Published by The Daily Mail (4th February, 2015) Given the immense medical and moral significance of the issue, it was curious that MPs were given only 90 minutes […]
Health / Policy
Blundering, bloated and biased – the NHS watchdog not fit for purpose
Published by The Daily Mail (20th January, 2015) Britain’s health service is much too important to be treated as a political football. Indeed, last year I wrote an article […]
Crime / Policy
Politicians in thrall to mentality of the mob
Published by The Independent (12th January, 2015) Just over four years ago in the United States there was a firestorm of protest over the suggestion a prominent quarterback […]
Health / Policy
A vision that could save the NHS
Published by The Daily Mail (9th January, 2012) At the heart of the decision to let the first private firm manage an NHS hospital was the sensible idea […]
Health / Policy / Politics
Yes, the NHS is creaking but Labour’s cynical hypocrisy is sickening
Published by The Daily Mail (7th January, 2015) With headlines screaming that the NHS is in meltdown, a plethora of English hospitals have suddenly declared ‘major incidents’, unable […]
Health / Policy / Politics
Can we face the truth about the NHS?
Published by The Independent (5th January, 2015) Books about brain surgery are not usually best-sellers. But when the newspapers did their annual Christmas round-ups for readers, I noticed […]
Africa / Aid / Europe / Greece / Immigration / Libya / Policy
Inside the migrant jails of Fortress Europe
Published by al-Jazeera (16th December, 2014) Travelling around Libya in those days when pictures of a preening Muammar Gaddafi loomed over every public place, I came across some […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
Politicians blame immigrants for their own mistakes
Published by The Independent (15th December, 2014) Myths and mantras are swirling around the increasingly-toxic immigration debate as mainstream parties flounder in the face of Ukip’s insurgency. These […]
Europe / European Union / Immigration / Policy / Politics
Britain’s refusal to save migrants is an act of inhumanity
Published by The Guardian (29th October 2014) Last year a wealthy couple called Regina and Christopher Catrambone were cruising the Mediterranean when they saw a jacket float past […]
Crime / Policy
Ched Evans has been punished. Let him return to his job
Published by The Guardian (17th October, 2014) Let us start with the most important fact. Ched Evans is a rapist, a footballer found guilty of predatory assault on a […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
Britain needs a party that proudly champions cosmopolitan values
Published by The Financial Times (17th October, 2014) These are strange times. An insurgent political party has won a single parliamentary by-election plus the support of fewer than […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
A Conservative split may be the catharsis the party needs
Published by The Guardian (1st October, 2014) The room was packed in anticipation of good debate. But from the start of the Conservative conference fringe event on immigration […]