Published by UnHerd (13th March, 2024) “I never thought this would happen to Reese, but you have to get it through to people that it can happen to […]
Drugs / Policy / South Korea / World
The ‘war on drugs’ is a disaster – and it’s about to get worse
Published by The i paper (1st January, 2024) Two days after Christmas, the South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun, best known for playing a wealthy patriarch in the Oscar-winning […]
Crime / Drugs / Policy
Westminster’s drug policy is put to shame
Published by The i paper (10th July, 2023) The state of British politics often induces despair. Westminster is hooked on playing pathetic tribal games and populated by self-centred […]
Drugs / Policy
Westminster is addicted to drug prohibition
Published by The i paper (15th August, 2022) Rishi Sunak likes to joke that he is a coke addict. He has even admitted he is hooked on Mexican […]
Drugs / Policy / Politics
Starmer and the futile ‘war on drugs’
Published by The i paper (10th January, 2022) Wes Streeting, the shadow Health and Social Care Secretary, offered intriguing insights into the latest model of the Labour Party. […]
Drugs / Police / Policy
Britain’s criminal approach to drugs
Published by UnHerd (30th July, 2021) Our nation’s politicians have long been guilty of an inflated sense of exceptionalism. But there is one area in which Britain indisputably […]
Arts / Books / Drugs / Policy / United States / World
An addiction catastrophe
Published by The Spectator (12th June, 2021) Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Picador) Last week I was staying in a cool hotel in […]
Drugs / Policy
Fifty years of fatal failure
Published by The i paper (24th May, 2021) Vicky Unwin has been one of my sister’s closest friends since they met many years ago over a glass of […]
Drugs / Policy
The blinkered war on drugs cannot be won
Published by The i paper (12th April, 2021) The bust began with a tip-off in the Netherlands. This led German police to a ship loaded in Paraguay, which […]
Drugs / Feature / Policy / United States / World
Has America changed its mind about drugs?
Published by UnHerd (12th November, 2020) If there is one thing that pretty much everyone in the United States can agree on, it is that their mighty nation […]
Drugs / Policy
Cannabis failures show why we need to legalise drugs
Published by The Times (10th September, 2020) Carly Barton is a former university lecturer who suffered a stroke at the age of 24. It left her feeling as […]