Simon Usborne

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Telegraph Magazine

The couple trying to keep killer ‘zombie viruses’ at bay

How an app finally got me hooked on the piano

The regeneration project that became a £100m luxury ghost town

Telegraph Magazine

Death or jail: Inside the daredevil world of freeclimbers

Telegraph Magazine

Inside the cult of Tesla

‘I warned the FBI about this guy Osama bin Laden’: the people who predicted disasters

‘They belonged somewhere’: the forgotten victims of one of London’s deadliest fires

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Telegraph Magazine

One family's mission to restore a Lancaster Bomber

Unearthing the hidden treasures of the BBC archive

What three house sales tell us about modern Britain

The Siege of Londongrad: is the show over for the oligarchs?

Flat cap nation: how Peaky Blinders became a way of life

How can a chicken cost less than a pint?

Financial Times

#Boatlife — the families seeking new lives at sea

How Henry the vacuum cleaner became an accidental design icon

Cycling while black: one man's mission to change a sport

Dog-bite Britain: the problem with the pandemic puppy explosion

Disaster at Camp 3: Triumph and tragedy on K2

The Dizzying Rise of Evgeny Lebedev

Financial Times

My father died in an avalanche, but skiing still holds the family together

The race to make the world's fastest running shoe

Britain's flood victims, six months on

The summer of the cannibal rats!

Financial Times

Postcard from Antarctica — the last virus-free continent

Financial Times

The British grandmother running to Kathmandu

Financial Times

Can ‘England’s oldest pub’ survive the lockdown?

The true cost of fast furniture

Financial Times

Swimming the East River

How the Royal Family lost control of its message

Up in smoke: are we wrong about the dangers of vaping?

Financial Times

On the up: riding the world's steepest street

Why are so few men taking shared parental leave?

How Peppa Pig became a £1bn global phenomenon

A dying breed: The tragic lives of Britain's best-loved dogs

Financial Times

Why women win in the long run

Financial Times

The race to cross Antarctica

Searching for woolly mammoths on the A14

The man who fathered 200 children

Shoebox Britain: how shrinking homes affect us

Is the Croydon Cat Killer a man or a myth?

"It was heartbreaking": can a town survive when its M&S closes?

Guardian Weekend

Squonkers, drippers and cloud chasers: the rise of vape culture

The story of No 20: how does a London house end up empty in 2018?

Financial Times

Speed skiing: too fast for the Olympics

Financial Times

Life and death in the most extreme sport of all

The bold new fight to eradicate suicide

A homeless man, impaled on a spike in Kensington. Who was he and why did he die?

Guardian Weekend

Made in Britain - as Brexit looms, a snapshot of UK manufacturing

Thirty-five dead and not even a plaque: why did we forget London's deadliest postwar fire?

Essays for sale: the booming online trade in academic work written to order

Guardian Weekend

The view from here: How it feels to live really, really high up

Guardian Weekend

Meet the stars of Musical.ly, the HUGE lip-synching app

"We smuggled Michael Jackson out in a room-service trolley." Celebrity bodyguards tell their stories

Fake wine: Simon Usborne explores the colourful world of the counterfeiters

Dope and glory: the rise of cheating in amateur sport

Is it too late to save the Maldives from climate change and Islamic extremism?

An abducted child reveals the true story of her stolen life

The Donald Trump Superfan Who Lives In A Castle In England

Exclusive: David Irving - the hate that dare not speak its name

The night I went to the theatre and the ceiling collapsed

Our man takes on the world's toughest track challenge

Independent Magazine

Meet Britain's republicans: Is the UK ready for change?

Financial Times

How to sell a superyacht - a dispatch from Cannes

From Cornwall to the cosmos: how Newquay could get a spaceport

How did a Wiltshire brewery end up in North Korea?

Butchers and beer: a early-morning drinking tradition

How Jagermeister changed the way we drink

'She was the love of his life. Then he killed her'. The anatomy of a murder

Weather wars at the Met Office: Is it going to be a 'barbecue summer' this year?

How the 'Tatler Tory' Mark Clarke tried to take over the City of London

The manhood makeover: The rise of the penis enlargement

Neil Hamilton and the club that wants 'civilised rule' restored in South Africa

Tony Hayward: Right in the thick of it

The thinking outside the box: The Amazing world of online retail giant Amazon

The wedding photo from Ground Zero: A shot in the dark

'My father was killed doing what he loved best - skiing'

Financial Times

The amazing double life of Lhakpa Sherpa: Everest record breaker — and Connecticut house cleaner

Telegraph Magazine

‘I spent 10 years as a conflict negotiator. This is where Israel-Hamas talks have gone wrong’

‘Film is in my blood’: the secret cinema in the back of a London shop

Telegraph Magazine

Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn and Silicon Valley's most modest billionaire

Financial Times

Kenton Cool: Risks and rewards in the death zone

The Sunday Times

One innocent email and the climate deniers smelt blood

The Sunday Times

Why Simon Reeve owes his career to Osama bin Laden

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The man who lost his brother – then revolutionised psychology

Steve Mallen: the bereaved father trying to end suicide

Financial Times

From gangland London to the wilds of Antarctica

The Sunday Times

Judit Polgar: Dad’s crazy gambit made me a match for any grandmaster

Financial Times

James May on the slow joys of woodworking

The woman who investigates domestic homicide

Britain's oldest doctor on his life and cheating death eight times

Tom Kerridge: ‘Two Michelin stars bring huge stress — I need a release’

Robert Maltby, 10 years after a gang murdered his

A conversation about mental health with my barber of 28 years

Financial Times

Sir Chris Bonington: Mountains, love and loss

Leytonstone tube attack victim: "It's bizarre how untraumatised I feel"

Tulip Siddiq: Fighting for Britain's most marginal seat in the shadow of tragedy

Nicholas Witchell has been reporting on the Royals 15 years. How does he cope?

A day with Katie Hopkins: Separating the Apprentice 'superbitch' from her soundbites

A stroll into the past: Alan Johnson retraces the steps which led to literary success

General Election 2015: Is William Cash the man to woo Warwickshire North for Ukip?

The Independent

Jon Snow: "I'm a hack who wants to change the world"

The surgeon fighting to save the shattered Syrian health system

Robert King: 'I'll fight until the day I die'

Louis Theroux: 'I'm not out to take advantage of anyone. I'm just being me'

The Jewish high jumper who would defy Hitler

Independent on Sunday

Michael Pollan: 'Cooking is a political act'

Independent on Sunday

Peta founder Ingrid Newkirk: 'It's bizarre to kill animals for a sandwich'

CS Lewis: In the shadow of JFK's death...

The pensioner next door who rowed across an ocean for love

Master of the universe: Can Hugh Hendry teach us to love hedge funds?

Financial Times

How the SUP went from novelty beach toy to adventurers’ best friend

Financial Times

Skiing’s northern frontier: the wild slopes of Svalbard

Financial Times

Schloss Fuschl: a castle hotel fit for a von Trapp

Financial Times

Boswells, Oxford’s 280-year-old department store, is reborn as a hotel

Financial Times

Inside the elite Swiss school for hotel managers

Financial Times

The perfect Austrian ski resort — and why it’s fighting for survival

Financial Times

The unlikely story behind Soho's most flamboyant hotel

Financial Times

Inside the wild world of superyacht toys

Financial Times

In Menorca, the first ‘private Parador’ opens its doors

Financial Times

Why designer cabins are springing up in a wood near you

Financial Times

Inside Club Med’s vast new ‘ski factory’ in Tignes

Financial Times

The smartest way to the slopes: skiing by Venice Simplon-Orient- Express

Financial Times

Deep snow and dumplings: heli-skiing in Georgia

Financial Times

A night at the restored Battersea Power Station

Financial Times - HTSI

Galápagos now: when a superyacht meets a world heritage site

Financial Times

Beaverbrook Town House and the story of Sloane Street

Financial Times

Legends of the road — Champagne cycling with Eddy Merckx

Financial Times

Could Uzbekistan be skiing’s next big thing?

Financial Times

Can the Costa del Sol package go posh?

Financial Times

Can a dazzling £500m hotel save Leicester Square?

Financial Times

Postcard from a buoyant Isle of Wight

Financial Times

The notorious jail reborn as a luxury hotel

Financial Times

The ski resort with no crowds, no queues — and no lifts

Financial Times

Vroom with a view: a turbocharged tour of Tuscany

Financial Times

The rise of the luxury motorhome

Financial Times

Going nowhere fast: the lockdown boom in virtual cycling

Financial Times

Is Val d’Isère becoming the new Courchevel?

National Geographic Traveller

The mission to save Italy's wild bears

Financial Times

On Zakynthos, a bohemian British beach club grows up

Financial Times

Way off-piste: yacht-skiing in the Arctic

Financial Times

Cycling's next big thing: gravel

Financial Times

The millionaire divorcee who created her dream hotel

Financial Times

Whisky and whales on a Scottish 'sea safari'

Financial Times

Brutal luxury: London's new Standard hotel

Financial Times

Can the new Caledonian Sleeper revive the romance of rail?

Financial Times

Inside Hong Kong's lavish new Rosewood

Financial Times

On board the $1bn cruise ship launched by Malala

Financial Times

Hashtag heaven: inside the world of travel's top Insta-influencer

Financial Times

Everest for the time-pressed executive

Financial Times

Caviar and flatbeds at the business class bazaar

Financial Times

Heckfield Place: inside the UK's most delayed hotel

Financial Times

18 hours, five movies, 9,000 miles. Welcome to ultra-long-haul

National Geographic Traveller

Dark tourism: When tragedy meets tourism

Financial Times

The hotel putting the swing back into Bloomsbury

Financial Times

After the gold rush: heliskiing on the last frontier

Financial Times

Pantelleria: black pearl of the Mediterranean

Financial Times

Riding in the Dolomites with an Italian legend

Financial Times

How a farming community became the world's most luxurious ski resort

Financial Times

Britannia's new wave: Ten Trinity Square reinvents itself as a luxury hotel

Financial Times

Postcard from... The Lower East Side

A brief encounter at Britain's least-used railway station

Financial Times

How the skyscraper shaped Chicago

This divided land: Tintagel and the return of King Arthur

Catch me if you can: cycling with David Millar in Mallorca

A private jet for £100 each way

A bizarre visit to Russia's Olympic ski resort

Bloody mooses and hidden cabins: Skiing British Columbia's fresh frontier

Hotel review: The Pig on the Beach, Dorset

Croatia: A fresh view of the EU's new arrival

Sri Lanka by train: The formerly war-torn north is rebuilding

A couloir safari in the Dolomites

'A good concierge sees everything but holds his tongue'

Returning to my father's favourite resort, 15 years after his death

Is Unesco damaging the world's treasures?

I went on a Disney cruise

Burma back on the map: Tourism returns to South-east Asia's forbidden land

The hitcher: A road less travelled

Simon is an award-winning feature writer in London. Published in The Guardian, the Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, Vogue, GQ. Available for a range of writing work. Formerly a writer and editor at The Independent. A winner and nominee at the Press Awards.

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