Published by UnHerd (26th July, 2018) Four months ago I attended a conference in New York that bought together experts on Vladimir Putin. It was a fascinating event, […]
Arts / Film / Technology
Film directors still revel in violence against women
Published by The Times (17th May, 2018) Critics at the Cannes film festival, those hardy souls compelled to endure a barrage of beatings, rape, stabbings and shootings in […]
Arts / Books / Europe / Norway / Syria / World
The tragedy of Syria: how protest spiralled into savagery
Published by The Spectator (26th April, 2018) Two Sisters: Into the Syrian Jihad by Asne Seierstad (Virago); No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid (Oneworld) […]
Africa / Arts / Books / Congo / Equatorial Guinea / General / Ivory Coast / Libya / Nigeria
A well-trodden journey into the heart of darkness
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 […]
Arts / Europe / Holland
Let’s make children see the nation’s greatest painting
Published by The Times (9th November, 2017) It took more than 200 days of negotiations, but last month the Netherlands finally got a new government when four parties […]
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 […]
Africa / Arts / Books
A truly monstrous regiment
Published by The Spectator (31st December, 2016) When The Walking Defeats You: One Man’s Journey as Joseph Kony’s Bodyguard by Ledio Cakaj (Zed) When George Omona first saw […]
Arts / Books / Economics
When Big Bang blew apart the bowler hat brigade
Published by The Daily Mail (17th November, 2016) Crash Bang Wallop: The inside story of London’s Big Bang and a financial revolution that changed the world (Sceptre) Shortly […]
Arts / Books / Politics
Hillbilly memoir with lessons for post-Brexit Britain
Published by the ipaper (3rd October, 2016) JD Vance was 31 years old when he published his biography and admits his accomplishments do not add up to anything […]