Published by The i paper (9th April, 2018) Sometimes the smallest things drive home the enormity. Amid the mound of flowers marking the spot where another teenager lost […]
Drugs / Police / Policy
It’s slow, overdue but underway: we’re on the path to drug reform
Published by UnHerd (23rd November, 2017) Grahame Morris has been called many things in his political career but he could never be accused of carpetbagging. He was born […]
Drugs / Policy / United States / World
Land of the living dead
Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th August, 2017) The black jeep had slammed into a parked saloon in a quiet suburban street, just beside a house having […]
Politics
Theresa May’s rhetorical punch
Published by Politico (27th January, 2017) As someone who spends days churning out words for columns and foreign dispatches, I like to liven up copy with a few […]
Drugs / Policy / United States / World
Priming the pot
Published by Volte Face (9th September, 2016) During almost five years on the beat as a police officer, patrolling some of the roughest parts of London, Mike Abbott […]
Education / Policy / Politics
The spread of fat cats in the public sector
Published by The i Paper & The Independent (15th February, 2016) Birmingham University was one of the losers in the last global ranking of the world’s finest higher […]
Police / Policy / Politics
I know just the man to put the police’s house in order: Andrew Mitchell
Published in The Guardian (October 23rd, 2013) A few months ago David Davis told me that if the police did not come clean over the case of former […]
Health / Police / Policy / Politics / Technology
Why does no-one ever take the blame any more?
Published in The Daily Mail (February 13th, 2013) When Nick Clegg dropped into Hampshire to boost his party’s campaign in the crucial Eastleigh by-election, he spoke passionately about […]
Crime / Environment / Police / Policy
Philandering policemen, secret courts, and this insidious threat to our faith in justice
Published in The Daily Mail (November 20th, 2012) With his long hair, his sinewy body honed by daring feats of climbing, his stacks of ready money and his […]