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 […]
Europe / Turkey / World
Inside the real Santa’s grotto
Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th December, 2017) The ancient Byzantine church sits behind a scruffy shopping square in the Turkish coastal town of Demre, which feels […]
Syria / World
The Assad files
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd December, 2017) The room looks harmless enough, with dull grey shelves and stacks of cardboard boxes packed to overflowing with maps […]
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 […]