Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th July, 2015) Greece’s former finance minister has warned that the austerity programme imposed by Europe will be the ‘greatest disaster ever’ […]
Politics / Technology
Infuriating and self-righteous, but we’d miss the BBC
Published by The Independent (13th July, 2015) Five months ago the House of Commons Culture Committee issued an important report into the future of the BBC, seen as […]
Politics
Is Tim Farron really a liberal at all?
Published by The Guardian (25th June, 2015) It has been largely forgotten, but two of the nation’s major political parties are now engaged in leadership contests. While the […]
Europe / Greece / Immigration / Policy
The political response to Europe’s migration crisis has been shameful
Published by The Independent (22nd June, 2015) A few days ago I was sitting in Athens with an official from Médecins Sans Frontières discussing the migration crisis confronting […]
Crime / Policy
Horror for a senior detective
Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st June, 2015) During 28 years as a detective, Phil Gormley thought he had seen it all, from vicious rapes to brutal […]
Crime / Policy / Politics
Crime chiefs warn 750,000 British men may be attracted to children
Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st June, 2015) Up to 750,000 men living in Britain may have an interest in having sex with children, the Government has […]
Europe / European Union / Greece
A country that is dying to leave the euro
Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th June, 2015) How does a nation die? This week, in the beleaguered hospitals of Athens, I saw a glimpse of the […]
Politics / United States / World
Brothers in arms – but Bush and Blair take divergent paths now
Published by The Independent (9th June, 2015) When he left the White House in early 2009 and headed back to Dallas, few people were sad to see George […]
Aid / Politics
Why is David Cameron handing out £12bn of our money to foreign thieves, dictators and charlatans?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th June, 2015) Dear Prime Minister It is a decade since we began striving together to transform the Conservative Party into a […]
Europe / European Union / Greece
Who will put Greece out of its misery?
Published by The Daily Telegraph (5th June, 2015) Omonia Square used to be the thriving commercial heart of the Greek capital. But when I was there I saw […]