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Writing on the Edge: MSF Anthology

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 Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières and Rizzoli have published an anthology called Writing on the Edge: Great Contemporary Writers On The Frontline of Crisis, "a collection of 14 first-hand accounts of life inside conflict zones where the international medical

Posted on April 20th, 2010

Looking back on New Labour (2010)

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 The Guardian has published a series of reflections by novelists on the New Labour era. Will Self, Sue Townsend, Peter Akinti, Andrew O'Hagan, Philip Pullman, Jonathan Coe, Helen Walsh and me. I'll post the full text of my contribution (it was slightly edited by the Guardian) soon. 

Posted on April 6th, 2010

Liberalism, Censorship and the Chilling Effect

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Index on Censorship asked me to blog about the campaign against Rod Liddle's possible appointment to the editorship of the Independent. A comment thread is already underway on the the Index Site:

Posted on January 22nd, 2010

Airline Security: Profiling and paranoia (2010)

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 I flew LHR-JFK just after the Christmas day bomb attempt.  Paranoia and security lines. I was reminded of how bad things were just after 9/11 and wrote an anecdotal piece for The Guardian.  

Posted on January 6th, 2010

The First War on Terror (2008)

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Bande a Bonnot

 Anyone interested in political history or theory should visit Christie Books, the publishing house and anarchist archive run by Stuart Christie, would-be assassin of General Franco and author of the entertaining memoir Posted on December 31st, 2009

Happy New Decade: Are you (still) Afraid? (2004, 2009)

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Notting Hill Gate

As we head towards the new year and every media outlet on the planet compiles lists of definitive this and that, I found this 2004 piece on my hard drive, which seems to do a reasonable decade-summarising job. It was a column for Arena magazine. I'm not sure they printed it, though I remember they took my picture on the concourse at Waterloo station.

Posted on December 14th, 2009