Published by The i paper (24th April, 2024) The wily Rwandan leader Paul Kagame has shown great skill at fooling gullible Western politicians into supporting his dictatorship, whether […]
Africa / Immigration / Policy / Rwanda
Ruling on Rwanda is a win for decency
Published by The i paper (30th June, 2023) What a fine start to the day. First came a forceful report from the Conservative-dominated Privileges Committee condemning the Boris […]
Europe / Immigration / Policy / Ukraine
Blitz spirit that puts Britain to shame
Published by The i paper (14th March, 2022) One night last week I found myself without anywhere to stay. This was unsurprising: I was in a city in […]
Immigration / Iraq / Policy / World
We owe it to asylum seekers to help them
Published by The i paper (31st August, 2020) Hala has known nothing but conflict and chaos all her life. She was eight years old when her nation was […]
Iraq / Technology / World
So many festering wounds
Published by The i paper (17th August, 2020) Waleed Neysif was 18 years old when American forces began bombing Baghdad. He spoke perfect English, played in a heavy […]
Europe / Greece / Immigration / Policy / Turkey / World
Ankara plays pass the asylum-seeker
Published by The i paper (9th March 2020) The scenes of squalor and stories of despair had a sordid sense of familiarity. On Friday night I stood at […]
Europe / Greece / Immigration / Policy / Turkey / World
Greek police beat us, stole our money, phones, even our shoes. Then they dumped us back in Turkey
Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th March, 2020) Having fled one of Syria’s many bloodstained battlegrounds, Muhammad spent years struggling as a refugee in southern Turkey. Last week, […]
Africa / Aid / Ethiopia / Immigration / Policy
Ethiopia is right to liberate refugees from hellish camps
Published by The Times (22nd January, 2019) More than 25 million people are refugees, forced to flee their homelands by conflict, drought or disaster. For all the hysterical […]
Europe / European Union / Greece / Immigration / Policy
Left to rot on Lesbos
Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th July, 2018) I drove past tavernas filled with tourists looking out over fishing boats bobbing on the blue sea, then down […]
Africa / Aid / South Sudan / Uganda
The foreign aid ghost camps
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd June, 2018) When United Nations chief Antonio Guterres begged the world to help Uganda deal with ‘the biggest refugee exodus in Africa […]
Arts / Books / Immigration / Policy
Flawed and frustrating
Published by The Observer (30th July, 2017) Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier (Allen Lane) When the Ottoman empire collapsed almost a […]
Europe / Immigration / Policy / Serbia
The railway children
Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th January, 2017) The snow lay a foot deep as I slid my way alongside railway tracks, covering the nearby piles of […]