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Selected Articles

House of Horror

The Guardian Saturday magazine

The Army Wouldn’t Take Him. So He Made His Own Way to War

The Guardian Weekend

The Robots Are Coming… And They Want Your Job

Vice

Up The A1: How The Great North Road Became Britain’s Sexiest Motorway

Vice

Kosta Scurfield: Death Of A British Soldier… Fighting ISIS in Syria

FHM

Reading bedtime stories in the age of Covid-19

Penguin.co.uk

How The UK Government Cosied Up To Earth’s Biggest Pornographer

Vice

Power And Pain: The Loneliness Of Being Superhumanly Strong

ShortList Magazine (cover story)

How to Talk to Children About Death, and The Books That Can Help

Penguin.co.uk

Inside the Tiny Welsh Town Where Men Can Run As Fast As Horses

Men's Health

Keith Flint: ‘Tread Carefully, Or I Will Cut You To Shreds’

FHM

British Isn’t A Colour: Rebranding Britain With David Lammy

ShortList (cover story)

Paid to Lose: Inside the Mind of a Journeyman Boxer

ShortList Magazine

The Michelin Star Is Dead (Long Live The Michelin Star)

The Gentleman's Journal

Why Did This Man Left Behind His Family To Fight Isis In Iraq?

The Telegraph Magazine

How Jellyfish, Nanobots and Naked Mole Rats Could Make Humans Immortal

VICE

Exclusive: Anna Campbell’s father… ‘I had no right to stop her fighting in Syria’

Guardian G2

What Can The Premier League Learn From the socialist NBA?

FHM

Making Sense Of A Game Of Thrones Porn Parody

ShortList magazine

Andy McNab Can Kill… But Can He Love?

FHM

Exclusive: First British woman joins fight against Isis in Syria

The Guardian

About Matt

Matt Blake

I'm an award-winning author and journalist who has spent my career telling extraordinary true stories. Along the way, I've written about war, sport, sex, film, politics, crime – the works – in the UK's leading newspapers and magazines.

An ex crime reporter for the Daily Mirror and The Independent, I've also covered some of the UK's most high-profile criminal cases, from gangland murders to serial killers. My debut book, The Killer Who Lived Here, was published by Elliott & Thompson in 2025.