Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th October, 2018) When Adele Green saw her 13-year-old son Eddie after his first month in a specialist hospital supposed to be […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Scandal of autistic youngsters locked in solitary confinement
Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th October, 2018) Hundreds of people with autism and learning disabilities are being locked up in appalling conditions, routinely abused and stuffed […]
Africa / Aid / Ghana
The charity guru who duped the world
Published by UnHerd (24 October, 2018) It is hard to think of a more famous global academic than Jeffrey Sachs. He advises the United Nations, collaborates with presidents, […]
Crime / Drugs / Policy
Britain’s police are waking up to the futility of the war on drugs
Published by CapX (23rd October, 2018) Few people would have expected Bernard Hogan-Howe to become the nation’s latest outspoken campaigner for review of our drug laws. Yet this […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Animals would not be treated this badly
Published by The i paper (22nd October, 2018) Stephanie Bincliffe left school at 16 and lived for two years on her own with help of a full-time carer. […]
Drugs / Policy
Is it time to legalise cannabis, asks former Met chief?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st October, 2018) Former Scotland Yard chief Bernard Hogan-Howe has called on the Government to set up an urgent review to examine […]
Aid
How politicians failed to learn from the charity sex abuse scandal
Published by The Spectator (19th October, 2018) When Tamsyn Barton was summoned before MPs last month to be quizzed on her suitability to run the official aid watchdog, […]
Politics
Don’t drag down heroes for their flaws
Published by The i paper (15th October, 2018) Should we ban George Orwell’s books, ditch prizes named in his honour and pull down his statue that stands beside […]
Africa / Aid / Ghana
Proof that foreign aid does not work
Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th October, 2018) As I drove through villages in northern Ghana, bumping along pitted dirt roads and passing mud-splattered men pushing bicycles, […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Bedlam is still with us in Britain
Published by The i paper (8th October, 2018) Bethany is 17 years old. She is a girl who likes Bob Marley’s music, spending time with animals and being […]
Politics
Theresa May still has everything to play for with Brexit
Published by The Guardian (2nd October, 2018) Conversations in the bars and corridors of political conferences often start with a question about how the event is going. ‘A […]
Politics
Tories should revive the Big Society (but not tell anyone)
Published by The i paper (1st October, 2018) As the Tories gather for their annual conference, they are in dismal shape – angry, divided and struggling to deliver […]