About

In my day job, I run a small Public Affairs and PR consultancy, Camberton. We advise our clients on government and media issues across a range of sectors, helping them reduce the risks to their businesses, explain and implement long-term strategy, and deal with crises. I am also a non-executive director of Probability plc and RateSetter.com.

In my earlier life, I ran Betfair’s external affairs for the opening decade when it felt like we were changing the world: I joined before launch as part of the founder management team. I also spent five years with BBC Sport, on 5Live, News24 and, for a year of it, with BBC Breakfast on BBC1; and just short of five years at JPMorgan as a Fixed Income trader.

Separately, I spent two years covering county cricket as a freelance reporter for the Daily Telegraph, and wrote for various publications on sporting topics. I continue to write on the rare occasions I get asked, and late in 2011 I completed a chapter on gambling for the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Horseracing. Aside from that, in 2009-10, I sat on the Parry Panel commissioned by the UK Sports Minister to look at issues of integrity in sport.

Unsurprisingly perhaps, therefore, this blog is mainly about sports and betting; but occasionally it strays into other political topics which I find interesting.

I live in Barnes in west London.