Published by The i paper (11th June, 2024) Tootie is serving a five-year jail sentence after being caught dealing drugs in Oslo. Yet he smiles as he tells […]
Crime / Policy
Our prisons are inhumane, as I’ve seen in Wandsworth
Published by The i paper (11th September, 2023) Daneil Khalife is back behind bars after police pulled the 21-year-old former soldier from a bicycle as he pedalled along […]
Europe / European Union / Norway / Politics
Another defining week for our Brexit self-harm strategy
Published by The i paper (9th December, 2018) As I walked beside Gilets Jaunes protesters in Marseille on Saturday, I asked two simple questions: why were they here […]
Arts / Books / Europe / Norway / Syria / World
The tragedy of Syria: how protest spiralled into savagery
Published by The Spectator (26th April, 2018) Two Sisters: Into the Syrian Jihad by Asne Seierstad (Virago); No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid (Oneworld) […]
Drugs / Policy / United States / World
And a hippy new year….
Published by The i paper (1st January, 2018) The first time I went to the United States was in 1983 when I spent summer working at a camp […]
Europe / European Union / Politics
So much pain for so little gain
Published by The ipaper (24th July, 2017) Jacob Rees-Mogg has six children, has never changed a nappy and happily admits to making no pretence at modernity. Yet such […]
Europe / European Union / Norway / Politics
Should we follow Norway to the EU exit? Nei!
Published by The Mail on Sunday (29th May, 2016) Picture a scene familiar to many who live in the English countryside. Armies of eastern European farm workers are toiling […]
Europe / European Union / Politics
Migrant camps in Kent? We don’t need scare stories to make a case for the EU
Published by The Guardian (9th February, 2016) The fight over Britain’s membership of the EU has, until now, had the feel of a phoney war. The out camp […]
Europe / European Union / Politics
Want to avoid a Brexit? Then run a campaign of fear
Published by The Independent (19th October, 2015) There are about 60,000 colonies of great crested newts among the ponds of Britain, although even conservationists say they have no […]
Politics
The end of privacy in British politics
Published in The Independent on Sunday (April 8th, 2012) Bumping into a trade union leader last week, we got chatting about the London mayoral election upon which so […]