Journalism
(August 2005)
When an Antonov 12 airlift took off Marseilles earlier this month, heading for one of the famished regions of Niger, it carried several tonnes of oil and sugar, things you’d expect would be used to help starving people. But it also carried tonnes of a 92 gram, 500 calorie foil sachet that is a household name in hungry countries and virtually unknown in well-fed ...
(February 2005)
You can tell you’re flying into Liberia because the world goes dark. An hour’s flying out of Banjul, lights on the ground disappear, and they only appear again as red runway landing lights up so close, you know you’re about to crash into Robertsfield airport. 18 months into its first proper peace since 1989, after 14 years of spectacularly brutal civil wars, Liberia still ...
(December 2004)
At 8.10am on July 28, Rebecca Louise Turner said, "Yes please", when asked if she wanted breakfast in her cell at HMP Low Newton near Durham. By the time the officers brought the tray at 8.50, she was already hanging. At 9.15, she was declared dead. "They told me she'd hanged herself with a belt," says her mother, Janet Wade. "I said, 'That's daft, ...
(November 2004)
I see him from a distance, talking intently in the corridor, a figure with shoulder-length white hair in a style that defies fashion. His profile is familiar, because I've seen his portrait in a Belgrade photo studio, which shows his picture in its window along with other Serbian celebrities. He must sit oddly with the politicians and dreadful folk-singers, ...