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News round-up: Chilcot, Blair and Brangelina

Another picture in the frame this week. News of Gordon Brown and his offer to loan Barack Obama the painting that inspired Barry in his youth — Hope by Victorian English artist George Frederic Watts. It would have hung in the Oval Office except it’s indelibly associated with preacher Jeremiah Wright, the man who introduced …

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News round-up: Chilcot, Blair and Brangelina

Another picture in the frame this week. News of Gordon Brown and his offer to loan Barack Obama the painting that inspired Barry in his youth — Hope by Victorian English artist George Frederic Watts. It would have hung in the Oval Office except it’s indelibly associated with preacher Jeremiah Wright, the man who introduced …

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Gordon Brown signs Briton’s death warrant in China

Being implacably opposed to the death penalty, I hope that China will put to one side the dishonest, unprincipled, British government and media dissembling over Copenhagen and show mercy to Akmal Shaikh, the British man caught smuggling four kilograms of heroin. It now appears he was mentally ill and deserving of clemency. In the face …

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Gordon Brown signs Briton’s death warrant in China

Being implacably opposed to the death penalty, I hope that China will put to one side the dishonest, unprincipled, British government and media dissembling over Copenhagen and show mercy to Akmal Shaikh, the British man caught smuggling four kilograms of heroin. It now appears he was mentally ill and deserving of clemency. In the face …

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Iraq war inquiry into Bomber Blair’s role begins

Remember “Yo, Blair!”? I was going to bring you video footage of a graphic novel launch on Sunday at the ICA where German comics star Reinhard Kleist brought out his first English language book, Johnny Cash: I See A Darkness, but battles with my new Final Cut Express 4 and a stupid new iMovie version …

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Iraq war inquiry into Bomber Blair’s role begins

Remember “Yo, Blair!”? I was going to bring you video footage of a graphic novel launch on Sunday at the ICA where German comics star Reinhard Kleist brought out his first English language book, Johnny Cash: I See A Darkness, but battles with my new Final Cut Express 4 and a stupid new iMovie version …

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