Independent writer · EU · UK · Malta
I turn complicated questions in enterprise, the economy and public policy into clear, evidence-first writing that people actually read. Op-eds, briefings, reports, ghostwritten pieces, and the strategy and operations documents that sit behind the decisions. Written to your brief, with the working shown.
Available for commissioned and retained writing across the European Union, the United Kingdom and Malta.
What I write about
Argument-led pieces for the press, trade titles and your own channels. One clear idea, made on the evidence, in a voice that reads like a person.
The what, the why and the trade-offs of a regulation or reform, set out so a busy reader gets it in one pass. EU, UK and Malta comparisons where they help.
Longer, sourced arguments that carry a position. Research, structure and drafting, delivered as a finished document you can put your name to.
Words for a founder, executive or public figure who has the ideas and not the hours. Written to sound like you, not like me.
A decision framed properly: the options, the trade-offs, the recommendation, and the reasoning underneath. The document that ends the meeting.
How the work actually runs, written down clearly: operating models, process documents and standard operating procedures a team can follow.
I have been writing since 2001. Over that time I have worked with 100s of business clients around the world, in Malta, the UK, the EU, the USA, Canada and Australia, and produced thousands of pieces across formats: articles, reports, papers, plans, strategies and much else. The ground is now shifting again. AI and the technologies coming after it are changing how every organisation plans, writes and decides. My role is to help you adapt to that change and keep moving toward your objectives, bringing the writing, the structure and the judgement so the tools work for you, not the other way around.
You tell me the subject, the reader and the format. A short call or email is enough to start.
I come back with the angle, the scope, a timeline and a fixed price. No surprises later.
You get a sourced first draft on the agreed date, then one round of revisions built in.
Final copy, ready to publish or circulate, with sources listed and the file in the format you need.
A sample of my own published essays. It is the clearest guide to how I think and how I write.
Meta is on trial in California over a design its own research examined behind closed doors. The case for legislating a new model, and what the UK, the EU, Australia and Malta are already doing.
The EU is cutting €37.5 billion of administrative cost against a €750 to €800 billion annual investment gap. Simplification is about five per cent of the diagnosis. The other ninety-five per cent is capital.
UK public wealth went from a quarter of national income in 1970 to minus £695.7 billion. Where it went, why taxes no longer buy services, and how to rebuild the state as a shock absorber.
UK industry pays the most for electricity in the developed world, four times the American price. What ten EU countries pay instead, and why cheap energy is now a security question.
In 2024 the Planning Authority received 2,411 complaints and issued 191 notices, 162 of them from complaints. Across 43 policy domains, the powers exist and the state rarely finds the breach itself.
Britain is not short of money. It holds trillions in long-term pension and insurance capital. The growth problem is where that money goes, not whether it exists.
How I work
Most writing on business and policy is either too shallow to trust or too dense to read. I write the version in between: one decision at a time, the costs named honestly, the sources shown, in language a smart reader gets on the first pass.
Work with meThe single market, competitiveness and regulation, from the AI Act to the case for a bigger, smarter Union.
UKGovernance, the economy and investment, and the gap between the country on paper and the one people feel.
MTHousing, education and growth on an island that keeps leaving its own advantages unused.
Ready when you are
Tell me the subject, the reader and roughly what you need. I will come back with an angle, a timeline and a fixed price, usually within two working days.
Tell me what you have in mind. The more you can say about the subject, the reader and the deadline, the sharper my proposal will be. I aim to reply within two working days.
