When Vera Lynn Stops Making Sense
Consumer modernity, pub culture, and the quiet death of free speech — from Mumbai airport to an English local, asking what happened to public life with weight.
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Journalism, essays, and travel writing — a complete chronological archive from Substack and earlier work on WordPress.
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Politica from a Ginga’
Current writing on geopolitics, British society, travel, and personal reflection.
Five Years to Freedom
From an airbed in my parents’ conservatory to building a life I actually want. A personal reckoning with addiction, loss, ambition, and what five years of forward motion looks like.
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SEGA arcades on a midnight ferry, McDonald’s confessions, Molenbeek in real life, and an EU diplomat on Serbia-Kosovo — travel journalism between memory and diplomacy.
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What happened to society-wide improvements in Britain? From public libraries to privatised railways — tracing the gap between technological progress and quality of life.
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Everything in reverse chronological order, including earlier work from WordPress.
2026
When Vera Lynn Stops Making Sense
Consumer modernity, pub culture, and the death of free speech.
2025
Five Years to Freedom
From an airbed in my parents’ conservatory to building a life I actually want.
Rolling into Belgium, Rolling Back Home
Midnight ferries, Brussels, Molenbeek, and EU diplomacy.
Malaga, Mortality and The State of a Nation
Parrots, ecosystems, and reflections on Spain’s shifting landscape.
2024
A Diatribe to The British Dream
What happened to society-wide improvements in Britain?
2023
Arriving in Kosovo: First Impressions
Recency bias poisons the mind of one who utters ‘Kosovo’ in passing. Tensions really do persist.
One Slip, One Redundancy, One Rent Increase, and You’re Finished
Private renters in the UK are on the breadline, and that is obscene.
2022
A Sign of Things to Come? The CCP Clamps Down on Journalism in the UK
Silencing discourse on the Chinese Communist Party. I now face 7 years in prison alongside Drew Pavlou.
A More Human Workplace
Humiliation, tedium and pursuit of a better economic deal in Britain.
LATAM Weekly — 28/05/2022
All the weekly news from Latin America in quick bitesize hits.
LATAM Weekly — 21/05/2022
The news from Latin America in quick hits of bitesize info.
LATAM Weekly — 14/05/2022
Bitesize news from Latin America.
LATAM Weekly — 07/05/2022
Latest news from Latin America in quick hits.
An Unruly Neighbour
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who will cause the Balkans to fall?
2021
Could Unification Between Northern Ireland and the Republic Become a Reality?
The Irish question, EU diplomacy, and the Northern Ireland sea border.
You Are Normal
Understanding the root causes of depression. 1 in 6 of us in the UK suffer from a common mental health problem.