Hakai Magazine • 17th August 2021 Why We Can’t Shake Ambergris The odd, enduring appeal of a scarce commodity few people use and no one really needs.
Vice • 4th May 2021 Inside the Spirituality ‘Cult’ Whose Members Allege Sexual and Financial Exploitation VICE World News spoke to dozens of ex-Modern Mystery School members, who described bizarre initiations, sexual coercion, and rampant profiteering.
Esquire • 10th September 2018 Circle Or Sphere? Inside The UK's First 'Flat Earth' Conference We met the conspiracy theorists colonising the crazier corners of the Internet, seducing and converting the credulous.
Illustrator: R Fresson Observer Magazine • 13th December 2020 Tome raiders: solving the great book heist When £2.5m of rare books were stolen in an audacious heist at Feltham in 2017, police wondered, what’s the story?
Esquire • 25th April 2020 Fighting The Infodemic: How Fake News Is Making Coronavirus Even More Dangerous From 5G towers to miracle cures, it's infected everyone from your friends to President Trump. But there are people fighting fake news on the frontline
Observer Magazine • 14th April 2019 On the trail of Britain’s wild big cats Hundreds of big cat sightings have been reported in Britain in the last three years. But is it pumas and panthers running wild – or our imagination?
WIRED UK • 14th April 2021 What happens when you have a heart attack on the way to Mars? Millions of kilometres from Earth, even a minor health scare could be fatal.
The Guardian • 23rd May 2020 Rain on rooftops: the strange appeal of 'slow audio' First there was slow TV – now radio and podcasts are getting in on the act with ambient recordings of forest walks and bird calls
Observer Magazine • 29th December 2019 Having a laugh: is this the end for clowning? The massive popularity of films like Joker and It have been a real downer for happy, family clowns. Mark Wilding hears how the entertainers are fighting back
Men's Health • 1st November 2019 The SARMs Race Touted as a cutting-edge training aid and the fastest route to increased mass, a new breed of pills called Sarms is outmuscling steroids.
Vice • 30th July 2019 How Piers Morgan Became the Most Divisive Man in British Media The 'Good Morning Britain' host has spent decades cultivating the persona that makes him a one-man clickbait machine.
Medium • 15th July 2019 The Risky Business of Psychedelic Therapy There is no shortage of individuals and companies offering psychedelic therapies outside the medical system. But are the services they offer safe?
WIRED UK • 19th January 2019 Inside the fight to save esports from big-money match fixers As esports grows more and more appealing to bookmakers, it risks attracting the wrong kind of attention. Can it clear up its act?
Observer Magazine • 28th October 2018 Meet the marathon cheats As runners get ready for next Sunday’s New York Marathon, we look at what makes a person claim a medal when they haven’t gone the full distance.
Vice • 4th May 2017 The Story of Spice, the Street Drug That's Not Going Away It had humble beginnings, but the formerly legal high is now a runaway threat wreaking havoc on Britain's streets and prisons.
Esquire • 7th March 2018 How Wetherspoon's Conquered Britain From one pub in North London to 900 across the UK, the inexorable rise of 'Spoons' is one of the most remarkable business stories of our times.
Vice • 21st March 2018 This Is Your Body On Xanax What's going on in your body and brain 24 hours after taking the drug? What about two weeks?
The Guardian • 11th July 2017 Volunteer burnout: 'I was overwhelmed by the images in my mind' It was only when Maddie Harris returned home that the full weight of her experiences hit her.
Vice • 5th April 2016 Inside the Ballsy Irish Traveller Gang That Stole Millions of Pounds Worth of Rhino Horn Detective Superintendent Adrian Green remembers the day he got the call. It was Friday the 6th of April, 2012 – his birthday, and also his first introduction to the Rathkeale Rovers.
Vice • 2nd July 2018 London's Housing Crisis Has Turned the Stratford Centre into a Homeless Shelter Homeless Londoners are gravitating towards the centre, raising questions about Newham's Olympic regeneration.