About me
I'm a reporter, critic and editor based in London.
I work as a contributing writer for The Economist’s 1843 Magazine. My work with them has been nominated for many awards, including the ASME award for best reporting and the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils. ​
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My reporting and criticism has also appeared in The Financial Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, GQ, TLS and other venues.
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I write a (very) intermittent Substack about fine art called ‘Paintings!’, which you can subscribe to here.
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My stuff
(The reported features that take up most of my time)
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Between Brexit and the deep blue sea: a lifeboat crew tackles the migrant crisis
1843 Magazine
8th November 2022
“I’d say, ‘How about you go out and look at them and kick them in the water? Have you seen someone drown? I have. You go look them in the eye and do that.’”
This article was nominated for the 2023 Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils.
Quentin Tarantino: ‘There’s a lot of feet in a lot of good directors’ movies’
“When Paul Newman played a bastard, like in Hud,” writes Tarantino, “he was still an enjoyable bastard. But the guy in Breathless wasn’t just a sexy stud prick. He was a little creep, petty thief, piece of shit.”
GQ Magazine
8th November 2022
‘If I speak out they will torture my family: Voices of Uyghurs in Exile’
1843 Magazine
‘She wouldn’t let me print her name but she told me the same thing as everyone else. During the spring of 2017, in Xinjiang in western China, people began to disappear.’
This article was my first reported feature. It was nominated for the 2021 ASME award for Best Reporting.
Contact
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