Reporting from Disaster Zones

reporting from disaster zones One of the most disorientating consequences of covering a natural disaster is coming home. You go from witnessing a fragile world turned upside down to getting irritated by a delayed Tube train all within the same day. Soon, you’re back...

Social Affairs

social affairs In 2011 I was fortunate enough to be asked to write the first piece for a new Daily Mirror series, called Real Britain, highlighting the divisions caused by poverty in the UK. This was a time of immense optimism in London, as the Olympic Games...

Wildlife

WILDLIFE When inspirational former Daily Mirror editor Peter Willis instructed me to secure an interview with an ivory poacher it seemed like one of the near-impossible tasks he regularly demanded. Tracking down convicted wildlife criminal John Sumokwo in the Kenyan...

Interviews

InterviewS The best training I ever had for interviewing people was hitchhiking around Australia for six months when I was 18. To be a successful hitchhiker, you need to bite your tongue, however offensive or outrageous the comments of the person driving the vehicle...