Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th August, 2019) In their colourful T-shirts, cut-off denim shorts and carefully styled hair, the four female students look like countless other […]
China / World
Tear gas and triads
Published by The Mail on Sunday (4th August, 2019) Hong Kong last night descended into ugly scenes of confrontation for the ninth weekend in a row as armed […]
Environment / Policy / Politics
Vote blue, forget going green
Published by The i paper (29th July, 2019) There is one thing we can agree on in our divided nation: last week was very hot. I flew back […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Government faces prosecution over human rights of autistic youngsters
Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th July, 2019) The equalities watchdog is poised to prosecute the Government and health regulator for permitting the human rights abuse of […]
Politics
This cabinet signals the death of David Cameron’s Tory modernisation project
Published by The Guardian (26th July, 2019) When David Cameron took over as Tory leader in 2005, he inherited a party that was downhearted after three electoral defeats. It looked […]
India / Politics / World
How our first Asian MP shaped the Brexit debate
Published by UnHerd (25th July, 2019) When my generation was growing up half a century ago, we were taught the basics of history in terms of heroic British […]
Environment / India / Policy / World
Running on empty
Published by Tortoise (25th July, 2019) Prabu Kasinathan was leaning over a concrete balustrade, gazing at the vastness of Puzhal Lake spread out below in the fierce summer […]
Environment / India / Policy / World
Clean air is worth the political price
Published by The Times (25th July, 2019) Slowly but surely, the world is waking up to the climate emergency. I recently returned from Chennai, where one of India’s […]
Politics
Nothing is fixed in politics, as both the Tories and their Republican cousins prove
Published by The i paper (22nd July 2019) As a Republican President spews out racist bile against four ethnic minority women Democrats, it is easy to forget the transformation of […]
Politics
Jeremy Hunt shows the depressing state of the Conservative Party
Published by The Washington Post (17th July, 2019) British Prime Minister Theresa May is a diminished figure after three years in Downing Street, during which she threw away […]
Economics / Europe / Sweden
Does going cashless let Big Brother monitor your money?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th July, 2019) Gustaf can remember the precise date when he last used cash. ‘It was October 7 last year,’ he told […]