Published in The Mail on Sunday (August 27th, 2011) The secret door in the corner of the nondescript office swung open and I was ushered through. The walls were […]
Aid
Ten great myths about foreign aid
Published in the Daily Mail (July 7th, 2011) As he pledged to pour hundreds of millions more into propping up Afghanistan, David Cameron accused critics of his foreign […]
Aid
Despite our noble intentions, aid does not solve problems – it just makes them worse
Published in the Daily Mail (May 18th, 2011) The Marriott Hotel in Islamabad symbolises Pakistan’s profound problems with terrorism and its amazing spirit of survival. Three years ago, […]
Syria / World
Slaughter of the olive branch martyrs
Published in The Mail on Sunday (May 1st, 2011) The story of the Syrian uprising is being told in short sentences. The regime has driven out foreign journalists, […]
Bahrain / World
Wedding guests whose presence shames the nation
Published in The Times (April 28th, 2011) Tomorrow’s royal wedding is not a state occasion, say Palace officials, just a private event for Wills and Kate. Total nonsense, […]
Syria / World
Inside Syria: Secret police tell parents of arrested protesters to forget their children and have some more
Published in The Mail on Sunday (April 17th, 2011) Khalid was not a political activist, just an ordinary middle-class man inspired by the tide of change sweeping across […]
Africa / Equatorial Guinea
Africa’s despots fear the gales will blow south
Published in The Times (March 11th, 2011) Juan Pedro Mendene was midway through his weekly radio programme, ironically called Total Relaxation, when the live broadcast was interrupted by his […]
Aid
Western aid now does more harm than good
Published in the London Evening Standard (March 1st, 2011) As Harry Truman’s team prepared his inaugural presidential address in late 1948, there was concern that the section on […]
Africa / Egypt
The flowering of democracy, or the birth of another Iran?
Published in The Mail on Sunday (January 30th, 2011) For the fifth day in a row, Egypt was consumed with rage, fear and hope yesterday. The streets of […]
Africa / Tunisia
Why a fruit and veg seller could unleash wave of revolutions
Published in the Mail on Sunday (January 16th, 2011) It all began with the despair of one man, a young graduate unable to get a job, like so […]
Africa / Rwanda
The dark shadows that stain the new darling of Africa
Published in The Independent (November 27th, 2009) There are few things that unite Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron, but one of them is Rwanda. All three […]