First published on December 27, 2019, on Medium The tradition of the “Christmas message”, where politicians offer a seasonal thought for the day, ought to be scrapped for its CO2 emissions alone. Instead, the head of a jet-setting royal family bores on about climate change,…
This article was originally published in Progress on April 11th, 2019. As windy talk of a ‘truly global Britain’ fades away, a recent film makes the case for international solidarity – though less by its merits than its flaws. ‘A Private War’ is a dramatisation…
It’s easy to laugh at the pathetic cover story offered by Russian heavies Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov for why they were in Salisbury at exactly the same time a former Russian spy was being poisoned with a deadly nerve agent. In Britain, their interview…