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1) I saw the movie Denial the other night. It's about the trial of Deborah Lipstadt, a history professor who was sued for libel by Holocaust denier David Irving after she called him a Holocaust denier. The script created a surprising amount of suspense and tension from a story to which most people know the ending (Lipstadt was acquitted on the

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[halotolerant]

That sounds like a film I really ought to see and I'd never heard of it, so thanks for the rec. I keep meaning to read Arendt.

There was a TV film recently about the Eichmann trial being televised against the odds ('The Eichmann Show'), with Martin Freeman, which was a very interesting angle on events.

I'm varying my sentient spider sci-fi with Ben Goldacre's Bad Pharma, which is simultaneously fascinating and depressing *sighs*

Hope the work event went well.