Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th August, 2021) The pandemic has crushed the global tourism industry, with thousands of flights cancelled and millions of holidays postponed – but […]
Europe / Russia
We are in a race to save democracy
Published by The i paper (2nd August, 2021) On Thursday, I flipped on the television before heading to bed. People in helmets were lined up at the start […]
Drugs / Police / Policy
Britain’s criminal approach to drugs
Published by UnHerd (30th July, 2021) Our nation’s politicians have long been guilty of an inflated sense of exceptionalism. But there is one area in which Britain indisputably […]
Health / Policy
A bloody disgrace
Published by The Daily Mail (July 29th, 2021) The Ken Clarke brand of politics — his straight-talking and dis-hevelled style —has, for many decades, provided a welcome relief […]
China / Covid19 / World
China should not veto a pandemic origins inquiry
Published by The i paper (26th July, 2021) Just imagine if a strange new virus emerged suddenly in Salisbury, with residents of the medieval Wiltshire town starting to […]
Covid19 / Technology
Now Lancet is accused of costing lives by sitting on a key study showing human transmission of Covid-19
Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th July 2021) The world’s most famous medical journal, The Lancet, sat on vital information being suppressed by China proving that the Covid […]
Covid19 / Health / Policy
Did scientists stifle the lab-leak theory?
Published by UnHerd (22nd July, 2021) In September 2019, even as a new respiratory virus may have started circulating in a central Chinese city, some prominent figures issued […]
Covid19 / Politics
Chaotic and contemptuous leaders leave the public confused on Covid
Published by The i paper (19th July, 2021) It is easy to forget that when the pandemic first emerged from Wuhan, many people in the West feared democratic […]
Arts / Music / North Korea / South Korea / World
15 years in a slave labour camp – just for listening to pop music in North Korea
Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th July, 2021) Three years ago, North Korea’s ‘Supreme Leader’ Kim Jong Un clapped along to songs at a concert by famous pop […]
Covid19 / Feature / Technology
Why won’t The Lancet admit it was wrong?
Published by UnHerd (6th July, 2021) Someone needs to tell The Lancet the most basic tenet of crisis management: when in a hole, stop digging. Instead, this world-renowned medical journal […]
Feature / Immigration / Policy / Race
Winners, on and off the pitch
Published by The i paper (5th July, 2021) One by one, the institutions that bind our country stumbled. We saw our collective faith in the banks, BBC, church, […]