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The poetry of the Pandemic

The Oldie, July 2021

The Whitechapel Oscar Wilde

The Daily Telegraph, November 2020

Odysseus, author of the Odyssey

Argo, Spring/Summer 2020

The magnificent banality of Instagram poetry

The Spectator, November 2019

Why Instagram means poetry is going from bad to verse

The Sunday Times, October 2019

Flaxman is the missing link between superheroes and Homer

The Spectator, November 2019

The best Terminator film since the first Terminator film

The Spectator, October 2019

Happy 80th birthday, Batman, you old vampire

The Sunday Times, August 2019

Easter in Corfu is a great excuse to break stuff

The Sunday Times, January 2018

Always carry a blade

Medium, January 2018

The nine defining qualities of cool

The Irish Times, November 2016

What Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand About Irony

Slate, October 2016

Old-cool: nine ways older people are cooler than the young

The Daily Telegraph, October 2016

Gerald Laing, the artist that made a war zone go pop

Financial Times, September 2016

You have method actors, so why not method authors?

The Independent, February 2016

A guide to name-dropping five key French thinkers

The Sunday Times, January 2017

The curse of cultural name fatigue

The Independent, December 2015

Unpicking the genius of Annie Hall

The Irish Times, December 2015

Sex so badly done you’ll squirm and squeal with laughter

The Sunday Times, November 2015

Let us help you beat the Dinner Party Poseur

The Daily Telegraph, November 2015

They have Sartre, we have… Fry?

The Sunday Times, November 2015

The return of the “God beard”

GQ, October 2015

Copyright Law is an Ass

The Daily Beast, October 2015

Let’s sing the praises of the Greeks

New Statesman, October 2015

Might someone be living secretly in your house?

The Sunday Times, August 2015)

Acting with Benedict Cumberbatch at school in the 1990s

The Sunday Times, August 2015

How Hollywood is killing the art of screenwriting

The Spectator, November 2014

Resoundingly quiet applause, please, for the anti-celebrities

The Sunday Times, August 2014

The song that changed rock music forever

The Sunday Times, August 2014

A literary festival in darkest Transylvania

The Spectator, September 2013

Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an independent ‘micronation’ or an illegal fortress?

The Independent, May 2013

There was an old man of Corfu

The Spectator, June 2012

How Corfu nearly became a centre of Scientology

The Spectator, November 2012

Swimming from Albania to Corfu

The Guardian, October 2011