Cambodia's women are fighting back

Cambodia’s women are fighting back

In Cambodia, you don’t have to go very far to realise this is not a great place for women’s rights. I was travelling from Phnom…

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The Digital Age

The Digital Age

“Do not hang back with the apes!” – Blanche Dubois to her sister Stella in “A Streetcar Named Desire. ” I have reached the digital…

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Notes from my travels: Cambodia's women are fighting back

Notes from my travels: Cambodia’s women are fighting back

In Cambodia, you don’t have to go very far to realise this is not a great place for women’s rights. I was travelling from Phnom…

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Dirty Hari

Dirty Hari

Drowned out by Hackgate this summer was another spectacular story of media self-immolation. Johann Hari, columnist at the Independent, winner of the prestigious Orwell Prize,…

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Cuba: anything but the yanquis

Cuba: anything but the yanquis

Cuba has always been a contentious issue in the West.

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Notes from my travels: 32,000 dong

Notes from my travels: 32,000 dong

The world is divided into two sorts of people, those who come into a dorm room at 12 o’clock at night, with people clearly sleeping,…

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Greece, Ireland and the euro - How we got here and where we go.

Greece, Ireland and the euro – How we got here and where we go.

Greek town squares and streets have erupted in violence. A Socialist government has incurred the wrath of the left by forcing through a package of…

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Traditional Japanese beds in a hostel in Hiroshima

Notes from my travels: Japonisme

Two weeks in Japan obviously gives me no right to comment on national character, psyche, traditions or anything of that sort. So I won’t try….

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