Terrorists confuse aims with targets
Published by The Observer (24th July, 2016) Does Terrorism Work by Richard English (Oxford University Press) Two decades ago I... Read Full Article
To austerity and beyond by Yanis the menace
Published by The Observer (24th April, 2016) And The Weak Suffer What They Must? by Yanis Varoufakis (Bodley Head) It... Read Full Article
Further dispatches from Syria’s maelstrom
Published by The Spectator (14th April, 2016) The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria by Janine di Giovanni... Read Full Article
The hellhole that refugees are forced to call home
Published by The Observer (7th February, 2016) City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp (Portobello) Guled... Read Full Article
How ‘Big Brother’ is destroying free speech in Rwanda
Published by The Observer (10th January) Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship by Anjan Sundaram (Bloomsbury) The text arrived... Read Full Article
Dreams, despair and dictators
Published by The Observer (24th August, 2015) Shifting Sands: The Unravelling of the Old Order in the Middle East (Profile)... Read Full Article
The war on drugs is stupid and counter-productive
Published by The Spectator (16th July, 2015) Zero Zero Zero by Roberto Saviano (Allen Lane) & Dreamland: The True Story... Read Full Article
Why a trick of the mind can make you blind
Published by The Daily Mail (18th June, 2015) It’s All In Your Head by Suzanne O’Sullivan (Chalto & Windus) Life was good... Read Full Article
Divas who think they can’t sing
Published by The Daily Mail (15th May, 2015) Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing (Virago) Dusty... Read Full Article
A continent trashed by treasure seekers
Published by The Observer (1st March, 2015) The Looting Machine: Warlords, tycoons, smugglers and the systematic theft of Africa’s wealth... Read Full Article