Three Revolutions by Simon Hall review – how Russia, China and Cuba changed forever A historian explores eyewitness accounts of the most dramatic political unpheavals of the 20th century The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2025
Geoffrey Rush on Pirates, Pinter and pugs: ‘Just be happy we evolved on this bit of rock’ The Oscar winner answers your questions about playing everyone from Peter Sellers to the Marquis de Sade, his home town of Toowoomba and new care-home horror The Rule of Jenny Pen The Guardian - UK · Mar 27, 2025
Forget Stalin and Trotsky, Animal Farm is a play for our times. Pringles anyone? George Orwell’s publishers thought his parable was too specific. They needn’t have worried, 80 years on it’s as salient as ever The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2025
Revealed: The spycops who snooped on anti-nuclear protests in Scotland AT least nine officers from London’s secret undercover policing unit, known as spycops, aided the infiltration and surveillance of anti-nuclear… The National (Scotland) · Aug 11, 2024
Trevor Griffiths obituary Politically committed dramatist and screenwriter admired for his radical stage and television work created over the last 50 years The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2024
Remembering Lenin—the First Great Communist Mass Murderer On the 100th anniversary of his death, it's worth recalling that almost all the worst features of communist totalitarianism began under Lenin, not Stalin and other successors. Reason · Jan 21, 2024
Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service – review This work of a lifetime presents high-octane, high-politcal drama – and attempts to rehabilitate the ‘bourgeois’ provisional government that preceded the Bolsheviks The Guardian - UK · Dec 13, 2023
‘Absolutely shameless’: Ken Loach says BBC helped ‘destroy’ Jeremy Corbyn Director says media has ‘rewritten history’ to expunge ex-Labour leader and attacks Starmer regime for ‘manipulating the rules’ The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2022
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor review – butchery of the Bolsheviks Personal testimonies humanise the Stalingrad author’s mesmerising study of the bloody battle for power after the collapse of the tsarist regime The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2022