Martin Pengelly
Writer at Freelance
Freelance Writer at The Guardian
Anglo-American hack, via Roundhay. Ex-@GuardianUS. Freelancing. News. Books. Own book, BROTHERHOOD: WHEN WEST POINT RUGBY WENT TO WAR, published by Godine.
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msn.com | Martin Pengelly
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theguardian.com | Martin Pengelly
Mary Annette Pember will publish her first book, Medicine River, on Tuesday. She signed to write it in 2022 but feels she really started work more than 50 years ago, “before I could even write, when I was under the table as a kid, making these symbols that were sort of my own”. A citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe, Pember is a national correspondent for ICT News, formerly Indian Country Today.
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theguardian.com | Martin Pengelly
Pronouncing himself “disgusted” by Donald Trump’s favorable attitude to Russia and Vladimir Putin, the former UK defence minister Grant Shapps said the US president calling a Russian missile strike that killed dozens in Ukraine last weekend a “mistake” was an example of “weasel language we used to hear … from the IRA” terrorist group.
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theguardian.com | Martin Pengelly
In the words of its writer and director, Withnail and I is a comedy that “doesn’t know it’s funny”. To its star, it’s about “the nobility of failure”. It ends with its title character alone in the rain, his one friend gone, delivering a Hamlet soliloquy to an indifferent wolf. It’s my feelgood movie. Bruce Robinson’s British classic was released in 1987. He and Richard E Grant made the remarks above in 2007, at the British Film Institute.
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msn.com | Martin Pengelly
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