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One Cheer for Democracy

  • Global politics and culture

Bookshelf

  • Reviews of books, films and more

Kampala notebook

  • Sketches from the ‘Pearl of Africa’

Elsewhere

  • Notes on passing through

On China

  • Journalism and essays on the Middle Kingdom

Zettel

  • I think I think, therefore I might be

Barrio la Quebrada

  • A memoir of Nicaragua in the Sandinista years

Erotic poetry

  • The curse of verse

Recollections from Exile

  • A Memoir of China 1994-2007

China Development Brief

  • An archive of selected articles, 2000-2007

Cantabria

  • The rain in Spain falls mainly on the mountain

Photo Essays

  • 'Light and time' plus some words

Recommended

  • “Imagining” genocide

    October 23, 2013

  • On ‘Nature vs Nurture’

    October 04, 2008

  • Vandalism in an antique land

    October 29, 2015

  • If a cow could speak we would not understand her

    September 03, 2017

  • Malaŵi: what did 20 years of ‘development’ do?

    April 15, 2011

  • Music lessons in China: a meander through memory with variations on themes ancient and modern

    September 30, 2020

  • Preaching at the poor in Middle England

    January 24, 2010

  • France’s post-imperial stress disorder

    October 04, 2014

  • UK riots show poverty of ‘greed is good’ philosophy

    August 11, 2011

  • A more nuanced battle of the sexes

    March 16, 2010

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