Please join Parsons Green & Sandford and Sands End Wards for their Annual Taiphoon Curry lunch with Author and Journalist Robert Verkaik.
Robert is an author and journalist specialising in security and social mobility. His journalism appears in the Guardian, Independent, i newspaper, Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times.
Robert was the home affairs editor and law editor at The Independent, where he worked for 12 years. After leaving the Independent he joined the Mail on Sunday as security editor.
Since the 9.11 attacks on America, he has covered the ‘war on terror’ and has visited the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay and interviewed victims of torture in Syria. He has also headed media campaigns against ‘secret justice’ and in support of greater press freedoms. More recently he has been writing about the causes of extremism and social immobility.
In 2013 he was runner-up at the National Press Awards in the category of specialist journalist. Robert has also been long-listed for the Orwell Prize and the Paul Foot Award. He is also a non-practising qualified barrister called to the Bar in 2007.
His latest book is The Traitor of Arnhem, as featured on the front cover of the Sunday Times Magazine.
His previous book is the Sunday Times best-seller, The Traitor of Colditz.
Date: Sunday 7th December 2024
Time: 12.30pm
Full location details will be sent to ticketholders 24 hrs in advance
Tickets are £40 each which include Lunch and Wine . This event is for members and their guests - if you are bringing guests, please email [email protected] with their names and addresses.
You can also book by calling the office on 020 8960 8200.