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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

  • Preaching at the poor in Middle England

    January 24, 2010

  • The joy of foraging (and selective genetic memory)

    October 30, 2020

  • The lost knack of knowing when to shut up

    April 21, 2010

  • Mind the civility gap

    September 02, 2010

  • Ten days in hospital

    October 23, 2013

  • The strange geometry of an anti-gay rumpus

    December 17, 2009

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

    September 30, 2020

  • An African diva and the telecom smoothies

    October 11, 2008

  • The moral vanity of empire

    March 26, 2012

  • Don't fuck with America

    December 09, 2013

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