Published by The Spectator (12th June, 2021) Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Picador) Last week I was staying in a cool hotel in […]
Arts / Books / United States / World
Miami vice
Published by The Spectator (15th May, 2021) Dirty Gold: The Rise and Fall of an International Smuggling Ring by Jay Weaver, Nicholas Nehamas, Jim Wyss and Kyra Gurney […]
Arts / Covid19
Don’t ignore the country’s cash cow
Published by The i paper (15th February, 2021) It is easy to forget London used to be a city in perpetual crisis, a symbol of national decline in […]
Arts / Covid19 / Music
Musicians deserve a helping hand
Published by The i paper (25th January, 2021) Seventeen years ago, I spent a day in Pimlico with Paul Weller. We met by the Tate Gallery at a time of […]
Arts / Books
The courage of a madman
Published by The Spectator (14th November, 2020) The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest by Ed Caeser (Viking) Reinhold Messner, the first […]
Arts / Books / United States / World
Tantrums of a tyrant
Published by The Spectator (8th August, 2020) Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen (Granta) It is easy to forget the abnormality of Donald Trump’s presence in the White House. […]
Arts / Covid19 / Film / Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
Binge-watching in the time of Covid-19: Fauda
Published by UnHerd (18th March, 2020) Perhaps it has something to do with a job that takes me to hotspots around the world but I am a sucker […]
Arts / Books
Plumbing the depths
Published by The Spectator (14th March, 2020) Going Dark: The Secret Social Life of Extremists by Julia Exner (Bloomsbury) Two years ago, the counter-extremist analyst Julia Ebner decided […]