Published by The i paper (30th June, 2025)
Books / Media / Technology
The nerdy obsessive who became the world’s richest man
Published by The Spectator (8th February, 2025) Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates (Allen Lane) Shortly before Bill Gates’s seventh birthday in 1962, his parents stuffed their […]
Arts / Books / United States / World
What do we mean when we talk about freedom?
Published by The Spectator (12th October, 2024) On Freedom by Timothy Snyder (Bodley Head) When the Yale historian and bestselling author Timothy Snyder was 14, his parents took […]
Arts / Music
Britain’s music is being silenced by ministerial failure
Published by The Times (20th July, 2022) Britain does not have many world-leading industries but our music business is most definitely one, relentlessly churning out hits and stars […]
Arts / Books / United States / World
Seeing red
Published by The Spectator (11th December, 2021) Wildland: the Making of America’s Fury by Evan Osnos (Bloomsbury) After leaving college more than two decades ago, Evan Osnos landed […]
Arts / Books
A leader who was a child of his time
Published by The i paper (30th August, 2021) Behind me, glowering down from a shelf in my study as I write these words, sits a small bust of […]