A dynamic 22-year old writer for The Economist, The Guardian and The New Statesman, Chris is the author of 'African Lions', 'The Revolution Will Be Tweeted', 'ODB v FBI' and 'Confessions of a Freelancer'.
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A dynamic 22-year old writer for The Economist, The Guardian and The New Statesman, Chris is the author of 'African Lions', 'The Revolution Will Be Tweeted', 'ODB v FBI' and 'Confessions of a Freelancer'.
Originally appeared on The Economist’s Johnson blog, 30 April 2012
PETER MARK ROGET was, by all accounts, a bit of a nerd. Some kids collect stamps; others meticulously record baseball scores.
Originally appeared on The Economist’s Prospero blog, 26 April 2012
SOMETHING odd is happening at the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum (CAM), near Naples.
Originally appeared on The Economist’s Johnson blog, 17 April 2012
MEMORABILITY is something we all strive for, whether it’s making a big impression at a party or leaving a legacy to the world.
Originally appeared on The Economist’s Game Theory blog, 18 April 2012
SET to meet Portugal’s Sporting Lisbon on April 19th in the semi-finals of the Europa League, a tournament for top-flight European football clubs, Spain’s Athletic Bilbao has quickly become the bookmakers’ favourite to win the entire competition.
Appeared in 21 April print edition of The Economist. Originally appeared on The Economist’s Schumpeter blog, 5 April 2012
BRITONS love their takeaways. A £4.8 billion ($7.6 billion) industry has sprung up around the dietary needs of late night revellers and working families looking for a treat at the end of the week.
Originally appeared on The Economist’s Game Theory blog, 4 April 2012
PROFESSIONAL football players have to put up with hostile crowds, angry coaches and scathing stories in the press no matter where they play. But in eastern Europe they live with more serious forms of abuse.
Originally appeared on The Economist’s Johnson blog, 3 April 2012
TRAINS are a great place to meet people. Close proximity to a complete stranger for a finite period of time expands the horizons. Thus your correspondent found himself on the 17.02 train from Newcastle to York, iPad on lap, tapping out a post for Johnson last weekend.
Originally appeared on The Economist’s Johnson blog, 26 March 2012
WANDER around the streets of any city and one is likely to find a rich patchwork of language. Linguists acknowledge the ever-changing coarseness of streets, rather than the stuffy offices where dictionaries are usually compiled, are often the best habitat to uncover the language of the age.
Originally appeared on The Economist’s Johnson blog, 21 March 2012
JOHN HEMMING, MP, is a fearless campaigner. He was at the vanguard of the campaign against superinjunctions in the United Kingdom, outing Fred Goodwin and Ryan Giggs in parliament for seeking legal protection from the media reporting their transgressions.
Originally appeared on The Economist’s Schumpeter blog, 21 March 2012
HOLLYWOOD portrayed Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s boss, as aloof, disinterested and awkward in all manner of ways in “The Social Network”.
Originally appeared on The Economist’s Prospero blog, 14 March 2012
JULIET CAPULET didn’t account for a world in which books can be published at a mouse click when she sighed “What’s in a name?
Originally appeared on The Guardian’s Northerner blog, 13 March 2012
If there’s an obituary in tomorrow’s Guardian headlined ‘Promising young Guardian Northerner writer dies aged 22’, then you know I’ve made a grave miscalculation.
Originally appeared on The New Statesman’s Staggers blog, 11 March 2012
From Shields Road in Newcastle, where the Clegg Off! collection of anti-Lib Dem campaigners gathered yesterday morning, it’s possible to see the famous Byker Wall estate.
Originally appeared in JetAway Magazine, March-April 2012
On 1 March 1912 US Captain Albert Leo Stevens threw himself out of a Benoist Pusher plane at 1,500 feet and into the sky.
© Zander Photography, 2011
