Monthly Archives: May 2016

Early day motion 99 Session: 2016-17 Date tabled: 25.05.2016 Primary sponsor: Glindon, Mary Total number of signatures: 10 Bottomley, Peter Durkan, Mark Gapes, Mike Glindon, Mary Kinahan, Danny McGarry, Natalie Meale, Alan Ritchie, Margaret Shannon, Jim Stephens, Christopher That this … Continue reading →

Please book a ticket, indeed several, for this Save the Children benefit for the child refugees in Kurdistan. They need your support. https://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=19596

On the day of the centenary of the Sykes-Picot agreement this week, the Kurdish Rudaw media network (for which I write a weekly column) asked me if David Cameron would advance the independence of Kurdistan. I suggested this was the … Continue reading →

You’ll be hearing a lot this week about Sykes-Picot, a secret agreement signed by British and French diplomats a hundred years ago. It aimed to carve up the collapsing Ottoman Empire between France and Britain but was overtaken by events. … Continue reading →

Twenty miles from Mosul, my driver hit the brakes but only because he had spotted a speed camera. Mundane here maybe but proof of a new determination to root out the reckless driving I have seen in a decade of … Continue reading →