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 […]
Covid19 / Politics
The PM is hopelessly out of his depth
Published by The i paper (21st December, 2020) Last week was another long one in Westminster. On Monday Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, warned us about an alarming […]
China / Covid19 / World
Will we ever learn the truth about China and the pandemic?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (20th December, 2020) Explosive emails from a group of top-level scientists and Government doctors in the United States reveal one suggested Covid-19 […]
Politics
Real Conservatives should speak out
Published by The i paper (14th December, 2020) So this is how it ends. After 47 years as a leading member of the trading alliance that has delivered […]
Environment / Policy
Floating factories as big as football pitches plundering our seas and killing dolphins
Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th December, 2020) The bodies of dolphins and porpoises have washed up with alarming frequency along England’s south coast in recent days. Some […]
Covid19 / Europe / Finland
How Finland became a Covid success
Published by UnHerd (7th December, 2020) Two days before the Tories won their thumping general election victory last year, a new government was formed in Finland. Sanna Marin […]