Published by CapX (15th March, 2019) On the day the coalition government was formed, I found myself briefly alone with an exhausted David Cameron as he was about […]
Disability / Health / Policy
How can we ignore this cruelty?
Published by The i paper (11th March, 2019) The abuse, the bullying, the cruelty were simply grotesque. One person is said to have been made to eat a […]
Syria / World
She said she was terrified her son would die in camp
Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th March, 2019) Shamima Begum told me she was ‘terrified’ her baby son Jarrah would die when we met inside a Syrian […]
Syria / World
Plight of the little boys brainwashed into being ISIS suicide bombers
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd March, 2019) Milad was just seven when Islamic State gunmen tore him from his family as they cowered in a building alongside […]
Syria / World
IS zealots face final assault as coalition forces close
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd March, 2019) Thick black smoke rose over the Syrian village of Baghouz yesterday as Western-backed forces advanced on two fronts in […]
Aid
These pictures don’t help Africa’s poor
Published by The Daily Mail (28th February 2019) For little more than a decade Stacey Dooley has made all the right steps, moving effortlessly from flogging make-up at […]
Syria / World
More British jihadi brides hide among us in camp, say IS women
Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th February, 2019) British women fleeing from Islamic State’s last pocket of land are giving false names and hiding their identities among […]
Europe / European Union / Politics / United States / World
Trump is terrible – but the sabotage of Brexit will outlast him
Published by The Washington Post (18th February, 2019) For most of my life, Britain and the United States have felt like twins. My country was older and perhaps […]
Iraq / Syria / World
This war is far from over
Published by The i paper (18th February, 2019) How little they learn from history. Just 16 years ago President George W. Bush stood on the deck of an […]