Wonder Boy
A profile of Pete Buttigieg, a rank outsider in the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential primary field who is nevertheless making big waves.
How Big Business Is Hedging Against the Apocalypse
“Unlike almost every other future event, climate change is 100 percent certain to happen.” This story makes this assertion and goes on to explore how big businesses are making investment decisions based on it.
How Algorithms Know What You’ll Type Next
A dive into the predictive algorithms prevalent in many digital applications.
Queens of Infamy: Josephine Bonaparte, from Martinique to Merveilleuse
Written in an informal, irreverent style, a profile of a woman who would live an extraordinary life, from growing up in Martinique to surviving the Revolution, to Empress of the French alongside her husband Napoleon.
Operation Columba
The story of the pigeon reveals a far more fascinating animal than their present urban representatives would suggest. They’ve in fact played various helpful roles in human existence since they were first domesticated by the Sumerians four thousand years ago. This piece examines a World War II plan that used them to gather intelligence and spread misinformation.
Commonwealth v. Mohamed
The tragic death of a thirteen year old girl in a car accident becomes a story of immigration and the American justice system after a Sudanese refugee was charged with manslaughter over the incident.
The Golden Age of YouTube is Over
A piece examining a widening rift between YouTube creators and a platform pivoting away from user generated content.
Planet Fox: How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World
A mammoth, blockbuster story in three parts examining the impact of the Murdoch media empire on its primary spheres of influences – America, Britain and Australia. The piece examines the macro and the micro – from global and national political trends to the Murdoch family relationships that would influence them.
The Day the Dinosaurs Died
The premise of this piece is extraordinary – the discovery of “a precise geological transcript of the most important sixty minutes of Earth’s history” – that is to say the wave of destruction caused by the asteroid that hit sixty-six million years ago, an event that wiped out 99.9999% of all living organisms on the planet.
How the UK lost the Brexit battle
A piece focusing on the negotiation process of leaving the EU, and how UK’s team has been comprehensively outmanoeuvred by their Brussels counterparts.