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 […]
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 […]
Health / Policy
The NHS must evolve – or face a painful death
Published by The Guardian (2nd June, 2014) Politicians have a poor record of fighting the wars of the past rather than facing up to those of the future. […]
Politics
Wise answers needed to the Ukip surge
Published by The Financial Times (23rd May, 2014) Nigel Farage insists his UK Independence party must now be taken seriously following its local election success. This is not easy […]
Economics
A vote of confidence in Britain
Published by The Guardian (13th May, 2014) There is something repellent about the likes of James Stunt, who married billionaire Bernie Ecclestone’s daughter and drives around London with his security […]
Immigration / Politics
The joke’s not on Nigel Farage. It’s on the rest of us
Published in The Guardian (January 29th, 2014) It has been a bad few days for Ukip. First, one of the party’s councillors said that flooding was God’s revenge […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
End this gutter debate about Britain’s immigration policy
Published in The Guardian (November 30th, 2013) It’s been a depressing week for British politics as it takes another sordid step into the stinking gutter of xenophobia. It […]
Arts / Books / Immigration / Policy
When the future is another country
Published in The Observer (November 17th, 2013) Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century by Paul Collier (OUP) The migration of poor people to rich countries is a […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
The suburbs are changing – and so must the Tories
Published in The Guardian (October 2nd, 2013) It is hard to think of a more suburban constituency than Mole Valley at the core of the Surrey commuter belt. […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
So Vinnie, it’s one law for us and another for them, is it?
Published in The Independent (September 4th, 2013) In trademark tough guy style, Vinnie Jones has tackled this nation’s core problem. “England is past its sell by-date,” he proclaims in […]
Africa / Aid / Immigration / Nigeria / Policy / Politics
Britain’s pathetic response to the rise of a global power
Published in The Guardian (August 9th, 2013) Despite their military name, it is hard to see how an eight-strong delegation from Nigeria’s branch of the Boys’ Brigade posed […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
A Queen’s speech ruined by absurd anti-immigration measures
Published in The Guardian (May 8th, 2013) There is something reassuringly Ruritanian about the rituals associated with the Queen’s speech, from those flunkies in gold-trimmed finery to the […]