New Statesman - <![CDATA[Christina Lamb]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/christina_lamb en <![CDATA[Mugabe: Why Africa applauds him]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200608070030 http://www.newstatesman.com/200608070030 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:00:00 GMT Christina Lamb He is responsible for the hunger, homelessness and exile of millions - black and white - yet neighbouring countries still dignify him with a hero's welcome. Christina Lamb reports on the tolerance of tyranny

]]> <![CDATA[All in the past]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200408300033 http://www.newstatesman.com/200408300033 Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:00:00 GMT Christina Lamb Scribbling the Cat: travels with an African soldier Alexandra Fuller Picador, 269pp, £16.99 ISBN 033043327X

]]> <![CDATA[The return of the Taliban]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200403220021 http://www.newstatesman.com/200403220021 Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:00:00 GMT Christina Lamb Liberated women? The chief justice wants to ban women from driving. That's not the only way in which the reality in Afghanistan falls short of US claims

]]> <![CDATA[Battle scars. Long fascinated by war and its aftermath, Pat Barker turns to the present day and 9/11. Christina Lamb reports]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200309080042 http://www.newstatesman.com/200309080042 Mon, 08 Sep 2003 12:00:00 GMT Christina Lamb Double Vision Pat Barker Hamish Hamilton, 307pp, £16.99 ISBN 0241141761

]]> <![CDATA[Our man in Africa]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200308040026 http://www.newstatesman.com/200308040026 Mon, 04 Aug 2003 12:00:00 GMT Christina Lamb The Zanzibar Chest: a memoir of love and war Aidan Hartley HarperCollins, 448pp, £20 ISBN 0002570599

]]> <![CDATA[The real war heroes]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200305190033 http://www.newstatesman.com/200305190033 Mon, 19 May 2003 12:00:00 GMT Christina Lamb The role of women in conflict is strangely undocumented. Christina Lamb on a powerful collection of photographs that portrays them as more than simply victims

]]> <![CDATA[Just a few pockets of control]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200303310006 http://www.newstatesman.com/200303310006 Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:00:00 GMT Christina Lamb Where were the flowers, or the jubilant cheers? On the road to Basra, Christina Lamb found neither. Even the dogs seemed to turn their backs

]]> <![CDATA[Hail, the mini Bin Ladens]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200303240005 http://www.newstatesman.com/200303240005 Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:00:00 GMT Christina Lamb Among the silky black turbans of Quetta, otherwise known as Taliban Central, Christina Lamb hears grim forebodings

]]> <![CDATA[Could Zimbabwe be the next Rwanda?]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200302240017 http://www.newstatesman.com/200302240017 Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:00:00 GMT Christina Lamb Christina Lamb hears warnings of genocide as Mugabe's ministers talk openly of reducing the population and as starving children hunt for sparrows

]]> <![CDATA[Tortured and beaten in Wales]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200301270017 http://www.newstatesman.com/200301270017 Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:00:00 GMT Christina Lamb Christina Lamb, training for war, is confronted by too much blood too soon after breakfast

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