"Everyone here walks around with a glazed expression. You can imagine them ambling contentedly into the waves." @milesellingham.bsky.social reports from Sandbanks, often dubbed "Britain's Palm Springs".

travelled down to an ultra-wealthy enclave in Dorset to ask people about the budget. But I just found this weird eerie feeling, which I attempted to describe for @dispatchmedia.bsky.social . Amazing photography from Harry Mitchell.

Two weeks ago, @observeruk.bsky.social sent me to Kyiv. There’s normality in the capital but it’s fragile and continuously interrupted by war and fear and violence. I wrote a diary and tried to capture that. observer.co.uk/style/featur...

My first piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social about a fascinating new book and the hellish gateway at the centre of the fascism/yoga Venn diagram. This was a strange one to research. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

🚨 Thought it might be worth posting that I'm going freelance. Please get in touch if you need some writing or just want to meet for a chat. I really enjoyed working as a staffer at The Londoner and I'm very proud of the features I produced there. Here’s some of my favourites.

Whilst researching this for @londonermag.bsky.social, I often had to pause and pace about the room or leave to catch my breath outside. It's about the homeless dead. It's a hard read, but, I think, a necessary one. Great edits by @hkatewilliams.bsky.social. www.the-londoner.co.uk/counting-the...

In 2018, the Brandon was dubbed 'the deadliest estate in Britain'. For the past few days, I've been speaking to dozens of residents about their lives. I ended up writing about it for @londonermag.bsky.social

In 2018, the Brandon was dubbed 'the deadliest estate in Britain'. For the past few days, I've been speaking to dozens of residents about their lives. I ended up writing about it for @londonermag.bsky.social

Tme Out named Bermondsey's Venue MOT the 'best club in London'. Even in the eccentric world of nightlife, the maverick who built MOT stands out. @milesellingham.bsky.social meets Jan Mohammed, the Wakefield boy who smuggled heroin, threw prison raves & is keeping a DIY spirit alive.

Prepare to enter the weird world of Jan Mohammed. For @londonermag.bsky.social , I spent hours knocking back blue tequilla slushies with the man behind what Time Out has labelled “London’s best club". This one goes to strange places.

I shadowed a team of 'spotters' — specialised cops in the Football Policing Unit who monitor and follow 'high risk' fans. I wrote about the experience for @londonermag.bsky.social . Some incredible pics from Harry Mitchell in there too.

Nocturnally staring at a load of factories was unexpectedly the best thing I did in Japan. I wrote about it for the @financialtimes.com - on.ft.com/43l2NKV

On Tuesday I waited in a queue of aspiring actors hoping to land a part in the Percy Jackson musical. Hundreds waited for over nine hours only to be turned away without even being seen by casting. I spoke to some of these people and a piece emerged. www.the-londoner.co.uk/its-like-the...

An oil trader and an Old Etonian with a genius for PR, was Justin Welby the worst Archbishop of Canterbury since Thomas Arundel? @milesellingham.bsky.social and @coramazov.bsky.social investigate www.the-fence.com/speaking-in-...

I’ve got a feature out in @londonermag.bsky.social about how London became one of the most densely excavated cities in the world. www.the-londoner.co.uk/digging-up-l...

If you enjoyed the recent @bigissue.com special on 10foot there’s a tremendous FT (!) longread on him from a couple of years back courtesy @milesellingham.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/45a1...

Really loved the little details of this @milesellingham.bsky.social piece. Especially the fact that a model who has been in cover shoots for Gucci and Dior is one of the leading volunteers in the Natural History Museum's basement beetle rooms.

Thanks to climate change, invasive bug species have put UK ecosystems at risk of collapse. In the depths of the Natural History Museum, a team of bug experts, with help from a professional model, are trying to stop it. @milesellingham.bsky.social met them: www.the-londoner.co.uk/beetlemania-...

For @londonermag.bsky.social I visited a room in the @nhm.org that contains 300 years, nine million beetles and a few dedicated bug experts at the cusp of a changing world. Have a read www.the-londoner.co.uk/beetlemania-...

Do you ever wonder what it's like to work at Shrek’s Adventure? Well I spoke to ex-staff. They told me about actors running Shrek-themed OnlyFans accounts and ogre costumes too dangerous to wear for over 30 mins. My magnum opus for @londonermag.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/life-inside-...

For @londonermag.bsky.social I profiled Dermot Hudson, a London-born former civil servant who’s made it his life’s work to defend and support the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. He also enjoys windmills. www.the-londoner.co.uk/north-koreas...

An NHS doctor commits suicide every three weeks. I told the story of one of them, Dr Jagdip Sidhu, and chronicled how working in an underfunded, broken health system left him feeling like there was no future. My story for @londonermag.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/nhs-doctor-s...

@milesellingham.bsky.social pitching us headfirst into the mad world of football ultras via Naples' 'kamikaze pigeons'

Pleased with this one. Reads a bit like a sports movie.

For @londonermag.bsky.social weekend slot, I wrote about @claptoncfc.co.uk and how to foment revolutionary praxis at an east London, non-league football club. It's a great story, some of which is reported from Naples. www.the-londoner.co.uk/story-of-cla...

I'd kind of lost track of what was going in at Clapton so this was the perfect thing to read today

This is tremendous. I'm even more determined to get to the @oldspotteddog.bsky.social for a @claptoncfc.co.uk game next season

For @londonermag.bsky.social weekend slot, I wrote about @claptoncfc.co.uk and how to foment revolutionary praxis at an east London, non-league football club. It's a great story, some of which is reported from Naples. www.the-londoner.co.uk/story-of-cla...

Big moment for us @londonermag.bsky.social . Feels very surreal my writing being quoted in @newyorker.com , thanks @samknightwrites.bsky.social - you can read the full piece here - newyorker.com/magazine/let...

For our weekend read, @milesellingham.bsky.social visits a hidden, cloistered community of nuns. An (almost) silent spot in central London. This one's free to read and goes in some strange directions. www.the-londoner.co.uk/inside-the-h...

There's a cloistered community of nuns in central London who only leave the convent to vote and access medical care. They pray 24/7 on rotation. I spent a day chatting to them about dreams, Tolkien and true happiness. It's free to read @londonermag.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/inside-the-h...

Great piece

There's been a lot of coverage of @princecharlescinema.com and how the beloved London institution is under threat. But few have explored the question of why it's so beloved in the first place. Really enjoyed writing this for @londonermag.bsky.social - www.the-londoner.co.uk/once-upon-a-...

For @londonermag.bsky.social I managed to arrange a rare interview with Tim Hunkin, the reclusive inventor behind the satirical machines of Novelty Automation on Princeton St. This one's called 'The Chiropodist'. 🧵1/3

For the past six months, I’ve been reporting on the highly controversial plan to open ‘Europe’s largest lithium mine’ in Serbia. You can read the resulting long read here if you’d like www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

This is the third long-form profile Cormac and I have written. It might be our best so far, at least, I think it's our largest in scope, probably our longest too. Have a read @thefence.bsky.social - www.the-fence.com/speaking-in-...

Thanks @direthoughts.com

The latest @thefence.bsky.social profile from my good self and @milesellingham.bsky.social. This time we look at the surprisingly insane life of Justin Welby, the ex-Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Church he remoulded in his image. www.the-fence.com/speaking-in-...

Following on from a mayor, then a billionaire, Cormac and I have written about an archbishop.

This is the third long-form profile Cormac and I have written. It might be our best so far, at least, I think it's our largest in scope, probably our longest too. Have a read @thefence.bsky.social - www.the-fence.com/speaking-in-...

Please subscribe to @londonermag.bsky.social so you can read my dispatch from Reform's annual conference. www.the-londoner.co.uk/reform-comes...

@milesellingham.bsky.social and Cormac Kehoe struck the ideal partnership to profile Evgeny Lebedev, the tragicomic press baron and peer (lots of wonderful material couldn’t make it in, alas). www.the-fence.com/the-buddha-o...

Cleaning semen stains, forgotten names, sexual assault and being unable to afford the Tube. Me and @milesellingham.bsky.social documented the experiences of London office cleaners for @londonermag.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/life-of-offi...

Great profile of Evgeny Lebedev, the Anglo-Russian media-scion-slash-glamorous-party-boy-slash-podcast-biohacker. Beautifully written prose and delicious scoops from @milesellingham.bsky.social and Cormac Kehoe. www.the-fence.com/the-buddha-o...

 “London’s so busy. This is the one time it's quiet.” Lovely @milesellingham.bsky.social piece about the people who clean the tube at night. For @londonermag.bsky.social. www.the-londoner.co.uk/tube-cleaner...

I spent the night in the dark with the workers who clean the London Underground. It's a strange place, full of ghosts, rats and expanding clumps of 'organic material' (mostly human hair and skin). www.the-londoner.co.uk/tube-cleaner...