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From my new Telegraph blog:
It appears I am not the only one who thinks the “Twitter revolution” has proven extremely dangerous for Iranian internet users. Support comes from Timothy Karr, the Campaign Director of Free Press, a US “media reform” think-tank.
He has bad news. While I highlighted the fact that the Iranian government is using Facebook and Twitter to track [...]

From my new Telegraph blog:
As Boris Johnson argues today, razing the Afghan poppy crop makes little sense while our farmers are being paid to grow the very same stuff here in Britain. The US envoy to Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, agrees. As he said last month, “Western policies have been a failure. They did not result in any damage [...]

From my new Telegraph blog:
Almost a month on from Iran’s presidential election, it is now time to recognise that the so-called “Twitter revolution” has utterly failed to achieve anything – save dead and injured young Iranians, and up to2,000 new political prisoners. President Ahmadinejad retains power after a violent crackdown. There has been no recount of [...]

This article was originally published in Nouse
Less than a mile from the border with Gaza, the ugly, sprawling town of Sderot is one of Israel’s poorest. At the beginning of last month, in the week leading up to the Israeli elections, I found myself exploring its tiny market. The stalls were owned by Russian Jews; [...]

This article first appeared in the Catholic Herald on February 26, 2009.
Two weeks ago I walked around the market in Sderot, the sprawling Israeli town which has been a target for thousands of Hamas rockets. The place is filled with immigrants from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia, and the poverty is evident. I spoke [...]

I have an Op-ed in today’s Jerusalem Post on Catholic-Jewish relations. It examines the recent Williamson debacle and calls for renewed dialogue between Catholics and Jews, bearing in mind the threat of Iranian militant Islam. You can read it here, or below.

This interview was first published in the University of York’s political magazine, the Zahir, in June 2008.
With morbid anticipation, the UK media awaited the death of the 100th British soldier in Afghanistan. On June 8 it happened: three soldiers from the 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment were blown up by a suicide bomber in the [...]