Dear COVID – 19: a viral invitation
Hello virus. I haven’t met you personally, thank God. You haven’t visited my mum and my stepfather, my sister and her family, or my best…
Far from the madding crowd…… an appeal to support refugees on Samos
Last New Year’s Eve, I was in Greece, sitting round a beach fire on the isle of Samos, just a few kilometres from the coast…
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Remembrance Day for remarkable humans
On Monday, just after 11 in the morning I paused for thought. Remembrance Day marks the moment World War One ended, at 11 o’clock on…
Teranga ! Why Senegal is super, and sadly not for me #renowned-she-warrior
For those of you who’ve never logged on here before (Welcome 😎 ) I’m a conflict nerd, by which I mean a professional humanitarian peacebuilder.…
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So what would you do with €700 million?
I love cathedrals: the spaciousness, the stone flag floors and rising columns, archways and sensual stained glass. The echoes of history, walls soaked in hymns…
The Better Story, and why Samos Volunteers needs people like you
A refugee camp, especially if you’ve never been to one, probably sounds like hell on earth: crammed with unwashed, desperate people living in flimsy, flapping…
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Self-build for refugees, a sobering tale of desperate innovation
I’m in touch with a young man in prison: he has been living in the refugee camp on the Isle of Samos (see photo). He…
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Shreds of human sense: refugees and us on the Greek isle of Samos
I love my family, but most of the best Christmases I’ve ever spent have been without them, usually overseas, doing something I never expected to…
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Why Samos is still the real story of 2018
After a funky few months based in Cambridge (for those who’ve never been it’s very middle England, full of bicycles and wealthy looking students) I…
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Five more years in Mali……and why I’m proud to self-identify as a sheepdog
Recently, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta won his second term as President of Mali, apparently: I say apparently as the opposition, led by ex-finance Minister Soumaila Cisse,…
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Au Revoir Mali, and why empty rhetoric is fueling vicious conflicts across the Sahel
After almost two years based in Bamako (hot, dirty, compelling, terrible traffic) I have just left Mali and am temporarily based in the most English…
55 shades of heat….. in Mali
Heat does amazing things to your body and brain. As Bamako basks (or boils) at over 41°c degrees (that’s 106 fahrenheit for the rest of…
