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 […]
Europe / Russia
The doctor in a flowing white dress risking her life to stand up to Putin
Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th April, 2021) There are not many doctors who visit patients in a flowing long white dress with a big red sash tied […]
Policy / Politics / Whitehall
How politics is corrupted by cash
Published by The i paper (19th April, 2021) Political careers all end in failure, according to a famous dictum, yet not all of those involved end up soiled and […]
Policy / Politics / Whitehall
Integrity? Public service? This lobbying scandal smacks of something we’d see in a banana republic
Published by The Daily Mail (17th April, 2021) It smacks of something we might expect in a seedy banana republic rather than a democracy that has long cherished […]
China / Covid19 / World
The Covid dissidents taking on China
Published by UnHerd (13th April, 2021) Feng Zijian played a central role in the World Health Organisation’s inquiry into the origins of Covid-19. The Chinese epidemiologist was one […]
Drugs / Policy
The blinkered war on drugs cannot be won
Published by The i paper (12th April, 2021) The bust began with a tip-off in the Netherlands. This led German police to a ship loaded in Paraguay, which […]
Europe / Germany / Politics
A Green light from Germany
Published by The i paper (5th April, 2021) Angela Merkel has dominated her party, her country and our continent for most of this century, but her long reign […]
China / Covid19 / World
What a surprise: world health ‘experts’ have let China off the hook on Covid
Published by The Daily Mail (31st March, 2021) More than 420 days have passed since the World Health Organisation declared that a strange new disease killing people in […]
China / Economics / World
Nike’s shows the conflict between ethics and profits
Published by The i paper (29th March, 2021) Like most modern multinationals, the sportswear giant Nike likes to present itself as a force for good on the planet, […]
China / Covid19 / United States / World
‘A lab leak isn’t 100% certain but it seems to be the only logical source of Covid’
Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th March, 2021) A cluster of researchers from China’s secretive Wuhan laboratories fell sick with ‘Covid-like’ symptoms at least six weeks before […]
Crime / Policy / Politics
The PM is undermining our freedoms
Published by The i paper (22nd March 2021) For five years, Global Britain has been a slogan in search of a meaning. Last week, the Government sought to […]
United States / World
‘Fasten your seat belts, folks!’ How the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd is already a TV circus
Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st March 2021) ‘Fasten your seat belts, folks!’ exclaimed the excited television presenter. ‘Our teams will be live for every moment.’ If […]