Published by The i paper (29th July, 2019) There is one thing we can agree on in our divided nation: last week was very hot. I flew back […]
Environment / India / Policy / World
Clean air is worth the political price
Published by The Times (25th July, 2019) Slowly but surely, the world is waking up to the climate emergency. I recently returned from Chennai, where one of India’s […]
Environment / Policy
We need to talk about climate change
Published by The ipaper (22nd April, 2019) Civil disobedience is rarely popular, especially when it leads to disrupted journeys, blocked roads and traffic jams. No doubt some passengers […]
Africa / Environment / Policy / South Africa
Water wars as day zero looms
Published by Mail on Sunday (18th February, 2018) The vista could hardly be more barren or forbidding – a parched sandy landscape, baking beneath the afternoon sun, broken […]
Crime / Environment / Police / Policy
Philandering policemen, secret courts, and this insidious threat to our faith in justice
Published in The Daily Mail (November 20th, 2012) With his long hair, his sinewy body honed by daring feats of climbing, his stacks of ready money and his […]
Economics / Environment / Policy / Politics
Tory retreat on climate change is senseless
Published in The Guardian (October 29th, 2012) The year after David Cameron became Tory party leader, he did something party leaders normally never do: he spoke at a […]