Selected writing

2025

‘Keir Starmer won in a landslide. Then, voters lost faith. Can the Prime Minister turn it around?’, GQ, 16/9/25

‘What’s so great about Britain? 14 very modern icons on the state of the nation’, GQ, 15/9/25

‘Two Words: Plastics Treaty’, The New York Times, 7/8/25

‘The Trials of the Daughter’: Caroline Darian and the fallout of the Gisele Pelicot trial, GQ, 23/5/25

‘How Daredevil rescued Charlie Cox’, GQ, 18/02/25

2024

‘Kobbie Mainoo & Cole Palmer are just getting started’, GQ, 13/11/24

‘Piers Morgan doesn’t care that you’re hate-watching (as long as you’re watching)’, GQ, 25/9/24

‘Inside Saudi Arabia’s Wild Football Experiment’, GQ, 20/02/24

2023

‘I’m Appalled by What I Learned About Recycling. But We Can Fix It.‘, The New York Times, 29/11/23

‘Inside India’s Gargantuan Mission to Clean the Ganges River‘, WIRED, 30/11/23

‘What really happens to the clothes you donate‘, GQ, 25/07/23

‘My life with chronic pain‘, The Guardian, 17/06/23

‘I spot brand new TVs, here to be shredded’: the truth about our electronic waste‘, The Guardian, 3/06/23

2022

‘How Mo Salah became the new king of football‘, GQ, 11/01/22

2021
‘Tom Holland is in the center of the web‘, GQ, 17/11/21

‘Making a vaccine in a year is like landing a human on the moon’ An oral history of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine’, The Guardian, 29/08/21

‘If there’d been a hard shoulder, I’d still have my mum’: are smart motorways safe?’, The Guardian, 22/05/21

‘American football star’ A profile of Christian Pulisic, GQ, 19/01/21

2020
‘How Julia Donaldson conquered the world, one rhyme at a time’, The Guardian, 17/12/20

‘A time for healing‘, More Or Less, Issue 04, 14/10/20

‘Inside Gravity’s daring mission to make jetpacks a reality’, WIRED, 13/10/20

‘In search of Inigo Philbrick, the disappearing art dealer’, British GQ, 21/04/20

‘Inside The Athletic, the startup that’s changing sports journalism forever’, British GQ, 03/03/20

‘Inside X, Google’s top-secret moonshot factory’, WIRED, 17/02/20

2019
‘The Last Of The Great Explorers’, 1843 Magazine, 6/9/19

‘Plastic recycling is a myth’: what really happens to your rubbish? The Guardian Weekend, 17/08/19

‘The rise of Dad Brands’, The New York Times, 23/5/19

‘How fast can Tortoise run?’, TRAFFIC, 20/5/19

Is metformin the key to living longer? The Times Magazine, 18/5/19

‘World Champion’ A profile of Sir David Attenborough, BA High Life

‘The drugs don’t work: what happens after antibiotics?’ The Observer Magazine, 24/03/19

‘White Gold: The Unstoppable Rise Of Alternative Milks’, The Guardian Long Read, 29/01/19

‘Life on Mars’, Men’s Health, 22/01/19

2018
‘Stella McCartney is on a quest to save you from the fashion industry’, WIRED, 6/12/18

‘GIGANTIC: The dizzying story of Symphony of the Seas, the largest and most ambitious cruise ship ever built’, WIRED, 1/4/2018

‘Tony Fadell Wants to Disrupt Silicon Valley’, SURFACE, 12/3/2018

”It’s a no-brainer’: are hydrogen cars the future?’ The Guardian Weekend, 20/01/18

2017
‘Some animals were saved in the making of this story’, WIRED, 11/11/17

‘If we’re living in a simulation, this startup probably built it’, WIRED, 11/5/17

2016
‘Kathleen Kennedy made your favourite childhood films. Now she’s reinventing Star Wars’, WIRED, 12/12/18

‘An Italian rapper, a ‘hangman’s noose’ and a $250m lawsuit: the chaotic race to build Elon Musk’s hyperloop’, WIRED, 6/10/16

‘Think BIGGER’ A profile of the architect Bjarke Ingels, WIRED, 13/09/16

‘Ebola’s Ghost’, WIRED, 25/2/16

2015
‘The Empire is back: J.J. Abrams on The Force Awakens’, WIRED, 7/12/15

‘How Pixar embraces a crisis’, WIRED, 17/11/15

‘How the BBC micro:bit will kick start a coding revolution’, WIRED, 9/9/15

2014

‘0-1,000MPH: The story of Bloodhound SSC’s land speed dreams’, WIRED, 17/11/2014

‘London, Under Ground’, British GQ, 3/14

2013
‘Unravelling the Dark Web’, British GQ, 7/2/13