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Bob Newland
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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
NEGOTIATOR: ETA delegate Josu Urrutikoetxea
Features / 15 June 2021
15 June 2021
The lead negotiator who brought the long armed struggle of the Basque separatist group ETA to an end now faces criminal charges from the French state. BOB NEWLAND raises the alarm on a dangerous precedent