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Kieran Pender

Film  |  Theatre  |  Art  |  Opera  |  Music  |  Television  |  Festivals

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Recent reviews

The Long Hangover: Putin’s new Russia and the ghosts of the past by Shaun Walker

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April 2018, no. 400
Kieran Pender reviews 'The Long Hangover: Putin’s new Russia and the ghosts of the past' by Shaun Walker

Winston Churchill once famously said of Russia: ‘It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.’ The aphorism is still cited regularly today by analysts and commentators confused by the opaque Russian state. Regrettably, the sentences that followed have been largely consigned to history ...

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'When sport and politics collide' by Kieran Pender

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December 2017, no. 397

Politicians in ancient Greece were well acquainted with the alluring intersection between sport and politics. Alcibiades, an ambitious aristocrat, entered seven chariots in the 416 BCE Olympics, aware of the potential political benefits. He came first, second, and fourth, later citing this ‘splendid performance’ to the Athenian ...

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