Tantrums of a tyrant
Published by The Spectator (8th August, 2020) Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen (Granta) It is easy to forget the abnormality... Read Full Article
Plumbing the depths
Published by The Spectator (14th March, 2020) Going Dark: The Secret Social Life of Extremists by Julia Exner (Bloomsbury) Two... Read Full Article
Fear and facts: why we ignore experts
Published by The i paper (2nd March, 2020) Six months ago, an American musician friend sent me two books with... Read Full Article
Notes from a cruel climate
Published by The Observer (23rd February, 2020) The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts (Doubleday) Sophy Roberts’s first glimpse... Read Full Article
How would you respond to the rise of Nazism?
Published by UnHerd (3rd January, 2020) My book of this decade might seem a strange choice. It was written in... Read Full Article
Glimpse into a murky world
Published by The Spectator (26th October, 2019) The Killing in the Consulate: Investigating the Life and Death of Jamal Khashoggi... Read Full Article
The doctor stitching up Syria’s wounded
Published by The Times (2nd March, 2019) War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line by David Nott (Picador) David Nott was... Read Full Article
We need to care about nurses
Published by The ipaper (24th December, 2018) She was a straight A student who had just become a teenager when... Read Full Article
Dark genius behind the destructive creed of Putinism
Published by UnHerd (26th July, 2018) Four months ago I attended a conference in New York that bought together experts... Read Full Article
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... Read Full Article