WIRED
I joined the UK edition of WIRED as a staff writer in October 2015. Since then I have also worked as a senior editor and deputy website editor. The list below is a small selection of my favourite stories that I have written since I joined the publication. (Last updated July 23, 2021).
- Police caught one of the web’s most dangerous paedophiles. Then everything went dark
- The UK is secretly testing a controversial web snooping tool
- The terrifying reality of life under Myanmar’s internet shutdown
- Co-op is using facial recognition tech to scan and track shoppers
- A deepfake porn bot is being used to abuse thousands of women
- Deepfake porn is now mainstream. And major sites are cashing in
- Police built an AI to predict violent crime. It was seriously flawed
- Google got rich from your data. DuckDuckGo is fighting back
- Secret NHS files reveal plans for coronavirus contact tracing app
- Researchers have finally cracked the secret paedophile code
- Coronavirus contact tracing apps were meant to save us. They won’t
- The mysterious final voyage of the Alta, Ireland’s doomed ghost ship
- How ultrarunners are pushing the human body beyond all limits
- How Nike broke running
- Inside the urgent battle to stop UK police using facial recognition
- North Korea’s elite hackers are funding nukes with crypto raids
- The messy, cautionary tale of how Babylon disrupted the NHS
- To fight fake news on WhatsApp, India is turning off the internet
- Inside Netflix’s $8 billion plan for world entertainment domination
- A rare painting is stolen… then it appears for sale on the dark web
- Here’s the first evidence Russia used Twitter to influence Brexit
- UK police are using AI to inform custodial decisions – but it could be discriminating against the poor
- When a tanker vanishes, all the evidence points to Russia
- Facial recognition tech used by UK police is making a ton of mistakes
- Top iOS dating apps are exposing your personal life to hackers
- Roborace is building a 300kph AI supercar – no driver required
- We need a global cyberwar treaty, says the former head of GCHQ
- Tim Berners-Lee: governments are ‘trampling on our rights to privacy’
- How Iraq turned off the internet
- A real-life David and Goliath: the Indian ‘web warrior’ who took on Facebook and won
News & other
Below is a list of some of the other stories I have worked on in my career. These range from the very earliest pieces I had published as a professional journalist to more recent freelance work. (This list is rarely updated and contains some stories for posterity!)
- All ears: Business Life, British Airways magazine (freelance)
- Watching them, watching US: Can we trust big tech to regulate itself? – Creative Review (freelance)
- Tightening the Net – Business Life, British Airways magazine (freelance)
- Unchartered Territory – Modus (freelance)
- Freedom of Information Act: 103 stories that prove Chris Grayling wrong – The Guardian
- Come on, who nicked the MP’s teddy bear? – The Sun (freelance)
- Police forces pay £25million to informants – Daily Mail (Hotspot Media, press agency)
- Boy, five, who can only eat smooth food is told school can’t prepare his mashed potato ‘because teachers haven’t had hygiene training’ – Daily Mail (Hotspot Media)
- Boozy MPs went on £250k bender – The Sun (freelance)
- ‘A brain tumour made me follow my dream to become a Mermaid’ – Daily Mail (HotSpot Media)
- Video: Inside the record breaking fusion reactor – Factor Magazine
- Pensioner builds world’s tiniest cinema in his home – Daily Mail (HotSpot Media)
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