Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th August, 2020) When Li-Meng Yan was asked to pop into her boss’s office on the final day of last year, she […]
Covid19 / Europe / Policy / Social care / Sweden
How Covid exposed the world’s lack of care
Published by UnHerd (14th August, 2020) Last week, I was in Sweden, investigating whether the nation’s strategy to avoid lockdown during a pandemic has been a success or […]
Arts / Books / United States / World
Tantrums of a tyrant
Published by The Spectator (8th August, 2020) Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen (Granta) It is easy to forget the abnormality of Donald Trump’s presence in the White House. […]
Politics
The PM reveals his moral bankruptcy
Published by The i paper (3rd August, 2020) One of the most powerful political advertisements of recent times was released last month in the United States. It took […]
Covid19 / Europe / Holland
The land with no face masks
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 […]