Published by The Daily Mail (18th July 2014) The world may have averted its gaze towards Israel and Gaza, but this week the rumbling warfare in eastern Ukraine […]
Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
Israel sends commandos into Gaza after 50 die in air strikes
Published by The Daily Mail (17th July, 2014) Israel sent ground forces into Gaza yesterday for the first time in its latest offensive, launching an amphibious assault with […]
Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
So familiar, so forlorn and so fantastically self-defeating
Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th July,2014) Olga Neiman was asleep when the missile struck shortly after 9pm, exhausted by the daily exertions of looking after her […]
Africa / Aid / Kenya
The folly of the 0.7% foreign-aid solution
Published by the Wall Street Journal (10th July, 2014) Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki won global applause when he introduced free primary-school education over a decade ago. Who could […]
Aid
Aid corporations dressed in clothing of compassion
Published in The Guardian (8th July, 2014) The president of South Sudan warns that his nation faces terrible famine, with more than a million people fleeing their homes […]
Policy / Politics
When localism confronts Bonapartism
Published by The Guardian (4th July, 2014) A whiteboard in the corner of Jeremy Hunt’s Whitehall office symbolises a struggle over the soul of modern government. It details […]
Africa / Egypt
One among many, snared by a brutal regime
Published by The Independent on Sunday (29th June, 2014) Yara Sallam was one of the most inspirational activists I met amid the Arab Spring uprisings. As Tahrir Square […]
Arts / Books / Politics
Farage and the fruitcakes
Published by The Observer (29th June, 2014) Protest Vote: How Politicians Lost the Plot (Gibson Square) Ten years ago, Tim Newark was shopping near his north London home […]
Drugs / Policy
Another stupid salvo in Britain’s idiotic war on drugs
Published by The Guardian (26th June, 2014) Khat has been legally imported into this country for 60 years, a mild natural stimulant chewed by a tiny slice of […]
Economics / Immigration / Policy
Don’t blame foreign players for England’s early exit
Published by The Independent on Sunday (22nd June, 2014) So, we must suffer for another four years: the World Cup is not coming home to the nation that […]
Iraq / Politics
Tony Blair has moved beyond parody
Published by The Independent (16th June, 2014) Please forgive me. I know we should ignore his latest attention-seeking outburst, like a kind parent might turn their back on […]
Africa / Congo
Virunga is saved but Africa’s wildlife is being encircled sliver by sliver
Published by The Guardian (13th June, 2014) It seems incredible anyone could contemplate drilling for oil in Virunga. Not only is this sprawling national park the oldest in […]