Published by UnHerd (2nd December, 2020) When Michael Gove sought to shore up support for the Government’s polices on lockdown, he invoked the most sacred idol in the […]
Africa / Covid19
The lockdown conundrum
Published by The i paper (12th October, 2020) As the nights darken, coronavirus cases surge and job losses soar, the debate over how best to respond to this […]
Belarus / Covid19 / Europe
What can we learn about lockdowns from the country whose dictator told them to fight Covid by drinking vodka?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th September, 2020) As the sun slid from the evening sky over Minsk, clusters of people thronged the imposing entrance of the Bolshoi […]
Africa / Covid19 / Uganda
Africa’s catastrophic Covid response
Published by UnHerd (11th September, 2020) As Covid-19 began to sweep across the planet earlier this year, the warnings about the disease’s impact on Africa were terrifying. The […]
China / Covid19 / United States / World
Where is Wuhan virus researcher who was named as Patient Zero?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd August, 2020) The US government’s leading health research body has raised a series of bombshell concerns over the origins of the […]
Covid19 / Economics
The older workers condemned by Covid
Published by UnHerd (21st August, 2020) Five months ago, Sandra Ackland became one of the millions of British workers furloughed after lockdown started. Her income fell by £400 […]
China / Covid19 / World
‘I had to flee my home and family to tell the world the truth about China’s cover-up before I became another of the disappeared’
Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th August, 2020) When Li-Meng Yan was asked to pop into her boss’s office on the final day of last year, she […]
Covid19 / Europe / Policy / Social care / Sweden
How Covid exposed the world’s lack of care
Published by UnHerd (14th August, 2020) Last week, I was in Sweden, investigating whether the nation’s strategy to avoid lockdown during a pandemic has been a success or […]
Covid19 / Europe / Holland
The land with no face masks
Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd August, 2020) As I walked around the sun-dappled streets of Amsterdam, something felt strange in this world swept by fear and […]