Published by The Daily Mail (10th October, 2014) Please, Mr Postman by Alan Johnson (Bantam) One day in June 1969, a young couple from London took the train to […]
Economics / Film / Technology
Goodbye Hollywood, hello Watford
Published by The Mail on Sunday (20th July, 2014) There was a sprinkling of rain as 250 specially invited guests arrived for the party in the courtyard of […]
Arts / Books / Politics
Farage and the fruitcakes
Published by The Observer (29th June, 2014) Protest Vote: How Politicians Lost the Plot (Gibson Square) Ten years ago, Tim Newark was shopping near his north London home […]
Arts / Politics
Does Britain really need a ministry of culture?
Published by The Guardian (11th April, 2014) So farewell then, Maria Miller, the minister who made more of a splash with her drawn-out departure than she managed to […]
Arts / Books / Europe
Decency defeats the forces of darkness
Published by The Mail on Sunday (6th April, 2014) Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denmark’s Jews Escaped the Nazis by Bo Lidegaard (Atlantic) One Saturday morning in […]
Arts / Books / China / United States / World
Sunny side up
Published in The Observer (February 23rd 2014) The Upside of Down by Charles Kenny (Basic Books) During the last United States presidential election, the then-rising Republican star Chris […]
Arts / Books
Last train to oblivion
Published in The Mail on Sunday (January 5th, 2014) The Beast: Riding The Rails And Dodging Narcos On The Migrant Trail by Oscar Martinez (Verso) The two young […]
Arts / Books / Immigration / Policy
When the future is another country
Published in The Observer (November 17th, 2013) Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century by Paul Collier (OUP) The migration of poor people to rich countries is a […]