Journalist.
Writer.

Journalist and author who writes about travel for the Daily Mail and about arts and science for everyone else.

Features

The Oldie, May 2023

Goodbye, Bavarian rose

Nautilus, March 2023

Inventing cordite

Troitsky Variant, February 2023

Science without borders

Port Magazine, January 2023

Young Casanova

Travel

Daily Mail, February 2023

The real Happy Valley

Daily Mail, December 2022

Thwack! Thwack!

Daily Mail, June 2022

Carry on campervanning

Daily Mail, May 2022

Europe’s cheapest beach

Book Reviews

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I’m a bit late to the party here, but when I lea

I’m a bit late to the party here, but when I learned the day before yesterday that Martin Amis had died, it felt like a personal loss. That’s the first time I’ve felt that about the death of someone who wasn’t a personal friend. I met him once—at a reading he did in Oxford in about 1997. Afterwards he joined me and my friends for a drink at our table. We did our best to make him smile. He asked us, “How do you actually spend your time?” We clammed up. No one could think of an interesting answer. Later, I loved his collection of journalism The War Against Cliché so much that, before writing any article, I would read one of his to remind myself what good writing ought to be like. I can’t think of any better piece of advice for an arts journalist.
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#martinamis

Welcome, Robert Byron Blake Hodgkinson. Born 2 May

Welcome, Robert Byron Blake Hodgkinson. Born 2 May at round about 6 in the afternoon, I think. Not sure about the weight but it was good. Our hospital time was alternately tedious and terrifying but Georgia and I are thrilled by the result.

A hatful of Hamlets. . . From a display cabinet at

A hatful of Hamlets.
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From a display cabinet at an exhibition in Oxford.
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#hamlet #shakespeare

Hard to deny the similarities. . . #catlovers #co

Hard to deny the similarities.
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#catlovers #courbet #lesommeil

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