Our deafening silence on HIV in the UK

“When you tell peopleyou have HIV, you kind of think everyone is going to be ok, because it’s the 21st century. That’s actually not the case.”

“After the earthquake, people said that God had left us”

“There were kids there, under the rubble, screaming. The mums were outside, just crying. No one can even imagine. It was unbearable.”

The BBC is being cowardly, not impartial

The point of impartiality is that it imparts the freedom to say whatever is judged to be true, however unwelcome, however painful, however unpalatable. It is not to make us polite.

The modern day good Samaritans

“I thought I might see some vomit, one or two twisted ankles – at worst, a bloody nose from a drunken punch. Little did I know that, by one o’clock, I would be on my knees in the middle of a busy North London road, attending to a man who was critically ill after somebody stamped on his head stamped during a violent brawl.”

Christmas shopping in the police state

“It’s simple: arrest everyone, and you’re bound to catch a few people who’ve done something wrong.”

Testing Questions

“How can you be at home with your pet dog and then go into work and poison one?” an animal rights campaigner asked. I tried to find out.

Africa and the curse of the land rovers

Just like useless gap year students, African aid is well meaning, but little attention is paid to where it goes.