Last Straw

Here’re a couple of pieces I wrote back in the heady days of my “political awakening” and the realisation that I could string a few words together even though I had had to memorise eight essays to pass my 5th form English exam: Marineland: past its use-by date and Keep it in the lab!

And Dahr heads back to Iraq:

At least in these weeks, I’ve begun to understand what war veterans who have seen the bodies — as I have — get to deal with on returning home. Now that I’ve had a little time to get my head on straight, to process some of the atrocities I saw, and to take a little breath, I find myself, against my better judgment and everything I swore I wouldn’t do, heading back to the Middle East; back to chronicle more of what’s happening there.

Dahr was the only “unembedded” and independent journalist in Iraq for a long time during and after the invasion and was consequently one of the few sources worth following. Expect to hear more.