Well this is revolting, The Spectator

For Financial Times, I interviewed The Jinx director Andrew Jarecki on the evolution of true crime, his 20 years working on the story of triple murderer Robert Durst and the shock of Durst's hot-mic confession. ft.com/content/8f469d…

It's Monday so here's my Financial Times pod column on two new pods hosted by married couples – The Endless Honeymoon Podcast and How Was It For You – one of which is OK, the other not so much. (Please no more of these shows, commissioning editors, we're all full up). ft.com/content/d85e72…

ALLY-SHIP IN ACTION.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Ashley James

In today's Guardian Books, I reviewed Caroline Crampton's brilliant A Body Made of Glass, a variously scholarly, personal and poetic study of extreme health anxiety. theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

It was an honour to interview/profile Idris Ackamoor for the The Guardian.

I spoke to the spiritual jazz shaman about how touring Africa transformed his art, channelling climate change, working w/ Andre 3000, afro-futurism, and rejecting rules.

Read here: theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…

It's Monday so here's my Financial Times pod column on Let The Kids Dance!, about Seattle's Teen Dance Ordinance, a law that banned teenagers from concerts & clubs from 1985 for 17 years. This story is INSANE - basically the plot of Footloose but it's actually real. ft.com/content/555bbd…

It's Monday so here's my Financial Times pod column on the all-new Serial, which is on Guantanamo Bay. Hardly a new subject among podcasters, but it still has the qualities you want from a Serial pod: the thoughtful tone, exquisite production and methodical reporting. ft.com/content/7e3d15…

I really loved writing this for i newspaper about the story & evolution of 'Jolene', the Dolly Parton classic which has been dissected, reinterpreted & rewritten by singers for over 50 years. The latest version comes courtesy of Beyoncé on #COWBOYCARTER inews.co.uk/culture/music/…

I really loved writing this for i newspaper about the story & evolution of 'Jolene', the Dolly Parton classic which has been dissected, reinterpreted & rewritten by singers for over 50 years. The latest version comes courtesy of Beyoncé on #COWBOYCARTER inews.co.uk/culture/music/…

Sorry for the ‘check out my lunch’ twattery, but I’m not the greatest cook and I just cobbled together this shakshuka for me and the kid, having never made it before, and it was bloody delicious.

Pet ownership is hearing the cat going 'huerk, huerk, huerk' upstairs and wearily going up to clean up the vom, only to find the dog has got there first.

Six books unified by an originality of voice, accessible, insightful, each one a masterpiece. May we present the first ever #WomensPrize for #NonFiction shortlist sponsored by Findmypast.

Huge congratulations to the shortlisted authors and our heartfelt thanks to the judges!

Took me four months to be paid by them - by far the worst response from anyone I’ve freelanced with - so would avoid.

My Financial Times review of Sally Wainwright's big-budget, family-friendly Renegade Nell, which combines sorcery, swashbuckling and a ballsy heroine who is not putting up with your nonsense. ft.com/content/f1b592…

Fiona Sturges Rolling Stone UK ali Tara Joshi Emma Wilkes Lisa Wright They still owe me for three articles written between July and October last year, even though one was a commercial feature for which they banked a hefty cheque. They've always been slow to pay, but now non-payment of freelancers appears to be official policy.

Good, though it shouldn't take pressure on social media for Rolling Stone UK to do the right thing. Now let's see if they cough up for ali Tara Joshi Emma Wilkes Lisa Wright who are all owed ££ too.

cc Adam Sherwin Jim Waterson

I see Rolling Stone UK is **still** commissioning writers and then ghosting them to avoid payment. This is not OK. Writers shouldn't go near this magazine, and neither should musicians/actors and their publicists.

Spectacularly ballsed up buying Air tickets for me and teen at Albert Hall (i.e. forgot) and now sold out. Tell me, wise Twitter, Viagogo is pure evil and I shouldn't go near it, right?