Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th August, 2014) Islamic State militants have massacred most of the men living in an Iraqi village after the inhabitants, members of […]
Iraq / World
James Foley’s brutal death shows the west can’t solve the Iraq crisis
Published by The Guardian (21st August, 2014) The murder of James Foley is sickening. As his grieving parents said, this courageous man had his life terminated for trying to expose […]
Iraq
Please let American jets bomb my prison
Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th August, 2014) The call came in the early hours, the voice muffled, furtive and shaking with fear. ‘If they see me […]
Iraq / World
Descent into apocalypse
Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th August, 2014) They arrived bristling with heavy weapons and waving black flags from about a dozen Humvees, seized from the Iraqi […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Our medical advances have outstripped our humanity
Published by The Guardian (8th August, 2014) I can still remember each second of that day just before Christmas when everything changed. The happy family lunch, then the […]
Africa / Aid / United States / World
When will our politicians realise Africa has changed?
Published by The Independent (4th August, 2014) The dominant headlines out of Africa are as depressing as always in the Western media: a terrifying disease on the rampage, […]
Politics
There is an alternative to murky donations from the super-rich
Published by The Guardian (26th July, 2014) The funding of political parties has long been a weeping sore in the British body politic, but it is turning increasingly […]
Europe / Ukraine
With the remains of 200 victims, the train of death finally moves out
Published by The Daily Mail (22nd July, 2014) The freight train filled with its grisly cargo of death last night finally pulled out of the station where it […]
Europe / Ukraine
The grimmest journey for MH17 victims
Published by The Daily Mail (21st July, 2014) The stench of death is thick in the air as onlookers peer inside a freight train containing the bodies of […]
Economics / Film / Technology
Goodbye Hollywood, hello Watford
Published by The Mail on Sunday (20th July, 2014) There was a sprinkling of rain as 250 specially invited guests arrived for the party in the courtyard of […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
The graveyard of desecration
Published by The Mail on Sunday (2oth July, 2014) There was something almost beautiful about the white ribbons tied to stakes as they fluttered in the wind; some […]