Writer, photographer and filmmaker. Described as a ‘Slayer of Taboos’ and ‘latter-day punchy Cassandra’, I don’t sit on the fence.
My latest book, A State of Fear: how the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic, was a Sunday Times bestseller. It’s about how fear was leveraged to encourage compliance during an extraordinary period in British life and politics, with stories from members of the general public and revealing interviews with psychologists, politicians, scientists, lawyers, Whitehall advisers and journalists.
My books Bare Reality: 100 women, their breasts, their stories, Manhood: The Bare Reality and Womanhood: The Bare Reality attracted worldwide media coverage and critical acclaim. I gave a TEDx talk about the series. A Channel 4 documentary based on Womanhood called 100 Vaginas has now been aired around the world. That led to being commissioned by The Guardian to direct another documentary, SCARS.
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