Published by The Independent (20th October, 2014) I relaxed again this weekend. It was 21 days since I returned from Liberia to report on the human tragedy of […]
Syria / Turkey / World
They brainwashed our boys and made them watch beheading videos
Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th October, 2014) Hamid’s son had been missing for a week, seized by Islamic State gunmen along with 148 other schoolchildren, when […]
Politics
An earthquake called Ukip hits Britain
Published by The Wall Street Journal (17th October, 2014) It is curious to think that the modest seaside resort of Clacton might end up a landmark in British […]
Crime / Policy
Ched Evans has been punished. Let him return to his job
Published by The Guardian (17th October, 2014) Let us start with the most important fact. Ched Evans is a rapist, a footballer found guilty of predatory assault on a […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
Britain needs a party that proudly champions cosmopolitan values
Published by The Financial Times (17th October, 2014) These are strange times. An insurgent political party has won a single parliamentary by-election plus the support of fewer than […]
Arts / Books
Another first-class delivery
Published by The Daily Mail (10th October, 2014) Please, Mr Postman by Alan Johnson (Bantam) One day in June 1969, a young couple from London took the train to […]
Politics
We’re heading for a crisis whoever wins the election
Published by The Independent (6th October, 2014) There is something absurd about the Liberal Democrat conference, with all those attacks on their partners in government over the past four […]
Africa / Liberia
A lethal epidemic and a lethargic global response
Published by The Independent (4th October, 2014) Augustin was agitated and scared. After weeks spent hiding in his house with his wife and children, he had left the […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
A Conservative split may be the catharsis the party needs
Published by The Guardian (1st October, 2014) The room was packed in anticipation of good debate. But from the start of the Conservative conference fringe event on immigration […]
Africa / Health / Liberia
Bonfire of the ebola victims
Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th September, 2014) As I walked into the walled Hindu-style cremation site outside Monrovia alongside the latest consignment of bodies, I saw […]
Africa / South Africa
Obesity: Africa’s new crisis
Published by The Observer Magazine (21st September, 2014) When the first McDonald’s restaurant opened almost two decades ago in Johannesburg, a teenage boy named Thando Tshabalala was among […]
Iraq / Syria / World
The deepening dilemma over hostages
Published by The Independent (September 15th, 2014) The fact that it was almost expected does not make it any less hideous. David Haines, a good man who went […]