Published by The Daily Mail (2nd September, 2014) Ashya King’s parents are not murderers, terrorists or vicious thieves. They are just a couple from Hampshire determined to do […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Our medical advances have outstripped our humanity
Published by The Guardian (8th August, 2014) I can still remember each second of that day just before Christmas when everything changed. The happy family lunch, then the […]
Policy / Politics
When localism confronts Bonapartism
Published by The Guardian (4th July, 2014) A whiteboard in the corner of Jeremy Hunt’s Whitehall office symbolises a struggle over the soul of modern government. It details […]
Drugs / Policy
Another stupid salvo in Britain’s idiotic war on drugs
Published by The Guardian (26th June, 2014) Khat has been legally imported into this country for 60 years, a mild natural stimulant chewed by a tiny slice of […]
Economics / Immigration / Policy
Don’t blame foreign players for England’s early exit
Published by The Independent on Sunday (22nd June, 2014) So, we must suffer for another four years: the World Cup is not coming home to the nation that […]
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. […]
Sport
Football chiefs keep scoring own goals
Published by The Independent on Sunday (18th May, 2014) We all make mistakes, of course. So it is easy to understand why Sepp Blatter is feeling a little […]
Drugs / Policy / Politics
High time to end this immoral drugs war
Published by The Independent (30th April, 2014) It is 43 years since Richard Nixon, in need of a public enemy to shore up support for his snarling style […]
Drugs / Policy
How legal highs could be brought down to Earth
Published by The Guardian (26th April, 2014) Just down the road from my house are shops that demonstrate the absurdity of our drug laws. The shelves are filled […]
Drugs / Policy / Politics
A cheer for Nick Clegg – he is talking about drugs
Published in The Independent (February 10th, 2014) Hooray! Give Nick Clegg a cheer – at last we have a prominent frontline politician talking some sense on drugs. Following […]
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 […]