A Queen’s speech ruined by absurd anti-immigration measures
Published in The Guardian (May 8th, 2013) There is something reassuringly Ruritanian about the rituals associated with the Queen’s speech,... Read Full Article
Corrupt, ineffective and hypocritical: Britain should give less aid, not more
Published in The Independent (May 2nd, 2013) When Jacob Zuma, the president of South Africa, decided to give his family... Read Full Article
Why do we subsidise firms that keep workers in poverty?
Published in The Independent (April 16th, 2013) Commodity trading seems to attract those characters who feel property dealing too ensnared... Read Full Article
Margaret Thatcher taught the next generation to set the agenda
Published in The Guardian (April 10th, 2013) The US academic Cass Sunstein was in Britain at the end of last month.... Read Full Article
The mutinous anger of Labour voters over welfare
Published in The Mail on Sunday (April 7th, 2013) Let me introduce you to two women I met on Friday.... Read Full Article
All we can agree on is that welfare’s in a state
Published in The Independent (April 2nd, 2013) What a strange world we live in. A clutch of Church leaders spent their... Read Full Article
The man they couldn’t hang
Published in The Independent on Sunday (31st March, 2013) When the National Health Service rose like a merciful phoenix from... Read Full Article
The immigration debate: evidence-free and more rancid than ever
Published in The Guardian (26th March, 2013) Nigel Farage must have been smiling to himself as he supped his pint of... Read Full Article
Is this the dawn of a new coalition?
Published in The Mail on Sunday (March 17th, 2013) Picture the scene as Nick Clegg strides purposefully to the podium... Read Full Article
Overseas aid: an indefensible ringfence
Published in The Guardian (March 14th, 2013) One of the first rules of opposition is to avoid rash promises that... Read Full Article