Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Robin Ramsay

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27 May

"Today the UK government continues to sponsor films, videos, YouTube clips, etc, and the state now faces the challenge of social media's power to radicalise and misinform."

Simon Matthews reviews Scott Anthony's 'The Story of British Propaganda Film'

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27 May

"Some chapters consist of first-hand accounts by women who were confined to the 'sleep room'. It's unfathomable that this 'treatment' was allowed to continue for so long"

Anthony Frewin, on Jon Stock's 'The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal'

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27 May

"It's taken 48 years and two generations of Sunday Times reporters to get near to finding out who ordered the killing of David Holden, their chief foreign correspondent."

Andrew Rosthorn reviews " Murder in Cairo" by Peter Gillman and Emanuele Midolo

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27 May

"What is most interesting about this memoir is how little it tells us about post-1945 British counterinsurgency tactics and strategy. This can only be deliberate."

John Newsinger reviews 'Intelligent Warfare: The memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson'

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