Published by The Times (30th April, 2024) There is a valid debate to be had over disability benefits after a sudden surge in claimants with anxiety and depression. […]
Israel, West Bank & Gaza / United States / World
Biden’s pickle over the Gaza protests
Published by The i paper (29th April, 2024) The students at Columbia University sat outside their tents, munching on beans and rice as they listened to one of […]
Africa / Politics / Rwanda
Sunak’s demeaning promotion of a bloodstained despot
Published by The i paper (24th April, 2024) The wily Rwandan leader Paul Kagame has shown great skill at fooling gullible Western politicians into supporting his dictatorship, whether […]
Politics
What’s the point of the Lib Dems?
Published by The i paper (22nd April, 2024) The vote in Parliament last week to impose the world’s toughest smoking ban was a perfect symbol for the state […]
Health / Policy
Trans teenagers are being failed
Published by The i paper (16th April, 2024) Jason Pulman was the oldest of five children, a talented artist who ‘‘loved all the silliness in the world and […]
Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
Hope is being extinguished in Gaza
Published by The i paper (8th April, 2024) Six years ago, while on a reporting trip to Gaza, I met a 26-year-old man called Mohammed al-Taluli who had […]
Disability / Health / Policy / Social care
Britain’s sordid human rights scandal
Published by The i paper (25th March, 2024) During my journalistic career I have spoken to traumatised people around the world suffering terrible consequences of war, earthquakes and […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
We’re still stunningly complacent about this tyrant’s grave threat
Published by The Daily Mail (18th March, 2024) Thirteen years ago, Vladimir Putin went to watch a martial arts tournament and, as he congratulated the winner of one heavyweight […]
Politics
There is a big difference between 1997 and 2024 for Labour
Published by The i paper (18th March, 2024) The Tories are panicking again as they look at the polls, contemplate their looming electoral wipeout after another disastrous week […]
Africa / Aid / Zambia
Guards at Harry’s Africa charity face new killing and torture allegations
Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th March, 2024) An African conservation charity of which Prince Harry is a director is facing further accusations of human rights abuses […]
Politics
May was the best PM of a bad lot
Published by The i paper (11th March, 2024) Theresa May has announced she is leaving the political stage at the next election while polls indicate that the party […]