As a journalist, everyday I get between 30 and 40 press releases. It really clogs the inbox. But that’s nothing compared to editors. One New York Times editor revealed that 400 a day

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I love bankers. For years I was one (sort of). But you have to admit, they’re often full of crap. Suits so rigid they’re practically torture devices. And hair so slicked it’s basically

Updated: Feb 19 Remember when Peter Parker threw himself off a building? Somehow this random guy trusted that the weird gunk coming out of his fingertips was going to save him. That’s kind of

Updated: Feb 23, 2022 On Friday something dropped. Like a smoking hot potato. 🔥 The magazine supplement I’d been working on for twelve long months finally hit the world. At first I didn’t believe

Updated: Jan 19, 2022 It’s now been two and a half years since I quit Wealth Management and started working for myself as a freelancer. 2021 was, undoubtedly, the best year so far. I

Updated: Mar 7, 2022 Forcing English and Welsh students to pay nearly £10,000 a year towards their education is just the beginning. One of the coldest on record, 1998 was a strange year. Boyzone

Updated: Nov 8, 2021 For many people, the hardest part of running a business is getting others to believe in your product and part with their money. As a freelance writer, this is something

Updated: Dec 15, 2022 Want to sharpen your panel speaking skills? Attending talks, logging into webinars and plugging into podcasts are ideal places for financial journalists like me to discover new hooks. Here are

Updated: Sep 6, 2021 I honestly can’t believe that I’ve made it this far. It just doesn’t feel real. I mean, that’s not exactly true. Sometimes it’s too real. Yesterday for example, after a

Updated: Sep 9, 2021 I don’t get paid to write these blogs. On the contrary, writing them takes time and focus away from paid work. I’m sure that if I didn’t write blogs, I

Updated: Mar 7, 2022 Like a quarter of Brits from my generation, I worked evenings and weekends as a teenager. I collected my first pay cheque at thirteen, earning £200 a month. Fifteen years