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Where the eagle flies
20 July 1998 • 1,043 words • City of Words
In my home town there’s a monument to a man who tried to fly. It was in 1739, according to the marker in St Mary’s… more»
1998: What Britain could do to stop famine in Sudan
27 July 1998 • 1,222 words • City of Words
Ranald Boyle is the former colonial District Commissioner of Gogrial, in Bahr al-Ghazal,… more»
The perils of aid
4 May 1998 • 1,981 words • City of Words
In the course of Sudan’s long civil war it has become easy to create famine, easy both for the government and for the military factions… more»
The limbo of the transit lounge
1998 • 761 words • City of Words
I’m not afraid of flying, but I have a dread of airports: of the limbo of the transit lounge; the horrid bustle of the check-in; the… more»
The last party at the Paradise Garage
September 1996 • 1,052 words • City of Words
On a crisp winter’s night in 1984, in New York, with Mick Jagger,… more»
The joy of textiles
February 1996 • 1,281 words • City of Words
My forebears on my father’s father’s side were silk merchants in Macclesfield, in England. During the industrial revolution they pioneered the mechanized, factory-based process that… more»
The great deception
2 September 1995 • 1,833 words • City of Words
As the regime of Saddam Hussein and his son Uday approaches—hopefully—its final days, spare a thought for Fawaz-al-Emari. He is—or is said to be—the dictator’s… more»
Symposium in Suffolk
1997 • 835 words • City of Words
It has become the most celebrated dinner-party in the world. Of the eight guests, one is late and one a gatecrasher; several are intoxicated; all… more»
Lost and found in Amazonia
22 June 1998 • 1,006 words • City of Words
Two weeks ago the latest lost tribe of the Amazon—two hundred strong and living in a dozen communal huts concealed beneath the forest canopy—was discovered… more»
Labour’s white rhino at London Zoo
10 August 1998 • 1,179 words • City of Words
Ken Livingstone has announced that he wants Regent’s Park Zoo to be free. Not for the animals, who will still be confined, but for the… more»
