When you live in a world where about 500 hours of content is going up on YouTube every minute you instantly realise having a traditional classification approach of having someone sit and digest that fire hose of content is never remotely going to work,” Shanks said.

“You need to think about new ways, new models to adapt to this digital reality.”

In Sweden, the Media Council has developed modules for school children to help them identify propaganda and misinformation.

And with the internet too big to be reined in, Shanks believes education is the best way forward.

“The way I look at it, we’ve got an opportunity,” he said.

“We’ve got some deep insights into where the boundaries could and should be. And we’ve got an opportunity to engage with industry, the public and increasingly young people to conduct research.

“We’re trying to figure out where the harms are and how to mitigate them in ways other than simply banning or restriction.”

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Harry Potter author J K Rowling has garnered controversy for her views on transgender women.

The court of public opinion

Shanks isn’t the only one with power – there are plenty of people who are making their thoughts on certain authors clear.

In the case of Wellington bookshop Good Books, owners Catherine Robertson and Jane Arthur have chosen not to stock certain books whose authors’ views don’t align with their values.

An author in her own right, Robertson made the decision to leave books by the likes of J K Rowling – who has controversial views on transgender women – off the shelves at her store.

She said while it might cost her money in sales, it was worth it to create an inclusive space for patrons.

“As a small business one of the first things you have to do, I believe, is to figure out what your values are: how you’re going to treat your employees and your customers,” she said.

“I think the line for us is very clear. The line is where people are using their public platforms to promulgate misinformation, bigotry or hate speech.”

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Paula Morris is an award-winning fiction writer and teaches creative writing at the University of Auckland.

Robertson said, so far, they have had far more positive feedback than negative.

While admired by some, it’s an approach that worries author Paula Morris. She said that while she “greatly respects” Robertson as an author, censoring books is a slippery slope.

“I think it’s quite bizarre,” Morris said. “I am not a fan, I have to tell you, because I think so many writers and their personal lives cannot bear much scrutiny – so many writers have done objectionable things.

She gave the example of Charles Dickens, who was notably awful to his wife – at one point trying to get her committed to an insane asylum, so he could be with a younger woman.

Excluding authors from bookshops is the small-scale version of what’s happening online, where cancel-culture has become a form of censorship, Morris said.

“It’s not really the way the world can work to just say this person is despicable for whatever reason and to be tried in the court of public opinion.”