Published by The Guardian (27th August, 2014) History never tires of repeating itself. More than three decades ago Socialists won power in France with promises to revive the […]
Europe / Politics / Russia
Forget diplomacy: this was the stroppy summit
Published in The Mail on Sunday (September 8th, 2013) Welcome to the stroppy summit. Held in one of Europe’s most spectacular cities, it was designed to discuss the […]
Africa / Mali
Stop the march of these deadly extremists
Published in The Independent (January 14th, 2013) For centuries, Mopti has been one of the most important cities in the Sahel, the trading post where the Saharan desert […]
Europe / France
Plodding provincial who stands on brink of the presidency
Published in The Daily Mail (May 4th, 20120) He cut an unlikely figure as he stood in a corridor of the Bercy Omnisports Arena in Paris last Sunday, […]
Europe / France / Politics
When rulers are out of touch, voters fall for extremists’ snake-oil solutions
Published in The Daily Mail (April 24th, 2012) However you cut it, Sunday’s presidential election in France was a profoundly depressing result: not just for the French, but […]
Europe / France
Sarko is heading for the guillotine
Published in The Daily Mail (April 20th, 2012) The rally bore all the hallmarks of a president on a triumphant home run back to the Elysee Palace: the […]