Published by The Daily Mail (July 29th, 2021) The Ken Clarke brand of politics — his straight-talking and dis-hevelled style —has, for many decades, provided a welcome relief […]
Covid19 / Health / Policy
Did scientists stifle the lab-leak theory?
Published by UnHerd (22nd July, 2021) In September 2019, even as a new respiratory virus may have started circulating in a central Chinese city, some prominent figures issued […]
Feature / Immigration / Policy / Race
Winners, on and off the pitch
Published by The i paper (5th July, 2021) One by one, the institutions that bind our country stumbled. We saw our collective faith in the banks, BBC, church, […]
Crime / Policy / United States / World
What’s killing New Orleans?
Published by UnHerd (5th July, 2021) Portia Pollock was 60 years old when she was murdered outside her home. She was a physical therapist who loved working with […]
Covid19 / Health / Policy / Technology
World’s most famous medical journal is accused of doing China’s dirty work – by denouncing the Covid lab leak theory as a conspiracy
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 […]