Allen Buchler
After careers in stockbroking, finance and politics, Allen Buchler worked throughout the former Soviet Union from 1991 to 2015 on development aid programmes
Bungs, bears and barges
Two decades of extraordinary experiences in the Ukrainian capital
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act