Published by The i Paper (1st September, 2025)
Disability / Policy / Social care
Why does this government seem to dislike people with disabilities?
Published by The i paper (19th May, 2025)
Russia / Ukraine
Agree to 30-day truce or face new sanctions, Starmer and Europe’s top leaders tell Kremlin
Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th May, 2025) Sir Keir Starmer joined the leaders of France, Germany and Poland in Kyiv yesterday in a bid to ramp […]
Politics
Reform is about to be put under the microscope
Published by The i paper (5th May, 2025) Zia Yusuf, the chairman of Reform UK, has been busy in the media boasting about his party’s success in the […]
Covid19 / Policy / Politics
Why Labour’s science minister Patrick Vallance must come clean on what he knew about the Wuhan lab leak theory he was so quick to rubbish
Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd March, 2025) Five years ago, as our country reeled under the Covid-19 pandemic, the scientific interventions of Patrick Vallance made him a […]
Technology / United States
Democracy dies in darkness
Published by The i paper (29th October, 2024) Olivia Troye is a lifelong Republican who worked as a counter-terrorism adviser in Donald Trump’s administration. She resigned shortly before […]
Politics
Starmer needs a mission statement
Published by The i paper (23rd September, 2024) Last year Rachel Reeves accepted a gift valued at £330 to attend a concert from the Betting and Gaming Council. This […]
Crime / Policy / Politics
Far right pose a threat to our democracy
Published by The i paper (5th August, 2024) So the first crisis of Sir Keir Starmer’s time in Downing Street turns out to be a summer rampage of terror […]
Politics
Starmer can learn lessons from the Tory disaster
Published by The i paper (8th July, 2024) Already our politics feels a little bit calmer. Labour has kicked out the Tories, Sir Keir Starmer has moved into […]
Politics
I was Cameron’s speechwriter but voted for my Sunday football pal Keir. He’ll need all his on-pitch tenacity to tackle the Herculean challenges ahead
Published by The Daily Mail (5th July, 2024) It is more than 14 years since I stood chatting to a nervous politician on the eve of taking power. […]