Published by The Observer (27th July, 2014) Thrive: The Power of Evidence-based Psychological Therapies by Richard Layard and David M Clark (Allen Lane) ‘I once broke my leg […]
Arts / Books / Politics
Farage and the fruitcakes
Published by The Observer (29th June, 2014) Protest Vote: How Politicians Lost the Plot (Gibson Square) Ten years ago, Tim Newark was shopping near his north London home […]
Arts / Books / China / United States / World
Sunny side up
Published in The Observer (February 23rd 2014) The Upside of Down by Charles Kenny (Basic Books) During the last United States presidential election, the then-rising Republican star Chris […]
Arts / Books / Immigration / Policy
When the future is another country
Published in The Observer (November 17th, 2013) Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century by Paul Collier (OUP) The migration of poor people to rich countries is a […]
Arts / Books / Economics
It makes the world go round
Published in The Observer (June 9th, 2013) Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin (Bodley Head) When an American explorer named William Henry Furness III arrived on the […]
Arts / Books / Immigration / Policy
Frightened by foreign bodies
Published in The Observer (14th April, 2013) The British Dream by David Goodhart (Atlantic); The Diversity Illusion by Ed West (Gibson Square) A couple of years ago I […]
Disability
Put people with learning difficulties at the core of society
Published in The Observer (December 2nd, 2012) Another day, another outbreak of hand-wringing over how to protect vulnerable people from abuse in so-called care homes. Yesterday, it was […]
Africa / Congo / Rwanda
Gaza grabs the headlines as Congo once more descends into chaos
Published in The Observer (November 25th, 2012) Once again, the apparently insoluble struggle between Israel and Palestine has flared up before flickering into uneasy standoff. As usual, world […]