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 […]
Aid / Economics
Bill Gates preaches the aid gospel, but is he just a hypocrite?
Published in The Guardian (January 6th, 2014) He made his name as a sharp-elbowed businessman who rode the technology revolution with such style. But these days he is […]
Arts / Books
Last train to oblivion
Published in The Mail on Sunday (January 5th, 2014) The Beast: Riding The Rails And Dodging Narcos On The Migrant Trail by Oscar Martinez (Verso) The two young […]
Africa / Rwanda / South Africa
Kagame’s enemies have a strange habit of dying
Published in The Independent (January 3rd, 2014) Patrick Karegeya knew Paul Kagame well. The pair went to school together, worked alongside each other in Ugandan intelligence and then […]
Travel / Turkey / World
Go cold Turkey
Published in The Daily Mail (January 1st, 2014) As arrived at our flat in the heart of Istanbul, big fat flakes of snow fell around us. The medieval landmark […]
Politics
Tories should stop carping and revive optimism
Published in ‘i’ newspaper (December 30th, 2013) The surest sign that a political party is on the rise comes at party conference, when a new generation of bright […]