The Observer, February 2014 Playing your unborn child Mozart will increase its intelligence. So might feeding it fish oil. Physical exercise, nicotine, coffee, Nintendo’s Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training, meditation… all have been heralded as pathways to […]
The Observer, January 2014 When an Arsenal manager writes in a newspaper that “spectators want a fast-moving spectacle, rapier-like attacks that have the spirit of adventure, and ever more goals”, it’s almost a given that Arsène Wenger’s […]
The Observer, June 2013 >> On the very first page of this undertaking, staggering in its chutzpah,Boris Johnson is called a “great man”. On the second, a “phenomenon”. The introduction has barely begun as Harry Mount […]
The National, The Observer, April 2013. Interview with Patrick Ness and review of new book The Crane Wife >> Patrick Ness was first told the story of The Crane Wife by his teacher when he was in […]
Copy: The Observer, January 2013 >> When I was choosing my books of 2013, my heart sunk a little when I found that Sid Lowe’s chronicle of Spanish football – a story I’m very much […]