Politics and Current Affairs

Political Writings

Boris Johnson’s political self-sabotage: the destruction of DfID and Britain’s standing in the world

Brexit and “this isn’t an election campaign” campaign

The pain never goes away; an Iranian refugee’s story

‘Believe All Women’: The Problem with Hashtag Politics 

In Defence of The New Yorker and Freedom of Speech

Aretha Franklin’s Living Memory: an essay on the collective loss of historical memory 

In memory of Tessa Jowell

“Round and round we go, where it stops nobody knows”: an essay on political short-termism.

UK General Election