Published by The i paper (10th August, 2020) I have resumed my job as a foreign reporter following a four-month break. It was a strange experience as I […]
Covid19 / Europe / Holland
The land with no face masks
Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd August, 2020) As I walked around the sun-dappled streets of Amsterdam, something felt strange in this world swept by fear and […]
China / Covid19 / World
China would kill me for revealing the truth about Covid cover-up
Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th July, 2020) A Chinese scientist who fled Hong Kong says she is putting her life in danger to warn the world […]
Covid19 / Disability / Health / Policy
A very deadly inequality
Published by The i paper (6th July, 2020) The investment guru Warren Buffet famously said that only when the tide goes out do you see who has been […]
China / Covid19 / World
New evidence of how Beijing covered up outbreak
Published by The Mail on Sunday (June 7th 2020) Fresh evidence of China’s shocking cover-up of the pandemic outbreak has been found in censored media reports from Wuhan. Samples […]
China / Covid19 / World
Beijing now admits virus didn’t start in market. So where did it come from?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (31st May, 2020) China has become used to public confessions on television. But this time the words came from one of the […]
Covid19 / Politics
Pandemic, power and a prime minister’s hubris
Published by The i paper (25th May, 2020) The strange thing about politics is how stories about one person’s behaviour can detonate like a lethal missile as they […]
Covid19 / Health / Policy
Coronavirus is ‘uniquely adapted to infect humans’
Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th May, 2020) A team of scientists has produced evidence that the pandemic virus is ‘uniquely adapted to infect humans’, raising fresh […]
China / Covid19 / World
Landmark study: Virus didn’t come from animals in Wuhan market
Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th May, 2020) China’s claims that the pandemic emerged from a wild animal market in Wuhan last December have been challenged by […]