Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th June, 2012) Earlier this year, the prominent German psychiatrist Thomas Schulze sent a proposal to Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of world-renowned medical […]
Health / Policy / Politics
Symbol of the sickening Tory chumocracy
Published by The i paper (21st June, 2021) If you want an example of so much that is wrong with our country, consider this fact: Dido Harding has […]
Arts / Books / Drugs / Policy / United States / World
An addiction catastrophe
Published by The Spectator (12th June, 2021) Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Picador) Last week I was staying in a cool hotel in […]
Covid19 / Health / Policy / Technology
Beijing’s useful idiots
Published by UnHerd (8th June, 2021) Just over a year ago, I stumbled across an intriguing scientific paper. It suggested the pandemic that was ripping around the world […]
Disability / Health / Policy
We have failed people with autism
Published by The i paper (31st May, 2021) Dannielle Attree has spent half of her life being subjected to state-sanctioned abuse. She is only 24 years old but […]
Drugs / Policy
Fifty years of fatal failure
Published by The i paper (24th May, 2021) Vicky Unwin has been one of my sister’s closest friends since they met many years ago over a glass of […]
Policy / Politics / Whitehall
How politics is corrupted by cash
Published by The i paper (19th April, 2021) Political careers all end in failure, according to a famous dictum, yet not all of those involved end up soiled and […]
Policy / Politics / Whitehall
Integrity? Public service? This lobbying scandal smacks of something we’d see in a banana republic
Published by The Daily Mail (17th April, 2021) It smacks of something we might expect in a seedy banana republic rather than a democracy that has long cherished […]
Drugs / Policy
The blinkered war on drugs cannot be won
Published by The i paper (12th April, 2021) The bust began with a tip-off in the Netherlands. This led German police to a ship loaded in Paraguay, which […]
Crime / Policy / Politics
The PM is undermining our freedoms
Published by The i paper (22nd March 2021) For five years, Global Britain has been a slogan in search of a meaning. Last week, the Government sought to […]
Crime / Policy
The justice system is failing women
Published by The i paper (15th March, 2021) Truly, these are strange times. Last week began with a flood of messages on social media celebrating female empowerment on […]
Health / Policy
Will we ever confront this sacred cow?
Published by The i paper (8th March, 2021) Could there be a more righteous battle? On one side stands the nation’s nurses, the best-loved workforce even before becoming […]