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		<title>Grotesque deeds that stained our democracy</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st July, 2018) A few days after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, I entered the ransacked residence of the British ambassador to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Times (30th December, 2017) Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon (Head of Zeus) I came to this book with enthusiasm. The author [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2017 16:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (20th November, 2017) So farewell then, Robert Mugabe. The situation in Zimbabwe remains fluid after the carefully planned coup that claims not to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Was it wrong to support the overthrow of Gaddafi?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Independent (9th March, 2015) There are few historic sites more wondrous than the ruins of Leptis Magna, a Roman city once home to 80,000 people, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2014 17:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th December, 2014) A Libyan dissident kidnapped by US forces with the help of MI6 and delivered, along with his pregnant wife, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in The Daily Mail (February 13th, 2013) When Nick Clegg dropped into Hampshire to boost his party’s campaign in the crucial Eastleigh by-election, he spoke passionately about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How the West misread Mali</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in The Guardian (January 25th, 2013) For 10 months the collapse was largely ignored by the west. A country seen as a model democracy imploded, with an army [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 08:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in The Daily Mail (January 12th, 2013) When Tony Blair visited Beijing a few weeks ago to open a prestigious conference on philanthropy, he showed he had [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Originally posted in The Guardian (March 5th, 2012) The morning had been spent dodging Muammar Gaddafi&#8217;s security stooges and talking to activists planning the uprising that erupted days [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in the London Evening Standard (January 3rd, 2012) Just under a year ago, I travelled around Libya posing as a tourist to talk to people planning the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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