Published by Mail on Sunday (18th February, 2018) The vista could hardly be more barren or forbidding – a parched sandy landscape, baking beneath the afternoon sun, broken […]
Denmark / Disability / Europe / Health / Policy
A world without Down’s Syndrome children?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (4th February, 2018) Watching Erica Gaarn-Larsen playing with her six-year-old son Philip in their third-floor flat in central Copenhagen, it is hard […]
Crime / Policy
A broken prison system – but Scotland pushes for reform
Published by The i paper (29th January, 2018) Two years ago, in those far off days before the Brexit debacle, David Cameron declared prison reform ‘a great progressive […]
Health / Policy
Ten practical remedies for the ailing NHS
Published by CapX (26th January, 2018) I went to hospital earlier this week for a small but troubling skin condition. Having expected to spend the morning stuck wearily […]
Aid / Economics
Oxfam’s attack on inequality might be more persuasive if its own bosses weren’t fat cats
Published by UnHerd (22nd January, 2018) It must be hard for a major player in the poverty industry when you see capitalism, consumerism, science and technology rapidly eroding […]
Politics
Spare no sympathy for the Labour moderates
Published by The i paper (22nd January, 2018) The contrast could not have been more striking. First up on The Andrew Marr Show was French president Emmanuel Macron, […]
Aid / Politics
Britain’s foreign aid budget is indefensible
Published by The Times (January 16th, 2018) Poor old Penny Mordaunt. She makes the cabinet after eight years in parliament only to be handed the poisoned chalice of […]
Africa / Mali / United States / World
As our narrative on Africa shrinks, the continent rises
Published by The i paper (15th January, 2018) For a brief moment Donald Trump sounded presidential on Friday as he signed a proclamation to mark the public holiday […]
Politics
Botched reshuffle casts Theresa May as tragic victim of Brexit
Published by The Guardian (10th January, 2018) In one sense at least, Theresa May’s ministerial reshuffle was a triumph. After 18 months of her disastrous reign as prime minister, […]
Politics
A terrible lack of judgement
Published by The i paper (8th January, 2018) As I write, Hollywood is preparing for its first major awards ceremony since revelations of a sexual predator in heart […]
Economics
A conundrum so damaging to capitalism
Published by UnHerd (5th January, 2018) The end of the first week of the year is always a slightly strange one. Reality bites after the over-long festive break. […]