A team of my own (Daily Telegraph)

I’m standing in a sunny playing field in a corner of post industrial Kent, trying to take in the fact that what I’m watching is a football revolution.

Continue Reading Add comment May 10th, 2008

From the frontlines of procrastination (Daily Telegraph)

In 1975, an idealistic 17-year-old leaves the small Norwegian town of Stavanger to help the poor and wretched in Colombia.

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The beano and the ballot box (Sunday Times)

Democracy’s jet-lagged volunteers stumble out of Simon Bolivar international airport into the full glare of the Venezuelan sun.

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Plight of the predator (Daily Telegraph)

Twenty feet down through the hazy blue of the Caribbean, several lean, grey Zeppelins cruise silently by.

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“They put a gun to the back of my head. I heard them cock it. It jammed” (Guardian)

Britain’s teenage gangsters tell their stories

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Cold water, hot blood (New Statesman)

The intoxicating smell of Ambre Solaire is a distant memory and overhead the skies are darkening.

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Channel number one (Daily Telegraph)

At Samphire Beach, a Japanese woman stands in front of Dover’s white cliffs.

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Here for the beer (New Statesman)

On 22 September, the world’s most famous beer festival begins in Munich.

Continue Reading Add comment September 13th, 2007

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