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 […]
Politics
The PM reveals his moral bankruptcy
Published by The i paper (3rd August, 2020) One of the most powerful political advertisements of recent times was released last month in the United States. It took […]
Politics
How long can the Royal Family survive?
Published by The i paper (27th July, 2020) The Royal Family is both an anachronism and an absurdity. Just imagine for one moment that we were a republic […]
China / World
Genocide of the Uighurs
Published by The i paper (20th July 2020) The footage could scarcely be more disturbing. We see several hundred detainees sitting in rows on a station platform with […]
Disability / Health / Policy
‘They are making people worse’
Published by The i paper (13th July, 2020) It is almost two years since I spoke to the distraught father of Beth. She was a 17-year-old who loved […]
Housing / Policy / Politics
A saga that stinks from start to finish
Published by The i paper (29th June, 2020) Britain likes to delude itself that it is better than the rest of the world, that the 67 million citizens […]
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 / Economics / Technology / World
China is winning the digital cold war
Published by The i paper (22nd June, 2020) The world is sliding into a new cold war. Once again, it pits a dictatorial political system against democracy, but […]
Policy / Race / United States / World
These demonstrators might look like mindless thugs, but fascism can exploit divisions
Published by The i paper (15th June, 2020) Three years ago I was in Charlottesville, Virginia, which had found itself caught in the midst of a national struggle […]
Policy / Race
British exceptionalism and the legacy of Empire
Published by The i paper (8th June, 2020) Among the strangest aspects of Britain’s pandemic response has been constant parroting of claims by stumbling politicians and their scientific […]
Politics
Incompetence personified
Published by The i paper (1st June, 2020) Clearly Dominic Cummings has little respect for rules. So he must be delighted to have shattered one of the most oft-heard […]
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 […]