Just because I love ‘year in pictures’ round-ups.

The Gulf Spill?

Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake?

Eyjafjallajokull?

My house is full of vegans – bar Bella, she eats fish with her Amicat – and it means there are a lot of cook books. I make it sound like there are a lot of people in my house but in fact there’s just the two of us and our cat, Bella. And I [...]

Monitoring a ceasefire was always going to be a tough job but ex-marine Brian Steidle had no idea he was about to witness such a thing as modern genocide. The Devil came on Horseback is an amazing documentary, not one I say is ‘good’ particularly due to its topic but amazing nonetheless. It tells the story [...]

This week’s Channel 4 Dispatches focused on piecing together the horrific terrorist attacks that hit Mumbai last November. It is incredibly detailed in its tracking of the young terrorists’ movements and their communications with their ‘commanders’ in Pakistan, featuring original voice recordings of mobile interceptions, amateur video footage and CCTV, interviews with eye-witnesses and news [...]

I’ve recently finished reading a book about a translator, a tribesman in Darfur caught up in the violence when his village was destroyed by helicopter gunships in 2003, when ‘the Sudanese government-backed militias came to murder, rape and burn’ and drive the tribesmen from their lands. The Translator, his name Daoud Hari, is a Zaghawi who [...]