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  • dispatches from minsk

    Crazy times in Minsk in The Independent

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  • WILD STRAWBERRIES

    Musing on Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish psyche and the new National Museum in Stockholm for Euronews.

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  • Renzo Piano

    Mr Piano and his Shard profiled by me in Where London magazine

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  • stowaways

    I explored the psychology and history of stowing away in Smith Journal Volume 28. There’s some ‘freight hopping’ in my forthcoming untitled novel, so it was fun to learn more about this weird world.

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  • polish design

    Architecture, art, and design from Poland, by me, in the latest issue of Wizz Air’s Magazine

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  • dispatches from the ddr

    Read about my adventures chasing the ghosts of the DDR in Leipzig, Chemnitz, Dessau and Halle-Neustadt in issue 48 of Escapism Magazine – the UK’s biggest independent travel magazine.

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  • A weekend I wrote about in Emirates’ Open Skies Magazine

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  • Out this week – Modern London, a wonderful illustrated guide to 100 years of London’s architecture by Lukas Novotny, and with me as consultant editor. Buy your copy here!

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  • on the p*ss in moldova

    Drunk dispatches from Moldova and Transnistria for Euronews Living It

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  • made up in chelsea

    A big thank you to everyone who came along to my talk at the National Army Museum in Chelsea on Sep 22 as part of London Open House. It was wonderful to see lots of people there and chat afterwards. Hopefully I will be doing this talk again there in early 2019 so keep an…

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