Welcome

This is my new personal website. By profession I'm a journalist and these days I spend most of my working hours lecturing to students of the subject. Find out more on my Background and Lecturing pages.

My Blog offers a personal take on the current state of journalism and subjects like sport, politics, writing, cash and fatherhood, to name but a few.

Living: Cornwall, UK

Reading: Flat Earth News, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds, The Lecturer's Toolkit, Toddler Taming, Tremendous Tractors

Watching: Waking The Dead, The Thick Of It, November rugby internationals, Sky News, CNBC, University Challenge, Waybuloo, Pingu

Listening: Today on Radio 4, British Sea Power, Julian Plenti, The Maccabees, The Chameleons, Brett Anderson

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." George Orwell

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