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The hierarchy of horrors

  • 27 September 2007
  • 8 comments

Ask an ordinary Brit for his image of Africa, and you will get a collage of nightmarish visions of flyblown, skeletal children and vile diseases festering in tropical forests

Is it ever their money?

  • 06 September 2007
  • 2 comments

Voters want proof their leader is living it up. If he can't secure a glamorous car for himself, how can he deliver on his promises to them?

Mystery of Mobutu's millions

  • 26 July 2007
  • 5 comments

The bitter value of silence

  • 28 June 2007
  • 2 comments

Two men in overcoats walked up to Serge Maheshe as he stood chatting to friends and shot him

What really makes a difference

  • 04 June 2007
  • 7 comments

I like to think I've developed an instinctive humbug detector

Wolfowitz's other mistake

  • 07 May 2007
  • 4 comments

Wolfowitz's technique, by all accounts, consisted of allowing aides brought in from the Bush administration to humiliate World Bank officials with decades of experience

Birthday thoughts on the road to Thika

  • 09 April 2007
  • 2 comments

How the infrastructure of many African states has now shrivelled away

A bumptious guide to book writing

  • 12 March 2007

Michela offers a helping hand to would be authors on Africa - so long as they're female

Kapuscinski, more magical than real

  • 12 February 2007
  • 3 comments

What's the truth about Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski

War by proxy, but not the one we think

  • 15 January 2007
  • 13 comments

The price of allowing the dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea to fester

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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