A mad, bad and dangerous swim across the Dardanelles (Financial Times magazine)
I am swimming in the middle of the strait dividing Europe from Asia Minor and I sense most of us are not going to make it.
Continue Reading May 8th, 2010
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Let’s hear it for the generalist journalist (The Tablet)
It’s a paradox that would bother Lord Reith or William Russell were they alive today.
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Escape from Alcatraz (Sunday Times)
A mile and a half across the bay, lies the prize of San Francisco – a thicket of skyscrapers shimmering in the early morning haze.
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Best friends reunited (Daily Telegraph magazine)
There is a scene in The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh’s novella of 1948, that takes place at a fictional pet cemetery in Los Angeles called the Happier Hunting Ground.
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The beano and the ballot box (Sunday Times magazine)
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 magazine)
Twenty feet down through the hazy blue of the Caribbean, several lean, grey Zeppelins cruise silently by.
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The new way to island-hop? (Sunday Times)
Beneath me is the deep blue abyss of the Aegean.
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Farmer challenges legality of land grab laws (Daily Telegraph)
A British farmer in Zimbabwe has launched a legal challenge to the government’s land reform programme that has forced out thousands of fellow white farmers.
Continue Reading Add comment March 31st, 2007
Africa’s moderate extremist (Prospect)
Thabo Mbeki the enigma has become a cliché. But so far there have been few attempts to fathom the man who in 1999 was given the impossible task of replacing Nelson Mandela. William Gumede’s unauthorised biography is therefore to be prized.
Continue Reading Add comment December 1st, 2005
Mesmerised by all the right spots (Financial Times)
Panthera pardus, Africa’s most secretive and intriguing wild animal, drew us to Namibia. The leopard eludes most visitors as well as most Africans. The other pull was the desert, which makes up the majority of this huge empty land of only 2m people.
Continue Reading Add comment November 19th, 2005