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ICA’s Independents Day Festival

May 24th, 2013

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The Independent Alliance and the ICA announce Independents Day; a special one day festival on 6th June 2013 The Independent Alliance of Publishers in partnership with the ICA are delighted to launch Independents...

Weirdo by Cathi Unsworth – first chapter extract

May 21st, 2013

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Wicked Witch of the East, the tabloids called her. Bloody Weirdo, is what the locals said. Corinne Woodrow was fifteen when she was convicted of murdering one of her classmates on a...

Jeremy Scahill serves a ‘truth sandwich’ on BBC Newsnight

May 17th, 2013

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Jeremy Scahill appeared on BBC Newsnight on Wednesday 15th May to talk about Obama’s covert war on terror. The anti-interventionist and author of Dirty Wars:The World is a Battlefield  said, “We are actually...

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