About

I like telling stories.

I recently finished a PhD in history at Cambridge University, where I also taught undergrads. I specialise in international politics, culture and communications. I’ve been a Sorensen Fellow at the JFK Presidential Library and a Visiting Researcher at Boston University.

I’ve written features, essays and reviews for The Washington Post, The Economist, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times and Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Spectator, New Statesman, Smithsonian, TLS and others. I’ve interviewed White House political strategists, Hollywood filmmakers, US military officials, elite athletes, entrepreneurs, scientists and priests. In June 2023, I hosted an event at the Royal Institution of Great Britain with Oliver Stone about his documentary Nuclear Now, which advocates for nuclear energy to help solve climate change.

I worked in TV for several years, writing and researching programs for producers in the UK, US and France.

My agent is Gordon Wise at Curtis Brown in London. He’s assisted by Elliot Prior.