… but I’ll get around to it eventually. In the meantime, check out my more recent work on my Guardian landing page. My Twitter’s here, my Facebook page is there, and my biog’s right… here.
Is diving in freefall?
– The Guardian, 5 April

Interest in diving is at an all-time high – so why has Britain lost nearly two-thirds of its diving boards in the last 30 years? My sixth g2 cover. Featuring me in my swimming trunks.

The life of a Polish family
– The Guardian, 4 April

I spent four days with a lovely Polish family; the Baniaks of Nowa Huta, near Krakow. The piece kick-started our Poland week – the last instalment of the Guardian’s month-long New Europe special.
Why we are marching
– The Guardian, 22 March

Another cover-story, this one. Ahead of the March for the Alternative, the largest union rally in decades, I interviewed six marchers about why they were coming.


Wake up the nation
– NME, 18 March

A profile of the protest movement so far, and an introduction to the upcoming March for the Alternative.

Could this new book kill the Kindle?
– The Guardian, 20 March
Answer: no. But it’s pretty cool.
Dr Wu
– The Guardian, 17 March

My interview with Tim Wu about the potential end of “net neutrality”.
Assange: web is spying machine
– The Guardian, 15 March
I snuck into a talk Assange was giving in Cambridge about the internet, and caught him saying some choice words.
How a fast-food chain ousted McDonald’s –
The Guardian, 10 March

The food editor sent me to eat a foot-long Subway sarnie. In the name of journalism. Still, it did allow me to begin the piece with the sentence: “I feel like I’ve stuffed my stomach with a pork-flavoured duvet.”
What to say about… The Wizard of Oz
– guardian.co.uk, 2 March
A sideways look at the critical coverage of a new musical, The Wizard of Oz.
War wounds
– The Guardian, 1 March

I interviewed a survivor of the Cumbria shootings to help illustrate how plastic surgery has been influenced by techniques learnt in war-zones. Inspirational chap, as is his surgeon.
Is Twitter the new celebrity PR?
– The Guardian, 22 February

Using the whole Warne-Hurley rumpus as a starting point, some musings on the way celebrities use Twitter. More interesting than it might initially sound.
Scene of the crime
– The Guardian, 17 February

I took four bankers to see Inside Job, a film about the financial crisis, and interviewed them afterwards. They didn’t like it.
Various smaller features – The Guardian, February-April 2011
- So what are you doing on Royal Wedding day? (4 April)
- Tennis Girl, and other era-defining posters (23 March)
- Please, Edano, go to bed (14 March)
- E-books on borrowed time (6 March)
- What’s going on inside The Box? A short profile of a new London club (23 Feb)
- The Large Hadron Collider, and its purpose (21 Feb)
- Stuff left inside people during operations (20 Feb)
- When politicians lose their cool (16 Feb)
Endgame
– play poster, February 2010
I hadn’t made a poster in about 18 months, but I came out of retirement for a friend in Manchester who was putting on some Beckett.

Inside the anti-kettling HQ
– The Guardian, 3 February
25oo words on the team behind an exciting new communications system aimed at protestors: Sukey.org.

WikiLeaks commentary
– The Guardian, 5 February
I wrote a light-hearted commentary on leaked cables from US diplomats posted in far-flung lands for the Guardian’s WikiLeaks supplement on Saturday.
Step away from the box
– The Guardian, 7 February
I spent a day watching a box placed in Tate Modern sculptor Gabriel Orozco. This was the result.

Secret policeman’s sideline as corporate spy
– The Guardian, 13 January
The Guardian ran an investigation into policemen embedded in protest groups. I did a bit of doorstepping for one of the stories.

‘Stop Press’
– Varsity, 21 January
My old student paper, Varsity, is moving online. I wrote a comment piece for them about why this is a good thing.
Aaron Porter: Let’s press universities
– The Guardian, 17 January
Aaron Porter gave an interview arguing the student movement should now focus its efforts on university managements, rather than parliament – a line I reported in the Guardian.
A few WikiLeaks pieces
– guardian.co.uk, January 2011
What happens to your Oxfam donations?
– The Guardian, 5 January 2010
I spent ages following a bag of Oxfam donations around the country. What the dickens happened to it? Find out, right here.

Last night a dust-jacket saved my life
– The Guardian, 10 January
Could a book *literally* save your life?

How to make a cuppa, by Chris Hitchens
– The Guardian, 4 January 2010
New Year’s Eve traditions
– The Guardian, 31 December 2010
Bit of landmark journalism here, about what other people do for New Year’s.

Gaffes of the year –
The Guardian, 30 December 2010
“I have declared war on Mr Murdoch and I think we are going to win.” And so on.

More Wikileaks work –
The Guardian, December 2010
I was sifting through more Wikileaks cables last week, with pieces on scientology, Haiti, and Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.
(The week before, I wrote two Wikileaks articles on Thailand, and G8.)
Bits and bobs for the features desk –
The Guardian, December 2010
In July, Kanye West joined Twitter and promptly followed just one person – a chap from Coventry who then turned all requests for interviews. Until now!

I also interviewed a taxi driver, and a barman – and did a shorty about something called freediving.

