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
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
