Published by The i paper (20th September, 2021) In February 1837 a group of radicals gathered in a pub in central London to launch a charter containing six […]
Policy / Social care
It will take more than a dollop of cash to save shattered social care
Published by The i paper (6th September, 2021) First the good news. There seems to be universal recognition that our shattered social care system needs urgent sorting. This […]
Arts / Books
A leader who was a child of his time
Published by The i paper (30th August, 2021) Behind me, glowering down from a shelf in my study as I write these words, sits a small bust of […]
Afghanistan / Politics / World
Blair’s hypocrisy remains unmitigated
Published by The i paper (23rd August, 2021) Ten years ago, I stood in the ransacked residence of the British ambassador to Libya, staring through a hole blasted […]
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 […]
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 […]
Europe / Russia
We are in a race to save democracy
Published by The i paper (2nd August, 2021) On Thursday, I flipped on the television before heading to bed. People in helmets were lined up at the start […]
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 […]
Covid19 / Politics
Chaotic and contemptuous leaders leave the public confused on Covid
Published by The i paper (19th July, 2021) It is easy to forget that when the pandemic first emerged from Wuhan, many people in the West feared democratic […]
Feature / Immigration / Policy / Race
Winners, on and off the pitch
Published by The i paper (5th July, 2021) One by one, the institutions that bind our country stumbled. We saw our collective faith in the banks, BBC, church, […]
Politics
Something rotten at the heart of Westminster
Published by The i paper (28th June, 2021) So farewell then, Matt Hancock, self-righteous protector of the nation’s public health in the pandemic. His career, so carefully nurtured […]
Health / Policy / Politics
Symbol of the sickening Tory chumocracy
Published by The i paper (21st June, 2021) If you want an example of so much that is wrong with our country, consider this fact: Dido Harding has […]