Published in The Daily Mail (December 27th, 2013) As in every other walk of life, the ending of the political year offers an opportunity to pause and reflect […]
Aid / Technology
Time for BBC to ditch the red noses
Published in the Daily Mail (December 9th, 2013) From the moment Comic Relief was launched in a Sudanese refugee camp on Christmas Day 28 years ago, the country’s […]
Aid / Haiti / Philippines / Sri Lanka / World
Too often incompetent, self-serving aid agencies make matters worse
Published in the Daily Mail (November 16th, 2013) The stories are heartbreaking. Families have been ripped apart, houses flattened and communities crushed. The images of towns and cities […]
Africa / Egypt
Feeble leader who lit the fuse for massacre
Published in The Daily Mail (August 15th, 2013) What’s happened since the Arab Spring? Those heady days of early 2011 feel a long way off now. After the […]
Aid
Hideous hypocrisy of the charity fat cats
Published in The Daily Mail (August 7th, 2013) Our overseas aid charities work hard to persuade people to hand over their cash. Whether paying for commercials on television, […]
Economics / Politics
Is a clandestine world government meeting in Watford?
Published in The Daily Mail (June 6th, 2013) Even though it’s the birthplace of a Spice Girl, a former Gladiators champion and the Tory chairman Grant Shapps, nothing […]
Arts / Books / Politics
A politician with real class
Published in the Daily Mail (May 10th, 2013) This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson (Bantam) When Alan Johnson was seven, his mother was in […]
Health / Policy
A helpline in crisis and doctors who refuse to put patients’ interests above their own
Published in The Daily Mail (May 6th, 2013) For weeks there have been many stories emerging of patients left hanging on the phone, fearful or in pain; urgent […]
Health / Policy / Politics
Cover-up: the public are sickened by such cynicism
Published in The Daily Mail (February 22nd, 2013) Julie Bailey is a heroine of our age. She is the cafe owner from Stafford who saw her elderly mother […]
Health / Police / Policy / Politics / Technology
Why does no-one ever take the blame any more?
Published in The Daily Mail (February 13th, 2013) When Nick Clegg dropped into Hampshire to boost his party’s campaign in the crucial Eastleigh by-election, he spoke passionately about […]
Africa / Tanzania / Travel
Discovering Tanzania’s great blue yonder on an island called Mafia (it’s perfectly friendly)
Published in The Daily Mail (February 2nd, 2013) A scrap of raffia roof is propped up by spindly sticks to offer shade from the blazing sun, and a […]