Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd March, 2019) Thick black smoke rose over the Syrian village of Baghouz yesterday as Western-backed forces advanced on two fronts in […]
Syria / World
More British jihadi brides hide among us in camp, say IS women
Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th February, 2019) British women fleeing from Islamic State’s last pocket of land are giving false names and hiding their identities among […]
Europe / European Union / Politics / United States / World
Trump is terrible – but the sabotage of Brexit will outlast him
Published by The Washington Post (18th February, 2019) For most of my life, Britain and the United States have felt like twins. My country was older and perhaps […]
Iraq / Syria / World
This war is far from over
Published by The i paper (18th February, 2019) How little they learn from history. Just 16 years ago President George W. Bush stood on the deck of an […]
Iraq / Syria / World
Death squads roam in the ruins of the caliphate
Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th February, 2019) The civilians able to escape have fled. Now there are just an estimated 500 fighters, many of them foreigners, […]
Venezuela / World
Did Socialism really destroy Venezuela?
Published by The i paper (28th January, 2019) When I visited Venezuela three decades ago, it was the envy of Latin America with its stable democracy and oil-based […]
Technology / United States / World
‘Our faith will be lost if we adopt technology:’ can the Amish resist the modern world?
Published by The Guardian (15th December, 2018) Daniel Weaver does not vote, drive a car, read a paper, listen to music, watch sport of any kind, own a […]
United States / World
Adventures in Trumpland
Published by UnHerd (14th September, 2018) Richard Ojeda is standing for election in the heartland of Donald Trump terrain, a poverty-scarred slice of West Virginia filled with coal […]
United States / World
America’s child brides forced to marry abusers
Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd September 2018) Donna Pollard had only just turned 16 when she stood in a Kentucky state court house with a serial […]