Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th September 2024) The mountain village of Caldes, surrounded by forests below the jagged peaks of the Alps, has been officially recognised […]
Europe / Italy
The mothers having their names erased from their children’s birth certificates — by the state
Published by The Daily Mail (16th July, 2023) The shock news arrived without warning in January: Michela Leidi was being officially cancelled as the mother of her daughter […]
Environment / Europe / Italy / Policy
Dead pigs expose horrors behind gourmet Parma ham
Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th May, 2018) First came the smell, an acrid stench of ammonia clinging to the breeze as I walked through the dark […]
Europe / Russia
Putin is winning his war against the West
Published by The i paper (5th March, 2018) The temperatures are below freezing with snow falling, but how sunny the view must seem for Vladimir Putin as he […]
Europe / Italy
The last call
Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th August, 2016) Two British teenagers orphaned in Italy’s earthquake spent all day calling the mobile phones of their parents in the […]
Economics / Europe / Italy
How the mafia is causing cancer
Published by Mosaic & The Daily Telegraph magazine (24th June, 2016) A few days before I visited the rather scruffy Hospital of Saint Anna and Saint Sebastian in […]
Europe / Immigration / Italy / Policy / World
Imagine if Isis was approaching and safety just over the sea
Published by The Independent (23rd February, 2014) The statistics and stories are so extreme they barely register any more. In just five days, 4,200 migrants were plucked from […]
Iraq / Syria / World
A sick British hostage and torture by Taser
Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th September, 2014) The British aid worker threatened with beheading by Islamic militants in Syria has been so desperately ill that his […]
Economics / Immigration / Policy
Don’t blame foreign players for England’s early exit
Published by The Independent on Sunday (22nd June, 2014) So, we must suffer for another four years: the World Cup is not coming home to the nation that […]
Policy / Race
The grim history of the Roma is no fairy tale
Published in The Independent on Sunday (October 27th, 2013) It was like a doom-laden fairy tale from the Dark Ages. A sweet little girl, instantly dubbed the blonde […]