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Hugh Barnes is a war reporter and author of three books (Special Effects, Gannibal and Understanding Iran) and editor of green-socialist.com

Articles By Hugh Barnes

Words of War review - portrait of a doomed truth-seeker in Putin's Russia

Thursday, 08 May 2025 Read more...

Two to One review - bank heist with a big catch

Monday, 05 May 2025 Read more...

Stelios review - Athenian rhapsody in blues

Saturday, 26 April 2025 Read more...

The Problem With People review - local zero

Friday, 08 November 2024 Read more...

Alan Hollinghurst: Our Evenings review - a gift that keeps on giving

Monday, 04 November 2024 Read more...

The Room Next Door review - Almodóvar out of his comfort zone

Tuesday, 29 October 2024 Read more...

Endurance review - the greatest escape, AI-assisted

Wednesday, 16 October 2024 Read more...

Timestalker review – she's lost control again

Friday, 11 October 2024 Read more...

The Teacher review - tense West Bank drama

Saturday, 28 September 2024 Read more...

The law's sick voyeurism - director Cédric Kahn on 'The Goldman Case'

Saturday, 21 September 2024 Read more...

My Favourite Cake review - woman, love, and freedom

Monday, 16 September 2024 Read more...

Anna Reid: A Nasty Little War - The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution review - home truths

Friday, 01 March 2024 Read more...

Priscilla review - Bluebeard suede shoes

Tuesday, 02 January 2024 Read more...

Tchaikovsky's Wife review - husband material

Sunday, 31 December 2023 Read more...

Angela Leighton: Something, I Forget review - the art of letting go

Monday, 18 December 2023 Read more...

Dance First - the travails of Samuel Beckett

Saturday, 04 November 2023 Read more...

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Music Reissues Weekly: Rupert’s People - Dream In My Mind

Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” was an instant phenomenon. Recorded in April 1967 and issued as a single on 12 May after pre-release play...

Fidelio, Garsington Opera review - a battle of sunshine and...

Sometimes, as the first act of Beethoven’s Fidelio closes, the chorus of prisoners discreetly fade away backstage as their brief taste of...

Intimate Apparel, Donmar Warehouse review - stirring story o...

The corset is an unlikely star of the latest Lynn Nottage play to arrive at the...

theartsdesk Q&A: director Andreas Dresen on his anti-Naz...

Andreas Dresen directs socially engaged realist films that invariably relay personal and political messages; the result can be tough but is...

Hercules, Theatre Royal Drury Lane review - new Disney stage...

Many years ago, reviewing pantomime for the first time, I recall looking around in the stalls. My brain was saying, “This is...

Album: JF Robitaille & Lail Arad - Wild Moves

Around eight years ago, London singer-...

Alfred Brendel 1931-2025 - a personal tribute

Alfred Brendel’s death earlier this month came as a shock, but it wasn’t unexpected. His health had gradually deteriorated over the last year or...

Chicken Town review - sluggish rural comedy with few laughs...

Fans of the character comedian Graham Fellows will possibly turn up for this British film starring the man who created the punk parody...

Album: Lorde - Virgin

Lorde’s trajectory is continually fascinating. From the minimalist, sparse electropop of Pure Heroine to the similar but more grandiose...