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		<title>I witnessed the Arab Spring. Dignity must beat darkness in Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i Paper (12th January, 2026)]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Blair&#8217;s hypocrisy remains unmitigated</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (23rd August, 2021) Ten years ago, I stood in the ransacked residence of the British ambassador to Libya, staring through a hole blasted [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The West can play a part defeating dictatorship</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (1st February, 2021) For the second weekend running, protests against the festering regime of Vladimir Putin flared up across Russia. His security forces [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Grotesque deeds that stained our democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 19:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st July, 2018) A few days after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, I entered the ransacked residence of the British ambassador to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A well-trodden journey into the heart of darkness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2018 13:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Times (30th December, 2017) Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon (Head of Zeus) I came to this book with enthusiasm. The author [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Crocodile shows his teeth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2017 16:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (20th November, 2017) So farewell then, Robert Mugabe. The situation in Zimbabwe remains fluid after the carefully planned coup that claims not to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A specialist in foreign policy failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2017 11:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (29th May, 2017) A battle for power that looked dull, despite the bubbling undercurrents of British politics, has exploded into life. Theresa May [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Stop this anti-Cameron cacophony</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th September, 2016) A year ago, David Cameron was being hailed as a political colossus after pulling off a shock Election victory. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2015 19:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Financial Times (3rd December, 2015) So here we go again. Britain has embarked on another military intervention, with Royal Air Force Tornado jets setting off [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Britain should beware sliding back into Middle Eastern war</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2015 14:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Independent (20th July, 2015) Slowly but surely, Britain is being dragged back into wider military intervention in the Middle East. For months, the ground has been [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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