Rob Newman
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From star of
The Mary Whitehouse Experience to cult status with comedy partner David Baddiel (the first comedians to play and sellout the 12,000 seat Wembley Arena), Rob Newman has established himself as one of the countries finest comics.
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From Caliban to the Taliban - 500 Years of Humanitarian Intervention
This is the story of a five hundred year global terror campaign waged with goodwill to all. It starts with a 1609 Bermuda shipwreck and Sir Francis Bacon's Advertisement Touching a Holy War, and takes us to Wordsworth in the Quantocks followed by government spies, to Russia's Archangel and Filipino vampires. The story's happy ending is the United States' good works in Vietnam, Guatemala, El Salvador, Somalia, Chile, Afghanistan and Iraq, which have made the world safe for democracy and given us all that optimism about the future we enjoy so much today.
