Published by The i paper (15th February, 2021) It is easy to forget London used to be a city in perpetual crisis, a symbol of national decline in […]
China / Covid19 / World
The WHO’s Covid shame
Published by UnHerd (10th February, 2021) Since the pandemic started, China has promoted various narratives on its possible origins. First, the country’s top scientists blamed a Wuhan market […]
Health / Policy / Social care
My prescription for a healthier NHS
Published by The i paper (8th February, 2021) Matt Hancock overseen a string of fatal failures and one big success since the arrival of Covid-19. Now this ambitious […]
China / Defence / Education / Policy / World
MI6 fears over UK university links to Beijing as at least 12 of them are probed by spooks
Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th February, 2012) (Written with Glen Owen, Political Editor) More than a dozen British universities are under investigation over commercial relationships with […]
Europe / Russia
The West can play a part defeating dictatorship
Published by The i paper (1st February, 2021) For the second weekend running, protests against the festering regime of Vladimir Putin flared up across Russia. His security forces […]
China / Covid19 / World
Virus ‘definitely’ began in China, say US scientists
Published by Mail on Sunday (31st January, 2021) The coronavirus pandemic definitely started in China, according to a scientific study that has traced the ‘mother’ of all Covid-19 […]
Arts / Covid19 / Music
Musicians deserve a helping hand
Published by The i paper (25th January, 2021) Seventeen years ago, I spent a day in Pimlico with Paul Weller. We met by the Tate Gallery at a time of […]
Politics
Theresa May is in no position to lecture on moral leadership
Published by The Times (21st January, 2021) There is a maxim in politics that leaders are defined as much by their successors as by their own triumphs and […]
Covid19 / Disability
The inhumanity of deeming some lives ‘more valuable’ than others
Published by The Daily Mail (19th January, 2021) Deborah James is a deputy head teacher, a mother of two children and, since her devastating diagnosis with bowel cancer, […]
Politics
The double standards of sport
Published by The i paper (18th January, 2021) Maro Itoje went to Harrow, one of Britain’s most expensive private schools, before becoming a rugby superstar. But now he […]
China / Covid19 / World
It’ll be an unforgivable insult to two million dead if world lets China bury the truth
Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th January, 2021) It has taken 14 months since a sinister new disease emerged in Wuhan for the global health body responsible for […]
China / Covid19 / United States / World
America points finger at China lab
Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th January, 2021) (Written with Glen Owen, Political Editor) The Chinese government is under growing pressure to reveal the true origins of […]