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Journalist, broadcaster, podcaster. Frequently to be found talking on the radio, or shouting at the television.

I make podcasts, and appear on radio, TV and online talking about stories in the news. I also fiddle with gadgets, spend too much on pens, and drink industrial amounts of tea.

18/09/2025

Is it now a crime in Britain to embarrass Donald Trump? Four people were arrested for projecting images onto a wall of Windsor Castle, because apparently police are now employed to sooth the ego of a tiny-handed narcissist...

17/09/2025

Nothing says “special relationship” like keeping your guest of honour largely locked inside a castle...

04/09/2025

Never meet your heroes. Unless your heroes are the Pet Shop Boys, in which case you should shamelessly abuse your job to meet them.

The Pet Shop Boys came into Classic FM in 2005 to talk about their soundtrack for the 1925 silent film Battleship Potemkin, as well as their wider approach to music, collaboration, and the desire to “keep things interesting.”

The film and soundtrack are being re-released this month, so I’ve dug out the original interview, only part of which was ever broadcast, put the whole conversation online, and written about what Neil and Chris had to say about 20 years in pop, 20 years ago…

01/09/2025

What’s behind Britain’s political “vibe shift” that’s put far-right rhetoric around migration and asylum in the mainstream?

As Nigel Farage’s Reform UK proposes deporting more than half-a-million people, Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch compete to seem just as tough.

Bigots jailed for inciting racial hatred are hailed as free speech warriors, and vandals daub St George’s Crosses on streets and houses, and get very angry if anyone suggests they’re a bit racist.

How far down this rabbit hole will Britain’s political leaders go before the next General Election?

16/08/2025

Why are senior Tory MPs, who should know better, lying about a “two-tier justice system” — comparing the Ricky Jones jury verdict with Lucy Connolly’s guilty plea?

14/08/2025

US Vice-President JD Vance has spent months sneering at Britain and Europe.

So it’s a surprise to see him choose a quiet Cotswolds village for a summer holiday.

For villagers facing police blockades and a 20-plus secret service convoy — it’s not just surprising — it’s annoying.

So they used that free speech Vance is so keen on to tell him where to go..

11/08/2025

In a little over a year, Labour enacted internet ID checks, and after declaring the group Palestine Action a terrorist organisation, had hundreds of people arrested for the crime of writing the wrong thing on a placard.

Is this a dive into more authoritarian control of citizens’ private lives and political opinions? Or is it, as ministers claim, about protecting national security and the vulnerable?

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