All hail the iconic black cab
Copy: Monocle December edition >> When I started out as a videogame journalist back in the late 1990s, I probably wouldn’t have predicted that 13 years later I would be travelling to the factory which […]
Ben East
FC ST PAULI PIECE WINS AWARD
Copy: Easyjet Traveller, January 2011 >> I’m reposting this piece on the matchday experience at FC St Pauli, Hamburg, for no other reason than I fancy blowing my own trumpet. Earlier this afternoon I won […]
ARSHA KAVIANI CAN REALLY SHINE
Copy: The National 17/11/2011 >> It’s one of the perks of the job – sometimes you come across really talented people who seem on the very cusp of greatness. That’s how it felt when I […]
The 2012 Oscar goes to… Caesar the ape
Copy: The National 15/11/2011 >> It could happen, you know. 20th Century Fox are pushing strongly for Andy Serkis’ motion-captured performance as Caesar the genetically modified chimpanzee in Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes […]
WHERE SHAKESPEARE MEETS THE SUBCONTINENT
Copy: The National 09/11/11 >> It was fantastic to see Daljit Nagra‘s name among the shortlisted poets for the prestigious TS Eliot prize. He has one of those brilliantly fresh voices which periodically shake up […]