Published by The i paper (13th June, 2022) Prince Charles is right: the Government’s plan to send people seeking asylum to Rwanda is “appalling”. It is a callous, […]
Feature / Immigration / Policy / Race
Winners, on and off the pitch
Published by The i paper (5th July, 2021) One by one, the institutions that bind our country stumbled. We saw our collective faith in the banks, BBC, church, […]
Drugs / Policy
The blinkered war on drugs cannot be won
Published by The i paper (12th April, 2021) The bust began with a tip-off in the Netherlands. This led German police to a ship loaded in Paraguay, which […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
The enforcer
Published by Tortoise (7th January, 2021) Soon after Tony Blair won his second landslide election victory, the Daily Telegraph interviewed five women to ask why they wanted to become MPs […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
A shameful failure of decency
Published by The i paper (5th October, 2020) Here we go again. The Tories are sliding in the polls. The prime minister’s popularity is waning fast as his incompetence […]
Immigration / Policy
Symbols of the hostile environment
Published by The i paper (7th September, 2020) Clapton Girls’ Academy has a motto to inspire pupils in one of the poorer parts of London: “Arrive with a […]
Immigration / Iraq / Policy / World
We owe it to asylum seekers to help them
Published by The i paper (31st August, 2020) Hala has known nothing but conflict and chaos all her life. She was eight years old when her nation was […]
Policy / Politics / Whitehall
Yes, Sir Humphrey must be tamed. But I fear No 10’s hostile approach may yet backfire
Published by The Daily Mail (25th February, 2020) Early skirmishes have erupted into open warfare bet-ween the Government and the army of civil servants resisting a Whitehall shake-up. […]
Health / Policy
Ministers failing in their duty of care
Published by The i paper (24th February, 2020) As someone whose father has severe dementia and daughter needs full-time care for profound disabilities, I have witnessed this country’s […]
Politics
This cabinet signals the death of David Cameron’s Tory modernisation project
Published by The Guardian (26th July, 2019) When David Cameron took over as Tory leader in 2005, he inherited a party that was downhearted after three electoral defeats. It looked […]
Politics
Stand up to the incompetent Brexit bullies
Published by The i paper (11th June, 2018) You might think an outbreak of trade war would make even the most ardent Brexiteer question the wisdom of quitting […]
Africa / Aid / South Sudan / Uganda
The foreign aid ghost camps
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd June, 2018) When United Nations chief Antonio Guterres begged the world to help Uganda deal with ‘the biggest refugee exodus in Africa […]