some writing I’m proud of

Investigation

What Happens to Your Image Once It's Been Caught On CCTV (VICE)

How 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' Is Made (VICE)

Inside Operation Pridefall: 4chan's Attempt to Bring Down Pride (VICE)

Is Facial Recognition Technology Coming to a Club Near You? (DJ Mag)

Inside the Three Types of 'Illegal Rave' This Lockdown Summer (VICE)

Happn, Universal and Other Brands Are Misusing Data (VICE)

Mainstream Newspapers Are Making Up Drug Trends (VICE)

Culture

Jon Ronson on How to End the Culture Wars (Dazed)

I Got 'Charles Manson's Ashes' Tattooed Into My Head (VICE)

The Anarchist Street Artists Taking on Corporate Ads (Medium)

John Lewis Blues: Could Regeneration Destroy Leeds' Much-Loved Arts Quarter? (Guardian)

A Step Inside the Eccentric Homes of Modern Berlin (Huck)

I Built a 'Personal Space Optimiser' to Keep People Away (VICE)

Turns Out It's Incredibly Easy to Blag Your Way Into Festivals (VICE)

I Cured My Social Media Addiction by Reading Books (Medium)

One London Street Vendor’s Defiant Stand Against Regeneration (VICE)

I Live With 17 People In A Warehouse (Huff Post)

We Posted an Egg, to See How Far You Can Push the Royal Mail (VICE)

Tattoos Helped Me Make Peace with My Eczema (Medium)

Remembering Michael K. Williams (VICE)

Have 20 Years of Leeds' Unity Day Free Party Actually Brought Anyone Together? (VICE)

Sex (NSFW)

Sexual Disorientation (The Face)

I Made My Own DIY Sex Toys from a Hardware Shop (VICE)

A Beginners' Guide to Going on PrEP (VICE)

Tower Hamlets Council Vs the Kink Community Part 1 (VICE)

Tower Hamlets Council Vs the Kink Community Part 2 (VICE)

A Guide for ‘Straight’ Guys Who Want to Explore Their Bisexuality (VICE)

The Relationship Between Drugs, Sex and Consent (VICE)

London Sex Shops (The Face)

A Monogamous Person's Guide to Exploring Non-Monogamy (VICE)

I Tried a Sex Toy That Lets You Have Sex With Just Your Balls (VICE)

I Tried a Bluetooth Sex Toy to Save My Long-Distance Lockdown Relationship (VICE)

I'm a Consent Monitor at a Sex Club – Here's What My Job Entails (VICE)

Sex Workers Can Teach You a Thing Or Two About Sexual Health (VICE)

A Young Artist's Photos of Human Sexuality and Desire (VICE)

I Get Invited Into Strangers' Bedrooms to Photograph Them (VICE)

Tales from Dublin’s Notorious HIV/AIDS Separation Unit (Huck)

Drug Culture

Note: My work does not promote or glorify drug use and I always take a responsible, harm reductionist approach to covering drug-related issues.

What’s Really in Your Weed Vape? (The Face)

The Man Who Took 40,000 Ecstasy Pills (The Face)

I Was Paid to Smoke Weed for 98 Days Straight (VICE)

The Ultra-Drug That’s Stronger Than Heroin and Legal to Possess (The Face)

Dodgy Cannabis Sweets Are Making UK Kids Sick (VICE)

Why Do I Crave Cocaine After a Few Pints? (The Face)

The Drink That 'Gets You Tipsy with No Hangover' (VICE)

Getting My Club Drugs Tested Transformed My Partying Habits (Medium)

Thinking About Doing G at a Club or Festival? Read This First (VICE)

How Drug Policing Works at Glastonbury Festival (The Face)

We are Throwing Away Two Disposable Vapes a Second in the UK (The Face)

The Man Delivering Free Weed and Toilet Paper to People in Quarantine (VICE)

What you need to know about 3‑MMC, the party drug of the moment (The Face)

How can I test the purity of my pills? (The Face)

How the Albanian Mafia Controls Cocaine Supply in London (VICE)

We Investigate The Legal High Epidemic Infecting British Prisons (LADbible)

New Fingerprint Technology Can Tell If You've Taken Coke Recently (VICE)

I Tripped on Shrooms in VR With the 'Hallucination Machine' (VICE)

Meeting the DEA Agent Who Tracked Howard Marks for 17 Years (Dazed)

Electronic Music Culture

The Cause Closing Party: Saying Goodbye to the Club that Reshaped London Raving (DJ Mag)

Ibiza's Wildest Years: Capturing the Hedonism of '90s Party Manumission (DJ Mag)

Portraits of Berlin’s Queer Punks and Skinheads (Huck)

A Young Artist's Photos of Human Sexuality and Desire (VICE)

The Ecstasy Despite the Agony (DJ Mag)

The Cause is the Community Driven Nightclub London Needs Right Now (DJ Mag)

Shoom's Spirit of Positivity, Happiness and Togetherness Lives On (Mixmag)

This New Photo Exhibition Captures the Euphoria of the '90s Free Party Movement (DJ Mag)

The DJs Fighting Against Brexit and for a People's Vote (Nosiey)

The life of dub visionary Lee “Scratch” Perry through the lens (DJ Mag)

Croatia: Going Overground (Mixmag)

These Acid House and Rave Membership Cards are a Window into UK Dance Music History (DJ Mag)

MiNT Memories: Two Decades of Decadence in Leeds Draws to a Close (thump)

Castlemorton 1992: Photographing the Illegal Rave that Changed UK Dance Music Forever (DJ Mag)

These Photographs Capture the Excess and Exuberance of New York’s ’70s Disco Scene (DJ Mag)

The Legendary 'Cave Raves' of the Acid House Era (VICE)

The Ecstasy Despite the Agony: Photographing Gay Clubbing in ‘90s Northern England (DJ Mag)

These Photos Capture the Ecstatic Spirit of Early '90s UK Raving (DJ Mag)

The Word 'Rave' Has Lost All Meaning (DJ Mag)

A Big Night Out... at a Bootleg Studio 54! (VICE)

Student Halls Are a Battleground for Rival Rave Promoters (VICE)

Political Essay

Rishi Sunak is a Reverse Robin Hood (The Face)

We Need a General Election Now (The Face)

The Chaotic Indecision of the Tories’ Drug Policies (The Face)

Liz Truss on Drugs (The Face)

51 Reasons Not to Vote Tory (VICE)

How Austerity Has Affected Our Psychological Wellbeing (VICE)

We Might Live in an 'Age of Terror', But No One's Actually Terrified (VICE)

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