The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.

People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

Our stories are the tellers of us.

When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed wire surrounded it, spray paint on the ancient walls claimed it as private property, and the moat where my grandfather and his men had grown crops - in desperation as the siege's hunger bit - was completely overgrown with bushes and trees.

I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

I'm a much better writer for being a father.