Published by The Independent (22nd June, 2015) A few days ago I was sitting in Athens with an official from Médecins Sans Frontières discussing the migration crisis confronting […]
Europe / European Union / Greece
A country that is dying to leave the euro
Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th June, 2015) How does a nation die? This week, in the beleaguered hospitals of Athens, I saw a glimpse of the […]
Europe / European Union / Greece
Who will put Greece out of its misery?
Published by The Daily Telegraph (5th June, 2015) Omonia Square used to be the thriving commercial heart of the Greek capital. But when I was there I saw […]
Africa / Aid / Europe / Greece / Immigration / Libya / Policy
Inside the migrant jails of Fortress Europe
Published by al-Jazeera (16th December, 2014) Travelling around Libya in those days when pictures of a preening Muammar Gaddafi loomed over every public place, I came across some […]
Africa / Aid / Europe / European Union
How does Europe look to an African?
Published in The Independent (February 17th, 2014) The other day I was chatting to an African friend when he asked a question that took me by surprise. “Is […]
Europe / European Union / Greece
Orphans of the Greek meltdown
Published in The Mail on Sunday (June 23rd, 2013) Laughing children play in a pine-scented courtyard on a warm summer’s evening. Excitement rises to fever pitch as a creamy […]
Europe / France / Politics
When rulers are out of touch, voters fall for extremists’ snake-oil solutions
Published in The Daily Mail (April 24th, 2012) However you cut it, Sunday’s presidential election in France was a profoundly depressing result: not just for the French, but […]
Europe / Greece
Staring into the abyss
Published in the Daily Mail (February 18th, 2012) When Eleni Nikolaidou agreed to help a university research project, she was asked to plough through 6,000 newspapers from World […]
Arts / Books
Fancy footwork with the facts
Published in The Observer (January 15th, 2012) Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions by Paul Mason (Verso) One of the best things about Newsnight in recent months […]
Politics
Why these rebels without a clue can’t simply be ignored
Published in the London Evening Standard (October 18th, 2011) It is easy to mock them as rebels without a clue, let alone a cause. The ragbag revolutionaries against […]