Published by The Independent (12th January, 2015) Just over four years ago in the United States there was a firestorm of protest over the suggestion a prominent quarterback […]
Health / Policy
A vision that could save the NHS
Published by The Daily Mail (9th January, 2012) At the heart of the decision to let the first private firm manage an NHS hospital was the sensible idea […]
Africa / Arts / Disability / Music / South Africa
The heartbeat of South Africa
Published by High Life (8th January, 2015) As we drive into Ivory Park, the sprawling township that clings to rolling hills on the edge of Johannesburg, Aero Manyelo […]
Health / Policy / Politics
Yes, the NHS is creaking but Labour’s cynical hypocrisy is sickening
Published by The Daily Mail (7th January, 2015) With headlines screaming that the NHS is in meltdown, a plethora of English hospitals have suddenly declared ‘major incidents’, unable […]
Health / Policy / Politics
Can we face the truth about the NHS?
Published by The Independent (5th January, 2015) Books about brain surgery are not usually best-sellers. But when the newspapers did their annual Christmas round-ups for readers, I noticed […]
Africa / Arts / Books / Somalia / South Africa
One refugee’s tale of hope from misery
Published by The Observer (4th January, 2014) A Man of Good Hope by Jonny Steinberg (Jonathan Cape) Asad Abdullahi was eight years old when he awoke one day […]
Politics
A Tory-Labour unity coalition may be the only way forward
Published by The Guardian (3rd January, 2014) In the 1929 general election, Labour won 37% of the vote and became the biggest party in the House of Commons, […]
Politics
Has ‘Teflon Nigel’ become unstuck at last?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st December, 2014) Nigel Farage is a cheerful fellow, the sort who no doubt enjoys the festive season, cracking jokes at parties with […]
Afghanistan / Pakistan / World
Message written in blood shows weakness of Taliban
Published by The Daily Mail (16th December, 2014) At first staff thought it was just children playing a boisterous game, for as older pupils sat exams on the […]
Africa / Aid / Europe / Greece / Immigration / Libya / Policy
Inside the migrant jails of Fortress Europe
Published by al-Jazeera (16th December, 2014) Travelling around Libya in those days when pictures of a preening Muammar Gaddafi loomed over every public place, I came across some […]