We’re all living longer. How afraid should we be?
Published in The Independent (February 11th, 2013) On the day I was born in 1962, the number of British centenarians... Read Full Article
Natural disaster, man-made hell
Published in The World Today (February 8th, 2013) The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save... Read Full Article
Victims of our blind faith in the NHS
Published in The Independent (February 7th, 2013) It is just seven months since the NHS was presented to a baffled... Read Full Article
Lothario who seduced a nation
Published in The Observer (3rd February, 2013) The Pike: Gabriele D’Annunzio – Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy... Read Full Article
Save lives Mr Cameron, but don’t imagine you need to save Africa
Published in The Independent (February 2nd, 2013) This week, the Prime Minister went to Africa.Struggling to achieve anything at home... Read Full Article
Discovering Tanzania’s great blue yonder on an island called Mafia (it’s perfectly friendly)
Published in The Daily Mail (February 2nd, 2013) A scrap of raffia roof is propped up by spindly sticks to... Read Full Article
Music is vital to political struggle across Africa – not just in Mali
Published in The Observer (27th January, 2013) At dinner last month after a concert by the Congolese rapper Baloji, I... Read Full Article
Tax, transparency and a titanic fight for power
Published in The Independent (January 26th, 2013) Davos is a rather absurd jamboree– so important to those who attend it... Read Full Article
How the West misread Mali
Published in The Guardian (January 25th, 2013) For 10 months the collapse was largely ignored by the west. A country seen... Read Full Article
The real meaning of the PM’s speech on Europe
Published on ConservativeHome (January 23rd, 2013) This is my annotated take on David Cameron’s keynote speech on Europe, given after... Read Full Article