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Znet Article Sinclair: Occupation and resistance: Haifa Zangana interview

Znet Article, March, 14 2008 Ian Sinclair
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While many of those people who opposed the 2003 US-British invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq have often been disingenuously smeared as apologists for Saddam Hussein, this certainly can not be said about the Iraqi novelist Haifa Zangana.

Znet Article Sinclair: Lap Dancing: Liz Kelly interview

Znet Article, February, 23 2008 Ian Sinclair
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With customers ranging from groups of young men out on the lash, corporate bank office parties, celebrities such as Sophie Dahl and Robbie Williams and even supposedly ‘liberated’ women, lap dancing clubs have become a staple of British nightlife.

Znet Article Sinclair: Ani DiFranco

Znet Article, December, 12 2007 Ian Sinclair
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IT'S the one of the great 'unmentionables' of music journalism - with a few exceptions, most musicians, presumably because they spend their lives perfecting their music and image, actually have very little to say about politics and the wider world.

Znet Article Sinclair: Violence Against Women

Znet Article, December, 12 2007 Ian Sinclair
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Feminism is finished. Kaput. Outdated. Irrelevant. Didn’t you get the memo?

Znet Article Sinclair: The Fairford Five: Margaret Jones interview

Znet Article, August, 20 2007 Ian Sinclair
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"We are always shy about recognizing the historic worth of events when they take place before our eyes, about recognizing heroes when they are still flesh and blood and not yet transfixed in marble." US historian Howard Zinn had black civil right...

Znet Article Sinclair: Helmand: The Soldiers' Story

Znet Article, August, 18 2007 Ian Sinclair
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While the majority of exhibitions at military museums date back to World War II and before, Helmand: The Soldiers' Story may be the first to actually record an ongoing deployment.

Znet Article Sinclair: Leon Rosselson Interview

Znet Article, August, 16 2007 Ian Sinclair
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Throughout his 50-year musical career Leon Rosselson has been lauded by critics as one of England's most talented songwriters. "His songs are fierce, funny, outraged, blasphemous, challenging and anarchic", the Guardian has raved; "Some of the mo...

Znet Article Sinclair: Send in the clowns: An interview with Jo Wilding

Znet Article, June, 16 2007 Ian Sinclair
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Barrister, mother, clown, activist, blogger, documentary film star, human rights observer, ambulance attendant - 32-year old Jo Wilding has quite a CV.  She also has glowing references.  Hans von S...

Znet Article Sinclair: The Two Nations

Znet Article, May, 22 2007 Ian Sinclair
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Recently, taking advantage of the summer weather, I spent a lazy Sunday on Hampstead Heath. As I made the short walk from my home in Archway to the park it became increasingly clear to me there was defacto segregation in effect in north London; t...

Znet Article Sinclair: TV-turnoff week

Znet Article, April, 20 2007 Ian Sinclair
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As the novelist David Foster Wallace wrote, television currently has us "by the throat"...

Znet Article Sinclair: INTERVIEW: Days of Glory director Rachid Bouchareb

Znet Article, April, 18 2007 Ian Sinclair
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DIRECTOR Rachid Bouchareb's critically acclaimed film Days of Glory is...

Znet Article Sinclair: At the coalface in Iraq: Steven McClaughlin interview

Znet Article, March, 17 2007 Ian Sinclair
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In all the thousands of words that have been written about the invasion and occupation of Iraq surprisingly few have explored the opin...

Znet Article Sinclair: Weight watchers

Znet Article, January, 19 2007 Ian Sinclair
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Another year, another issue of Heat magazine obsessing about the weight of female celebrities. "January means dieting, so take a tip from the stars", exclaims Heat. First up is 37-year old Catherine Zeta Jones weighing in at a huge 10 stone, who...

Znet Article Sinclair: Maya Evans interview

Znet Article, December, 29 2006 Ian Sinclair
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When I meet Maya Evans to interview her about her new book, it strikes me this cheerful, 26 year old woman does not seem to be much of a threat to our national security. ...

Znet Article Sinclair: Interview: Mark Kurlansky

Znet Article, December, 12 2006 Ian Sinclair
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What, I wonder, inspired Mark Kurlansky, the author of a diverse range of books such as Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World and The Basque History of the World, to write Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea?

Znet Article Sinclair: The BBC: Liberal sacred cow no. 1

Znet Article, November, 21 2006 Ian Sinclair
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In contemporary Britain the ideology of liberal democracy reigns supreme. This encompasses many liberal myths such as a basic belief in the neutrality of the state, in the benign nature of government and a pluralistic view of the distribution of ...

Znet Article Sinclair: Media Lens interview

Znet Article, November, 17 2006 Ian Sinclair
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In 2001 David Cromwell and David Edwards set up the internet-based media watchdog Media Lens, having become increasingly frustrated by the "unwillingness, or inability, of the mainstream media to tell the truth about the real causes and extent of ...

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