Published in the Daily Mail (January 27th, 2011) The first thing that strikes you is the smell: a sweet, sickly stench that sticks to your skin. It is […]
Crime / Policy / United States / World
Oddly, Texas can teach the UK a thing or two on criminal justice
Published in The Guardian (November 21st, 2011) Hang ’em high Texas is not the first place you might look for lessons in criminal justice. The lone star state […]
Bahrain / World
The two faces of Britain’s foreign policy
Published in The Guardian (September 14th, 2011) The air in Tripoli is heady with optimism. After 42 years of repressive and rapacious rule by Muammar Gaddafi, there is […]
Afghanistan / Arts / Books / World
The day that shook the world
Published in The Observer (September 11th, 2011) The Eleventh Day by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan (Doubleday); The 9/11 Wars by Jason Burke (Allen Lane); Granta 116: Ten […]
Arts / Books / United States / World
The other Barack: Bigamist, drunk and wife-beater
Published in the Daily Mail (August 12th, 2011) The Other Barack by Sally H. Jacobs (Public Affairs) Shortly after being elected first black president of Harvard Law Review, […]
Afghanistan / Arts / Books / World
It’s a fiasco, says our man in Kabul
Published in the Daily Mail (July 1st, 2011) Cables from Kabul: The Inside story of the West’s Afghanistan campaign by Sherard Cowper-Coles (Harper Press) Two years ago, during […]
Pakistan / World
The troubling aftermath of Bin Laden’s killing
Published in The Mail on Sunday (May 8th, 2011) It was a scene familiar from coffee bars around the world. A student in designer clothes tapping away on […]
Syria / World
Slaughter of the olive branch martyrs
Published in The Mail on Sunday (May 1st, 2011) The story of the Syrian uprising is being told in short sentences. The regime has driven out foreign journalists, […]
Bahrain / World
Wedding guests whose presence shames the nation
Published in The Times (April 28th, 2011) Tomorrow’s royal wedding is not a state occasion, say Palace officials, just a private event for Wills and Kate. Total nonsense, […]
Syria / World
Why Britain must try to stop the slaughter in Syria
Published in the London Evening Standard (April 27th, 2011) Libya made history last month by becoming the first nation to be suspended from the United Nations Human Rights […]
Syria / World
Inside Syria: Secret police tell parents of arrested protesters to forget their children and have some more
Published in The Mail on Sunday (April 17th, 2011) Khalid was not a political activist, just an ordinary middle-class man inspired by the tide of change sweeping across […]