Published by The Times (20th March, 2021) Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong (4th Estate) Once upon […]
Aid
The PM made a catastrophic error by pledging to return aid spending to hit the target
Published by The Daily Telegraph (18th March, 2021) Boris Johnson’s landmark foreign policy review, published on Tuesday, revealed the extent of his seismic blunder on aid spending. Four […]
Covid19 / Politics
The dangerous naivety of Green anti-vaxxers
Published by UnHerd (15th March, 2021) When I was at university more than three decades ago, the environment began to take off as a fashionable cause. Acid rain […]
Africa / Rwanda / Technology
National newspaper gives a pulpit to a bloodstained dictator
Published by UnHerd (3rd March, 2021) The Rwandan president Paul Kagame is a master at playing Westerners for adulation and aid money. As I wrote here last week, […]
Crime / Policy
The justice system is failing women
Published by The i paper (15th March, 2021) Truly, these are strange times. Last week began with a flood of messages on social media celebrating female empowerment on […]
Health / Policy
Will we ever confront this sacred cow?
Published by The i paper (8th March, 2021) Could there be a more righteous battle? On one side stands the nation’s nurses, the best-loved workforce even before becoming […]
Covid19 / Health / Policy
Should the state enforce vaccination?
Published by The i paper (1st March, 2021) Britain’s vaccine programme has been a stellar success, all the more welcome after the disasters leading to our dreadful pandemic […]
Covid19 / Health / Policy
Why the reluctance among some ethnic minorities to have Covid jabs?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th February, 2021) Jama is a driver who, before the pandemic, ferried people but he now delivers parcels. He is a Somali […]
Africa / Rwanda
The dictator who fooled us
Published by UnHerd (23rd February, 2021) Paul Rusesabagina was a humble hotel manager when he became a hero amid the horrors of genocide, saving 1,268 people from machete-wielding […]
Technology
Tech giants need to be held accountable
Published by The i paper (23rd February, 2021) Earlier this month I wrote an article for UnHerd in response to the World Health Organisation trip to Wuhan in search […]
China / Covid19 / World
Beijing in row over ‘cover-up of Wuhan death toll’
Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st February, 2021) Disturbing Chinese government statistics reveal a huge drop in the number of old people receiving state payments in Hubei […]
China / World
Why President Xi will never accept defeat
Published by UnHerd (16th February, 2021) Six years ago, the Chinese president Xi Jinping made a state visit to Britain. It was an important moment for both nations […]