Published by The i paper (3rd April, 2023) The murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel shocked the country: a nine-year-old girl, shot in the chest by a drug dealer chasing […]
Crime / Policy
Men: this is not just a women’s issue
Published by The i paper (4th October, 2021) When Sajid Javid was interviewed over the weekend about the hideous Sarah Everard case, he delivered the classic political response […]
Drugs / Police / Policy
Britain’s criminal approach to drugs
Published by UnHerd (30th July, 2021) Our nation’s politicians have long been guilty of an inflated sense of exceptionalism. But there is one area in which Britain indisputably […]
Crime / Policy / United States / World
What’s killing New Orleans?
Published by UnHerd (5th July, 2021) Portia Pollock was 60 years old when she was murdered outside her home. She was a physical therapist who loved working with […]
Crime / Policy
The justice system is failing women
Published by The i paper (15th March, 2021) Truly, these are strange times. Last week began with a flood of messages on social media celebrating female empowerment on […]
China / World
The teenagers taking on the brutal tyranny of China
Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th August, 2019) In their colourful T-shirts, cut-off denim shorts and carefully styled hair, the four female students look like countless other […]
Crime / Policy
The rape victim force to suffer again by the police
Published by The ipaper (6th May, 2019) Do you think victims of rape should hand their phones over to police? Clearly this is a complex issue following the […]
Drugs / Policy
Theresa May’s tacit support for drug reform
Published by The ipaper (17th December, 2018) Theresa May has a lot on her plate at the moment, despite surviving last week’s attempted coup by her party’s right-wing […]
Crime / Drugs / Policy
Britain’s police are waking up to the futility of the war on drugs
Published by CapX (23rd October, 2018) Few people would have expected Bernard Hogan-Howe to become the nation’s latest outspoken campaigner for review of our drug laws. Yet this […]
Drugs / Policy
When will politicians realise that the war on drugs has been lost?
Published by The Evening Standard (9th August, 2018) Last year I went on patrol in Dayton, Ohio, with an affable police officer called Andy Teague, who told me […]