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 […]
Europe / Russia
Putin is winning his war against the West
Published by The i paper (5th March, 2018) The temperatures are below freezing with snow falling, but how sunny the view must seem for Vladimir Putin as he […]
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 […]
Europe / Turkey / World
Inside the real Santa’s grotto
Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th December, 2017) The ancient Byzantine church sits behind a scruffy shopping square in the Turkish coastal town of Demre, which feels […]
Europe / Russia
The World Cup has lost its lustre
Published by The i paper (4th December, 2017) I remember clearly the first World Cup that captivated me. It was Argentina in 1978, back in those distant days […]
Economics / Europe / European Union / Politics
Britain suffers the Brexit blues
Published by The i paper (27th November, 2017) ‘The eyes of the world are upon us,’ declared Theresa May in her Florence speech two months ago as she […]