Journalist, London

Letting
people
talk

I'm a journalist in my twenties in London, trying to figure out what's going on. I make long-form interviews and immersive reporting, sitting down with people across the political spectrum and beyond it, asking questions in good faith and resisting easy judgements.

Portrait of Hugo
About

I am a journalist driven by curiosity about people: what they believe, why they believe it, and what their world looks like from the inside. I try to bring an international, open-minded lens to every conversation, approaching each subject in good faith.

My writing appears in The Irish Times, Tribune, The Canary and Land & Climate Review, spanning first-person features, political reporting and climate policy analysis. At The Irish Times, my personal essays have repeatedly ranked among the site's most-read stories, with one piece named the paper's Top Story of 2025.

Hugo interviewing Eddie Dempsey on the street
Interviewing Eddie Dempsey at the 2026 March Against the Far Right, Whitehall.

The interview that kicked everything off came at 21, when I landed one of the last interviews with Noam Chomsky. Since then I have hosted long-form conversations with figures from Jeremy Corbyn and Zack Polanski to Brian Eno and Kojey Radical. Clips of these interviews have racked up millions of views.

In 2026 I won the Orwell Society and National Union of Journalists' Young Journalist of the Year Award for a political column on the protests against the US military's presence at Shannon Airport.

Selected work

A few conversations and pieces

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