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Hugh Barnes

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Hugh Barnes is a war reporter and author of three books (Special Effects, Gannibal and Understanding Iran) and editor of green-socialist.com

Articles By Hugh Barnes

Angela Leighton: Something, I Forget review - the art of letting go

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Dance First - the travails of Samuel Beckett

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Powell and Pressburger: Battleships and Byron

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Our River... Our Sky review - another people's war

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Powell and Pressburger's 'The Red Shoes' - art and nothing but

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20 Days in Mariupol review - carnage in a dying Ukrainian city

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Strange Way of Life review - Pedro Almodóvar's queer Western

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Side By Side Ukrainian Film Festival, Curzon Soho - cameras of courage and resistance

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Mercy Falls review - horror in the Highlands

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The Red Shoes: Next Step review - teen dancer's crisis

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Lie With Me review - a bittersweet enchantment

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Masha Karp: George Orwell and Russia review - dystopia's reality

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A Kind of Kidnapping review - claustrophobic class-division satire

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Andrey Kurkov: Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv review - a city speaks its multitudes

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The Blue Caftan review - unstitching repression in Morocco

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Harka review - when hope is a desert

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Now 45 years in the past, its dazzling star gone a decade or so, The Long Good Friday is a monument of British cinema....

Bookish, U&Alibi review - sleuthing and skulduggery in a...

As a sometime writer of Poirot, Sherlock and Christmas ghost stories,...

Album: Spafford Campbell - Tomorrow Held

Guitarist Louis Campbell and fiddle player Owen Spafford started playing together as teenagers in the National Youth Folk Ensemble when Sam...

The Estate, National Theatre review - hugely entertaining, b...

The first rule for brown people, says the main character – played by BAFTA-winner Adeel Akhtar – in this highly entertaining dramedy, is not to...

Music Reissues Weekly: Mike Taylor - Pendulum, Trio

Wheels of Fire was Cream’s third album. Issued in the US in June 1968 and in the UK two months later, it was a double LP. One record was...

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire review - a mysterious silence

A glamorous black woman sits in a Forties bar under a Vichy cop’s gaze, cigarette tilted at an angle, till two male companions join her in...

Youssou N'Dour and Super Étoile de Dakar, Roundhouse re...

There is a freshness about a show by Youssou N’Dour that never seems to lose its glow. He still has one of the great voices of Africa, a versatile...

BBC Proms: First Night, Batiashvili, BBCSO, Oramo review - g...

The auditorium and arena were packed – and the stage even more so, bursting at the seams with players and singers: the perfect set-up for a First...