How do you write well about a subject when you already know what you think about it?
Ed Burns and David Simon, the writers of The Wire, have written a new series, Generation Kill, about the Iraq war. It's based on Rolling Stone journalist Evan Wright's bestselling book about Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Burns is resolutely anti-war, but he tells the New Statesman,
'If you start empathising with the characters you'll find they do things that conflict with your ideology. That is good storytelling. It unsettles you.'
As a child, I roamed Dartmoor – and it shaped me. But across England, that
freedom is being trampled on | Rosie Jewell
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How can we expect people to care for the countryside if they are denied
access to it? We must fight for our right to roam
When people ask me where I’m fr...
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