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Writing a book about Nigel Farage. Sanctioned by Russia. Been to Clacton. www.johnsweeney.co.uk
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Could Manchester go turquoise (or Green)? No-one from Reform would speak to us

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By John Sweeney
| THE NERVE (UK) Verified
When I ran for parliament in 2024 – not entirely successfully – there was one golden rule: that the candidate must make him or herself as visible as possible. So I got chased by a 10-foot-tall Tyrannosaurus rex while wearing an orange beanie and stuck our film on X/ Twitter for a quarter of a million people to have a laugh at. Reform UK’s man in Gorton and Denton, Matt Goodwin, is doing things differently.
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Why we need Banned Books Week more than ever

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By Katie Dancey-Downs Verified, Frederike Geerdink, John Sweeney, Ruth Anderson
| Index on Censorship Verified
Photo: Kennedy Library (CC-BY-NC.20) What do popstar Ariana Grande, filmmaker Guillermo del Torro and 90s rock sensation Garbage have in common? They’ve all joined the fight against book bans in the USA, just ahead of Banned Books Week. Alongside more predictable figures like Margaret Atwood, Roxane Gay and Judy Blume, they are some of more than 170 artists who signed an open letter condemning book bans and calling on Hollywood to use its influence.
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An ode to banned books

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By Frederike Geerdink, John Sweeney, Ruth Anderson
| Index on Censorship Verified
Beijing Coma – Ma Jian In the lead up to the Beijing Olympics, when China was on a global charm offensive, Ma Jian’s book Beijing Coma was published. Through the central character Dai Wei, a protester who was shot in Tiananmen Square and fell into a deep coma, Ma presented the other side of the country, an insecure nation afraid of its past and struggling with its present. Ma stated that he wrote the book “to reclaim history from a totalitarian government whose role is to erase it”.
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