About Me
I’m a London-based journalist, broadcaster and editor and my debut book about home and the housing crisis titled ‘All The Houses I’ve Lived In’, published by Simon and Schuster, is out now. Currently, I’m a visiting lecturer teaching Creative Writing at the University of Westminster.
I’ve been writing about culture, technology and politics for over 15 years. I’ve written everywhere from The Guardian, FADER, VICE, The Independent and beyond, had an acclaimed monthly column at VICE titled ‘British Values’, was nominated for Culture Writer of the Year in 2016 and regularly host events and panels discussing issues across music, politics, and news. Most recently I hosted a discussion at the Southbank’s WOW festival discussing race, interviewing Mohsin Hamid and Riz Ahmed at the London Literature Festival, and hosting discussions around decolonising architecture for RIBA.
Most recently, I wrote an essay for the Creative Futures collection (where I’m a writing judge) I also contributed to the award-winning book of essays, ‘The Good Immigrant’ in 2017 about immigrant stories in the UK, where I wrote about ‘Going Home’. In 2015, I started a fanzine called ‘British Values’, a political satire and culture magazine that celebrates immigrant communities in the UK. I am the co-author of ‘Generation Vexed: What the English riots didn’t tell us about your nation’s youth’ published by Random House in 2011, and was part of The Guardian’s ‘My Favourite Album’ eBook in 2011.
I’m also a copywriter, researcher and tutor, and head up an annual summer school session as a Journalist tutor at Plumcroft Primary School, and have a regular stint as a tutor for the BRITS Trainee Academy. I have previously worked for the Amy Winehouse Foundation as a tutor, as a freelance Journalism lecturer for the London College of Communications.
