Published by The i paper (28th July, 2025)
Politics
Saving the PM is the Tories’ main mission
Published by The i paper (9th May, 2022) Blackmore Vale was a solid blue ward in a bucolic part of Somerset. It was held for the Tories by […]
Arts / Covid19
Don’t ignore the country’s cash cow
Published by The i paper (15th February, 2021) It is easy to forget London used to be a city in perpetual crisis, a symbol of national decline in […]
Crime / Police / Policy
Children need help, not demonising
Published by The i paper (9th April, 2018) Sometimes the smallest things drive home the enormity. Amid the mound of flowers marking the spot where another teenager lost […]
Israel, West Bank & Gaza / Policy / Race / World
Whatever they do, Muslims can’t win in our society
Published by The Guardian (28th April, 2016) It is enough to make you feel proud to be British, citizens of a nation that loves little better than to […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
Politicians blame immigrants for their own mistakes
Published by The Independent (15th December, 2014) Myths and mantras are swirling around the increasingly-toxic immigration debate as mainstream parties flounder in the face of Ukip’s insurgency. These […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
Britain needs a party that proudly champions cosmopolitan values
Published by The Financial Times (17th October, 2014) These are strange times. An insurgent political party has won a single parliamentary by-election plus the support of fewer than […]
Politics
Wise answers needed to the Ukip surge
Published by The Financial Times (23rd May, 2014) Nigel Farage insists his UK Independence party must now be taken seriously following its local election success. This is not easy […]
Economics
A vote of confidence in Britain
Published by The Guardian (13th May, 2014) There is something repellent about the likes of James Stunt, who married billionaire Bernie Ecclestone’s daughter and drives around London with his security […]
Arts / Books / Politics
A politician with real class
Published in the Daily Mail (May 10th, 2013) This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson (Bantam) When Alan Johnson was seven, his mother was in […]
Economics / Housing / Policy
We must make it easier to build homes in London
Published in the London Evening Standard (January 4th, 2013) There are plans for a handful of new houses in my neck of north London. It is a modest […]
Immigration / Policy / Race
We have nothing to fear from our Muslim citizens
Published in the London Evening Standard (December 11th, 2012) Shortly after the end of his first term in office, Liberal leader William Gladstone penned a pamphlet against Catholicism. […]