Writing & archive

Long-form investigative journalism with deep research, original reporting, and photography.

• Partisan: Proving Documents Haven't Changed, Privately

  Partisan records a unique fingerprint of each file, so you can later prove documents are complete and unchanged, without anyone seeing the contents.

• China Turns the Light on Offshore Trusts

  China’s July 2026 offshore-trust tax rules place residence, effective control, asset transfers and economic benefit under sharper scrutiny. Their timing also connects with OffshoreAlert Bangkok 2027’s opening examination of China’s estimated US$1 trillion in capital flight.

• The Maharaja of Faridkot: A forged will and a three-decade battle over a reported US$2.4 billion royal estate

  A disputed 1982 will, later declared forged by the courts, set off three decades of litigation over the Faridkot royal estate in southern Punjab.

• The Pulse That Outran the Frame: How Giorgio Moroder’s “Chase” Rewired Electronic Culture

  In 1978 Giorgio Moroder wrote “Chase” for a prison escape scene in Midnight Express. It became a blueprint for hi-NRG, techno and film scoring.

• London’s Warning Shot: When a G7 Sovereign Loses the Bond Market’s Confidence

  As UK gilt yields rose to levels last seen in the late 1990s, markets sent Westminster a quiet warning. This was a repricing of credibility, not panic.

• From Observation to Influence

  In the broadcast era, reality was imperfect but broadly shared. In the algorithmic era, perception has become fragmented, personalised and contested.

• Storytellers Are Becoming Corporate Infrastructure

  Once confined to film, journalism and myth, storytelling has become core infrastructure inside corporations, governments and platforms alike.

• The £30-Million Question at Southwark Crown Court

  After nearly a decade of investigation, asset freezes, and public allegation, a British jury at Southwark Crown Court will finally decide whether the prosecution can prove criminal offences beyond reasonable doubt in the case of former OPEC president Diezani Alison-Madueke.

• When Work Injury Becomes a Mental Health Crisis

  A retail worker’s back injury was followed by years of declining mental health. Her father’s account raises wider questions about aftercare at work.

• Venezuela and the Dollar: The Real Price of Disobedience

  This piece looks at how the petrodollar works, why Venezuela’s oil sales outside the US dollar mattered, and what happens to countries that defy it.

• Charif Kazal v Australia

  In July 2023 the UN Human Rights Committee ruled that Australia had breached Charif Kazal’s rights. The compensation it called for has not been delivered.

• 2026: The Year of the Fire Horse

  An essay on the 2026 Year of the Fire Horse that uses historical precedent to ask why some societies adapt under pressure while others fracture.

• The Man Who Built the Internet We Use and Paid the Price

  Long before iTunes, Spotify or Netflix, Bernhard E. Fritsch was designing the systems behind them. This piece traces his work and its personal cost.