This site contains links to writing in The Spectator, The Independent, The Times, GQ Magazine, The Daily Mail, The Telegraph and links to work done for LBC & the BBC
I wrote a piece for Louise Mensch’s website “Joyhacks” on how to be happy in your twenties. 10. Cosy travel is for retirement The joys of youth hostels, blisters, dengue[...]
I recently wrote for GQ magazine about changes to the justice system. Already it’s clear that many more trials are being conducted by people struggling to represent themselves. Socrates represented[...]
I wrote a piece for the Guardian on whether politicians make good comedians: Few politicians have ever possessed the skill and ease to pull off a truly funny joke. Few[...]
I wrote about the Australian asylum centre on the tiny North Pacific Island of Nauru: Walking a lap of the North Pacific island of Nauru would take you three and[...]
Ironic to have blogged & tweeted about this, but I wrote about the value of moments in our lives which we retain as private, rather than facebooking, instagramming & tweeting[...]
A short piece for the Independent – read the rest here The coalition must grapple with the economic mess that they have inherited, and they have often talked about how[...]
I have started co-hosting a podcast with Bobby Friedman called Political Takeout. It’s available via iTunes and at PoliticalTakeout.com
I wrote a piece on the Australian Labor [sic] Party’s bizarre love of regicide in the Telegraph today following the damp ‘spill’ which happened in Canberra today. Read it here.
I’ve argued that we should raise the minimum wage in this Spectator piece which divided response: it’ll be very interesting to read the pieces in reply which have been promised[...]
My decidedly wonkish look at the ‘get out the vote’ operation: “By the early evening we were calling people who not only had received several calls already that day to[...]
So I decided it was about time to revamp the website. Nothing fancy, just a little more user-friendly. It’s an attempt at simplicity, so I hope it satisfies the people[...]
For the entire time that I was at secondary school there was one teacher who shone brighter than any other as a source of passion, inspiration, energy and wit. That[...]
