Simon Akam

Articles by Simon Akam

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''We're still fighting the Civil War here"

  • 30 October 2008

Virginia, a former slave state and Republican stronghold, could help secure the presidency for Barack Obama if thousands of unregistered and disenfranchised black voters can be mobilised

Marking 9/11

  • 12 September 2008
  • 2 comments

On the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks Obama and McCain came together in a brief suspension of electioneering at New York's Columbia University. Simon Akam reports

Waiting for the weather

  • 04 September 2008

An observation on hurricane Gustav

Deadly serious

  • 21 August 2008

The Private Patient P D James Faber & Faber, 416pp, £18.99

Eye of the storm

  • 17 July 2008
  • 1 comment

For all its warlike past, the Sinai peninsula is a quiet success story in a troubled region

Climb any mountain

  • 27 March 2008

Touring the Swiss Alps, Simon Akam discovers that a pair of skis is an essential item for an uphill journey

Paris along the Nile

  • 07 February 2008

Simon Akam takes a stroll down the crumbling, 19th-century boulevards of Cairo's European quarter

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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