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Prequel to 9/11
The Looming Tower is a prequel if you like to the devastating attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 9/11 which took the lives of thousands of Americans and visitors. It’s drama but it’s true. A number of things about it make or ought to make it uncomfortable...
An Icon of Resistance
Interviewing Ahed Tamimi for my television show Sputnik on RT yesterday it was frankly difficult to believe she is only 18 years old. She is the most famous teenager in the world - because the world is the whole world and not just our tiny corner of it - and was...
Sweat and Tears from the Rust Belt
Anyone who wants to know how and why Donald Trump got elected as president of the United States could do no better than catch the current West End play in London's Gielgud Theatre. Pulitzer Prize winner for Dram "Sweat" by Lynn Nottage is set in a rust-belt bar in...