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‘Right person, right place, right time’
At a moment when the continent’s frontiers are in acute danger of disintegration, SF author DAVE HUTCHINSON tells James Miller why he has written his acclaimed Europe novels
ANGUS REID considers the power of the podcast as a vehicle for consensus building in opposition to mainstream media narratives
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FRANCIS DEVINE introduces a new collection of essays that draws on Pease McKenna’s example to indicate future paths for the movement
KEVIN DONNELLY and MARIA DUARTE review Shoot the People, The Last One For The Road, Rosebush Pruning, and Moana
JAMES WALSH recommends an exceptional documentary about the experience of Western doctors in Gaza
As razor-wire springs up like mushrooms, cross-border trafficking becomes a lucrative — and murky — business.
Of course, when Dave Hutchinson came up with that setting for his acclaimed novel Europe in Autumn he had no idea he was writing tomorrow’s headlines.
A science-fiction thriller with a strong European flavour, it landed in spring 2014 amid the Crimea conflict, simmering Scottish and Catalan independence campaigns, rumblings of Grexit and a feeling that the great EU experiment was drawing to a close.
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