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Trouble in Store by Douglas Morrison
With Brighton the sparehead of english eco-politics, having elected the first Westminster green MP, it is fitting that a brilliant site-specific, multi-media show carries on the fight, linking shopping and messing up the planet. So this is the way the......more
Surviving a Kidnapping in Chechnya
In 1997, Camilla Carr and Jonathan James were kidnapped and held for fourteen months in Chechnya. Speaking neither Russian nor Chechen, armed with good intentions and a car full of toys, the two Britons had volunteered to help traumatised children......more
Stalin's children
I have read many sagas of Russian families, but Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love and War by Owen Matthews has facets that make it poignant. It is both tragedy and love story by a distinguished chronicler of the East.......more
The Lost Boys
Somali born journalist Rageh Omaar and director Paul Sapin made Lost Boys, a 27- minute documentary, in four days. The film explores Somali youth inter-gang violence in London. The murder of 18-year-old Mahir Osman in January 2008 by a Somali......more
A Palestinian journey
Anyone familiar with the Middle East knows that Ashdod is Israel's biggest port, nearly a quarter of a million people some 40 miles north of the Gaza Strip. What he or she will be less likely to know---and it is......more
Trouble in Store by Douglas Morrison
by pranvera.smith2@frontlineclub.com on 30 Jun 2010With Brighton the sparehead of english eco-politics, having elected the first Westminster green MP, it...more