Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th May, 2018) When Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office 16 months ago, he promised ‘the hour of action’ had arrived. For […]
Syria / United States / World
Air strikes only expose the West’s weakness
Published by The i paper (16th April, 2018) One year ago the newly-elected president of the United States was watching cable news when it showed distressing images of […]
United States / World
Trump: emboldened and dangerous
Published by The i paper (26th March, 2018) Donald Trump never wanted to be president. His goal when running for the White House was the same as it […]
Africa / Mali / United States / World
As our narrative on Africa shrinks, the continent rises
Published by The i paper (15th January, 2018) For a brief moment Donald Trump sounded presidential on Friday as he signed a proclamation to mark the public holiday […]
Drugs / Policy / United States / World
And a hippy new year….
Published by The i paper (1st January, 2018) The first time I went to the United States was in 1983 when I spent summer working at a camp […]
United States / World
Blood-soaked Baltimore becomes murder central
Published by The Mail on Sunday (31st December, 2017) Erricka Bridgeford first saw someone shot dead when she was 12 years old. Her brother has been killed, along […]
Health / Policy / United States / World
America’s public health enemy No 1
Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st October, 2017) When Patsy Stinchfield was a young nurse practitioner three decades ago, her home town in the US Midwest was […]
Economics / United States / World
The gap between Trump’s manufactured promises and life in Middle America
Published by UnHerd (28th September, 2017) After more than a decade working in a plant assembling circuit boards for boilers, Jody Krinn was starting to ponder retirement. Not […]
North Korea / United States / World
Liberating 25 million enslaved North Korean people should be our priority
Published by The ipaper (4th September, 2017) It felt like an earthquake. Tremors rippled out from the underground test zone buried deep in a North Korean mountain and […]
Drugs / Policy / United States / World
The other deadly hurricane surging across America
Published by UnHerd (1st September, 2017) Last weekend I was in Houston when the hurricane hit. The winds smashed into buildings, the rain lashed down. It was an […]
United States / World
Storms in Texas, clouds over Washington
Published by The ipaper (28th August, 2017) The rain is still coming down hard here in Houston. And soon the president will be down also, trying to look […]
United States / World
Harvey storms Texas
Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th August, 2017) America was last night braced for ‘catastrophic’ flooding after being hit by its most powerful storm since Katrina. Hurricane […]