This page will not be regularly updated but is intended to act as a portal for blog pieces and articles I have written for other websites and publications.

I am a regular contributor to ConservativeHome’s excellent CentreRight blog, often write about international affairs and am an occasional contributor to Public Affairs News on European affairs.

I was praised in the Total Politics Guide to the 2010 General Election for displaying “remarkable, encyclopaedic knowledge“, described by PoliticalBetting as “knowing a thing or two about international politics” and derided by the Conservatives4Palin as a “self proclaimed expert” who “goes to dinner parties in DC and North London”.

Here are a few pieces I have written:

On human rights:

Transnistria: a den of crime, hotbed of human rights abuses and a risk to international security
Hugo Chávez cares nothing for human rights

On European politics:

Tory MEPs could be more powerful than ever and should be ignored by lobbyists ‘at their peril’
Time for ‘wheels down’ on MEP travel expenses
“No real debate about the Lisbon Treaty could happen. This was a deliberate decision”
The Conservatives – and kingmakers – in the European Parliament
Is Baroness Ashton allowed to be a European Commissioner?
End this Strasbourg farce

On American politics:

Republican Hara-Kiri
Who are the “leaders” of the Republican Party?
What kind of foreign policy can we expect from the Obama administration?

On Brazilian politics:

Brazilian Presidential Election 2001
Mayoral elections give Brazil’s centre-right the upper hand

On Labour:

Labour’s unsavoury allies
Labour’s unsavoury allies (part two)

On the British Parliament:

How would you reform the House of Lords
EDMs should be abolished

On the internet:

Time to get serious about “cyber warfare”
Should we be doing more to help online “subversives”?

On the Church of England:

Rowan Williams must stand down