I keep meaning to delete a whole bunch of my older articles. If you’re reading this page, it means I still haven’t got round to it…
THE FORGOTTEN HERO (the brave life of Walter Tull, from The Guardian, 25 March 1998)
STEVE (Stephanie Shirley, philanthropist and workplace revolutionary, Financial Times, 9 October 1999)
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (Prince Michael of Scotland, from The Guardian, 24 March 1999)
LAST ASPIRIN HERO: THE STRANGE LIFE OF HEINRICH DRESER (a scientific mystery, from the Daily Telegraph, 22 August 1998)
JUMP START (a heights-hater’s first and last attempt at sky-diving, GQ, June 1989)
WRESTLING A BEAR (a Minnesotan adventure, from the Observer Magazine, 5 January 1992)
MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN (the joys of being hunted by bloodhounds, Mail on Sunday, 9 November 1997)
THE PONIES KILLED BY KINDNESS (a Dartmoor paradox, from The Independent, 24 October 1998)
THE CAT FLAP (a strange tale of alleged ‘cat ripping’, from The Independent on Sunday, 1 August 1999)
THE VANISHING SEASON (men simply who walk out of their lives, from The Independent on Sunday, 10 October 1999)
SYSTEM ERROR (an early airing of the political ideas that would subsequently inform my 2018 book, People Power; from The Independent, 4 September 1999)
BRING BACK NATIONAL SERVICE (BUT NOT FOR THE YOUNG) (another left-field proposal, from The Independent, 29 December 2005)
THE JOY OF PAIN – REFLECTIONS ON THE BEN NEVIS RACE (Observer, 6 February 2005)
LITERARY YORKSHIRE (a rare foray into upmarket travel-writing, from High Life, September 2008)
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! A STORM OVER A MOUNTAIN MARATHON (how Britain lost its bearings over an orienteering controversy, The Independent, 28 October 2008)
TRAVELS IN THE CÉVENNES WITH A DONKEY (a family adventure with a difference, from The Independent, 6 February 2010)
THE BOMBING OF THE BOSTON MARATHON (The Independent, 16 April 2013)
RUNNING LIKE A DOG (“natural” running at its most instinctive, from the Daily Telegraph, 31 March 2014)
ON THE EVE OF THE BREXIT VOTE: A WARNING (The Independent, 22 June 2016)
COASTING ALONG IN CORNWALL (holiday musings for Runner’s World, August 2019)
PART ANGEL, PART PIT-BULL (Carmen Busquets, fashion visionary, from The Times, 7 March, 2020)
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