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Book review. Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor

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Book review. Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor
by Ian Sinclair
Red Pepper
June-July 2017
In 2015 Shashi Tharoor’s brilliant speech to the Oxford Union Society on the motion “This house believes Britain owes reparations to her former colonies” went viral, receiving coverage across the world.
Tharoor, an MP for the Indian National Congress, former senior United Nations official, novelist and scholar, has now expanded the argument he made at Oxford into Inglorious Empire.

The Rise and Fall of Phil Shiner

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The Rise and Fall of Phil Shiner
by Ian Sinclair
Peace News
June-July 2017
On 2 February 2017, Phil Shiner, the award-winning human rights lawyer who brought the UK government to account for the 2003 killing of the Iraqi hotel receptionist Baha Mousa, was struck off by the solicitors disciplinary tribunal (SDT). In March 2017, Shiner, who was also ordered to pay interim costs of £250,000, was declared bankrupt, and was reported to be in poor health.

How does UK foreign policy raise the terror threat in the UK?

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How does UK foreign policy raise the terror threat in the UK?
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
5 June 2017
We are in the middle of a high stakes propaganda war.
With the Conservative poll lead shrinking by the day, the establishment have been throwing everything it has got at Jeremy Corbyn to put a stop to his increasingly credible bid for Downing Street.

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