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Bob Newland
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Book Review / 14 October 2025
14 October 2025

BOB NEWLAND recommends a political thriller from former anti-apartheid activist Peter Hain

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Books / 31 July 2025
31 July 2025

BOB NEWLAND doubts the political credentials, but praises the description of the impossible bind of a UN mediator in Libya in the era of Trump

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Books / 20 June 2025
20 June 2025

BOB NEWLAND, a former London Recruit, recommends the extraordinary memoir of struggle veteran Kingsley Mamobolo

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Book Review / 30 May 2025
30 May 2025

BOB NEWLAND relishes a fascinating read as well as an invaluable piece of local research

The (NO. 2) Flying Column, 3rd Tipperary Brigade, IRA in 192
Books / 7 January 2024
7 January 2024
BOB NEWLAND welcomes a clear-eyed account that counts the human cost of the Irish Republican struggle for both sides
TELLING IT STRAIGHT: Nadina Ali and her work No More Exploit
Exhibition Review / 9 November 2023
9 November 2023
BOB NEWLAND admires the tactics of a punchy exhibition that advocates awareness of Third World debt its neocolonial injustice 
ANTI-COLONIALISTS: Zamora Machel, Kwame Nkrumah and Patrice
BOOKS / 25 August 2023
25 August 2023
BOB NEWLAND recommends a phenomenal exposure of US-sponsored terrorism and destabilisation in Africa
Cambodian Customs Department seized more than 3 tonnes of Iv
Book Review / 25 October 2022
25 October 2022
BOB NEWLAND recommends an environmental thriller that uses as background the troubling realities of South Africa and Ireland
INVASIVE: Awash National Park, Ethiopia
BOOKS / 17 July 2022
17 July 2022
BOB NEWLAND recommends a book that challenges many erroneously held views on conservationism
Jarama: British Volunteers in the trenches
Book Review / 1 April 2022
1 April 2022
Hitting where it hurts
Book Review / 22 October 2021
22 October 2021
Peter Hain knew well apartheid's vulnerabilities and used this knowledge to seriously undermine the regime’s international reputation
Peace negotiator Josu Urrutikoetxea
Features / 14 September 2021
14 September 2021
BOB NEWLAND welcomes the acquittal of Eta-member-turned-peace-negotiator Josu Urrutikoetxea, who was facing terrorism charges in a French court despite a supposed guarantee of immunity