Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society
In August 2026 I went to Perth to receive an honorary fellowship from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, for my […]
In August 2026 I went to Perth to receive an honorary fellowship from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, for my […]
Long-read in Prospect magazine, trying to sum up the tense and strange situation in Ukraine this summer – cautious optimism
Published in The Sunday Post, 28th June 2026 The northernmost district of one of Kharkiv’s vast high-rise estates feels like
Published in The Observer, 7th June 2026 The shell of a school, a long two-storey Soviet-era building, is highlighted in
Published in the LRB print & online, 19th February 2026 ‘Dear residents! If you’re in the lift when the lights go
Published in print and online in Prospect magazine, 28th June 2026 A long read on the the moral and legal
Published in print and online in The Sunday Times, 13th December 2025 Dispatch from two days with medics of the
Published in The Sunday Post, print-only, 9th November 2025 Full text: In the port city of Kherson, binmen wear bulletproof
I get lots of emails from student/young/wannabe journalists, asking for help & advice getting into foreign reporting. I can’t answer
Click here to read the full piece at Prospect magazine. In late July I spent a few days in southern