Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th November, 2021) Border police have been blinded with lasers and strobe lights as they struggle to shore up Europe’s eastern frontier defences […]
Feature / Politics
End the farce of MPs taking second jobs
Published by The i paper (8th November, 2021) Sir John Major was on fiery form interviewed over the weekend by the BBC, lashing out at the arrogant, corrupt […]
Belarus / Europe / Germany / Immigration / Poland / Policy
A grotesque game of human ping-pong
Published by The Mail on Sunday (6th November, 2021) We met deep inside Europe’s last remaining primeval forest, where bison and wolves roam beneath ancient towering oaks. ‘I […]
Europe / Germany
Prosecuting all elderly Nazis is vital for society
Published by The Jewish Chronicle (4th November, 2021) The screens in the makeshift German court showed those horribly familiar pictures in black and white from Nazi death camps: […]
Politics
Demeaning of democracy
Published by The Daily Mail (3rd November, 2021) How strange it is to reflect that Owen Paterson — a popular and well-connected figure on the Tory right — […]
Technology
Orwell would be in despair over the BBC
Published by The i paper (1st November, 2021) The BBC – battered, bruised and in near-perpetual crisis – is indulging in another bout of navel-gazing with launch of […]
Covid19 / Europe / Germany
How I learned to accept Covid passes
Published by The i paper (25th October, 2021) Yesterday I checked into a hotel in Berlin. Then I ate a cheese sandwich and drank a coffee in a […]
Europe / Germany
The secretary of evil and the dark shadows of history
Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th October, 2021) Eighty years ago this weekend, a young SS recruit started working as a guard at Sachsenhausen, the concentration camp […]
Covid19
The Covid origins debate has been stifled
Published by The i paper (18th October, 2021) Perhaps the silliest comment during the demeaning Brexit debate was Michael Gove saying that people have “had enough of experts”, […]
China / World
Confessions of a Chinese torturer
Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th October, 2021) As we sat in the cafe of a smart hotel, the beefy man beside me disclosed how he beat, […]
Crime / Policy / Politics
It’s vital we protect the soul of our democracy
Published by The Daily Mail (16th October, 2021) Yet again, Britain shudders in collective shock as a Member of Parliament is slaughtered while doing their job. I do […]
Politics
Shooting themselves in the foot
Published by The i paper (11th October, 2021) One morning in August 1973 an escaped prisoner strolled into a bank in Stockholm, pulled a submachine gun from beneath […]