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Letter: Benjamin Zephaniah obituary by Nicolas Kent

I first met Benjamin Zephaniah in Northern Ireland at the Bloody Sunday inquiry hearings. He was poet in residence in Michael Mansfield's chambers. It was an appointment he relished, and he …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PM[SHARE]

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

How The Great Game emptied the Pentagon by Nicolas Kent

At the height of the turmoil in Egypt, 1,200 Pentagon staff went off to the theatre for a day. Director Nicolas Kent relives how he seduced the US militaryThree years ago, as yet another scr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:29PM[SHARE]

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