Anthony Hayward is a journalist and author who has written about television and film in national newspapers and magazines for more than 25 years. His books include In the Name of Justice: The Television Reporting of John Pilger and Which Side Are You On? Ken Loach and His Films, and the biographies Julie Christie and Phantom: Michael Crawford Unmasked. He is also a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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The United States has spent years confronting Russian influence operations, disinformation and covert activity directed primarily at Europe. Now, according to newly unsealed charges by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), an alleged Russian intelligence network attempted to recruit people
Iran and the United States are both under significant economic pressure and have expressed a willingness to de-escalate. Yet neither side has shown signs
Last year, in 2025, 354 civilians were killed in terrorist attacks across Pakistan, while overall terrorist violence rose by about a third. In Balochistan
John Pilger, who has died of pulmonary fibrosis aged 84, was a journalist who never shirked from saying the unsayable. Across half a century, in newspapers and in his documentary films –
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