Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th February, 2021) The World Health Organisation’s inquiry into the source of the pandemic is a ‘charade’ to appease China, leading experts […]
Covid19 / Disability / Policy / Social care
Britain is callously indifferent to disabled people
Published by The Daily Telegraph (16th January, 2021) When I asked my doughty friend, a working mum on the other side of London, how she was bearing up […]
Covid19 / Policy / Social care
Selfishness laid bare in one photo
Published by The Daily Mail (15th January, 2021) Just six days ago, Pete Calveley sent a letter to reassure residents of his care home empire and their fearful […]
Africa / Zambia
Bobi Wine and the battle for Uganda
Published by UnHerd (14th January, 2021) It seems strange to think that when Yoweri Museveni grabbed control of Uganda 35 years ago, he was seen as a symbol […]
United States / World
The Capitol riots reach beyond Trump
Published by The i paper (11th January, 2011) John McCain was one of the most decent Republican leaders this century. He was a man who proved his strength […]
Covid19
A batty conflict of interest
Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th January, 2020) A British scientist is facing calls to step down from two key inquiries into the origins of Covid-19 after leading […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
The enforcer
Published by Tortoise (7th January, 2021) Soon after Tony Blair won his second landslide election victory, the Daily Telegraph interviewed five women to ask why they wanted to become MPs […]
Health / Policy / Social care
Care does not need private equity
Published by The i paper (4th January, 2021) We can, thankfully, talk about 2020 in the past tense. It was a year of death and despair, of tragedy […]
China / Covid19 / World
The world must investigate all the mounting evidence Covid could have leaked from a Wuhan laboratory
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd January, 2021) It is a year since the world learned of a deadly new respiratory disease stalking the central Chinese city […]
Disability
Notes to a stranger: Thank you for smiling at my daughter
Published by The i paper (30h December, 2020) This is a note to the woman I passed a few weeks ago on the street. But it could also […]
China / Covid19 / World
Just how low can China go?
Published by The Daily Mail (29th December, 2020) When a new disease erupted one year ago in Wuhan, a group of journalists and activists rushed to the central […]
Politics
Now a struggle starts for the soul of our nation
Published by The i paper (28th December, 2020) So in the end, a bad deal was better for Boris Johnson than no deal. We can give thanks for the […]