30th July 2025
Sussex Police investigate witnesses over Operation Midland claims
Sussex Police is leading an investigation into two witnesses suspected of providing false accounts during the “Operation Midland” probe triggered by Carl Beech’s fabricated claims. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)…
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30th March 2023
New Thinking Archive: Braverman and UK Asylum Seekers
Quite rightly, the treatment of UK immigrants and asylum seekers is back in the news. There’s a lot to say about the UK government’s handling of these delicate policy issues,…
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22nd March 2023
New Thinking Archive: China and Illicit Trade
This week, another article from the New Thinking magazine archive – on the reality of China’s illicit trade. Timely, given President Xi’s recent visit to Moscow. A few interesting, and…
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16th March 2023
New Thinking archive: Long Road to Justice
Editors at New Thinking magazine – for whom I write a fortnightly column – have generously allowed me to “re-blog” some archive material that created either stimulating feedback or wider…
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5th August 2022
Where have I been hiding? At New Thinking, of course…
Apologies to ‘regular’ readers of this blog, who will have noticed that I’ve not exactly been active on here over the past year. A friend recently asked me whether the…
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7th July 2021
Doctors’ A&E warning as Javid targets ‘Freedom Day’
As I write, UK ministers are reviewing updated COVID-19 figures intending to lift most restrictions from 19 July – but hospital doctors have warned A&Es are already overwhelmed and face…
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