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Laurie Lebo, 'The Devil in Dover: A Journalist's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America' and Philip Kitcher, 'Living with Darwin: Evolution, Darwin and the Future of Faith'

by Gabriel Carlyle | Review | September 2009

The Devil in Dover: A Journalist's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America, New Press, 2008; ISBN 978-1595582089; 256pp; £18.99. Living with Darwin: Evolution, Darwin and the Future of Faith, OUP, 2007; ISBN 978-0195314441; 208pp; £11.99

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Triumph of the will

by Jeff Cloves | Comment | July - August 2009

Not many people know this: the Peace Pledge Union (PPU) is 75 this year. I only know because a woman stopped me in Stroud High Street and told me. ...

S-27, 'a play written by Sarah Grochala,' directed by Stephen Keyworth

by Patrick Nicholson | Review | July - August 2009

Finborough Theatre, London, till 4 July; 0844 847 1652; www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk

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Katori Hall, 'The Mountain Top'

by Gabriel Carlyle | Review | July - August 2009

Theatre503, The Latchmere, 503 Battersea Park Road, SW11 3BW, 0207 978 7040, www.themountaintop.co.uk, 9 June – 4 July

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Hardeep Phull, 'Story Behind the Protest Song: A Reference Guide to the 50 Songs That Changed the 20th Century'

by Maya Evans | Review | July - August 2009

Greenwood Press, 2008; ISBN 978 0 313341 41 0; 304pp; £37.95

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Bragging Rights

by John Carnahan | News | July - August 2009

In Aberystwyth, on 14 June, activist choir Côr Gobaith joined Billy Bragg on stage in the protest singer’s own version of The Internationale. ...

Call to honour COs

by Kelvin Mason | News | June 2009

Plaid Cymru assembly member Bethan Jenkins has tabled a statement of opinion at the National Assembly to honour the memory of conscientious objectors in Wales: “I call upon all Assembly me ...

Jeremy Seabrook, 'The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight from Tyranny'

by Jo Wilding | Review | June 2009

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; ISBN 978 0 230218 78 9; 288pp; £14.99

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Bayonets fixed and colours flying

by Kelvin Mason | News | June 2009

On 25 April, Ceredigion Council conferred the freedom of the county on the Royal Welsh Regiment. ...

Show me the way to go home

by Jeff Cloves | Comment | May 2009

When the Ministry of Defence decided that the only way of defending the UK from annexation by the Communist Hordes was to threaten to blast them to Kingdom Come with an atomic bomb it knew ...