Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers, I'm Georgina Godwin.
My guest today is a long-time monocle contributor whose career has moved between front-line journalism and the hard grind of international human rights advocacy.
He began in television at Grenada before joining the Independent at its launch in 1986,
reporting from Eastern Europe during the revolutions and the Balkan Wars,
later serving as Germany Bureau Chief and Chief Foreign Correspondent.
He went on to senior roles at Human Rights Watch,
Amnesty International and Freedom from Torture, working at the of law, politics and accountability.
His books have explored the collapse of the Soviet Union,
modern Germany, protest movements and the quiet force of resistance.
His latest work tackles a question that's haunted international politics for more than a century.
Can the most powerful ever truly be held to account?
It's a pleasure to welcome Steve Croshaw.
Thank you.
Delight to be here.
Steve,
you and I have known each other for very many years when I was still working for a Zimbabwean station in exile.
We used to get you on to comment about ways in which you could bring down a government.
And you've written about this in lots of fun ways, including your book called Street Spirit.
Just tell me a little bit about that, because honestly,
I think it's still my favourite political work.