Plumbing the depths
Published by The Spectator (14th March, 2020) Going Dark: The Secret Social Life of Extremists by Julia Exner (Bloomsbury) Two... Read Full Article
Fear and facts: why we ignore experts
Published by The i paper (2nd March, 2020) Six months ago, an American musician friend sent me two books with... Read Full Article
Notes from a cruel climate
Published by The Observer (23rd February, 2020) The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts (Doubleday) Sophy Roberts’s first glimpse... Read Full Article
Whitney’s back from the dead. But is her hologram tour a joyful tribute or ghoulish exploitation?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th February, 2020) Whitney Houston will soon be back on stage. Tickets are being... Read Full Article
How would you respond to the rise of Nazism?
Published by UnHerd (3rd January, 2020) My book of this decade might seem a strange choice. It was written in... Read Full Article
Glimpse into a murky world
Published by The Spectator (26th October, 2019) The Killing in the Consulate: Investigating the Life and Death of Jamal Khashoggi... Read Full Article
Have we forgotten Syria?
Published by UnHerd (20th September, 2019) A few weeks ago, I bumped into Omran, a musician friend, who was serving... Read Full Article
Singing songs in harmony
Published by The i paper (15th July, 2019) Fifteen years ago I travelled to the world’s most astonishing music festival,... Read Full Article
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye?
Published by Damn (18th April, 2019) It seems strange to recall that when I was growing up in the suburbs... Read Full Article
Hello Syria! Joss Stone plays the world’s most unlikely gig
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd March, 2019) When British singer Joss Stone, barefoot as usual, walked on stage... Read Full Article