About Me

I’m a freelance trouble-maker, a rabble-rouser, a nosey parker prying into the silent state, a writer with a love of novels that remind us how close we are to dystopia but also to creating a more flourishing and just world. Tyler Durden asks in Fight Club to be delivered from Swedish furniture; I ask to be delivered from officious officials, from politicians who feel entitled to pilfer the public purse and most of all from a culture based on domination and propaganda. 

I’m not waiting for a saviour to solve these issues. How we live is up to us. I’ve always brought activism and campaigning to my work. I began reporting when I was 17.  Initially, I studied physics at the University of Washington but switched majors to complete a double degree in Politics and Editorial Journalism with a minor in Broadcast Journalism. In a career spanning nearly 30 years I’ve worked as a crime reporter in South Carolina, a legislative correspondent in Washington State and as a freelance investigative journalist and columnist writing for all the national newspapers in the UK as well as fronting documentaries on the BBC and Channel 4.

I’m the author of three published books: The Revolution Will be Digitised, The Silent State and Your Right to Know. I’ve been writing novels for the past few years and hope to publish my debut in the near future. 

I completed an MA in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Warwick and a PhD at City, University of London. I was Professor in the Graduate Journalism department at City University and ran the MA Investigative Journalism Course until 2019. I’ve also been an adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School in New York where I taught investigative journalism. I am so proud of all of my students who have gone on to challenge power and create justice in the world. 

I grew up in Seattle and the Wirral (a small peninsula in Northwest England) and now live in London. My family are from Liverpool but emigrated to the US hence my transatlantic upbringing. 

I have a great love of nature and all the other beings that live on this planet. I want to change our culture so that we start valuing what really matters - Life, Love and the pursuit of Just Power.