I’ve been writing professionally since June 2013. This is a short selection of my favourite pieces.
Long Reads
‘The life and death of Homaro Cantu, the genius chef who wanted to change the world’, Guardian, 06/04/2018
‘The Accidental Revolutionary: How an Anti-Nuclear Activist Changed the World of Fine Dining’, VICE, 03/12/2018
‘Game Changer: The Hidden History of Johan Cruijff’s Amsterdam’, VICE, 06/03/2019
‘What Noma did next: how the ‘New Nordic’ is reshaping the food world’, Guardian, 28/02/2020
‘El Bulli’s last supper: The disappearance of the world’s greatest chef’, GQ, 04/02/2021
‘Age of the Cosmic Scally: Who The Fuck Is Sine Missione?’, The Face, 25/02/2021
‘The amazing true(ish) story of the ‘Honduran Maradona’’, Guardian, 13/10/2022
‘Fighting City: How MMA reignited Liverpool’s fighting spirit’, The Face, 23/06/2023
‘The Watchmen: Inside Hatton Garden’s turbo-charged watch market’, The Face, 18/09/2023
‘Hard Labour: Inside the party’s no-punches-pulled conference’, The Face, 13/10/2023
‘In character and on tour with The Bootleg Beatles’, Financial Times Magazine, 20/07/2024
Profiles
‘A Star Chef’s Top-Down Revolution for Solving Food Inequity’, Wall Street Journal Magazine, 12/08/2021
‘You can call me Al: The myths, misadventures and many millions of Mohamed Fayed’, Gentlemen’s Journal, 20/06/2024
‘Agents of Change: Inside Forensic Architecture’, DAZED, 16/03/2023
‘The Most Feared Man in Food: Lunch with the Writer Who Eats Chefs for Breakfast’, VICE, 10/07/2018
‘Dispatches from the grassroots: Farmerama and the new wave of food media’, Observer Food Monthly, 18/07/2021
‘Food for Thought: Chef Alice Waters On Her 50-Year Fight To Change the Way We Eat’, Culture Trip Magazine, 13/03/2020
‘Clive Martin’s Hypnic Jerk embraces the doom of millennial dread’, The Face, 24/06/2021
‘A Hundred Different Lives: The Extraordinary Life of Philip Townsend’, Halcyon, 20/03/2015
‘The Essex Man Who Wants to be King, Prime Minister and Pope’, VICE, 24/06/2013
Stories
‘Calvados Is A State Of Mind: A Drunken Sketch’, The Fence, 05/05/2022
‘Lest, We Forgot: Tracing Liverpool’s Failed Terrorist Catastrophe’, The Fence, 17/4/2022
‘Snacking On The Sweet Taste of Success’, WIRED, 04/02/2022
‘Generation Covid: Sheffield’, The Face, 22/03/2022
‘Cracker factory records: the surprising story of United Biscuits' radio station’, Guardian, 05/11/2020
‘Years of austerity mean Boris Johnson’s war on obesity is doomed to fail’, Guardian, 03/08/2020
‘Drunk Histories: The Story of Pimm’s’, Culture Trip, 04/06/2020
‘Deeper Underground: How Helsinki is Building its Future Beneath the City Surface’, Culture Trip, 06/05/2020
‘War and Beats: Habibi Funk Brings To Light a Lost Lebanese LP’, Culture Trip, 13/12/2019
‘This Won’t Kill Me, Will It?: We Tried the World’s Foulest-Smelling Fish’, VICE, 05/09/2019
‘Blind Faith: Munich Confronts its Dark Past with a Radical Modern Art Exhibition’, VICE, 26/06/2018
‘Shaking the Hornets' Nest: The Forces of Reaction in ‘Australia’s Greatest Crisis’, New Socialist, 07/08/2017
‘Transfer Deadline Japery: The Honduran Maradona’, Halcyon, 13/09/2014