• Lebanon

    Air Travel Killed the Shipping Star

    Okay, I admit it. I’ve reached a regional impasse. And I’ll continue to remain in this geographical cul-de-sac until I work out an exit strategy that doesn’t involve cycling straight into a popular uprising on the one side and a brutal state apparatus crackdown on the other. Whilst I stand in solidarity with Syrians everywhere who are striving (often with their lives) to throw off the yoke of forty years of dictatorship; the fact that the UK have been helping to train military personnel loyal to the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad does not help my cause in securing a safe passage to the Jordanian border, a mere 160km away. Falling…