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Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich - Going To Extremes: Notes From a Divided Nation

(4 stars)17 Jul 2008

POLITICAL NON-FICTION (Granta) Although any balanced reader might browse the political essays and features of left-wing American commentator Barbara Ehrenreich and get a vague sense of agitprop being deployed, perhaps that’s just the author’s bold…

Bibi van der Zee - Rebel Rebel

Bibi van der Zee - Rebel Rebel

(3 stars)31 Jul 2008

CAMPAIGNER BIBLE (Guardian Books) ‘Write to your MP!’ used to be the battle cry of every outraged rebel with a cause, whether that was to prevent the destruction of some local beauty spot by developers, conquering smut on the telly or campaigning to…

Yasser

Yasser

Provocative character study with political overtones

31 Jul 2008

‘This is a play which is political, without becoming partisan political,’ says director Teunkie van der Sluijs. ‘It was written just before 9/11, so it doesn’t have that lamenting post-9/11 outlook that now occurs in all forms of writing which deal with…

Crap at the Environment

Mark Watson - Crap at the Environment

(4 stars)5 Jun 2008

POLITICAL COMEDY (Hodder & Stoughton) When reducing your carbon footprint, the first thing to do is admit that you’re crap at the environment. This is according to stand-up comedian, writer, TV personality and one-man iceberg melter Mark Watson, who…

John Pilger - Documentaries That Changed the World

John Pilger - Documentaries That Changed the World

(4 stars)2 Oct 2006

POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY It’s hard not to feel ambivalence towards anyone who insists on partisanship. John Pilger is a case in point. A genuinely crusading print and TV journalist, Pilger has been fighting for the rights of the poor, the put-upon and…

Peace chain around Faslane

5 Jun 2008

The Scottish CND are organising a chain of people and banners along the fence at Faslane submarine base in peaceful protest against the UK Government’s plan to build a new nuclear weapon system, which is opposed by the Scottish Parliament. Faslane…

Defence of The Realm

Defence of The Realm

(4 stars)14 Feb 2008

POLITICAL THRILLER (PG) 96min (Network DVD rental/retail) Not much has changed in the 24 years since this grim-faced, pessimistic and remorseless British thriller was released, save the end of the Cold War. In it, a reporter on a sleazy right wing…

An Inconvenient Truth

Al Gore (Bloomsbury)

(3 stars)4 Sep 2006

It would have been so easy for Al Gore to have become a horribly embittered individual after being cheated out of the US presidency in 2000. No one would have faulted him for spending the rest of his life sticking pins into effigies of Florida governor…

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