How – through the news – we see our planet
Published by UnHerd (24th July, 2017) Over the past three weeks, my work has taken me to three countries on... Read Full Article
Isis
Don’t be fooled by this defeat for Daesh
Published by The ipaper (10th July 2017) Some Iraqi troops started celebrating the defeat of Isis in Mosul even as... Read Full Article
Death throes of the caliphate
Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th July, 2017) The scenes of destruction were simply apocalyptic. Every street pockmarked by... Read Full Article
Revealed: How Britain pours £568m into war-torn Somalia despite ‘certain’ risk it will be stolen and used to fund terrorism
Published by The Mail on Sunday (4th December, 2016) The Government is pumping more than half a billion pounds of... Read Full Article
Should the Nice massacre be blamed on twisted devotion to religion?
Published by the i paper (18th July, 2016) Like so many children Yannis Coviaux loved the beach, playing in the... Read Full Article
Assad fanned the flames of extremism
Published by The Independent (7th December, 2015) How quickly the narrative changes. Just two years ago, our leaders insisted we... Read Full Article
Ten years at the top – but trouble ahead on Syria and Brexit?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (6th December, 2015) Ten years ago today, a self-deprecating young politician called David Cameron took charge... Read Full Article
Cameron’s long-awaited victory on Syria
Published by The Financial Times (3rd December, 2015) So here we go again. Britain has embarked on another military intervention,... Read Full Article
Putin, tangled foreign policy and a flawed case for war
Published by The Independent (23rd November, 2015) France is not the only part of Europe under a state of emergency.... Read Full Article
To turn on refugees because of Paris is weak and wrong
Published by The Guardian (18th November, 2015) Should we ban white Australians from coming to Britain? After all, one misfit... Read Full Article