Imagine my excitement today, at finding something new in a story that’s becoming exhaustingly repetitive. I haven’t seen a single newspaper headline, tweet or Facebook status using the pun ‘Oh Tier, What a Mess’. The only thing more tiresome than the COVID measures themselves are the puns. If my single
Read → November 27, 2020
Eating alone has had some bad PR. For decades, centuries, it has been regarded as a symbol of failure. People have sniggered and sneered, mocked and maligned. Popular culture is littered with characters whose desperation, loneliness or unpopularity has been portrayed through scenes of them eating alone. The idea that
Read → November 19, 2020
In the summer of 2020, in the heat of the Black Lives Matter protests, an image of Patrick Hutchinson made the world stop and pay attention.
Read → November 14, 2020
Dominic Cummings has departed Downing Street, just five months after the government threw their credibility under the bus to save him, they've thrown him under a bus too. I'll resist the temptation to suggest that it has '£350m for the NHS' written across it. I spoke Catherine McLeod - former special
Read → November 14, 2020
This week - on the final instalment of the Road to the White House (for now) - we take stock of that fraught and often unbearable election campaign, the size of Biden's win, what next for Trump and what next for a Republican Party gripped by Trumpism.
Read → November 13, 2020
Where attention would ordinarily be on the last few days of the campaign - the drive to get out the vote and convince that last handful of undecideds - the smarter minds are more focused on what comes next. And they aren’t wondering what TV deal Trump might sign. Coming up
Read → October 30, 2020
With just over a week to go, the stakes are high. In this week's episode of the Road to the White House, US commentator Edward Hardy and Greg Swenson from Republicans Overseas battle it out over the final presidential debate. A much more subdued affair, the final debate focused much more on
Read → October 25, 2020
Oh, boy, it's getting exciting. In this week's episode of Road to the White House, I speak to US commentator Edward Hardy and Greg Swenson from Republicans Overseas.
Read → October 23, 2020
Sometimes, you have to work hard to find a topical hook for a story you want to do. Other times, they pile up like trucks at the Kent border. Two of the week’s biggest stories have blown open some of the social and economic gaps that still linger over modern Britain,
Read → October 23, 2020A few years ago, a producer for a popular TV news network called me for an opinion on a story with the reasoning that – said in jest, I think – I ‘always seem happy to harp on about the north being hard done by’. It was a jovial dig
Read → October 23, 2020