Published by The i paper (20th March, 2017) A couple of nights ago I was woken by a giraffe. First I heard crashing sounds as it strode through […]
Africa / Aid / Kenya
Vultures of the famine
Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th March, 2017) Emmanuel Ayapar is three years old and can no longer walk. The flesh on his legs, which dangle from […]
Europe / European Union / Immigration / Policy / Politics
Some say Remainers should stay silent. I don’t agree…
Published by The i Paper (13th March, 2017) The prime minister is poised to lead her people in massed leap over a cliff edge as she triggers Article […]
Aid / Europe / European Union / Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
A disturbing new low for foreign aid
Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th March, 2017) Britain is pumping huge sums of foreign aid into Palestinian schools named after mass murderers and Islamist militants, which openly […]
Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
Now open: the West Banksy
Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th March, 2017) The opening of a hotel by elusive graffiti artist Banksy in the shadow of the controversial concrete and barbed wire […]
Economics / Politics
The self-employed shouldn’t be stung with more taxes
Published by The Times (7th March, 2017) Seven years ago I joined the swelling ranks of self-employed workers in Britain after a quarter century in the corporate world. […]
Crime / Policy
How do we deal with paedophiles?
Published by The i paper (6th March, 2017) Two years ago, I sat down with a pair of Britain’s most senior police officers, both then serving at the […]
Aid
The 5-star rip-off
Published by The Mail on Sunday (5th March, 2017) Bureaucrats handing out British aid have spent an astonishing £15 million flying themselves around the world and staying in […]
Aid
Stunning victory as four fat cats quit over dirty tricks
Published by The Mail on Sunday (5th March, 2017) Four senior executives at Britain’s biggest specialist foreign aid contractor have quit after explosive disclosures in The Mail on […]
Disability / Health / Policy
The slippery slope to eugenics
Published by The Daily Mail (1st March, 2017) On the surface, it seems unalloyed good news: a new test for families that is simpler and more accurate than […]
North Korea / World
The chilling rationality of North Korea’s vile regime
Published by The i paper (27th February, 2017) The murder of Kim Jong-nam was brutal and brazen, caught by security cameras as assassins attacked him with lethal toxins […]
North Korea / South Korea / World
Kim’s kill list and ‘Enemy Zero’
Published by The Mail on Sunday (26th February, 2017) The announcement on North Korean state radio could not have been more blood curdling. They decreed that Park Sang-hak, a fugitive from Kim […]