February 2012 (6)
  • Feb 27 2012
  • 2:33pm
The Khedira photo-shoot: Tunisia’s media own-goal
I’m no expert on football. I don’t even know as much as Alan Shearer...
  • Feb 23 2012
  • 7:10pm
Afghanistan: what comes to mind …?
If you did one of those first-word-that-comes-into-your-head exercises with Afgh...
  • Feb 22 2012
  • 5:37pm
Marie Colvin: a life dedicated to human rights reporting
As I write this post the tributes are stacking up for Marie Colvin.
  • Feb 16 2012
  • 2:24pm
Torture in Libya: toenails or fingernails?
Sometimes it’s all in the details. Yesterday I was sending out a press rel...
  • Feb 13 2012
  • 7:08pm
Shaker Aamer's Guantánamo decade
I've blogged about Shaker Aamer numerous times in the past few years and, in...
  • Feb 3 2012
  • 7:43pm
Human rights in Egypt: not a political football
The old cliche about how "x" issue "should not be made into a pol...

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