GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Zero Units and extrajudicial executions
Kill or Capture: Inside the CIA’s Secret Afghan Army
Joe Glenton (left) interviewing the families of those killed by the Zero Units
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
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Having served in Kandahar with the British army in 2006 before going Awol and refusing to fight in the war, Glenton returns to Afghanistan to try to uncover the truth about shadowy death squads operating in the country.
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