Published by The Mail on Sunday (30th May, 2021) A mistake by a leading Chinese official may have disclosed the name, address and details about one of the […]
Drugs / Policy
Fifty years of fatal failure
Published by The i paper (24th May, 2021) Vicky Unwin has been one of my sister’s closest friends since they met many years ago over a glass of […]
United States / World
California nightmare
Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd May, 2021) Scott Thatcher and his wife Angela were born in California and love the sun-kissed Golden State. But two months ago […]
Covid19
International experts ratchet pressure on China to probe the Covid lab leak theory
Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th May, 2021) Leading infectious disease experts have condemned the World Health Organisation for its failure to properly investigate whether Covid-19 leaked from […]
Arts / Books / United States / World
Miami vice
Published by The Spectator (15th May, 2021) Dirty Gold: The Rise and Fall of an International Smuggling Ring by Jay Weaver, Nicholas Nehamas, Jim Wyss and Kyra Gurney […]
Feature / Politics
If you thought Brexit was fraught…
Published by The i paper (10th May, 2021) One of many curiosities about last week’s elections was the unusual success of incumbents. Historically, such events have been a […]
Europe / Politics
Is Labour dead?
Published by UnHerd (7th May, 2021) It is the great political conundrum of our age. Why are the parties of social democracy performing so poorly in many Western […]
Politics
The spendthrift at Number 10 Downing Street
Published by The i paper (3rd May, 2021) Imagine you had a choice of two men to run your family finances, maybe also to fix your insurance policies […]
China / Covid19 / World
Why China’s bid to woo the world with vaccines is backfiring
Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd May, 2021) China’s Covid-19 vaccines were developed fast, rolled out rapidly around the world and proclaimed by President Xi Jinping as a […]
Politics
Former allies expose the real PM
Published by The I paper (26th April, 2021) The exit of Johnny Mercer from the Government last week provided a perfect vignette for all that is wrong with Westminster. […]
China / Covid19 / World
How scientists at Wuhan lab helped Chinese army in secret project to find animal viruses
Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th April, 2021) Scientists studying bat diseases at China’s maximum-security laboratory in Wuhan were engaged in a massive project to investigate animal […]