[3rd January 2012]
Also, please remember that hostage-taking by Somali pirates is not, as is often said, a bloodless business. It can go wrong. Glen Forbes, who runs the excellent Oceanus Live, today lists all the known hostages who have died or been killed by or relating ...
[3rd January 2012]
Happy New Year! Apologies for my silence; I am trying to write my book and so neglecting this blog. But here, to salute a brand new year - and thank god for it, because the last one was as appalling as the one before - ...
[12th December 2011]
In 2009, I was asked to serve as chair of the jury for the 2009-2010WASH media awards organized by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, an organization as excellent as its name is clunky. It was a great privilege and very humbling, ...
[6th December 2011]
With permission from Guy Walters, here is the extraordinarily rude response from Nigel Cawthorne about his massive plagiarism (see last post) to Guy, whom I had told about the plagiarism and who had questioned Cawthorne about it by email. I wonder why Cawthorne only ...
[24th November 2011]
I do not like plagiarism. I do not like it at all. A few years ago, I was fact-checking my book by looking for a particular phrase that I knew I'd written in a Guardian op-ed. Another story came up, published in The ...
[15th November 2011]
After my book came out in Italian, I was asked, and was delighted to be asked, to edit a special issue of COLORS magazine, my training ground, alma mater, place that taught me to write about huge topics in short captions. The result is SHIT: ...
[31st October 2011]
I wrote this comment piece for the Guardian on PM David Cameron's announcement that a) piracy is a "stain" on the world and an insult to international trade and b) British-flagged ships would now be allowed to carry licensed armed guards. The licensing ...