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The Spectator – Articles

• In which I meet two rather ill-mannered journalists who turn out to be two of bin Laden’s suicide bombers
• Alexander’s Lost Tribe: the 2002 Spectator Expedition
• Spectator Diary: dope and Bach in the Hindu Kush
• Lefties on Afghanistan: how stupid and wrong they were (as usual)
• For the Chop: in which I meet more murderers in Afghanistan
• A Journey to the Source of the Oxus
  
  

The Spectator – Book Reviews

• The Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb: How did Afghanistan get into the mess it did?
• The Zanzibar Chest by Aidan Hartly: Ideology meets reality in Africa
• Josiah the Great by Ben McIntyre: the story behind The Man Who Would be King
• Alexander the Great by Paul Cartledge: Bloodstained monster or enlightened democrat?
• The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad: This review has been reproduced a great deal on the Internet.

Areté magazine

• Afghan Diary: the account of my visit in 2001 that gave rise to a book contract with Picador. Winter 2001
• On Death Row: an excerpt from the book. Winter 2002

The Times

• Tourism in Afghanistan

The New Statesman

• Why MBAs are a waste of time

Literary Review

• Letter from Kabul
• The Silk Road and Strolling About on the Roof of the World [October 2003]: International trade as sex
• Duel in the Snows by Charles Allen [February 2004]: Beards, moustaches and class
• Kandahar Cockney by James Fergusson [July 2004]

Glazed Expressions

• This is an account of the reason for my first visit to Afghanistan in 1993, when I was taken to Herat by the redoubtable diplomat Charlotte Harford, a remarkable traveller who is now running the Red Cross’s operations in Nagorno Karabakh.

Oxford Student

• Unacceptable facts about the plague of beggars in England's most beautiful city.