Al Jazeera - Look East (The Guardian, 13 November, 2006)

 LIBYA ONE YEAR AFTER TONY BLAIR'S VISIT

The Price was High - The BBC, Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Kelly Affair  (pdf format 216K ) and reprinted here

Television Without Qualities - An Arabian Experiment Download/View MSWord File  HTML File

"Viewed from The East" (reprinted from Advanced Television)

selected reviews from The Guardian (London) 

Portraits Of The Missing, by Julian Symons (Andre Deutsch, £12.99)

Taste, by Stephen Bayley (Faber, £15.99)

The Greening Of A Red, by Malcolm MacEwen (Pluto Press, £8.95)

Scum Of The Earth, by Arthur Koestler (Eland, £6.99)

The Book Of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa, (Quartet, £5.95)

India's Bandit Queen, by Mala Sen (Collins Harvill, £15)

The Middle Parts Of Fortune, by Frederic Manning (Penguin, £5.99)

So Very English, edited by Marsha Rowe (Serpent's Tail, £7.99)

Antonio Gramsci: Life Of A Revolutionary, by Giuseppe Fiori (Verso, £11.95)

Gramsci's Political Thought: An Introduction, by Roger Simon (Lawrence & Wishart £7.95)

Gazza! by Robin McGibbon; (Penguin, £3.99)

The Cost Of Free Speech, by Simon Lee (Faber, £4.99)

Brendan Behan, by Ulick O'Connor (Black Swan, £5.99)

Poet In New York, by Federico Garcia Lorca (Penguin, £6.99)

The Pencil: A History, by Henry Petroski (Faber, £14.99)

India: A Million Mutinies Now, by V. S. Naipaul (Heinemann, £17.50)

Septuagenarian Stew: Stories And Poems, by Charles Bukowski (Black Sparrow Press/Airlift Distributors, £12.95)

The Legend Of The Holy Drinker, by Joseph Roth (Picador Classics, £3.99)

Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography Of John Reed, by Robert A. Rosenstone (Harvard, £9.95)

Arabesques, by Anton Shammas (Penguin, £5.99)

Granta 31: The General, edited by Bill Buford (Granta Publications/Penguin, £5.99)

The Heretic by Chris Scott (Quartet, £6.95)

The Best Of Ognonyok The New Journalism Of Glasnost, edited by Vitaly Korotich and Cathy Porter (Heinemann, £9.95)

Unnatural Selection, by Daniel Evan Weiss (Black Swan, £4.99)

Arguments For A Theatre, by Howard Barker (John Calder, £3.95)

Essays On Politics And Literature, by Bernard Crick (Edinburgh University Press, £8.95)

Weimar: Why Did Democracy Fail? edited by Ian Kershaw (Weidenfeld, £6.95)

Three Soldiers, by John Dos Passos (Penguin £5.99)

Milena, by Margarete Buber-Neumann (Collins Harvill, £5.95)

Articulate Flesh, by Gregory Woods (Yale University Press, £7.95)

February 24 1989

A Border Station, by Shane Connaughton (Hamish Hamilton £10.95)

and an endorsement for Arthur Koestler's "Scum of the Earth"