Samuel Fishwick is a staff writer at the Evening Standard. He covers the weird and wonderful within the M25. His work includes a series during the coronavirus pandemic exploring London after lockdown and regular contributions to the Evening Standard’s comment pages as a columnist. He was born in London, and has been there ever since....
Samuel Fishwick is a staff writer at the Evening Standard. He covers the weird and wonderful within the M25. His work includes a series during the coronavirus pandemic exploring London after lockdown and regular contributions to the Evening Standard’s comment pages as a columnist. He was born in London, and has been there ever since.
First there was cage fighting. Now consenting adults are slapping each other — really, really hard. Samuel Fishwick investigates whether London is ready for this strange phenomenon…
She was the Silicon Valley poster girl with a $9 billion company who charmed everyone from Bill Clinton to Henry Kissinger. Her downfall was vertiginous. As she’s sentenced to over 11 years for fraud, Samuel Fishwick asks: who is the real Elizabeth Holmes?
From France and Italy to Sweden, more and more far right parties are seemingly coming out of nowhere and finding support and success. Could it ever happen in the UK? Samuel Fishwick investigates
Fans are practically hyperventilating at the imminent release of The Car. Samuel Fishwick charts the rise of a reluctant rock ‘n’ roll superstar
When Bukayo Saka pulls on the England jersey in Qatar next month, the whole planet will be watching his extraordinary talent. Samuel Fishwick discovers that he’s an incredibly nice, down-to-earth human being to boot
Once strictly science fiction, the reality of a human-machine hybrid could be less than 10 years away. An unnerved Samuel Fishwick reports from an augmented future
On a hilltop on the border of Tuscany and Umbria, Samuel Fishwick found the perfect honeymoon spot
As Top Gun: Maverick garners some of Tom Cruise’s greatest reviews in decades, Samuel Fishwick paints a picture of the last truly unknowable movie star
Are you ready for the ultimate trip? Get saving now because in a future not so far, far away space travel will no longer be science fiction. Samuel Fishwick explores the final frontier in luxury tourism
He’s the hard-right nationalist prime minister who thrills in scrapping with Brussels, leaving Ukraine in the lurch and thumbing his nose at the liberal order. Samuel Fishwick reports on ‘Putin’s poodle’ who’s just won for more years
Hard as it might be to believe, there’s more to do in the good weather than grabbing a pint outside the pub
The streamer’s new documentary on the activist group falls victim to the fact that, though perfectly right, they’re also incredibly annoying
Perhaps unsurprisingly, The Donald’s Truth Social app has already been derided as a farce. But should we really be writing him and it off, asks Samuel Fishwick
Vladimir Putin’s foreign minister has denied Russia attacked Ukraine and threatened nuclear Armageddon. Who is the man sent out to defend the indefensible?
US astronaut Mark Vande Hei has become a pawn in a major intergalactic battle where rules of engagement are complex and political. Samuel Fishwick on the race for peace in the cosmos
Fashion mavens Olivia von Halle and Daisy Hoppen are among a glossy posse of Kensington residents fighting developers felling trees in the leafy west London suburb. Samuel Fishwick reports
The £200 device is the only way fans will be able to listen to Ye’s new album, Donda 2. Samuel Fishwick talks to the men behind the tech
