Author Amanda Prowse and son Josh Hartley joined me on talkRADIO to talk about their new book – The Boy Between – in which they chart Josh’s experience with depression and how Amanda stepped in to help. It’s a story of a mother’s love, but it also takes on some
Read → January 06, 2021
We ask ourselves a lot of questions when we’re putting the show together. Should we talk about this? Is this helpful? Is it responsible? Does it make good radio? Is it interesting? Does anybody care? This weekend, we’ve asked ourselves a new one. Do we talk about this too much? This week, the issue
Read → December 18, 2020
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
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 is a destroyer. More politely, a deconstructionist. He takes things he disapproves of and he dismantles them. Britain in Europe, the civil service, the Education system. His path through the civic institutions of Britain can be tracked by the mangled wreckage he leaves behind. And he does so
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