Journalism
For many years, I wrote as a journalist – writer and associate editor on some of the best newspapers and magazines in English.
My work has been published in The Observer, The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Financial Times, Wallpaper*, High Life, Medium – and elsewhere.
At The Financial Times I was staff feature writer, closely involved in setting up the current Saturday magazine. Moved from there to a contract at The Sunday Times.
Over my career, I’ve conducted many interviews – with heads of state, celebrities, and so-called ordinary people. These experiences inform my upcoming book, The Convosphere.
As well as interviewing, journalism included many kinds of stories.
I particularly enjoyed immersive storytelling, about working as bin man, executive PA, scuba diver, poet, taxi driver, tailor, gardener, ice-cream salesman, hairdresser, assistant undertaker, bit-part player in pantomime, waiter, illustrator, high-wire window cleaner, photographer, very amateur boxer, karaoke singer, rat catcher, and more.
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The archive on this website is big, overwhelmingly big. I set it up early in the millenium, when newspapers I worked for hadn’t yet created digital archives.
My plan is to work through it all, and share the best of it – as well as writing things that are entirely new. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy reading some of these:
On Interviews
A few years ago, I asked some people about conversations that had changed their lives.