Published by The i paper (23rd October, 2023) Five years ago in Gaza, I watched the theatre of tragedy play out before my eyes. I had gone to report […]
Covid19 / Disability / Health / Policy / Politics / Social care
A grave threat to vulnerable people
Published by The i paper (23rd March, 2020) Six years ago I landed in Liberia. My temperature was taken after leaving the plane, then I walked through an […]
China / World
Inside China’s concentration camps
Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th November, 2019) The guards picked out the prettiest girl – a teenager with her head shaved and wearing a simple uniform […]
Immigration / Iraq / Policy / Politics / World
Britain’s refusal to take Yazidi victims of genocide flies in face of May’s talk on modern slavery
Published by The ipaper (18th March, 2019) Five years ago I was reporting from Iraq when I wrote about Kocho, a Yazidi village where Islamic State (IS) fanatics […]
Venezuela / World
Did Socialism really destroy Venezuela?
Published by The i paper (28th January, 2019) When I visited Venezuela three decades ago, it was the envy of Latin America with its stable democracy and oil-based […]
World
Britain’s silence over Saudi Arabia’s abuses is shameful
Published by The Times (5th May, 2017) Last month a 29-year-old woman named Mariam al-Oteibi attempted to flee her abusive family in Riyadh, only to be captured by […]
Cuba / World
An enemy of the people
Published by the ipaper (28th November, 2016) Shortly after the announcement Fidel Castro had died, state security agents turned up at a house in Havana. It belonged to […]
Aid / Turkey / World
Human rights, hypocrisy and a humanitarian summit
Published by The ipaper (23rd March, 2016) Four years ago United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon announced his idea for a giant summit to discuss the stumbling response systems […]
Africa / Libya / Politics
I’ll reveal how MI6 gave me to Gaddafi’s thugs
Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th December, 2014) A Libyan dissident kidnapped by US forces with the help of MI6 and delivered, along with his pregnant wife, […]
Africa / Aid / Ethiopia
Sorry Bob – Band Aid has done more harm than good
Published by The Daily Mail (12th November, 2014) Once again, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure have lined up the latest crop of chart-toppers to create another incarnation — […]
Africa / Rwanda / South Africa
Kagame’s enemies have a strange habit of dying
Published in The Independent (January 3rd, 2014) Patrick Karegeya knew Paul Kagame well. The pair went to school together, worked alongside each other in Ugandan intelligence and then […]
Policy / Politics
The tide is turning against homophobia
Published in The Guardian (December 27th, 2013) In Uganda, two people who have sex could end up serving life sentences in prison if they happen to be the […]