Published by UnHerd (14th September, 2018) Richard Ojeda is standing for election in the heartland of Donald Trump terrain, a poverty-scarred slice of West Virginia filled with coal […]
Africa / Equatorial Guinea / Politics
Steve Baker and his daft plans
Published by The Guardian (12th September, 2018) Seven years ago I went on one of my strangest journalistic jaunts, when I joined the first western parliamentary delegation to […]
Europe / Sweden
A moral superpower shifts right
Published by The i paper (10th September, 2018) A few years ago I spoke at a conference in Sweden, which took place in a rural venue at height […]
Europe / Sweden
Liberal Sweden flirts with the far-right
Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th September, 2018) The far-Right leader threatening to shake up the socialist nirvana of Sweden and send shock waves around Europe in today’s […]
Politics
A proportional response to our broken political system
Published by The i paper (3rd September, 2018) Do you remember a politician called Vince Cable? He was that older bloke who famously foresaw the 2008 financial meltdown […]
United States / World
America’s child brides forced to marry abusers
Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd September 2018) Donna Pollard had only just turned 16 when she stood in a Kentucky state court house with a serial […]
Africa / Aid / Politics
May’s view of Africa is blinkered and damaging
Published by The Times (29th August, 2018) Theresa May is making her first visit to Africa since entering Downing Street more than two years ago — and the […]
United States / World
A true hero for our time
Published by The i paper (27th August, 2018) When John McCain’s family issued a statement on Friday saying the veteran Arizona senator had decided to discontinue treatment for […]
United States / World
Could a murdered student be Trump’s salvation (if Melania stays silent)?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (26th August, 2018) In the spring of 1973 a smart lawyer advising Richard Nixon decided to co-operate with prosecutors as the cover-up […]
Europe / European Union / Politics
How a loose-lipped diplomat gave me a glimmer of hope
Published by The i paper (20th August, 2018) Since it has stirred such interest following a couple of tweets, I should start with ‘that conversation’. I had just […]
Politics
Boris on the burka was straight out of Bannon’s playbook
Published by The i paper (13th August, 2018) Put aside, even if just for a moment, the future of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. He is a sad […]