Published by UnHerd (9th December, 2021) Two years ago this week, a middle-aged man in Wuhan caught a strange respiratory disease. The 41-year-old accountant was called Chen and […]
Africa / Politics / Rwanda
Andrew Mitchell’s friends in Rwanda
Published by UnHerd (6th December, 2021) Earlier this year, Baroness Kennedy was contacted by the two daughters of Paul Rusesabagina — human rights campaigner, winner of the US […]
Politics
Quizzes, parties and crashing polls
Published by The i paper (29th November, 2021) If Boris Johnson hosts another Christmas quiz, here is a possible question: who was the prominent Conservative who saw clearly […]
Europe / Serbia
Spectre of war in the Balkans
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 — […]