We train forces who kidnapped Ethiopia’s ‘Mandela’
Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th April, 2016) Britain is giving more than a million pounds to train Ethiopia’s... Read Full Article
The hellhole that refugees are forced to call home
Published by The Observer (7th February, 2016) City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp (Portobello) Guled... Read Full Article
How ‘Big Brother’ is destroying free speech in Rwanda
Published by The Observer (10th January) Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship by Anjan Sundaram (Bloomsbury) The text arrived... Read Full Article
Spare us the toe-curling stunts of celebrities on foreign aid ego trips
Published by The Daily Mail (30th December, 2015) Perhaps actor Michael Sheen has spent too much time playing Tony Blair.... Read Full Article
Forget fear and loathing: 15 reasons to celebrate the world in 2015
Published by The Independent (28th December, 2015) Who will mourn the passing of 2015? It seems such a grim year... Read Full Article
Why Mali was attacked
Published by CapX (20th November, 2015) & The Independent (21st November, 2015) So here we go again. First the tragic... Read Full Article
Diplomatic impotence – or disregard for human rights
Published by The Independent (26th October, 2015) The visit of Xi Jinping was deemed a success on both sides. Our... Read Full Article
Moving the goalposts to keep out refugees from repression
Published by The Independent (31st August, 2015) Eritrea is routinely called ‘Africa’s North Korea’ for its repression, restrictions on daily... Read Full Article
Dreams, despair and dictators
Published by The Observer (24th August, 2015) Shifting Sands: The Unravelling of the Old Order in the Middle East (Profile)... Read Full Article
No minister – our billions in foreign aid make it more likely migrants come here
Published by The Daily Mail (11th August, 2015) With every passing day, it becomes harder to have confidence in the... Read Full Article