Published by The i paper (9th December, 2024) Thirteen years ago, seven boys sat around in school swigging soft drinks after a game of football while television reports […]
United States
Trump has poisoned US democracy
Published by The i paper (4th November, 2024) Four years ago, I was talking to voters in West Virginia when I met a young black woman called Brittney. […]
Technology / United States
Democracy dies in darkness
Published by The i paper (29th October, 2024) Olivia Troye is a lifelong Republican who worked as a counter-terrorism adviser in Donald Trump’s administration. She resigned shortly before […]
Africa / South Africa
South Africa shows democracy in action
Published by The i paper (17th June, 2024) It is 30 years since the citizens of South Africa defied doom-mongers with a largely peaceful transition from apartheid to […]
Europe / Russia / Slovakia
Another nation on the frontline of Putin’s war against democracy
Published by The i paper (20th May, 2024) The day before I arrived in Bratislava, Slovakia, to report on last year’s election, Vladimir Putin admitted his beloved Soviet […]
Europe / Slovakia
The intensity of anger and depth of divisions were among the most disturbing I’ve seen
Published by The Daily Mail (18th May, 2024) Out-of-touch and feuding politicians, soaring living costs and a lack of decent jobs – the gripes from voters were eerily […]
United States / World
Why is there no age limit on politicians?
Published by The i paper (4th September, 2023) Chuck Grassley was born in 1933 to a rural family living in a farmhouse with no electricity or indoor plumbing. […]
Africa / Aid / Somalia / Somaliland
Foreign aid blights rather than builds a nation
Published by The Times (5th July, 2023) Somalia is a shattered country associated with chaos, conflict and piracy, host to an Islamist terrorist group described by a senior […]
Politics
The struggle to save our democracy from scoundrels
Published by The i paper (19th June, 2023) It is now official: Boris Johnson is a lying scoundrel. He is branded forever as a man who treated his […]
United States / World
Biden’s record is more impressive than Obama’s – but he is making a mistake by running again
Published by The I newspaper (24th April, 2023) Muddling up New Zealand’s rugby team with a British paramilitary unit from the past that was infamous for its brutality […]
Politics
Johnson must go – but it will take more than this to restore trust in democracy
Published by The i paper (27th June, 2022) The wedding I attended on Saturday could not have felt more English, the mood more upbeat. It was a joyous […]