Simon Collins

South African notes

1 November 2014 9:00 am

“Cape Town is a lot like Sydney,” an ex-pat yarpie had assured me. But as I’m driven through the township…

Scotland always was a foreign country

20 September 2014 9:00 am

It’s tempting to look for parallels between the Scottish independence vote and our own republican referendum.

Ethiopian Diary

16 August 2014 9:00 am

My partner Billy and I are in Gondar, in north-eastern Ethiopia, a few bone-jarring hours’ drive from the Sudanese border.…