Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th November, 2021) Munira Subasic lost her husband and teenage son in the darkest chapter of European history since the Second World […]
Policy / Social care
Social care crisis spinning out of control
Published by The I paper (22nd November, 2021) We can see clearly the shape of Boris Johnson’s premiership after 28 months – and it is not the prettiest […]
China / World
Exposed: China’s 18 concentration camps
Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st November, 2021) As he strolled along the street in the Chinese city of Urumqi, trying his best to look like a tourist, […]
Feature / Health / Policy
The ugly truth about psychiatric care
Published by The i paper (15th November, 2021) It is more than three years since I wrote an angry piece in this publication telling the tale of a […]
Belarus / Europe / Poland
Laser attack on border guards
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 […]