Published by UnHerd (5th January, 2024) Bondo is a scattered cluster of villages in a remote region of Malawi near the border with Mozambique. It sits in the […]
North Korea / South Korea / World
The defector taking on Kim Jong-un
Published by UnHerd (19th June, 2020) It was a cloudy July night with a full moon, shortly before midnight, when we arrived at our destination near the Han […]
Israel, West Bank & Gaza / Technology / World
How digital dissidents are defying the despots
Published by UnHerd (25th May, 2018) When Ahmad Abu Artema was a child, his parents separated and his mother ended up living just over the Egyptian border with […]
Europe / Politics / Russia
No place for defeatism in the struggle for democracy
Published by The i paper (19th March, 2016) As Russia goes through another sham election to crown its tsar for six more miserable years, it is easy to […]
Europe / Russia
Putin is not strong – it’s we who’ve grown weak
Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th March, 2018) In December 1989, a young KGB officer was stationed in Dresden watching the collapse of communism when a crowd […]
North Korea / South Korea / World
Kim’s kill list and ‘Enemy Zero’
Published by The Mail on Sunday (26th February, 2017) The announcement on North Korean state radio could not have been more blood curdling. They decreed that Park Sang-hak, a fugitive from Kim […]