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international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 25, 2005 15:56 by James R
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Mike Leigh’s ‘Vera Drake,’ is set in Islington, 1950. Surprise, surprise, this ain't no nostalgia trip. It’s a world not far removed from Orwell’s 1930’s ‘Down and Out In Paris and London’ with his amazement at an English working class ability to subsist on regular doses of bread and tea. The dry taste of soda bread, the smell of dampness and the comfort of a 'cuppatay' is as palpable as the scars of war staring blankly from the eyes of shell shocked characters like Reg (Eddie Marsan) who having lost his mother to the blitz lives a bachelors life on ‘bread and drippings’. Rationing is still a reality, nylons are traded for smokes and parasitical black marketers and creditors make a fortune door to door, in neighbourhoods perpetually clouded in grey. read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 25, 2005 12:24 by Tim Hourigan
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Troops through Shannon up 26% on previous year. Workforce is down 50%. That's the same workforce who were force- fed the story that their jobs depended on US military use of the airport. Other lies surround the economic arguments of US Military use of Shannon Airport. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday January 25, 2005 11:53 by Elvert Barnes
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On Wednesday afternoon, 29 December 2004 Dorothy Day Catholic Workers of Washington DC and Jonah House of Baltimore, Maryland held a 'Faith Resistance' in front of the White House in protest against the Iraq war resulting in several arrests. read full story / add a comment |
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