Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd August, 2020) As I walked around the sun-dappled streets of Amsterdam, something felt strange in this world swept by fear and […]
Politics
How long can the Royal Family survive?
Published by The i paper (27th July, 2020) The Royal Family is both an anachronism and an absurdity. Just imagine for one moment that we were a republic […]
China / World
Beijing’s baby butchers
Published by The Mail on Sunday (26th July, 2020) When Amina Mamtimin became pregnant four years ago, she knew she must leave her country or the child would […]
China / World
Genocide of the Uighurs
Published by The i paper (20th July 2020) The footage could scarcely be more disturbing. We see several hundred detainees sitting in rows on a station platform with […]
China / Economics / Technology / World
China’s Big Brother spy cameras are watching you
Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th July, 2020) Visiting an Army base in the Dorset village of Bovington in 1923, the author Rudyard Kipling suggested the creation […]
Disability / Health / Policy
‘They are making people worse’
Published by The i paper (13th July, 2020) It is almost two years since I spoke to the distraught father of Beth. She was a 17-year-old who loved […]
China / Covid19 / World
China would kill me for revealing the truth about Covid cover-up
Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th July, 2020) A Chinese scientist who fled Hong Kong says she is putting her life in danger to warn the world […]
Housing / Policy / Politics
A saga that stinks from start to finish
Published by The i paper (29th June, 2020) Britain likes to delude itself that it is better than the rest of the world, that the 67 million citizens […]
Health / Policy
If we only ever sanctify the NHS, its harrowing failures will never be cured
Published by The Daily Mail (9th July, 2020) Daniel Mason was born half a century ago without hands, with missing toes, a malformed mouth and impaired vision. From […]
Covid19 / Disability / Health / Policy
A very deadly inequality
Published by The i paper (6th July, 2020) The investment guru Warren Buffet famously said that only when the tide goes out do you see who has been […]
China / World
The hideous crushing of Hong Kong’s freedom is a victory for despots over democracy
Published by The Daily Mail (2nd July, 2020) The first arrest was a man clutching a black flag inscribed with the words ‘Hong Kong Independence’ in both English […]
Politics
Where have all the good politicians gone?
Published by UnHerd (1st July, 2020) Tony Blair has had the most successful career of any politician since Margaret Thatcher. He won three general elections, reshaped the country […]