Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th July, 2018) I drove past tavernas filled with tourists looking out over fishing boats bobbing on the blue sea, then down […]
Environment / Europe / Italy / Policy
Dead pigs expose horrors behind gourmet Parma ham
Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th May, 2018) First came the smell, an acrid stench of ammonia clinging to the breeze as I walked through the dark […]
Arts / Books / Europe / Norway / Syria / World
The tragedy of Syria: how protest spiralled into savagery
Published by The Spectator (26th April, 2018) Two Sisters: Into the Syrian Jihad by Asne Seierstad (Virago); No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid (Oneworld) […]
Europe / Russia / Technology
Putin’s propaganda deserves mockery, not a ban
Published by The Times (20th April, 2018) Have no doubt: RT, the television channel formerly known as Russia Today, is a malign force. It exists to pump out […]
Economics / Europe / France
All hail the display of capitalism on Paris streets
Published by UnHerd (12th April, 2018) Paris may be one of the world’s most magical cities, but its taxi drivers have done little to enhance the romantic appeal. […]
Europe / European Union / Politics
Take back control of our destiny
Published by The i paper (2nd April, 2018) Take back control was a great political slogan. It had stark simplicity. It smacked of nostalgia. And it was elastic […]
Europe / Politics / Russia
No place for defeatism in the struggle for democracy
Published by The i paper (19th March, 2016) As Russia goes through another sham election to crown its tsar for six more miserable years, it is easy to […]
Europe / Russia
Putin is not strong – it’s we who’ve grown weak
Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th March, 2018) In December 1989, a young KGB officer was stationed in Dresden watching the collapse of communism when a crowd […]
Europe / Russia
Survivor of two poison attacks: hit Abramovich to hurt Putin
Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th March, 2018) A Russian dissident who has survived two attempts to poison him in the past three years has called on […]
Europe / European Union / Germany / Technology
Why you can’t really on the news media to understand Europe
Published by UnHerd (16th March, 2018) Which country’s politics are most closely observed after our own in Britain? It’s easy: just look at the army of press corps […]
Europe / Politics / Russia
Corbyn’s failure of leadership
Published by The Daily Mail (15 March, 2018) Every now and then, there are times in politics when the world explodes into confrontation and a leader is defined […]