Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th April, 2019) It seems strange to find a massive monument to fascism in one of Europe’s leading democracies. But travel less than […]
Disability / Health / Policy
‘It was pure torture’: autistic boy locked up, had head flushed down a toilet and punched so hard his jaw was broken in state care
Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th April, 2019) When Ben Garrod turned 18, he was preparing to move from a specialist residential school into his own flat […]
Disability / Health / Policy
My autistic child was kidnaped by social workers
Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th March, 2019) It was a cold day in February five years ago when a psychologist sent by the local authority issued […]
Syria / World
She said she was terrified her son would die in camp
Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th March, 2019) Shamima Begum told me she was ‘terrified’ her baby son Jarrah would die when we met inside a Syrian […]
Syria / World
Plight of the little boys brainwashed into being ISIS suicide bombers
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd March, 2019) Milad was just seven when Islamic State gunmen tore him from his family as they cowered in a building alongside […]
Syria / World
IS zealots face final assault as coalition forces close
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd March, 2019) Thick black smoke rose over the Syrian village of Baghouz yesterday as Western-backed forces advanced on two fronts in […]
Syria / World
More British jihadi brides hide among us in camp, say IS women
Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th February, 2019) British women fleeing from Islamic State’s last pocket of land are giving false names and hiding their identities among […]
Iraq / Syria / World
Death squads roam in the ruins of the caliphate
Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th February, 2019) The civilians able to escape have fled. Now there are just an estimated 500 fighters, many of them foreigners, […]
Denmark / Europe / Immigration / Policy
Europe’s Alcatraz: why the continent’s most liberal nation plans to dump refugees on a remote island
Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th February, 2019) The rain lashed down and wind blew in fiercely over icy Baltic waters as Peter Skaarup stepped back on […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Sophie had autism. So why did her life end in a special unit for mentally ill people?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd February, 2019) Ben and Nickie Bennett had just finished dinner at home on a bank holiday Monday when the doorbell rang. […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Five new secure units for autistic patients set to open despite pledge to close them
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd February, 2019) A private health company is opening five secure units to lock up people with autism and learning disabilities – […]