Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th May, 2025) Sir Keir Starmer joined the leaders of France, Germany and Poland in Kyiv yesterday in a bid to ramp […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
We’re still stunningly complacent about this tyrant’s grave threat
Published by The Daily Mail (18th March, 2024) Thirteen years ago, Vladimir Putin went to watch a martial arts tournament and, as he congratulated the winner of one heavyweight […]
Europe / France
Troubled republic must search its revolutionary soul
Published by The i paper (3rd July, 2023) In 2009, Africa Express, the collaborative music project I co-founded, held a show in the centre of Paris. So as […]
Africa
Stop the mockery, end the pity and start to engage
Published by The i paper (20th January, 2020) Boris Johnson has displayed repulsive views on Africa. He has been racist, with a column referring to ‘tribal warriors’ breaking out […]
Europe / France
French protests show Western democracies need rapid reform
Published by The i paper (3rd December, 2018) Paris is burning once again. Masked protesters have been tearing up paving stones, torching buildings, building barricades and setting vehicles […]
Africa / Aid / Politics
May’s view of Africa is blinkered and damaging
Published by The Times (29th August, 2018) Theresa May is making her first visit to Africa since entering Downing Street more than two years ago — and the […]
Politics
Spare no sympathy for the Labour moderates
Published by The i paper (22nd January, 2018) The contrast could not have been more striking. First up on The Andrew Marr Show was French president Emmanuel Macron, […]
Africa / Mali / United States / World
As our narrative on Africa shrinks, the continent rises
Published by The i paper (15th January, 2018) For a brief moment Donald Trump sounded presidential on Friday as he signed a proclamation to mark the public holiday […]
Europe / France / Immigration / Policy
Human wolfpack hiding in the woods of Calais
Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd July, 2017) First there was Sangatte. Then ‘the Jungle’. Now they hide out in the woods. Migrant men, women, boys and […]
Europe / France / Politics
What Labour could learn from Monsieur Moderate
Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th May, 2017) Three years ago he was unknown across France. His bid for the presidency was announced only six months ago. […]
Europe / France
Macron plays the populist card
Published by The ipaper (1st May, 2017) We are enduring the most predictable and sterile election of modern times. On one side we see the anticipated coronation of […]