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Hugh Barnes is a war reporter and author of three books (Special Effects, Gannibal and Understanding Iran) and editor of green-socialist.com

Articles By Hugh Barnes

Natalia Ginzburg: The City and the House review - a dying art

Saturday, 02 August 2025 Read more...

The Road to Patagonia review - journey to the end of the world

Thursday, 10 July 2025 Read more...

Sudan, Remember Us review - the revolution will be memorised

Tuesday, 01 July 2025 Read more...

Words of War review - portrait of a doomed truth-seeker in Putin's Russia

Thursday, 08 May 2025 Read more...

Two to One review - bank heist with a big catch

Monday, 05 May 2025 Read more...

Stelios review - Athenian rhapsody in blues

Saturday, 26 April 2025 Read more...

The Problem With People review - local zero

Friday, 08 November 2024 Read more...

Alan Hollinghurst: Our Evenings review - a gift that keeps on giving

Monday, 04 November 2024 Read more...

The Room Next Door review - Almodóvar out of his comfort zone

Tuesday, 29 October 2024 Read more...

Endurance review - the greatest escape, AI-assisted

Wednesday, 16 October 2024 Read more...

Timestalker review – she's lost control again

Friday, 11 October 2024 Read more...

The Teacher review - tense West Bank drama

Saturday, 28 September 2024 Read more...

The law's sick voyeurism - director Cédric Kahn on 'The Goldman Case'

Saturday, 21 September 2024 Read more...

My Favourite Cake review - woman, love, and freedom

Monday, 16 September 2024 Read more...

Anna Reid: A Nasty Little War - The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution review - home truths

Friday, 01 March 2024 Read more...

Priscilla review - Bluebeard suede shoes

Tuesday, 02 January 2024 Read more...

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Album: The Divine Comedy - Rainy Sunday Afternoon

Neil Hannon has been recording and touring as the Divine Comedy since 1989 and has tried a fair few flavours along the way, from chamber pop to...

The Producers, Garrick Theatre review - Ve haf vays of makin...

Unexpectedly, there’s a sly reference to James Joyce’s Ulysses interpolated into Act One (in case we hadn’t caught the not...

Lammermuir Festival 2025, Part 2 review - from the soaringly...

My colleague Boyd Tonkin visited the Lammermuir Festival for the first time this year. His eyes and ears have been opened to its treasures, but...

Frances Wilson: Electric Spark - The Enigma of Muriel Spark...

How do you tell the story of a person’s mind? In the preface to Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark, published this year by...

Blu-ray: The Sons of Great Bear

Westerns had long been popular with German cinema audiences, some of the most successful being early 1960s West German adaptations of novels by...

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review - comedy rock band f...

That difficult second documentary – or if you will, “rockumentary” – seems to have been especially challenging for...

Tosca, Welsh National Opera review - a great company reduced...

So it’s come to this: WNO’s autumn season reduced to two operas, a Tosca borrowed from Opera North and a revival of their own Candide...

Not Your Superwoman, Bush Theatre review - powerful tribute...

The Bush is likely to continue its fine recent run of hit plays, with this funny, poignant, culturally authentic and beautifully acted two-hander...

Music Reissues Weekly: Robyn - Robyn 20th-Anniversary Editio...

Sometimes, record labels don’t like what those on their roster have recorded. Such was the case with BMG Sweden and Robin Carlsson who, as Robyn,...