Emirates Man It was a sunny May day in Sacramento, California, and Emirati professional road cyclist Yousif Mirza was pinching himself. To his left was reigning World Champion Peter Sagan – if cycling has a […]
The Observer, November 2017 As one of Britain’s cooler television historians and archaeologists, you’d probably expect Alexander Langlands to suggest that spending time converting raw materials into useful objects might make us happier. But Craeft, his celebration of how […]
The Observer, December 2017 There is an intriguing, if familiar, idea in Nick Harkaway’s fourth novel – it’s the near future and an invisible, Ninteen Eighty-Four-style “Witness” programme means 500m cameras, microphones and sensors monitor […]
The Observer, December 2017 This Brexit anthology is a genuinely odd undertaking. On the Remain side, forming the overwhelming majority of pieces here, there’s an oft-repeated fear that the memory of French exchanges has been […]
The National, November 2017 Hamid Sulaiman’s urgent, cogent and compelling reflection on the Syrian civil war is full of potent imagery of life in the midst of horrific circumstances, but it is the cumulative […]