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Feb 11 2019

The Spectator: How the dating app meat market is turning us all into merchandise

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Conservative Home: OCD & Me

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Poem: Her

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The Spectator: Kettner’s – the Soho establishment that changed history

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Poem: A Table of Silver

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Restaurant Review: Not lovin’ it

This is a restaurant review I wrote in the style of my writing hero, the late AA Gill. From cradle to coronary, Ronald McDonald is watching you Never trust anyone Continue Reading

Posted On : 23rd December 2019 Published By : paulratner
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Short Story: The Red Chair

I climbed through the hatch of the Icarus Space Rocket and strapped myself into the cockpit next to Captain Johnson. I yawned the seatbelts diagonally across my silvery-moon spacesuit, feeling Continue Reading

Posted On : 7th November 2019 Published By : paulratner
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The Spectator: The Top 10 Real Life Movie Locations in Los Angeles

When I was in LA, my editor at The Spectator and I agreed that the City of Angels was ripe for material for a great article to appeal to British Continue Reading

Posted On : 3rd October 2019 Published By : paulratner
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Spiked: Did the Moon landing bring about JFK’s dream of a better world?

On the 50th anniversary of mankind’s giant leap, we explore how the Moon landing changed life on Earth forever Since the beginning of time, man has wondered about the ruler Continue Reading

Posted On : 17th July 2019 Published By : paulratner
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The Telegraph: The Legacy of Anne Frank at 90

The Anne Frank Trust kindly arranged for me to interview Eva Schloss MBE, Holocaust survivor and stepsister to Anne Frank, for The Telegraph, for an article to commemorate what would Continue Reading

Posted On : 12th June 2019 Published By : paulratner
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TV Review: Sympathy for the Devil

This is a TV review I wrote after binge-watching Lucifer. Sometimes you just love a show so much that you want others to hear about it. How hit comedy Lucifer, Continue Reading

Posted On : 8th May 2019 Published By : paulratner
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Speciality Food: Spotlight on Water

This is an article I wrote for food and drinks trade magazine Speciality Food on the different ‘superwaters’ looking to drown out coconut water. The published article can be found Continue Reading

Posted On : 8th May 2019 Published By : paulratner
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Short Story: Flash

I’m standing at the back of a derelict-industrial-unit-come-design-studio just off the main drag in Notting Hill and my set designer Jackie P is mincing around in stone-washed jeans that he Continue Reading

Posted On : 9th April 2019 Published By : paulratner
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The Spectator: The Kids are Alright – How Turning Point UK is Reviving the Thatcherite Dream

This is an article I wrote for The Spectator on the launch of Turning Point UK. The organisation and its enigmatic leaders, Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens, had created such Continue Reading

Posted On : 11th March 2019 Published By : paulratner
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The Spectator: How the dating app meat market is turning us all into merchandise

This is an article I wrote for The Spectator on the vacuity of online dating and how apps have devastated the old fashioned idea of the meet-cute. The published article Continue Reading

Posted On : 11th February 2019 Published By : paulratner

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