In Vashti Bunyan’s Wayward I came across the concept of ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ dogs, which I pursued to the back teeth of the internet (where people see their dead dogs […]

For The Spectator I wrote about my obsession with online auctions and how online auction websites have resulted in boom times for provincial auction houses. Read here.   

For The Guardian I wrote about an ostensibly small moment during which I made a decision that changed everything for me. It was like being rewired. Read here. […]

For Graydon Carter’s Air Mail I went to Saint Paul de Vence in the South of France and discovered the most incredible story of the perfume house’s 21st […]

For The Fence I wrote about a what I thought was going to be a wildlife cruise while on honeymoon in Cuba. I had been reading Moby Dick […]

For The Spectator I wrote about finding my family roots in a tiny mountain village in Asturias, Spain, where my great-grandmother, Angeles Martinez, lived and died. And why […]

For The Guardian I wrote about the ritual ‘Turning of the Stone’ in my local village – an ancient ritual that occurs every November 5th.  

I wrote about life on a 3 mile long, 1/2 mile wide island during a four month lockdown; learning about interspecies interconnection and when it’s time to leave […]

I wrote about the changing of the clocks for The Guardian Country Diary    

For the ⁦‪Financial Times I wrote about one of my favourite paintings and how it relates to one of my favourite activities, housesitting other people’s beautiful homes. To […]

For this piece for The Fence I asked my dad to cast his mind back 40-odd years to one of the many weird and chaotic occurrences of his […]

You may, or may not, remember the videos I used to share of myself interviewing glittering celebrities. For The Fence, I wrote about what happened behind the scenes […]

For The Guardian, I wrote about how the rural housing crisis  has been exacerbated by the pandemic. This stretches all the way from Devon and Cornwall to the […]

I went lurking around London’s galleries writing down all the pretentious and ridiculous things I overheard there. Available in print only for The Fence.  You can subscribe to […]

Seen a lot of manifestos being published recently? Manifestos are in the zeitgeist again, but his time it’s different. For Literary Review I wrote about what commercialisation means […]

I wrote for British Vogue about why I wore my mother’s wedding dress after my parents divorced. About sentiment, superstition, heirlooms and searching for a sense of permanence […]

“My levels of paranoia quickly reach coked-up Ray Liotta at the end of Goodfellas. I refuse to see or touch anyone. Those helicopters are following me.” I wrote […]

I think this might be one of my favourite pieces I’ve written. I wrote about the fallen raven chick I thought was a rook and adopted, Rookie the […]

For Tribune I wrote about the power of protest witnessed globally with the Black Lives Matter movement and wielding that power on a local scale. And the hospital in […]

For Vogue I wrote about my sister and her experience of having cancer and waiting for a stem cell transplant during coronavirus, and what it’s been like to watch. Click Here. 

I wrote a front page story for The Independent about dreams, how the militarised language surrounding the pandemic is creeping into our unconscious, and what we can take from it. Click […]

Something about the Wild Rose

December is a time of giving and nature gives the greatest gifts of all. Read the whole newsletter here.

Did you know there are more than 20,000 kinds of edible plants in the world? That’s more than even the keenest chef could experiment with during World Vegan […]

It happens without warning. Somewhere in the still-green trees, hidden leaves have turned brown. One falls and catches the wind: autumn has begun. Read the whole newsletter here.

Consider the humble blackberry as we drift out of September. While the last of butterflies warm their wings in the sun and harvest moons are promised by the […]

I’ve got a little review in the latest TLS of artist and writer Leanne Shapton’s Guestbook — a dead spooky collection of ghost stories for the 21st Century. […]

I wrote a piece for The Millions about how, in 1979, Italo Calvino predicted the AI author in one of his best-loved novels, and what the reality of […]

For This Way Up film and cinema conference I interviewed Picturehouse’s joint Managing Director (and powerhouse) Clare Binns about how she worked her way up to the top […]

I spent an unfortunate amount of time on sex doll/bot forums, and somehow I didn’t lose my sense of humour entirely. Here’s the resulting piece I wrote for […]

I wrote a piece for Breathe Magazine on how to protect our native and migratory wildlife this winter. You can buy online here,  or in reality.  

I interviewed with the incredibly inspiring Ming Ho about her career as a writer, caring for her mother, and her advice to anyone in a similar situation … https://ttin.uk/ming-ho

Piece about excellent initiative to auction excellent art (powered by Paddle 8 and Christies) by excellent women to raise money for vulnerable women’s charities in the UK. https://fgrlsclub.com/2017/11/herstories-art-auciton/

I interviewed Clare Anyiam-Osigwe, marketing director and chief finance officer for BUFF, The British Urban Film Festival, about how to change the practices of  ‘the old boys club’ that […]

My review of the Daphne is up on the BFI’s ‘feminism in film’ website, TTIN. Click here: https://ttin.uk/daphne-review You can watch in cinemas now or on BFI player.

Here I argue Banksy is becoming a legend (in the mythological sense of the word) with the help of other artists, while everyone from academics to grannies on […]

Piece for Flux Magazine on the figurative artist Harland Miller, represented by the White Cube, and his catalogue raisonné that is rumoured to be announced later this year: […]

My review of the amazing exhibition at The Last Tuesday Society of Austin Osman Spare’s (one of Alan Moore’s favourite artists) work for Creators — you can sit […]

In the new, very Hockney-esque, issue of Breathe Magazine I have written an article on everything you need to know about dream interpretation through the ages and how […]

I wrote for Creators/Vice about a website that uses algorithms to reveal Trump’s top financiers in the art world that is also a conceptual art piece by Seth […]

Well, you heard it here first, or maybe you read a science paper that told you first: tree hugging is good for you. Fact. In this article for […]

My article Ringing in the New,  is now out in Breathe Magazine. It is about the origins of campanology its mental and physical advantages and an interview with […]

“How Did This happen?” Is definitely something I’ve been asking myself.   To read about my experience click here. (I never said off-grid, I’m not a plonker.)

Regarding whether art can re-humanise, and be a constructive response to the refugee crisis. Chronicling the stories of the everyday bravery that goes into finding a safe roof […]

I’ve lost my shit for Bob Dylan. Lose yours too, go see this. It’s really good. Read here on MyArtBroker.

Originally published on TTIN in lieu of Sundance winning film Sonita‘s release. Read here. (On Sonita, women singing in Iran, and forced/child marriage …) 

Stupidly missed out Britney in Crossroads. Here are some of my favourite women in film: https://ttin.uk/in-praise-of-women-girls (And actually on a more serious note I did forget Francis from […]

Massive weirdo Jared Leto (I’ve been in a room with him, trust me, he’s weird) is playing Andy Warhol in another film about him. I list other actors […]

My review of Summertime featuring love and French lesbians, need I say more? (I do, in this …)

I gots some smartsfor the post-Brexit economy in VICE. Take my advice and run with it (maybe to a nicer country). Read here. 

I interviewed the extremely awesome Luisa Omielan. Ever worried about your ‘thigh gap’? Luisa really doesn’t want you too. Read here.

The BFI kindly schlepped me up to Sheffield to review the Oscar-nominated Mustang. It is excellent. It is better than The Virgin Suicides and The Great Escape, go and […]

I interviewed TV celebrity chef Ching He Huang and got a surprise lesson in Eastern mysticism and the philosophy of food. She’s the coolest chef I know, maybe that […]

In lieu of the Art + Feminism edit-a-thon on March 5th I’ve written an article about the event, female artists throughout history and happen to compare Wikipedia to […]

For Artslant I wrote about some of the most incredible, funny and strange female artists throughout history as part of the up-coming Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon. Read here. For more […]

The only fashion magazine that’s cool enough to let me reference The Simpsons and compare a girl to Russell Crowe. Go out and buy it at Wardour News, […]

Analysing the Layzell Bros success through nostalgic, ‘feel good’ animations Published 12/08/2015 by Creativepool News Remember when the object of a music video was to promote something ‘feel […]

I got to do some funny interviews for a fashion magazine, making this the best fashion magazine out there. Available at at all classy newsagents …

I’ve written a review on a butt-oriented art show  in LA. New editors pick’ . Read here. 

Describing how Mariokart is like Rubens and many other interesting parallels between classical and contemporary art–including the art you did not consider art, and the fundamental patterns and […]

I’ve written my first piece for Artslant.“Who *really* invented the remix, the selfie, cubism? You thought you knew…” Read here.