There is a particular kind of quiet that freelance journalists know well. It isn’t the peaceful kind. It’s the silence that follows an email pitch you spent hours refining. The one you researched, tailored, proofread, and sent with cautious optimism. The one that now sits unanswered in a client’s inbox while days turn into weeks. That silence has a name: professional ghosting, as David Corfield reflects... Freelancing is built on reaching out. Pitching ideas. Introducing your

Winter has a way of amplifying everything. The cold, the dark, the sense that the year ahead is a steep hill to climb rather than an open road. This year, instead of letting the new-year blues idle unchecked, I found myself in the garage with an old friend: my newly acquired Audi S4 Avant. What started as a practical project to get a tired old car back on the road has quietly become one of the best things I’ve done for my mental health... © 2025 David Corfield There’s somethi

James Johnston talks to David Corfield on life with PJ Harvey, the chaos of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds years, and the unlikely calm of his new career in painting. © 2025 David Corfield James Johnston stands by the tall studio window, the London light spilling across him like paint. Outside, a slate-coloured building looms – the same one immortalized in one of his recent canvases – and he stares at it with the soft concentration of someone who has spent a lifetime studying shapes,

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Much has been written about Sir Don McCullin over the years and I've interviewed him a few times for various magazines. As the BBC...

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