Published by The Daily Mail (24th June, 2021) When Jimmy Lai was a child, he worked as a porter carrying bags for passengers at the railway station in […]
Policy / Politics / Whitehall
Integrity? Public service? This lobbying scandal smacks of something we’d see in a banana republic
Published by The Daily Mail (17th April, 2021) It smacks of something we might expect in a seedy banana republic rather than a democracy that has long cherished […]
China / Covid19 / World
What a surprise: world health ‘experts’ have let China off the hook on Covid
Published by The Daily Mail (31st March, 2021) More than 420 days have passed since the World Health Organisation declared that a strange new disease killing people in […]
Covid19 / Disability
The inhumanity of deeming some lives ‘more valuable’ than others
Published by The Daily Mail (19th January, 2021) Deborah James is a deputy head teacher, a mother of two children and, since her devastating diagnosis with bowel cancer, […]
Covid19 / Policy / Social care
Selfishness laid bare in one photo
Published by The Daily Mail (15th January, 2021) Just six days ago, Pete Calveley sent a letter to reassure residents of his care home empire and their fearful […]
China / Covid19 / World
Just how low can China go?
Published by The Daily Mail (29th December, 2020) When a new disease erupted one year ago in Wuhan, a group of journalists and activists rushed to the central […]
Aid / China / World
Sickening aid bungs to China’s repellent dictators must end
Published by The Daily Mail (25th November, 2020) You have probably never heard of Zhou Qiang but he is one of the key Communist Party leaders in China […]
Health / Policy
Incompetence, conspiracy – and how our culture of NHS worship is costing lives
Published by The Daily Mail (25th August, 2020) Today Harry Richford should be a bundle of energy, full of curiosity and mischief like any other toddler approaching his […]
Health / Policy
If we only ever sanctify the NHS, its harrowing failures will never be cured
Published by The Daily Mail (9th July, 2020) Daniel Mason was born half a century ago without hands, with missing toes, a malformed mouth and impaired vision. From […]
China / World
The hideous crushing of Hong Kong’s freedom is a victory for despots over democracy
Published by The Daily Mail (2nd July, 2020) The first arrest was a man clutching a black flag inscribed with the words ‘Hong Kong Independence’ in both English […]
Aid / Politics
Good riddance to the self-serving Department for International Narcissists
Published by The Daily Mail (June 17th, 2020) One of Tony Blair’s first actions in government after winning the 1997 election was to weaken British diplomacy by spinning […]
Covid19 / Health / Policy / Politics / Social care
Callous betrayal of our most vulnerable citizens
Published by The Daily Mail (14th April, 2020) The carnage is horrific as this hideous pandemic carves through care homes across the country, killing hundreds of residents despite […]