Tag Archives: IRA

Middleman in the Middle East. Cover story, FT magazine, 3 January 2009

Sometime in the late 1980s, a British embassy vehicle was inching its way through the mountains of Balochistan in Pakistan when angry tribesmen barred its path. The tribespeople were in dispute with the government over water rights and when they … Continue reading

The Guardian Saturday Interview: Gerry Adams. 17 December 2005

The first thing you notice when having lunch with Gerry Adams is that people are prone to stare in the most peculiar way, as if the president of Sinn Fein were part celebrity and part leper. We have, however, chosen … Continue reading