Published in The Mail on Sunday (23rd February, 2014) Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was greeted by thousands of opposition supporters last night as she made a […]
Politics
The dark horse candidate to succeed Cameron
Published in The Independent (February 19th, 2014) Slowly but surely, discreet campaigns to succeed David Cameron as Tory party leader are slipping through the gears. There is little […]
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 […]
Aid / Pakistan / World
How we pour millions into foreign flood zones
Published in The Daily Mail (12th February, 2014) While thousands of frightened and furious Britons fight to defend their homes from the rising waters this week, the biggest […]
Drugs / Policy / Politics
A cheer for Nick Clegg – he is talking about drugs
Published in The Independent (February 10th, 2014) Hooray! Give Nick Clegg a cheer – at last we have a prominent frontline politician talking some sense on drugs. Following […]
Politics
Sharpen the axe, minister – there should be more political appointments, not fewer
Published in the ‘i’ newspaper (3rd February, 2014) Although she is a popular figure in Westminster and a peer, Sally Morgan has never been a prominent political performer. […]
Immigration / Politics
The joke’s not on Nigel Farage. It’s on the rest of us
Published in The Guardian (January 29th, 2014) It has been a bad few days for Ukip. First, one of the party’s councillors said that flooding was God’s revenge […]
Pakistan / World
Victim support charity chief ‘took armed gang to settle land dispute’
Published in the Mail on Sunday (January 26th, 2014) The head of Victim Support, the Government-backed charity for people affected by crime, has been accused of taking an […]
Economics / Housing / Policy / Technology
Why battle to save sickly shops on the high street when we need homes?
Published in The Guardian (17th January, 2014) It has become a January ritual: the nation’s retailers reporting one after another how they performed over the crucial Christmas period. […]
Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
Summer on a kibbutz as Sharon dragged Israel into a quagmire
Published in The Independent (January 13th, 2014) In 1982, facing the long summer of a second-year student in the days of student grants, I followed a friend – […]
Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
Ariel Sharon, the Butcher of Beirut turned peacemaker, dies at the age of 85
Published in The Mail on Sunday (January 12th, 2014) Ariel Sharon, the Israeli general and former prime minister who proved such a controversial figure across the Middle East […]
Aid / China / World
World hunger has fallen. Now what do we do about the planet’s expanding waistline?
Published in The Independent (January 11th, 2014) In the year of my birth China was engulfed in the worst famine of modern history. One chronicler remembers rushing home […]