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Stuff Happens: David Hare's history play seems even more incisive after Chilcot by Lyn Gardner

Hare's condemnatory 2004 drama feels positively Shakespearean in its account of the tragic consequences of our leaders' personal ambitionsA few hours before the publication of the Chilcot report yesterday, I heard an Iraqi man talking on the radio. He was one of the many who had cheered the fall of Saddam Hussein. Now, 13 years on, he looked back on pre-invasion Iraq with nostalgia. For him and his family, life under…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AM on July 7, 2016

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