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*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial
Journalism 2021* *Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award
for Investigative Journalism 2022* *Winner of the Premio Angelo
Vassallo Award 2022* 'I want to live in a society where secret
power is accountable to the law and to public opinion for its
atrocities, where it is the war criminals who go to jail, not those
who have the conscience and courage to expose them.' It is 2008,
and Stefania Maurizi, an investigative journalist with a growing
interest in cryptography, starts looking into the little-known
organisation WikiLeaks. Through hushed meetings, encrypted files
and explosive documents, what she discovers sets her on a life-long
journey that takes her deep into the realm of secret power. Working
closely with WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange and his organisation
for her newspaper, Maurizi has spent over a decade investigating
state criminality protected by thick layers of secrecy, while also
embarking on a solitary trench warfare to unearth the facts
underpinning the cruel persecution of Assange and WikiLeaks. With
complex and disturbing insights, Maurizi’s tireless journalism
exposes atrocities, the shameful treatment of Chelsea Manning and
Edward Snowden, on up to the present persecution of WikiLeaks: a
terrifying web of impunity and cover-ups. At the heart of the book
is the brutality of secret power and the unbearable price paid by
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks and truthtellers.
*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial
Journalism 2021* *Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award
for Investigative Journalism 2022* 'I want to live in a society
where secret power is accountable to the law and to public opinion
for its atrocities, where it is the war criminals who go to jail,
not those who have the conscience and courage to expose them.' It
is 2008, and Stefania Maurizi, an investigative journalist with a
growing interest in cryptography, starts looking into the
little-known organisation WikiLeaks. Through hushed meetings,
encrypted files and explosive documents, what she discovers sets
her on a life-long journey that takes her deep into the realm of
secret power. Working closely with WikiLeaks' founder Julian
Assange and his organisation for her newspaper, Maurizi has spent
over a decade investigating state criminality protected by thick
layers of secrecy, while also embarking on a solitary trench
warfare to unearth the facts underpinning the cruel persecution of
Assange and WikiLeaks. With complex and disturbing insights,
Maurizi's tireless journalism exposes atrocities, the shameful
treatment of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, on up to the
present persecution of WikiLeaks: a terrifying web of impunity and
cover-ups. At the heart of the book is the brutality of secret
power and the unbearable price paid by Julian Assange, WikiLeaks
and truthtellers.
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Jimmy's Hall (Paperback)
Paul Laverty, Ken Loach
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R316
R283
Discovery Miles 2 830
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A story inspired by the life and times of Jimmy Gralton and a
country hall in Ireland. Jimmy Gralton's sin was to build a dance
hall on a rural crossroads in Ireland where young people could come
to learn, to argue, to dream...but above all to dance and have fun.
Jimmy's Hall celebrates the spirit of these free thinkers. Features
Full screenplay Photos from the film Production notes from cast and
crew, including Paul Laverty, Ken Loach and Rebecca O'Brien
Historical context for Jimmy Gralton
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Route Irish (Paperback)
Paul Laverty, Ken Loach
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R279
R250
Discovery Miles 2 500
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Fergus met Frankie on his first day at school and they've been in
each others' shadow ever since. As teenagers they skipped school
and drank cider on the ferry over the River Mersey, dreaming about
travelling the world. In September 2004, Fergus persuaded Frankie
to join his security team in Baghdad: GBP10,000 a month, tax free;
their last chance to 'load up' in this increasingly privatised war.
Together they risked their lives in a city steeped in violence,
terror and greed, and awash with billions of US dollars. Three
years later, Frankie is killed on Route Irish, the most dangerous
road in the world. Back in Liverpool, a grief-stricken Fergus
rejects the official explanation that Frankie was simply in the
wrong place at the wrong time, and begins his own investigation
into his soul mate's death. Only Rachel, Frankie's partner, grasps
the depth of Fergus's sorrow, and the lethal possibilities of his
fury as he struggles to find his old self and the happiness he
shared with Frankie twenty years earlier on the Mersey. Features
the full screenplay, character backstory, production notes and
photographs from the film, plus background essays by Mark Townsend,
Haifa Zangana and Mike Phipps.
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Ken Loach at the BBC (DVD)
Tony Selby, Paul Copley, Pamela Brighton, Nikolas Simmonds, Carol White, …
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R448
Discovery Miles 4 480
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Collection of TV dramas by the acclaimed British film maker Ken
Loach. 'The Big Flame' (1967) and 'Rank and File' (1971) are
trademark Loach dramas, detailing with sympathy the plight of
workers caught up in industrial disputes at the Liverpool docks and
the Pilkington glassworks, respectively. 'Three Clear Sundays'
(1965) tells the story of Danny (Tony Selby), a young man facing up
to the death penalty after an attempt to help reduce the sentence
of two other prison inmates goes badly wrong. 'Days of Hope' (1975)
is an epic four-part series starring Paul Copley, Pamela Brighton
and Nikolas Simmonds as members of a working class family whose
fortunes are depicted from the end of WWI to what they perceive as
their betrayal in the General Strike of 1926. 'The End of Arthur's
Marriage' (1965) offers something of a departure from Loach's
conventional films, an adaptation of a musical scripted by
Christopher Logue. 'In Two Minds' (1967) stars Anna Cropper and
examines the plight of those suffering from schizophrenia. 'Up the
Junction' (1965) raised the issue of abortion, at the time illegal,
and played a major role in shaping public debate on the issue. Its
influence in this regard was possibly only surpassed by Loach's
most famous TV drama 'Cathy Come Home' (1966), which follows the
struggles of young bride Cathy (Carol White) as she struggles to
keep a roof over herself and her children in a housing system that
seems constantly to be working against her. 'The Price of Coal'
(1977) is a two-part drama set in a Yorkshire mining village which
contrasts the humour of the working men (many played by actual
comedians, including Duggie Brown) with the dangerous conditions in
which they are forced to earn a living.
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