Published by The ipaper (14th May, 2018) The Today programme on Radio 4 often sets the news agenda with tough interviews and taut foreign analysis. Yet on Saturday […]
Iran / North Korea / United States / World
Does Donald Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th May, 2018) When Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office 16 months ago, he promised ‘the hour of action’ had arrived. For […]
United States / World
Trump: emboldened and dangerous
Published by The i paper (26th March, 2018) Donald Trump never wanted to be president. His goal when running for the White House was the same as it […]
Europe / European Union / Germany / Technology
Why you can’t really on the news media to understand Europe
Published by UnHerd (16th March, 2018) Which country’s politics are most closely observed after our own in Britain? It’s easy: just look at the army of press corps […]
Drugs / Health / Policy
Keeping medical cannabis from children is callous and foolish
Published by The Guardian (19th February, 2018) The first medical marijuana dispensaries in Pennsylvania have opened their doors over the past few days. Thousands of patients with serious […]
Africa / Mali / United States / World
As our narrative on Africa shrinks, the continent rises
Published by The i paper (15th January, 2018) For a brief moment Donald Trump sounded presidential on Friday as he signed a proclamation to mark the public holiday […]
United States / World
Blood-soaked Baltimore becomes murder central
Published by The Mail on Sunday (31st December, 2017) Erricka Bridgeford first saw someone shot dead when she was 12 years old. Her brother has been killed, along […]
Health / Policy / United States / World
America’s public health enemy No 1
Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st October, 2017) When Patsy Stinchfield was a young nurse practitioner three decades ago, her home town in the US Midwest was […]
Economics / United States / World
The gap between Trump’s manufactured promises and life in Middle America
Published by UnHerd (28th September, 2017) After more than a decade working in a plant assembling circuit boards for boilers, Jody Krinn was starting to ponder retirement. Not […]
North Korea / United States / World
Liberating 25 million enslaved North Korean people should be our priority
Published by The ipaper (4th September, 2017) It felt like an earthquake. Tremors rippled out from the underground test zone buried deep in a North Korean mountain and […]
Drugs / Policy / United States / World
The other deadly hurricane surging across America
Published by UnHerd (1st September, 2017) Last weekend I was in Houston when the hurricane hit. The winds smashed into buildings, the rain lashed down. It was an […]
United States / World
Storms in Texas, clouds over Washington
Published by The ipaper (28th August, 2017) The rain is still coming down hard here in Houston. And soon the president will be down also, trying to look […]