Published in the London Evening Standard (November 25th, 2013) Earlier this year Jeremy Stafford was at a London conference on leadership, talking about the importance of ethics in […]
Politics
Heed this warning or risk terminal decline
Published in The Independent (November 20th, 2013) The tragedy of the Conservative Party is that when things get tough it has a suicidal tendency to retreat into its […]
Arts / Books / Immigration / Policy
When the future is another country
Published in The Observer (November 17th, 2013) Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century by Paul Collier (OUP) The migration of poor people to rich countries is a […]
Aid / Haiti / Philippines / Sri Lanka / World
Too often incompetent, self-serving aid agencies make matters worse
Published in the Daily Mail (November 16th, 2013) The stories are heartbreaking. Families have been ripped apart, houses flattened and communities crushed. The images of towns and cities […]
Africa / Kenya
A rare triumph for human rights over realpolitik
Published in The Independent (November 16th, 2013) So the International Criminal Court can fight on in its struggle to bring tyrants to justice. The United Nations has seen off […]
Politics
Tories would do well to read those deleted speeches
Published in The Guardian (November 15th, 2013) Lynton Crosby, the hard-nosed Australian strategist being paid £500,ooo to ensure the Conservatives win the next election, has a phrase regularly heard […]
Politics
Remembrance Day remains as relevant as ever. Just don’t tell me to wear a poppy
Published in The Guardian (November 10th, 2013) Just as I was about to go in front of the cameras on a BBC news show, the producer came up […]
Crime / Disability / Policy
Insulted, bullied and murdered – for being disabled
Published in The Independent (November 8th, 2013) David is an autistic man in his fifties. He lives in his own flat in north-east London, earning piecemeal money washing […]
North Korea / World
North Korea is treated like a joke – but the realities are deadly serious
Published in The Guardian (October 29th, 2013) Kim Song-ju sought to escape the living hell of North Korea, but after crossing a freezing river into China was returned, […]
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 […]
Police / Policy / Politics
I know just the man to put the police’s house in order: Andrew Mitchell
Published in The Guardian (October 23rd, 2013) A few months ago David Davis told me that if the police did not come clean over the case of former […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
The suburbs are changing – and so must the Tories
Published in The Guardian (October 2nd, 2013) It is hard to think of a more suburban constituency than Mole Valley at the core of the Surrey commuter belt. […]