Published by The i paper (23rd October, 2017) There are few more obvious cries for help than self-harm. The idea of slashing your arm with a razor blade […]
Drugs / Policy
The drug 10,000 times deadlier than heroin
Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd October, 2017) Shortly after lunchtime, as drizzle fell outside at the start of a week without work, Paddy Colby told his […]
Crime / Policy
The solution to overcrowded prisons? Stop locking people up
Published by The i paper (16th October, 2017) Marc Maltby was only 23 years old. Yet he has just become the fifth person to die in a month […]
Health / Policy / United States / World
America’s public health enemy No 1
Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st October, 2017) When Patsy Stinchfield was a young nurse practitioner three decades ago, her home town in the US Midwest was […]
Education / Policy / Politics
Cutting tuition fees would just benefit wealthy graduates
Published by The Times (19th September, 2017) The Tories have woken up suddenly to the generational divide. Bribing pensioners and banging on about Europe won just enough votes […]
Drugs / Policy / United States / World
The other deadly hurricane surging across America
Published by UnHerd (1st September, 2017) Last weekend I was in Houston when the hurricane hit. The winds smashed into buildings, the rain lashed down. It was an […]
Arts / Books / Immigration / Policy
Flawed and frustrating
Published by The Observer (30th July, 2017) Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier (Allen Lane) When the Ottoman empire collapsed almost a […]
Drugs / Policy / United States / World
Land of the living dead
Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th August, 2017) The black jeep had slammed into a parked saloon in a quiet suburban street, just beside a house having […]
Disability / Health / Policy
As I know myself, there can be no winners in the Charlie Gard case
Published by The Guardian (26th July, 2017) At the centre of the Charlie Gard story, which has captured global attention, is one simple thing: the tragedy of a […]
Drugs / Policy
The same old mistakes in a doomed war on drugs
Published by The ipaper (16th July, 2017) The Home Office released its long-awaited new drugs strategy on Friday. Given that it was two years late, and given the […]
Europe / France / Immigration / Policy
Human wolfpack hiding in the woods of Calais
Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd July, 2017) First there was Sangatte. Then ‘the Jungle’. Now they hide out in the woods. Migrant men, women, boys and […]