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Coming out, but going nowhere: Why the shadow of my failed lads holiday still haunts me
Condé Nast Traveller

For a gay boy firmly strapped into London’s commuter belt, 2013 held great promise. The unrelenting seven-year slog of secondary school would finally come to an end – and with it, the homophobic white noise I’d grown accustomed to, along with the evenings spent cocooning myself in A-Level practice papers. This was it...

North London’s Warehouse District: Gentrification’s Last Frontier?

SUITCASE

Harringay Warehouse District might have built its reputation on an underground party scene led by an iridescent cast of creative lodgers but, as plans are set in motion to build a gleaming new pavilion on the area’s grotty fringe, we ask what the future holds for this little-known, alternative enclave in north London.

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On Holiday with Angela Missoni, Italy's Most Fashionable Matriarch

Telegraph Luxury

Angela Missoni is what one might call ‘a lucky so-and-so’. According to her, the best holidays are right on her doorstep. “I have no reason to leave Italy. Every day feels like a holiday in Varese,” she purrs through a wreath of cigarette smoke. “Within five minutes of leaving our factory, I can be down by the lake with a drink in my hand”...

Luke Evans Cover Interview

Man About Town

The year is 1989 and a 10-year-old Luke Evans is lurching through London, his nose pressed up against the window of a Routemaster bus, at the smoggy end of a long journey from his hometown in South Wales. “I can’t remember what we were going to see – probably a Lloyd Webber” he recalls...

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Show On the Road: The Drag Performer's Radical Commute

SUITCASE Magazine

For the drag performers who call Seven Sisters home, the commute to the thrumming queer bars of East London is nothing short of radical. It's here, in this hinterland of clattering carriages and horn-blasted pavements, that kings and queens are at their most political.

Jan Luyken Amsterdam delivers
'easy-going Dutch style'

Globetrender

In the past decade, services have undergone a radical casualisation. It’s a global trend, albeit one that feels intrinsically Dutch, which explains why it comes so naturally to the Jan Luyken Amsterdam. Grand Dame traditionalists will squirm at all of the progressive ways the recently renovated hotel has unpicked Proper Hospitality, capital P and H... 

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The Best Hostels in Amsterdam

The Times

Unlike its more snooty European neighbours, Amsterdam is a city where you can really stretch the euros. Just take a look at its hostels. Of course, there are party crash pads that spill into the canals, day and night. But go beyond the psychoactive haze and you’ll find family units on the fairytale fringes of Vondelpark, alternative digs in the warehouses of Noord and “poshtels” that put lesser hotels to shame...

Mary Beard on Overtourism, Popularity and Silencing her Twitter Trolls

Telegraph.co.uk

As anyone who has read her books, caught her on television or been under her tutelage as Professor of Classics at Cambridge knows, Beard does not “just go to Pompeii”, of course. She ‘Beard-ifies’ it. She leaps through time and space, grabs fragments of ancient history and reassembles them in a way which speaks directly to the present... 

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The Fight for LGBT Rights in Britain is Being Obscured by Virtue-Signalling

The Telegraph

Thwack: the gavel strikes. Muttering fades across the House of Speakers as Lord John Bercow takes his pew. It’s been half a century since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales and four years since the passage of the same-sex couples act. What more could Britain's LGBT citizens want? It’s a question that’s being asked by many people, gay and straight alike...

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Meet the Millennials Who Would Rather Conquer the World than the Housing Market

Telegraph Travel

For today’s coming-of-age generation, squishing themselves through the same hoops as their parents is much like deep-fisting a sleeping bag into its fire-retardant carry pouch - a misery-inducing act whose outcome is always disproportionate to energy expended. 

Model, Actor, Musician: Ex-Hockey Pro Simon Loof is Playing the Field

Man About Town

Even before Simon Loof opens his mouth you can hear his feet padding along the red carpet, the clattering selfie sticks of adoring fans. He’s charismatic and boyish – like a deepfake of young Leonardo DiCaprio, if not for his trim of facial hair – with the kind of tresses that make hair stylists weep.

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That Suncream Smell: Why Scent Souvenirs are Worth a Million Photos

SUITCASE

We have apps that saturate sun-baked shores and enhance shadowy glades in Scandinavian forests; filters that supposedly transport us to Tokyo, Lagos, Paris and Jakarta; as well as countless lenses that can be snapped on at a moment's notice. In our hyper-visual world, we think nothing of plumping our camera rolls with throwaway snaps, but a library of scents? Please.

'Recycling isn't Good Enough,' says Pioneer Behind Plastics Revolution

Telegraph Travel

Film producer and plastic pollution campaigner Jo Ruxton is sipping a cappuccino served by her on-board butler. “This is not my usual kind of trip,” admits Ruxton, who – happiest in a pair of fins and a weight belt – is skimming the Pacific as a guest lecturer on a luxury cruise along the Chilean coast.

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'Want to Tackle Climate Change? See The World From an Elephant's Perspective

Telegraph Travel

Unlike her peers, Saba Douglas-Hamilton’s childhood wasn’t spent pushing her nostrils up against glass zoo enclosures but confronting the reality of Africa’s poaching epidemic first hand. By day she could be found traipsing the savanna, by evening gunfire lullabies carried her to sleep; such is the bizarre life of a conservation dynasty heiress...

Living in my Suitcase: Paloma Faith

SUITCASE

Growing up in Hackney, my best days were when a neighbour had the builders in. Fresh scafolding came hand-in-hand with home renovation – to us kids, that meant a new climbing frame. “You playing out?” you’d hear, ricocheting off the partially boarded-up streets...

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The True Losers this Summer are 18 to 30-Year Olds, Like Me

The Telegraph

Do all good things come to those who wait? After yesterday's announcement, many of us in the 18 to 30 age bracket are losing faith. From what I can remember of that sweaty sun cream smell, the feeling of sea salt-sticky skin and the satisfaction of garbling with locals in guide book-ese, travelling is ostensibly a ‘good thing’. And yet, like so many other mid-twenty-somethings...

Undoing the Damage of the
Amazon Gold Rush
– One Mollusc at a Time

Telegraph Magazine

Kept cool under a tarpaulin canopy are six barrels of Apple Snails, soon to be served up for dinner with a delicious peppery garnish at Reserva Amazonica. The idea is for snails to become a regional speciality, one which can be exported profitably...

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Regular Features

Stella and Telegraph Magazine

I've interviewed countless cultural heavyweights for both Telegraph Magazine and Stella, often ghost-writing copy in their tone of voice. 

A World Away

Ultratravel Magazine

As the commissioning editor for this regular A-list profile page in The Telegraph's luxury travel magazine, I arranged and conducted interviews with a range of high-profile figures, from actors like Sienna Miller and Sir Patrick Stewart, to fashion industry leaders like Emilia Wickstead and Diane Von Furstenberg. 

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