Features Writer (The Big Issue)

Working for editor Matthew Collin through 2000 and afterwards on stories about the PR industry and publicity scams; runaway children and private detectives; bouncers and private security; interview with Hell’s Angel founder Sonny Barger which descended into a row; interviews with pickpockets and an investigation into a parrot robbery; sexism in sports; criminals running landfill scams; radical student groups; the Official Secrets Act; CCTV and privacy; futurology; the HAARP defence project; drug experiments on soldiers during the 1950s and other stories.