February 2011
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True Grit
The wide-angle image is split between the dark profile of a gravelly prairie and the tenuous moonlight. Few bony trees stretch their hooked branches from the dim land into the pale sky. A galloping horse crosses the night carrying a boozy cowboy and 14 years old angel of vengeance. She has been bitten by a rattlesnake and the poison is inexorably running through her body. The brave black horse...
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There's a big hubbub down there
In Tahir square the scorching afternoon sun is enlightening the faces and drying up the throats of hundreds of thousand of demonstrators assembled to call for a political change in Egypt. It is 5 pm, Thursday the 3rd of February.
A thick layer of still, grey clouds is hovering over London when a cluster of demonstrators gather in front of the Egyptian embassy in South Street. Needless to say...
