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 […]
Aid / Disability
Fat cat charities have forgotten their principles
Published by The Times (26th June, 2020) Another day, another scandal involving a big charity. This time it is the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), whose […]
China / Economics / Technology / World
China is winning the digital cold war
Published by The i paper (22nd June, 2020) The world is sliding into a new cold war. Once again, it pits a dictatorial political system against democracy, but […]
North Korea / South Korea / World
Could Kim Jong-un’s sister become the world’s first woman dictator?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (June 21st, 2020) The language was the usual frothing mixture of aggression, bluster and insult that has become familiar from the North […]
North Korea / South Korea / World
The defector taking on Kim Jong-un
Published by UnHerd (19th June, 2020) It was a cloudy July night with a full moon, shortly before midnight, when we arrived at our destination near the Han […]
Aid / Politics
Good riddance to the self-serving Department for International Narcissists
Published by The Daily Mail (June 17th, 2020) One of Tony Blair’s first actions in government after winning the 1997 election was to weaken British diplomacy by spinning […]
Policy / Race / United States / World
These demonstrators might look like mindless thugs, but fascism can exploit divisions
Published by The i paper (15th June, 2020) Three years ago I was in Charlottesville, Virginia, which had found itself caught in the midst of a national struggle […]
China / Covid19 / World
So where did Covid-19 come from?
Published by UnHerd (12th June, 2020) Last year, Yuan Zhiming published an article in the Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity confessing to concerns about high security laboratories in China. He […]
Policy / Race
British exceptionalism and the legacy of Empire
Published by The i paper (8th June, 2020) Among the strangest aspects of Britain’s pandemic response has been constant parroting of claims by stumbling politicians and their scientific […]
China / Covid19 / World
New evidence of how Beijing covered up outbreak
Published by The Mail on Sunday (June 7th 2020) Fresh evidence of China’s shocking cover-up of the pandemic outbreak has been found in censored media reports from Wuhan. Samples […]
Policy / Politics / Race / United States / World
The Republican Party’s descent into darkness
Published by UnHerd (4th June, 2020) On April 3, 1968 Martin Luther King gave a speech at the Mason Temple in Memphis. He spoke for 40 minutes without […]
Politics
Incompetence personified
Published by The i paper (1st June, 2020) Clearly Dominic Cummings has little respect for rules. So he must be delighted to have shattered one of the most oft-heard […]