Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd December, 2018) With his genial manner, check shirt and careful choice of words, Marc Van Hoey seems like any other general […]
Europe / European Union / Politics
Dodo of a deal deserves to be made extinct
Published by The i paper (26th November, 2018) Amber Rudd has been back in the Cabinet for nine days, yet already there is talk she has joined ‘a […]
Europe / European Union / Politics
The hard-right still playing dangerous fantasy politics
Published by The i Paper (19th November, 2018) You have probably forgotten about Owen Paterson, a minor league politician who briefly popped up in the cabinet as environment […]
Europe / European Union / Politics
It is not too late to escape this epic mess
Published by The ipaper (12th November, 2018) Once again, the lions have been let down by donkeys. There are many villains in the Brexit debacle: David Cameron for […]
Europe / European Union / Politics
May’s fate could depend on Labour rebels
Published by The i paper (24th September, 2018) Who would have guessed that like Aretha Franklin, all Theresa May wanted was a little respect? Forget the fact her […]
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 […]
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 […]
Europe / European Union / Hungary
The far-right’s plan to capture Europe
Published by UnHerd (6th August, 2018) When future generations try to make sense of this turbulent chapter in European history, the name of Viktor Orban will loom large. […]
Europe / European Union / Politics
The Brexiteers are right that this is a terrible proposal – but it’s entirely their fault
Published by The i Paper (16th July, 2018) Alan Bennett started as a satirist but became a national treasure, a writer whose work is flecked with nostalgia yet […]