‘What kind of people do they think we are?’

James Meek: On Social Housing, 10 September 2026

... led by, among others, a former adviser to Boris Johnson and the former head of policy at the Adam Smith Institute, cited the case as proof that ‘it is too hard to build things’ in the UK. In an op-ed for City AM Jeremy Driver, Britain Remade’s head of campaigns, said the cost of property had forced him to leave Peckham, where he had lived for nine ...

The Satoshi Affair

Andrew O’Hagan, 30 June 2016

... of the word ‘bloody’. He then named a 23-year-old Trinity College Dublin graduate student, Michael Clear, who quickly denied it. The story went nowhere and Clear went back to his studies. Then Leah McGrath Goodman wrote a piece for Newsweek claiming Satoshi was a maths genius called Dorian Nakamoto, who lived in the Californian suburb of Temple City ...

The Tower

Andrew O’Hagan, 7 June 2018

... were growing up, the only old framed photograph my brothers and I ever saw was of my grandfather Michael, a hero of the Second World War. And that’s always the way he was described to us, a war hero, the man who tried to save his Glasgow compatriots on HMS Forfar when it was struck by two torpedoes in December 1940. Except that story wasn’t true ...