Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th February, 2021) Jama is a driver who, before the pandemic, ferried people but he now delivers parcels. He is a Somali […]
China / Covid19 / World
Beijing in row over ‘cover-up of Wuhan death toll’
Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st February, 2021) Disturbing Chinese government statistics reveal a huge drop in the number of old people receiving state payments in Hubei […]
Arts / Covid19
Don’t ignore the country’s cash cow
Published by The i paper (15th February, 2021) It is easy to forget London used to be a city in perpetual crisis, a symbol of national decline in […]
China / Covid19 / World
The WHO’s Covid shame
Published by UnHerd (10th February, 2021) Since the pandemic started, China has promoted various narratives on its possible origins. First, the country’s top scientists blamed a Wuhan market […]
China / Covid19 / World
Virus ‘definitely’ began in China, say US scientists
Published by Mail on Sunday (31st January, 2021) The coronavirus pandemic definitely started in China, according to a scientific study that has traced the ‘mother’ of all Covid-19 […]
Arts / Covid19 / Music
Musicians deserve a helping hand
Published by The i paper (25th January, 2021) Seventeen years ago, I spent a day in Pimlico with Paul Weller. We met by the Tate Gallery at a time of […]
Covid19 / Disability
The inhumanity of deeming some lives ‘more valuable’ than others
Published by The Daily Mail (19th January, 2021) Deborah James is a deputy head teacher, a mother of two children and, since her devastating diagnosis with bowel cancer, […]
China / Covid19 / World
It’ll be an unforgivable insult to two million dead if world lets China bury the truth
Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th January, 2021) It has taken 14 months since a sinister new disease emerged in Wuhan for the global health body responsible for […]
China / Covid19 / United States / World
America points finger at China lab
Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th January, 2021) (Written with Glen Owen, Political Editor) The Chinese government is under growing pressure to reveal the true origins of […]
Covid19
World experts condemn WHO inquiry as a ‘charade’
Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th February, 2021) The World Health Organisation’s inquiry into the source of the pandemic is a ‘charade’ to appease China, leading experts […]
Covid19 / Disability / Policy / Social care
Britain is callously indifferent to disabled people
Published by The Daily Telegraph (16th January, 2021) When I asked my doughty friend, a working mum on the other side of London, how she was bearing up […]
Covid19 / Policy / Social care
Selfishness laid bare in one photo
Published by The Daily Mail (15th January, 2021) Just six days ago, Pete Calveley sent a letter to reassure residents of his care home empire and their fearful […]