Published by The i paper (23rd May, 2022) Gorky Park sits in the centre of Kharkiv. Before the war, families would flock there to feed squirrels, ride Ukraine’s […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
The sweet smell of liberation as Ukraine pushes back and people emerge from bunkers
Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd May, 2022) Tamara was sitting on a bench outside, warming herself in the sun after a cold night sleeping in a […]
Health / Policy / Politics / Social care
A refreshing prescription for the NHS – and for politics
Published by The i paper (16th May, 2022) Jeremy Hunt does not hide his ambition, admitting that he does not rule out another tilt at the top job […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Putin’s executioners shot these three brothers in the head and buried them. Miraculously, one dug himself out and lived to tell the tale
Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th May, 2022) As Mykola Kulichenko stumbled out of the Russian military jeep, his body aching from another beating after three days […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Exposed: Putin’s Stalinist deportation plan for two million Ukrainians
Published by The Daily Mail (14th May, 2022) Russia planned the forcible deportation of up to two million Ukrainians before launching its invasion, according to top-level Kremlin documents […]
Europe / Ukraine
The songbird of Mariupol who’ll fight on till the end
Published by The Daily Mail (9th May, 2022) The shaky video picks out the woman leading the singing in the darkness, her clear voice imbuing the patriotic songs […]
Politics
Saving the PM is the Tories’ main mission
Published by The i paper (9th May, 2022) Blackmore Vale was a solid blue ward in a bucolic part of Somerset. It was held for the Tories by […]
Europe / Moldova
Tiny sliver of land that could drag Nato into all-out war with Russia
Published by The Daily Mail (6th May, 2022) The attack by three men could not have been more brazen: a mid- afternoon strike on the headquarters of the […]
Health / Policy
Another death, this time a friend’s son, highlights the need for an urgent review of psychiatric services
Published by The i paper (2nd May, 2022) More than three decades ago I joined The Sunday Times in the wake of the Wapping dispute, which broke the stranglehold of […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Our timid tolerance for tyranny
Published by The i paper (25th April, 2022) The president of a European nation gave a surreal press conference on Saturday. The fact that it took place in […]