In which I discover that nothing is more juvenile than blogging
…yeah, I haven’t quite finished this thing yet. Soon, my pretties, soon.
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Hello. This is my site. Or will be, if my html-ing works out.
I'm a London-based writer and journalist, currently covering politics, education and health for the public-sector press. I'm always interested in hearing about freelance commissions or other opportunities. To get in touch, you can email me, or call me on 07988 701159.
Since November 2009 I've been editor of EducationInvestor, the monthly business and policy magazine for the education industry. I'm also a semi-regular contributor to Londonist, Liberal Conspiracy and the New Statesman's blogs.
Over the years I've written for titles including Guardian Unlimited, The First Post, TCS Daily, and Smoke: A London Peculiar. In the autumn of 2008 I was the US election correspondent for NewStatesman.com.
You can find more details of my CV and examples of my writing by looking round the site. Or, if that sounds too much like hard work, here's some now.
Some greatest hits
- How unpaid internships have made the media so middle class (The First Post, August 2009)
- Busy doing nothing - the inert mayoralty of Boris Johnson (Londonist, July 2009)
- A lesson in private education - the strange success of Cognita's schools (Guardian Unlimited/Comment is Free, July 2009)
- They come over here, they take our houses... Why the immigrant housing myth persists (Londonist, July 2009)
- Putting the fun in fundamentalism - a trip to Kentucky's museum of creationism (NewStatesman.com, November 2008)
- Disappointment can wait - the election night scenes in Washington DC (NewStatesman.com, November 2008)
- Sweet, crazy people - a visit to a McCain-Palin campaign office in Ohio (NewStatesman.com, October 2008)
- Nobody can handle the truth about PFI - fiften years and £57 billion later, and we still don't know if it works (The First Post, September 2008)
- A load of Bull - some thoughts on left-wing patriotism (The Sharpener, June 2006)
- A Sicilian Message - Ten suspicious parallels between the War on Terror and the Godfather Trilogy (ak13, June 2004)
- Dead giveaway - sitting in judgement on Santa Claus for the Political Judge column (ak13, December 2003)
