Published by The Washington Post (13th December, 2019) As results started rolling in from Britain’s 650 constituencies in Thursday’s election, there was a moment of exquisite symbolism. Labour […]
Europe / European Union / Politics
Cameron will forever be tainted by the Brexit horror story
Published by The i paper (16th September, 2019) Every now and then I am struck by the stench of our putrefying politics. It hit me last week when […]
Europe / European Union / Politics
Dodo of a deal deserves to be made extinct
Published by The i paper (26th November, 2018) Amber Rudd has been back in the Cabinet for nine days, yet already there is talk she has joined ‘a […]
Politics
When former leaders miss the limelight
Published by The i paper (5th November, 2018) This may be a controversial statement in the current political climate, but David Cameron is a decent person. As prime […]
Africa / Libya
Grotesque deeds that stained our democracy
Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st July, 2018) A few days after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, I entered the ransacked residence of the British ambassador to […]
Politics
A new centre party could change everything
Published by The i paper (15th May, 2017) There has been much talk of a new centre party emerging from the ashes of the Labour Party after the […]
Politics
Honouring my friends from Number Ten is wrong
Published by The Daily Telegraph (2nd August, 2016) There is no doubt the leaked list of gongs that David Cameron wants to dole out looks demeaning. There are […]
Policy / Politics / Race
David Cameron saved his party from fusty white male irrelevance
Published by The Daily Telegraph (14th July, 2016) We saw the classic David Cameron in his last Prime Minister’s Questions: warm and witty, with sharp defence of his […]
Economics / Technology
The not-so-strange death of The Independent
Published by CapX (12th February, 2016) When The Independent launched in 1986, I was working on a weekly newspaper in the West Midlands with fuzzy ambitions to reach […]
Europe / Politics
A Minister for the Future might keep Britain on course
Published by The Independent (30th November, 2015) Sweden is far from a nirvana, but it remains an innovative nation when it comes to politics and the problems confronting […]
Politics
Britain’s Bernie Sanders may be Labour’s next leader
Published by The Wall Street Journal (5th September, 2015) Thirty years ago I covered politics for a local newspaper in a prosperous patch of north London. Among the […]
Politics / United States / World
Brothers in arms – but Bush and Blair take divergent paths now
Published by The Independent (9th June, 2015) When he left the White House in early 2009 and headed back to Dallas, few people were sad to see George […]