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New in Ceasefire - Friday, October 26, 2018 11:01 - 0 Comments
Comment | ‘He could not breathe’: Remembering Jimmy Mubenga, eight years on
In October 2010, Jimmy Mubenga, a 46-year-old father of five, died on a British Airways plane at Heathrow after being restrained violently by G4S guards. Eight years on, his death continues to speak volumes about structural injustice, institutional racism, and state and corporate impunity.
New in Ceasefire - Thursday, October 25, 2018 17:48 - 0 Comments
Theatre | Review | The Shroud Maker: Lives and death in Palestine
In the Shroud Maker, Palestinian playwright Ahmed Masoud brings a welcome dose of gallows humour to the most tragic of canvasses, writes Christa Blackmon.
New in Ceasefire - Saturday, October 20, 2018 0:00 - 0 Comments
Comment | After Khashoggi: This toxic UK-Saudi relationship cannot continue
For decades, successive UK governments have fuelled, armed and enabled a terrible regime to continue its authoritarian rule over Saudi Arabia. It shouldn't take the disappearance and death of a journalist for UK politicians to realise this must end, writes Andrew Smith.
New in Ceasefire - Friday, October 19, 2018 17:29 - 0 Comments
Comment | The Abdi Ali tragedy shows Britain is still failing its black men and boys
Two months ago, Abdi Ali, a 17-year-old Londoner, was found murdered a few miles from his home. He had been missing for eight months. Ahead of a fundraiser in his memory tomorrow, Sam Asumadu asks why his story has received so little attention or coverage.
New in Ceasefire - Friday, October 5, 2018 12:04 - 0 Comments
Analysis | The far right is no longer a marginal force in British politics
The ideological flirtation of establishment figures, from Michael Gove to Boris Johnson, with the far right is a sign the latter is no longer a marginal force in British politics, argues Paul Stocker, author of 'English Uprising'.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, September 18, 2018 15:55 - 0 Comments
Comment | The Bahraini authorities are slowly killing my father. Why is Theresa May helping them?
I have been on a hunger strike for almost two months to save my father's life and shed light on the suffering of all those who, like him, are paying the price for believing in democratic values in Bahrain, writes Ali Mushaima.
Features, Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Monday, August 27, 2018 22:55 - 0 Comments
Interview | Elsa Lefort: “The fate of my husband, Salah Hamouri, does not matter to our leaders”
A year ago this week, Salah Hamouri, a well-known French-Palestinian human rights activist was arrested in a pre-dawn raid by Israeli soldiers at his home in occupied East Jerusalem. He has been in indefinite detention ever since. Sawsan Bastawy speaks to his wife, Elsa Lefort, about her anger at the French government's indifference and her steadfast optimism for the future.
Arts & Culture, New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Sunday, August 26, 2018 12:59 - 0 Comments
Theatre | Review | Translations (National Theatre)
The recent National Theatre production of Brian Friel's 'Translations' is a remarkable take on the central — and perennially relevant — questions of place, belonging and dislocation, argues Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya in her review.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, August 14, 2018 8:31 - 0 Comments
Comment | How much more suffering must Yemenis take before the UK ends its arms sales?
If the bombing of a school bus full of Yemeni children isn’t enough to stop UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia, then what more would it take? Asks Andrew Smith of Campaign Against Arms Trade.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, August 7, 2018 0:00 - 0 Comments
Books | Nincompoopolis: The Follies of Boris Johnson
Doug Murphy’s Nincompoopopolis is a suitably and rewardingly vicious, neat précis of the political and architectural legacies of Johnson in his time in power in London, argues Alex Baker.
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