
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.


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.


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.

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.



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

Answer: no. But it’s pretty cool.

My interview with Tim Wu about the potential end of “net neutrality”.
I snuck into a talk Assange was giving in Cambridge about the internet, and caught him saying some choice words.

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.”
A sideways look at the critical coverage of a new musical, The Wizard of Oz.

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.

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.

I took four bankers to see Inside Job, a film about the financial crisis, and interviewed them afterwards. They didn’t like it.
- 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)
25oo words on the team behind an exciting new communications system aimed at protestors: Sukey.org.

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.
I spent a day watching a box placed in Tate Modern sculptor Gabriel Orozco. This was the result.

The Guardian ran an investigation into policemen embedded in protest groups. I did a bit of doorstepping for one of the stories.

My old student paper, Varsity, is moving online. I wrote a comment piece for them about why this is a good thing.
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.
I spent ages following a bag of Oxfam donations around the country. What the dickens happened to it? Find out, right here.

Could a book *literally* save your life?

Bit of landmark journalism here, about what other people do for New Year’s.

“I have declared war on Mr Murdoch and I think we are going to win.” And so on.

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.)
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.
Over the weekend I visited three university occupations for a G2 feature.