Are we Sleepwalking to Brexit?

Written for Prospect Magazine:   The European Union referendum now lies splayed across the political event horizon like a giant jellyfish with which we are all soon going to have to wrestle. History will explain how Nigel Farage, whom I

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The Batman of Obscenity

  Written for The Guardian:   Myles Jackman is on a mission to change Britain’s obscenity laws. For him, it’s more than a job, it’s a moral calling…   1. Tiger Porn One evening in the late autumn of 2008,

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Formula One: the limit of human skill

Written for Prospect Magazine:   The greatest sporting spectacle that I have ever witnessed live took place on a day of freezing rain, bitter winds and unimaginable mud in Leicestershire in April 1993. I had come seventy miles across the

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Q & A with The Guardian

  This Q & A first appeared here in The Guardian:   How did you come to write The Devil’s Garden? Some years ago, I stayed on a river station on the Amazon with some very odd people. Later, in one

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