Simon Usborne


Freelance feature writer and reporter.

Sunday Times Magazine
This puppy could save your life. Will science ever stop experimenting on animals?
The Guardian
‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right
Telegraph Magazine
Six days in the Suez Canal: The inside story of a maritime catastrophe
Telegraph Magazine
The robot dogs burying Sellafield’s nuclear waste
The Guardian
He worked with artificial limbs for decades. Then a lorry ripped off his right arm. What happened when the expert became the patient?
Financial Times
How to climb Everest in a week
The Guardian
When historians and directors clash: ‘Ridley Scott was Napoleonic – there was no doubt who was in charge’
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’
The Guardian
‘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
Financial Times
My moment on the Tour de France’s greatest stage
Financial Times
Aboard the Orient Express Corinthian — the world’s biggest sailing ship
Financial Times
Let it grow — the new Frozen fantasyland at Disneyland Paris
Financial Times
A trail of two cities: cycling London to Paris off-road
Financial Times
As the Olympics return, Cortina hopes for a new golden age
Financial Times
My day trip to medieval England
Financial Times
The Netflix tycoon, his private resort — and the future of skiing

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.


simon@susborne.com