When I’m not chatting away on the radio, I’m usually hunched over a laptop, hammering away at the keys.
Here you will find some of my latest scribblings for the guardian, Grazia, The Times and The Lancashire Evening Post up north.
Occasionally, I’ll write something exclusive to this website, so be sure to keep checking back in.
This column first appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post... It’s a bleak Monday morning and I’m cutting my way through the driving rain to meet a friend I had agreed to meet before checking the weather. I didn’t like this friend that much. I’d call them an acquaintance. We’d been
Read → March 05, 2017
This column first appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post. It is Tuesday and I am on a bus that smells like wee. Because that’s what people do on Tuesdays, they wee on busses. I let the old lady on first as we board and make an effort to be
Read → January 26, 2017
This column first appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post. It was 4am on a night so cold it felt like the piercing of a knife. A blurred vision came into focus as I lifted my head from the paving slabs I’d come to call home. A silhouette of a man
Read → November 29, 2016
Sometime in the future, a long-since retired Theresa May will be found in a supermarket aisle clutching a packet of biscuits and squealing, “biscuits mean biscuits!” It has begun at pace. The panicked looking government ministers, the endless newspaper speculation and Andrew Marr only just restrained against ripping his own
Read → November 02, 2016
Today, government minister, Sajid Javid, overruled Lancashire County Council’s decision to reject Fracking in it’s community and gave two fingers to the people of Lancashire. Earlier in the year, I wrote this article in the Lancashire Evening Post as the council deliberated the decision and those with vested interests attempted to
Read → October 06, 2016
Just short of a year later, the late summer mugginess hung in the air. Intrusive and uncomfortable, it niggled at you with every step as you fought your way through the rotting stench of sun drenched bins, overflowing on to the high street. My heart skipped a beat as I spotted
Read → October 04, 2016
Following Teresa May’s decision to hold the Team GB homecoming parade in Manchester, Sky News asked me to bang the northern drum and let the world know why Manchester is the centre of the cultural universe…
Read → August 31, 2016
As hundreds of thousands of young people collect GCSE results, the Guardian asked me to write a short piece on my experience and whether it really matters… Judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree and it’ll spend its whole life thinking its stupid – so the adage goes. Today, schools
Read → August 25, 2016
I took part in Bite the Ballot’s #InOutLive to debate the real issues around the EU referendum, alongside some young influencers… and Katie Hopkins. Watch Darryl vs Katie Hopkins… on the immigration blame game. Register to vote here by midnight on June 7th.
Read → June 06, 2016
Are you feeling a bit drowned by the back and forth of the EU Referendum debate? David hating on Boris and Boris hating on everyone. Then… Jeremy Corbyn, what does he even think anyway? What does the EU actually do for us and how much of a risk would it be to leave!?
Read → June 02, 2016