Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th April, 2021) Scientists studying bat diseases at China’s maximum-security laboratory in Wuhan were engaged in a massive project to investigate animal […]
China / Covid19 / World
What a surprise: world health ‘experts’ have let China off the hook on Covid
Published by The Daily Mail (31st March, 2021) More than 420 days have passed since the World Health Organisation declared that a strange new disease killing people in […]
China / Economics / World
Nike’s shows the conflict between ethics and profits
Published by The i paper (29th March, 2021) Like most modern multinationals, the sportswear giant Nike likes to present itself as a force for good on the planet, […]
China / Covid19 / United States / World
‘A lab leak isn’t 100% certain but it seems to be the only logical source of Covid’
Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th March, 2021) A cluster of researchers from China’s secretive Wuhan laboratories fell sick with ‘Covid-like’ symptoms at least six weeks before […]
China / Covid19 / World
Beijing in row over ‘cover-up of Wuhan death toll’
Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st February, 2021) Disturbing Chinese government statistics reveal a huge drop in the number of old people receiving state payments in Hubei […]
China / World
Why President Xi will never accept defeat
Published by UnHerd (16th February, 2021) Six years ago, the Chinese president Xi Jinping made a state visit to Britain. It was an important moment for both nations […]
China / Covid19 / World
The WHO’s Covid shame
Published by UnHerd (10th February, 2021) Since the pandemic started, China has promoted various narratives on its possible origins. First, the country’s top scientists blamed a Wuhan market […]
China / Defence / Education / Policy / World
MI6 fears over UK university links to Beijing as at least 12 of them are probed by spooks
Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th February, 2012) (Written with Glen Owen, Political Editor) More than a dozen British universities are under investigation over commercial relationships with […]
Europe / Russia
The West can play a part defeating dictatorship
Published by The i paper (1st February, 2021) For the second weekend running, protests against the festering regime of Vladimir Putin flared up across Russia. His security forces […]
China / Covid19 / World
Virus ‘definitely’ began in China, say US scientists
Published by Mail on Sunday (31st January, 2021) The coronavirus pandemic definitely started in China, according to a scientific study that has traced the ‘mother’ of all Covid-19 […]
Politics
The double standards of sport
Published by The i paper (18th January, 2021) Maro Itoje went to Harrow, one of Britain’s most expensive private schools, before becoming a rugby superstar. But now he […]
China / Covid19 / World
It’ll be an unforgivable insult to two million dead if world lets China bury the truth
Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th January, 2021) It has taken 14 months since a sinister new disease emerged in Wuhan for the global health body responsible for […]