Published by The Daily Mail (22nd February, 2023) Sinister black posters appeared at bus stops and parks across the country days before Vladimir Putin’s speech to the Russian […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
‘I hate all Russians’ Olena tells me. ‘My hatred goes from their children to their grandmothers.’
Published by The Daily Mail (18th February, 2023) On the left bank of Kyiv, ten miles from the city centre, sits a peaceful cemetery beside some woods where […]
Russia / Ukraine
‘This isn’t Russian roulette any more… it’s like the suicide of lemmings’
Published by The Daily Mail (14th February, 2023) Russia has suffered some of the heaviest military losses in a single battle since the start of the war after […]
Europe / Germany / Ukraine
‘They need fighter planes and long range missiles too’
Published by The Daily Mail (26th January, 2023) Delighted Ukrainians shared selfies on social media yesterday in which they showed off their leopard-print clothes. Women donned coats, tops […]
Policy / Sport
Everyone expects it to end in disaster at Everton
Published by The Daily Mail (21st January, 2023) There is something deeply irrational about being a football fan. The time, money and effort spent following your club. The […]
China / Covid19 / World
How the sudden lifting of China’s Zero Covid plunged the country into turmoil
Published by The Daily Mail (January 2nd, 2023) The man’s note to his neighbours was polite. He stated that his father had died in their Shanghai flat from […]
China / Covid19 / World
How Covid revolt swept across China
Published by The Daily Mail (November 28th, 2022) The blaze broke out in a residential high-rise building in Urumqi, a city in western China infamous for the repression […]
Covid19
UK scientist’s emails show he DID fear Covid lab leak
Published by The Daily Mail (November 25th, 2022) The top British scientist who played a central role in crushing suggestions that Covid could have originated in a laboratory […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
I’ve seen the fragility of our way of life, how precious is peace and the need for constant vigilance against tyranny
Published by The Daily Mail (14th November, 2022) On the outskirts of Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv lies a suburb of Soviet-era apartment blocks that were once filled with […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Town of the Damned
Published by The Daily Mail (9th November, 2022) Lisa was staring in shock at the block of flats once filled with happy families. The two ends still stood […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Slaughter of the conscripts
Published by The Daily Mail (8th November, 2022) MORE than 500 conscripts from one Russian battalion were slaughtered in 72 hours after being dumped on the front line […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Why Ukraine is now hellbent on retaking Crimea – despite Putin’s nuclear threats
Published by The Daily Mail (3rd November, 2022) For Ukrainians, the situation is clear. Vladimir Putin’s torture of their country through invasion started eight years ago when ‘little […]