Drug prohibition only helps organised crime
Published by The i paper (3rd April, 2023) The murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel shocked the country: a nine-year-old girl, shot... Read Full Article
24 rape and 18 sex attack claims at hospital… but not a single prosecution
Published by The Daily Mail (24th March, 2023) Police investigated 24 reported rapes and 18 sexual assaults at a single... Read Full Article
Britain’s criminal approach to drugs
Published by UnHerd (30th July, 2021) Our nation’s politicians have long been guilty of an inflated sense of exceptionalism. But... Read Full Article
British officers are doing China’s dirty work in Hong Kong
Published by The Times (19th November, 2019) With a sickening sense of inevitability, the peaceful pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong... Read Full Article
Anger over the expat officers ‘doing China’s dirty work’
Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th August, 2019) As the clashes between police and protesters grow fiercer and the... Read Full Article
Children need help, not demonising
Published by The i paper (9th April, 2018) Sometimes the smallest things drive home the enormity. Amid the mound of... Read Full Article
It’s slow, overdue but underway: we’re on the path to drug reform
Published by UnHerd (23rd November, 2017) Grahame Morris has been called many things in his political career but he could... Read Full Article
Police chief: ‘I won’t arrest low-level dealers, even for selling heroin’
Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th November, 2017) A police chief has declared that his force will stop prosecuting... Read Full Article
Slowly but surely, the West is coming down from the hallucinatory war on drugs
Published by The Independent (27th July, 2015) The stench of hypocrisy has long hung over the drugs debate. Politicians joke... Read Full Article
I know just the man to put the police’s house in order: Andrew Mitchell
Published in The Guardian (October 23rd, 2013) A few months ago David Davis told me that if the police did... Read Full Article