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 […]
Covid19 / Health / Policy
Should the state enforce vaccination?
Published by The i paper (1st March, 2021) Britain’s vaccine programme has been a stellar success, all the more welcome after the disasters leading to our dreadful pandemic […]
Covid19 / Health / Policy
Why the reluctance among some ethnic minorities to have Covid jabs?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th February, 2021) Jama is a driver who, before the pandemic, ferried people but he now delivers parcels. He is a Somali […]
Health / Policy / Social care
My prescription for a healthier NHS
Published by The i paper (8th February, 2021) Matt Hancock overseen a string of fatal failures and one big success since the arrival of Covid-19. Now this ambitious […]
China / Defence / Education / Policy / World
MI6 fears over UK university links to Beijing as at least 12 of them are probed by spooks
Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th February, 2012) (Written with Glen Owen, Political Editor) More than a dozen British universities are under investigation over commercial relationships with […]
Covid19 / Disability / Policy / Social care
Britain is callously indifferent to disabled people
Published by The Daily Telegraph (16th January, 2021) When I asked my doughty friend, a working mum on the other side of London, how she was bearing up […]
Covid19 / Policy / Social care
Selfishness laid bare in one photo
Published by The Daily Mail (15th January, 2021) Just six days ago, Pete Calveley sent a letter to reassure residents of his care home empire and their fearful […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
The enforcer
Published by Tortoise (7th January, 2021) Soon after Tony Blair won his second landslide election victory, the Daily Telegraph interviewed five women to ask why they wanted to become MPs […]
Health / Policy / Social care
Care does not need private equity
Published by The i paper (4th January, 2021) We can, thankfully, talk about 2020 in the past tense. It was a year of death and despair, of tragedy […]
Environment / Policy
Floating factories as big as football pitches plundering our seas and killing dolphins
Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th December, 2020) The bodies of dolphins and porpoises have washed up with alarming frequency along England’s south coast in recent days. Some […]