Published in The Independent (February 20th, 2013) The headlines were dominated yesterday by an alleged murder in South Africa, a huge diamond heist in Belgium and the Prime […]
Health / Police / Policy / Politics / Technology
Why does no-one ever take the blame any more?
Published in The Daily Mail (February 13th, 2013) When Nick Clegg dropped into Hampshire to boost his party’s campaign in the crucial Eastleigh by-election, he spoke passionately about […]
Disability / Policy / Social care
We’re all living longer. How afraid should we be?
Published in The Independent (February 11th, 2013) On the day I was born in 1962, the number of British centenarians was in three figures. Since then numbers have […]
Health / Policy
Victims of our blind faith in the NHS
Published in The Independent (February 7th, 2013) It is just seven months since the NHS was presented to a baffled world as one of the great features of […]
Afghanistan / Africa / Aid / Mali / Politics / World
Save lives Mr Cameron, but don’t imagine you need to save Africa
Published in The Independent (February 2nd, 2013) This week, the Prime Minister went to Africa.Struggling to achieve anything at home thanks to the shaky state of her coalition, […]
Africa / Tanzania / Travel
Discovering Tanzania’s great blue yonder on an island called Mafia (it’s perfectly friendly)
Published in The Daily Mail (February 2nd, 2013) A scrap of raffia roof is propped up by spindly sticks to offer shade from the blazing sun, and a […]
Economics
Tax, transparency and a titanic fight for power
Published in The Independent (January 26th, 2013) Davos is a rather absurd jamboree– so important to those who attend it and so irrelevant to the rest of the […]