Articles from the author

Mood is grim among expats in Saudi Arabia

First Person: Where the lift man is a secret agent

Human shields take up positions

Prisoners in their own homeland

Of leaky roofs, secret agents

Like Daesh in the Middle East, Boko Haram has a capital, an army and a self-styled leader and the immediate threat is the new ‘Caliphate’ will now become a base for more conquests

As Kim Jong-un’s nuclear programme progresses, the world can only watch and wait for his downfall

By his own folly, Yanukovych has galvanised the demonstrators

A dictator’s health is always a taboo subject as ‘supreme leaders’ need to be immortal

The venerable member of Russia’s armoury will be pressed into service again

Taliban’s attack on Malala Yousufzai for attending school was part of a much deeper cultural crisis

If the foreign affairs committee thinks that Britain should relegate itself to the status of a mere bystander, then it should come out and say so