Clips
Published pieces since 2024, grouped by topic. Each row gives the month and outlet. Longer pieces are in the longform samples.
Work
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Harbour Ledger
Why the depot never closes: a year on the night shift
Eleven months of shifts with the people who sort parcels after midnight, and what the rota does to them.
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Quay Review
The apprentice who was paid for the course, not the job
A look at how training allowances are counted, and who falls between the two budgets.
Housing
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Quay Review
The rent is in the bins: how two streets fought a letting firm
Residents kept a log of every repair request for a year. The firm kept a different one.
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Millrace Quarterly
Count the empty flats, then count again
Why the figures for vacant homes in one borough disagree by a third, and who benefits.
Care
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Tram & Tide
Care work, costed by the minute
Home carers on fifteen-minute visits, the timers on their phones, and the time they do not get paid for.
Local government
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Millrace Quarterly
Teaching a town to read its own budget
A volunteer group rewrote a council budget in plain sentences. The council did not thank them.
Transport
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Hollin Bay Weekly
Nine hours on the 14 bus
One route, one driver, one day, with notes on every stop and the conversations that happen at them.
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The Ferrule
The last hand-cut lock in Hollin Bay
A locksmith, his bench, and the shop that outlived the high street around it.