Time for some fiction! Here is a short story I wrote for Standpoint Magazine. It was thoughtfully illustrated by Ellie Foreman-Peck. Thank you Ellie! Click here to read it (or scroll below…)

I loved writing this feature for Spectator Life! The surprising day jobs of famous authors.

This is a quick piece I wrote about the demise of coins for Standpoint Magazine.

When tax discs became obsolete in 2014, my thoughts turned to a young boy who had appeared on the news with his collection proudly pasted into albums.

I wrote a story on the relationship between the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the Greek National Opera for ARGO Magazine.

I really enjoyed writing this piece on the artists who loved Argenteuil for Spectator Life.

Here is a culture story I wrote for Spectator Life on Venice in Art.

I wrote an article on the reclusive habits of famous authors for Spectator Life.

Here is a feature I wrote on Alter Egos for Spectator Life.

In 1972 David Bowie introduced the world to Ziggy Stardust – the alter ego he would perform as for the next nine months. Ziggy was a fully formed character in Bowie’s mind. He told William S. Burroughs in an interview in 1974 that: ‘Ziggy is advised in a dream by the infinites to write the coming of a starman, so he writes “Starman,” which is the first news of hope that the people have heard […] Now Ziggy starts to believe in all this himself and thinks himself a prophet of the future starman.’ Spurred on by the success of Ziggy Stardust, Bowie went on to create Aladdin Sane less than a year later. 

I wrote a feature on Authors and their Pseudonyms for Spectator Life.

We don’t normally choose our own name. It is given to us at birth and we have no say in the matter. These names can hang heavy in our mouths if we don’t think they suit us and most of us, at one point or another, have entertained the thought of what it would be like to have a different name.