Published by UnHerd (23rd March, 2020) First came the virus — a parasitic germ so small that it cannot be seen by an optical microscope but so powerful […]
Covid19 / Health / Policy
How sick we cannot test those people who save us
Published by The Daily Mail (19th March, 2020) The immense scale of this crisis is terrifying to comprehend, not least for those politicians and scientists who find themselves […]
Covid19 / Disability / Health / Policy
Disabled people and their carers left living in fear
Published by The i paper (16th March, 2020) Eleven years ago, when swine flu rampaged around the planet, Katie Clark and her family were among those to suffer. […]
Arts / Covid19 / Film / Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
Binge-watching in the time of Covid-19: Fauda
Published by UnHerd (18th March, 2020) Perhaps it has something to do with a job that takes me to hotspots around the world but I am a sucker […]
Arts / Books
Plumbing the depths
Published by The Spectator (14th March, 2020) Going Dark: The Secret Social Life of Extremists by Julia Exner (Bloomsbury) Two years ago, the counter-extremist analyst Julia Ebner decided […]
Europe / Greece / Immigration / Policy / Turkey / World
Ankara plays pass the asylum-seeker
Published by The i paper (9th March 2020) The scenes of squalor and stories of despair had a sordid sense of familiarity. On Friday night I stood at […]
Europe / Greece / Immigration / Policy / Turkey / World
Greek police beat us, stole our money, phones, even our shoes. Then they dumped us back in Turkey
Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th March, 2020) Having fled one of Syria’s many bloodstained battlegrounds, Muhammad spent years struggling as a refugee in southern Turkey. Last week, […]
United States / World
Where the American dream goes to die
Published by UnHerd (2nd March, 2020) For a few years at the start of this century, Juan Nevarez tasted the American dream. Having moved a few miles across […]
China / World
A monstrous crime against humanity
Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st March, 2020) China has slaughtered thousands of its citizens to harvest organs such as hearts, lungs, kidneys, eyes and even skin […]
Policy / Politics / Whitehall
Yes, Sir Humphrey must be tamed. But I fear No 10’s hostile approach may yet backfire
Published by The Daily Mail (25th February, 2020) Early skirmishes have erupted into open warfare bet-ween the Government and the army of civil servants resisting a Whitehall shake-up. […]