Contributing Editor @ObserverUK, author of LION CITY
Joined November 2008
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Feb 26
My book THE SURGE is out today with @HarperCollins
It’s about floods and how humanity has reshaped the natural world in awe-inspiring and terrible ways.
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Mar 24
Amazing story behind the decoration on Nelson’s hat
Mar 24
So, about those Eid prayers in Trafalgar Square.
Some of you are gonna have a meltdown when you hear this..
What is that on Nelsons hat and where did it come from?
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Mar 22
Cost of conflict: why oil and gas are Iran’s most lethal weapons
The world economy is reeling as Tehran retaliates by targeting global energy. How bad can the situation get, asks @jeevanvasagar in the Sensemaker
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For the history, science and future trends about floods read @jeevanvasagar 's brilliant The Surge. A foamy topic but this is a calm, whip smart book .
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Feb 26
I've left Politico as its UK tech reporter, to build something new - a daily briefing on AI in the UK. Why? What? All below 👇
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Jan 2
Happy New Year! This week's post is about books, and specifically about some books I read as a teenager (or: science fiction writers and their fear of science)
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19 Dec 2025
I wrote this after a couple of people asked about the process of writing, and I thought about some of the elements I find useful -- from psychology to soundtracks.
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5 Dec 2025
It's hard to comprehend just how awful the 1755 Lisbon earthquake was -- a quake, then tsunami, then fire. I wrote about what it means for us now.
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21 Nov 2025
Now using Substack as a way to try out ideas.
This week's post -- a visit to the garbage mountain by a river in Oxfordshire.
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21 Nov 2025
The trash heap raises lots of questions about the state of the country... and why we're letting parts of it rot.
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21 Nov 2025
It's also just a very strange sight: recognisable objects like a menu and an office worker's pass... amid a sea of shredded plastic.
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14 Nov 2025
Started a newsletter, chiefly as a way to try out ideas (and share recommendations). Latest here:
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14 Nov 2025
And last week's here, on watching Dallas and how that might affect your fertility:
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20 Oct 2025
Can nuclear power provide the abundant clean energy that saves the world? Looking forward to joining @closefrank and Tim Gregory to discuss the wonders of atom-splitting.
Tuesday 21 October, 7:30pm, @Wimbookfest London SW19
Last few tickets here:
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20 Oct 2025
More on Tim Gregory's book here, via @NorthbankTalent
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3 Sep 2025
Dr Tim Gregory appeared on Norwegian TV to discuss his new book, why nuclear will be crucial for reaching net zero, and the stunning Cumbrian landscape.
⚛️GOING NUCLEAR is out now from @TheBodleyHead (🇬🇧) and @Pegasus_Books (🇺🇸).
👉To work with Tim: info@northbanktalent.com
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2 Jul 2025
The limits of a family or an extended family can be ordinary and natural, I guess, but the limits of a country always have to be imagined into existence.
28 Jun 2025
"It is ordinary and natural to identify with one’s ethnic group. It is also ordinary and natural for a people to understand itself as a people."
Me on demographics, the right and the Now and England conference for @spectator
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2 Jul 2025
The real problem is when you organise politics and laws on the basis of ethnic groups, which quickly gets messy and cruel.
'We welcome BAME candidates' is not equivalent to:
'Your grandparents - all of pure blood, were they?'
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2 Jul 2025
On a purely linguistic note, I think "ordinary and natural" is a marketing phrase. It looks like it means something when it doesn't really... "ordinary and natural flakes of golden corn"
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2 Jul 2025
Englishness has always struck me as a fluid concept (in a good way).
I think one reason for this is that the English have been so dominant (through numbers and ££) within the British Isles that there hasn't been much need to assert identity.
16 Jun 2025
Mass deportation of Pakistanis from Britain. I don’t care how long you’ve lived here. Out
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2 Jul 2025
The English have always struck me as (justifiably) very confident about the appeal and durability of English culture, amused by other countries that need to police their language.
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2 Jul 2025
The right has lost confidence, and I think the end-point of that is an appeal to race (which seems solid but is, always, slippery as well as cruel).
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