RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
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IAN SINCLAIR recommends a documentary that assembles a mass of information on the background of the Manchester Arena bombing and Britain's duplicitous politics of the time
COUGHT IN THE ACT: Salman Abedi, carrying the bomb in a rucksack, as seen by a CCTV camera in the lift of the Manchester Arena
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
Blowback: The Road to Manchester
Directed by Mark Curtis and Phil Miller
(Declassified UK)
NOTING “the traditional media have never covered British foreign policy accurately,” Mark Curtis has explained he co-founded Declassified UK with Matt Kennard to “provide public service journalism … to inform the British public what is being done in their name.”
Since it was set up in 2019, the investigative news website’s three staff journalists have arguably published more critical reporting of UK foreign affairs than the rest of the British media combined. And somewhat fittingly, with the admirable exception of the Morning Star, the British media have all but ignored Declassified UK’s output.
For example, while the 2011 UK-Nato intervention in Libya has been largely forgotten by the British commentariat, Declassified UK has repeatedly exposed Britain’s nefarious interference in the North African nation.
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