Conspiracy of thieves
Published by The Spectator (27th July, 2024) Autocracy, Inc – The Dictators Who Want To Run The World (Allen Lane)... Read Full Article
The unbelievable truth
Published by The Spectator (18th May, 2024) White Terror: A True Story of Murder, Bombings and Germany’s Far Right by... Read Full Article
The freedom fighters who dared to take on a communist superpower
Published by The Spectator (6th January, 2024) Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong... Read Full Article
In defence of Brand’s trial by media
Published by The i paper (18th September, 2023) It is the details, as always, that are so disturbing. The violence of... Read Full Article
A glorious tale of greed
Published by The Spectator (26th August, 2023) Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo In the... Read Full Article
Britain’s music is being silenced by ministerial failure
Published by The Times (20th July, 2022) Britain does not have many world-leading industries but our music business is most... Read Full Article
A long, dark shadow
Published by The Spectator (18th June, 2022) Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of... Read Full Article
Seeing red
Published by The Spectator (11th December, 2021) Wildland: the Making of America’s Fury by Evan Osnos (Bloomsbury) After leaving college... Read Full Article
A leader who was a child of his time
Published by The i paper (30th August, 2021) Behind me, glowering down from a shelf in my study as I... Read Full Article
15 years in a slave labour camp – just for listening to pop music in North Korea
Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th July, 2021) Three years ago, North Korea’s ‘Supreme Leader’ Kim Jong Un clapped along... Read Full Article