In October 2000 most of the children invited by Dr. Emma Williams to her son Archie’s seventh birthday party failed…
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Review of Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War Two by Ben Macintyre Bloomsbury,…
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Noam Chomsky’s new book, Hopes and Prospects, leads me to a conclusion that will startle his admirers and critics alike:…
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It’s Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street A Jerusalem Memoir. By Emma Williams. Foreword by Brian…
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Review of England’s Last War against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-42 by Colin Smith Weidenfeld, 490 pp, £25.00, July 2009, ISBN…
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* 1948: A Soldier’s Tale, the Bloody Road to Jerusalem by Uri Avnery, translated by Christopher Costello * Israel’s Vicious…
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“The war between George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden defeated both of its protagonists,” says Gilles Kepel in his…
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Wilton’s Music Hall 11 Dec – 10 Jan 2009 The Royal Shakespeare Company’s felicitous selection of Wilton’s Music Hall in…
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The Richmond Theatre 30 April – 5 May 2007 Following Aida’s premier in Cairo in December 1871, Verdi wrote, “This…
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Review of Killing Mr Lebanon: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri And Its Impact On The Middle East by Nicholas Blandford…
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