STEVE JOHNSON, CHRIS SEARLE and TONY BURKE review new releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
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MARIA DUARTE recommends a resonant film on how the US government attempted to gag the press during the Vietnam war
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Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
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STEVE JOHNSON, CHRIS SEARLE and TONY BURKE review new releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
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Directed by Steven Spielberg
A MASSIVE cover-up of US government secrets. The president trying to discredit and gag the press. Women battling for equality.
The Trump administration, 2018? No, The Post is set in 1971, when President Nixon attempted to stop the publication of the controversial Pentagon Papers.
The top-secret 7,000-page report outlined how successive US governments over three decades and four presidents knew they could never win the Vietnam war. They lied to the US people and said the contrary.
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