David Horovitch in Seven Jewish Children You can watch a video extract of Seven Jewish Children, the Caryl Churchill play about Gaza, that’s causing an uproar. It has now played in Hebrew in Tel Aviv, while the BBC has “declined to commission” a radio production of it. Guardian’s Michael Billington gives it four stars Analysing […]
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Twenty years and the best part of a couple of weeks ago I was praising the Chinese government to the skies. There was a prolonged demonstration in Tiananmen Square which coincided with a visit from Gorbachev and the government was patiently sitting it out. “You see,” I enthused to friends with the four students shot
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He may have done Bruce Lee out of his coveted role as Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s series, Kung Fu, and looked damn stoopid in yellowface, but actor David Carradine still gave lots of pleasure once you got past the adhesive tape. Now the man who played the psycho Bill, boss of the Deadly
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In my latest New Internationalist column, Who’s Left (May 2009), I wonder why the far-left has been so useless in putting forward the socialist argument when capitalism has been caught eating itself so spectacularly. I watched stunned while over ten years the dominant strand within the Marxist left did over other leftists whenever a wave
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Pity the poor Dalai Lama. For twenty years his followers have been grooming his chosen reincarnation of a spiritual leader and treating him like a god ever since they found him as a three-year old in Granada. And what does the little ingrate go and do? He discovers girls ‘n’ football and now won’t sport
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