Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd August, 2021) The Chinese government has stepped up its aggressive resistance against efforts by Western scientists to probe Covid’s origins – […]
Afghanistan / Aid / World
Fleeced: How aid billions were squandered in Afghanistan
Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd August, 2021) If you want to understand the horrifying return to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan you could delve into […]
Afghanistan / Aid / World
Our folly and failure in Afghanistan
Published by The i paper (16th August, 2021) The humiliating retreat from Afghanistan has turned into a horror show, the fear and panic in Kabul stirring up dark […]
China / Covid19 / World
The Batwoman dossier
Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th August, 2021) Slowly but surely, the narrative on the origins of the pandemic has shifted, despite the best efforts of China and […]
China / Covid19 / World
China pushed to open up labs as Covid leak theory gains support
Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th August, 2021) China is coming under pressure to share data and open up its virus research centres in Wuhan to proper […]
Afghanistan / Feature / Iraq / United States / World
The sickening hypocrisy of Bush, Blair and the war on terror
Published by The i paper (9th August, 2021) Twenty years after lethal attacks turned aircraft into weapons and sparked the so-called war on terror, the US has slunk […]
China / Covid19 / World
China should not veto a pandemic origins inquiry
Published by The i paper (26th July, 2021) Just imagine if a strange new virus emerged suddenly in Salisbury, with residents of the medieval Wiltshire town starting to […]
Arts / Music / North Korea / South Korea / World
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 to songs at a concert by famous pop […]
Crime / Policy / United States / World
What’s killing New Orleans?
Published by UnHerd (5th July, 2021) Portia Pollock was 60 years old when she was murdered outside her home. She was a physical therapist who loved working with […]
China / World
Orwellian repression is stamping out the last flickers of freedom in Hong Kong
Published by The Daily Mail (24th June, 2021) When Jimmy Lai was a child, he worked as a porter carrying bags for passengers at the railway station in […]
Arts / Books / Drugs / Policy / United States / World
An addiction catastrophe
Published by The Spectator (12th June, 2021) Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Picador) Last week I was staying in a cool hotel in […]