The following interview puts the well-articulated opinions of a single individual centre stage. For common-sense reasons, he wishes to remain anonymous. Rest assured he is someone I know personally, and someone who places a whole new historical perspective on the shifting posistions of political parties in the USA. JM is a Read more…
“There was dancing, and singing, and smoking, can you imagine!” says the bespectacled Father Linos, referring to the tourist activities that once took place within the grounds of the now immaculately manicured Machairas Monastery. He glances towards the Bishop responsible for arresting this decay and revitalising the surroundings and several Read more…
As dusk falls, in Pine Ridge South Dakota, Oglaga Sioux gather around tables in “Big Bats,” a café cum convenience store and gas station situated at the reservation cross roads. It’s clearly the place to be, and the first time I’ve seen men hanging out in groups, as they might in eastern Read more…
What staggers me about the American landscape, beyond its beauty and scale, is our ability to read it, no matter where we come from. It all seems, somehow, familiar. Canyons, railroad crossings, grasslands, red Dutch barns, telegraph poles, reservations, mountain ranges materialising from plains and dust billowing trucks motoring long Read more…
When we sailed into the North of Ireland, rather than Northern Ireland, and drove across the frictionless Northern Irish border into Derry, the only sense of leaving one country for another was switching from Euros to Sterling. Northern Ireland voted to remain in Europe, in the referendum, by a majority Read more…
Freedom at 4AM is a true-life tale of cultural clash in Afghanistan: from the political to the personal. Set against a backdrop of history, geopolitics, religion and misadventure this immersive story climaxes with an unlikely call to prayer under life-threatening circumstances… “A powerful, sharply observed story of Marc Perry’s experience Read more…
Three years ago, from a roadside in Kabul, I witnessed one of many refugee camps clinging to the outskirts of the sprawling city. The people inside were the survivors of another freezing winter in which young an old alike had frozen to death due to the hard choices between buying wood, Read more…
On Saturday the 12th of June 1999, in a shoe factory on the outskirts of Skopje, General Sir Mike Jackson received a telegram from the Queen; it read: “I have nothing but admiration for the way in which you have carried out your duties over recent weeks during this difficult Read more…
Waking to the news in a Brussels hotel I felt nauseous. One week on from the referendum I nightmarishly recall saying this time last year that I had no sense of victim-hood within my British identity; despite a subliminal sense of discomfort with the historically situated racism of the British Read more…
Only eight months ago the people of debt-ridden Greece were asked to vote in their own EU referendum. Their issue was whether to accept a bail out deal offered by the so-called Troika. Their question: “Should the draft deal put forward by the EU, ECB & IMF, be accepted?” Was not as straight forward Read more…