Published by The i paper (4th September, 2023) Chuck Grassley was born in 1933 to a rural family living in a farmhouse with no electricity or indoor plumbing. […]
China / World
In sucking up to China, Sunak and Cleverly risk looking as obsequious and naive as Cameron and Osborne
Published by The Daily Mail (31st August, 2023) Eight years ago George Osborne, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, took a large delegation of business and cultural leaders to […]
Europe / Russia / United States / World
Prigozhin’s death exposes a weak despot
Published by The i paper (28th August, 2023) There is a famous story from his childhood that Vladimir Putin has repeated often and seen spun by his propagandists […]
Aid / India / World
India’s lunar ascent shows absurdity of our dismal aid system
Published by The Times (24th August, 2023) There was jubilation in India after it became the fourth country to successfully send a mission to the moon. The joy […]
United States / World
The FOREVER prisoners still shackled in Guantanamo 14 years after Obama said it would be shut
Published by The Mail on Sunday (6th August, 2023) On his second day as US President, Barack Obama signed an order directing that the Guantanamo detention camp should […]
China / Covid19 / World
New evidence that Beijing hid truth about Covid origin and possible leak from Wuhan lab
Published by The Mail on Sunday (30th July, 2023) China’s public health authorities cracked the genetic code of the Covid virus five days before the rest of the […]
China / Covid19 / World
The secret messages behind the lab leak cover-up
Published by UnHerd (28th July, 2023) “What happened to Oppenheimer damaged our ability as a society to debate honestly about scientific theory,” wrote Kai Bird, author of the […]
United States / World
A new threat to American democracy
Published by The i paper (17th July, 2023) It seems extraordinary that Donald Trump remains the runaway favourite to win the Republican Party nomination for next year’s White […]
Europe / Politics / Russia / United States / World
Three ageing male egomaniacs, clinging to power
Published by The i paper (12th June, 2023) Headlines over the weekend were dominated by three ageing male egomaniacs. They are all desperate to cling to power as […]
China / World
Why do we kowtow to a vile dictatorship that covers up Covid’s origins, threatens Taiwan and carries out genocide?
Published by The Daily Mail (2nd May, 2023) As he flew back from the ceremonies marking the handover of Hong Kong to China in July 1997, the future […]
United States / World
Biden’s record is more impressive than Obama’s – but he is making a mistake by running again
Published by The I newspaper (24th April, 2023) Muddling up New Zealand’s rugby team with a British paramilitary unit from the past that was infamous for its brutality […]
China / Taiwan / World
Tanks stand ready on beaches where barricades jut from the sands – a dispatch from Taiwan front line so close you can see China across the bay
Published by The Daily Mail (11th April, 2023) Kinmen is a holiday destination with a difference: tanks are parked by some beaches, spiked barricades poke from the sand […]