Published by The iPaper (30th October, 2017) Every day, the streets of Barcelona seem filled with flags. They are unfurled and flown, waved and worn, amid the splendour […]
Are smart phones feeding an epidemic of despair?
Published by The i paper (23rd October, 2017) There are few more obvious cries for help than self-harm. The idea of slashing your arm with a razor blade […]
The solution to overcrowded prisons? Stop locking people up
Published by The i paper (16th October, 2017) Marc Maltby was only 23 years old. Yet he has just become the fifth person to die in a month […]
Revenge of the Cameroons
Published by The i paper (9th October, 2017) Shortly before Theresa May became Prime Minister, I was having coffee with a former member of Gordon Brown’s team. ‘Mark […]
The Tory brand is toxic to the young
Published by The i paper (2nd October, 2017) How times change. When Conservatives gathered for their last annual conference, there was talk of a second Thatcher as a […]
Corbyn may have avuncular charm, but he’s no man of the people
Published by The ipaper (25th September, 2017) Jeremy Corbyn displayed his usual avuncular style ahead of his party’s annual conference. Certainly he has good cause to smile as […]
Boris Johnston’s descent into gutter politics
Published by the i paper (18th September, 2017) You may have forgotten Andrea Leadsom. She was the woman who nearly became prime minister until she claimed motherhood gave […]
What Rees-Mogg’s popularity reveals about the Tories
Published by The ipaper (11th September, 2017) The idea of Jacob Rees-Mogg as the leader to save Tories from electoral crisis is laughable, certainly in this century. He […]
Liberating 25 million enslaved North Korean people should be our priority
Published by The ipaper (4th September, 2017) It felt like an earthquake. Tremors rippled out from the underground test zone buried deep in a North Korean mountain and […]
Storms in Texas, clouds over Washington
Published by The ipaper (28th August, 2017) The rain is still coming down hard here in Houston. And soon the president will be down also, trying to look […]
Give thanks for this White House chaos
Published by The ipaper (21st August, 2017) It seems incredible but it has only been seven months since Donald Trump became 45th president of the United States. Seven […]
How to solve the North Korea crisis
Published by The ipaper (14th August, 2017) It would take just 14 minutes for a missile fired from North Korea to reach Guam and military leaders in Pyongyang […]