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 […]
Arts / Covid19
Don’t ignore the country’s cash cow
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 […]