Selected Articles




Postcard from Portugal, 13/07/12
The FT
RollOnFriday keeps rolling out the laughs, 24/05/12
The Times
Hawaii: Living the dream surfing the Banzai Pipeline, 10/02/12
The Telegraph
Alex Wade's Top 10 Surf Spots, 10/02/12
The Telegraph
In search of War Horse country, 07/01/12
The Times
End of the road for selling victims' cases, 22/09/11
The Times
The surf school helping ex-servicemen ride a wave of recovery, 09/09/11
The Guardian
Cornwall: Make the most of Summer!, 31/07/11
The Independent on Sunday

The Saturday Interview: Jean Shrimpton, 30/04/11

The Guardian

Tim Smit: the Eden Project's impassioned gardener, 11/03/11
The Guardian

Poetry in motion. Or Cornwall on two wheels, 09/01/11

The Independent on Sunday
Gourmet surfing: hold the pinny, there's a big wave coming, 12/09/10
The Independent on Sunday
The Walk File, Mousehole, Cornwall, 11/09/10
The FT
10 Coastal Picnics, 31/07/10
The Times
The Walk File: Woodford Valley, Wilts, 24/07/10
The FT

The Walk File: Sancreed, Cornwall, 01/05/10
The FT
The Walk File: Cerne Abbas, Dorset, 16/04/10
The FT
The Walk File: Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, 27/03/10
The FT
Surfing Europe's first artificial reef, 20/03/10
The FT

Better Skate than Never,17/01/09
The FT
St Ives to Penzance with Alex Wade, 06/12/08
The FT
Alex Wade And Son Get Stoked In West Cornwall,16/08/08
The FT







My Weekend: Mark Whittell: The Times Online, 05/11/2007
My Weekend: Jim Mottram: The Times Online, 26/10/2007
Why pay for one and not the other?: The Sunday Times, 21/10/2007
My Weekend: Stephen Hindmarsh: The Times Online, 19/10/2007
My Weekend: John Arnold: The Times Online, 12/10/2007
My Weekend: Philip Bellamy: The Times Online, 08/10/2007
My Weekend: Wendy Brown: The Times Online, 28/09/2007
My Weekend: Paul Smith: The Times Online, 21/09/2007
My Weekend: Bree Corrigan: The Times Online, 13/09/2007
My Weekend: Andy Booth: The Times Online, 07/09/2007
My Weekend: Janette Howells: The Times Online, 31/08/2007
My Weekend: Peter Luther: The Times Online, 24/08/2007
My Weekend: Julia Wood: The Times Online, 17/08/2007
The world's strangest laws: The Times Online, 15/08/2007
A swell day out for all the family: The Times Online, 11/08/2007
My Weekend: Giles Crown: The Times Online, 10/08/2007
British surfing's great white hope: The Times Online, 5/08/2007
My Weekend: Tim Polding: The Times Online, 03/08/2007
My Weekend: Ian Fagelson: The Times Online, 27/07/2007
My Weekend: Adam Taylor: The Times Online, 20/07/2007
Best of British Surfing: The Times Online, 13/07/2007
My Weekend: Roger Grove: The Times Online, 03/07/2007
My Weekend: David Gordon: The Times Online, 06/07/2007
My Weekend: Mark Warby, QC: The Times Online, 29/06/2007
My Weekend: Roger Field: The Times Online, 22/06/2007
My Weekend: Richard Butcher: The Times Online, 15/06/2007

My Weekend: Nigel Winter: The Times Online, 08/06/2007

My Weekend: Paul Lambdin: The Times Online, 01/06/2007

My Weekend: Michael Frawley: The Times Online, 25/05/2007

My Weekend: Ian Rosenblatt: The Times Online, 18/05/2007

My Weekend: Julian Heathcote Hobbins: The Times Online, 11/05/2007

My Weekend: Kevin Smith: The Times Online, 04/05/2007

My Weekend:Lucy Riley: The Times Online, 27/04/2007

A miserable World Cup for England, but the lawyers have done very well: The Sunday Times, 26/04/2007

Out of Office AutoReply...Im surfing the Severn Bore: The Sunday Times, 22/04/2007

My Weekend:Richard Taylor: The Times Online, 20/04/2007

My Weekend:Donald Stewart: The Times Online, 13/04/2007

My Weekend:Lucy Robson: The Times Online, 05/04/2007

My Weekend:May Looi: The Times Online, 30/03/2007

Sharks in the courtroom, sharks at the table: Why lawyers are drawn to poker: The Times Online, 16/03/2007
Riding the waves of hostility: The Times, 03/03/2007
Getting my hand bitten off by the Snarler: The Sunday Times, 07/01/2007
Out of Office AutoReply...I’m climbing Mont Blanc: The Sunday Times, 24/12/2006
Keep it up, lad (or perhaps not): The Sunday Times, 24/12/2006
Who thought we'd turn out all right: The Sunday Times, 03/12/2006
Playing a life of two halves: The Times, 17/10/2006
It beats the hell out of a day job: The Sunday Times, 17/09/2006
Art and the law: more than just a good investment: The Times, 05/09/2006
Pure power in the punches (book review): The Times, 26/08/2006
Why it's important to learn how to drop in when you're dropping out: The Times, 15/08/2006
Beach can be heart-breaker: The Sunday Times, 30/07/2006
Surfers let it rip: The Sunday Times, 30/07/2006
Creating stories: do all writers reinterpret and retell?: The Times, 14/03/2006
The dangers of buying a fake alibi on the net: The Times, 14/02/2006
Privacy at a price: The Guardian, 30/01/2006
Surf’s up in Cook Country: The Independent on Sunday, 15/01/2006
The dark ghost in Ali's corner: The Times, 07/01/2006
Making waves: The Independent, 28/11/2005
Do our libel laws work?: The Times, 22/11/2005
Resilient Reading ride out the storm: The Times, 07/11/2005
Central America: It's a jungle out there: The Independent on Sunday, 23/10/2005
Plymouth find a way through the fog to move off the bottom: The Times, 03/10/2005
Zen and the art of wave riding: The Independent on Sunday, 02/10/205
Chairman sees himself as agent for QPR revival: The Times, 30/09/2005
Lies, lies, all lies: The Independent on Sunday, 28/08/2005
Gentle sex, my ass: The Times, 20/08/2005
Surfing is taking Cornwall by storm - and it's big business, too: The Telegraph, 29/07/2005
It's a knockout: take a ringside seat for the best view of New York: The Independent on Sunday, 26/06/2005
Jury's prudence: The Guardian, 14/06/2005
Masters criminals: The Guardian, 24/05/2005
As absurd as you can get: The Guardian, 10/05/2005
Media rights? Pre-nup? New wills . . . it's a royal headache: The Times, 15/02/2005
Mr Ambassador, with this you are spoiling us: The Independent on Sunday, 16/01/2005
Science on trial: The Guardian, 28/09/2004
In the red corner - why the land of the eagles breeds true raging bulls: The Independent on Sunday, 06/06/2004
The land of the fee: The Independent, 24/05/2004
A delicate case for the modern-day Solomons: The Times, 23/03/2004
The wrong side of the track: The Independent, 15/03/2004
Love lifts us up to where we belong - a couple's guide to mountaineering: The Independent on Sunday, 08/02/2004
Ice axe optional. Maybe: The Independent, 31/01/2004
What it takes to shine with the stars: The Times, 20/01/2004
Essentially Spanish - Away from the multicultural costas of the South, Spain's Atlantic coast remains a firm favourite with the Spanish: Living Spain, Jan/Feb 2004
Death of a writ master: The Independent, 30/12/2003
Obituary: Peter Carter-Ruck: The Independent, 22/12/2003
When justice is caught napping: The Guardian, 16/12/2003
The laws of the game: The Independent, 02/12/2003
A Sea Of Troubles: The Independent on Sunday, 30/11/2003
'Even when she was being nice I felt terrified': The Guardian, 25/11/2003
'I fight cases, not causes': The Independent, 04/11/2003
When will the world take a hard line on drugs?: The Times, 28/10/2003
He's a New York judge, and he really knows how to hand out punishment: The Times, 21/10/2003
Go to the bottom of the deep blue sea: The Independent on Sunday, 19/10/2003
Is Vodafone on a sticky wicket over Zimbabwe?: The Times, 14/10/2003
Briton joins foreign legion: The Times, 14/10/2003
One man's scandal is another's access to libel justice: The Times, 30/09/2003
Publish and be vetted: The Guardian, 29/09/2003
I must go down to the sea again - to swim, pedal and run until I drop: The Independent on Sunday, 21/09/2003
Was the Iraq war illegal?: The Guardian, 16/09/2003
Lords Of The Ring (by Courtney Rubin): Time Magazine, 14/09/2003
Big Man Who Punches His Weight For Charity: The Times, 23/08/2003
And Now It's Payback Time: The Independent, 12/08/2003
What's so special about Tarifa? The answer is blowing in the wind...: The Independent on Sunday, 10/08/2003
Private Lives: The Independent, 24/06/2003
Estelle The Actuary Squares Up To Ann: The Independent on Sunday, 22/06/2003
How much fun is Europe's extreme sports capital? Let's ask the children...: The Independent on Sunday, 15/06/2003
Justice in the dark: The Guardian, 10/06/2003
Ready for Rach 3: The Guardian, 16/05/2003
Boxing Clever: The Independent, 13/05/2003
Can you own an idea?: The Guardian, 06/05/2003
OK! Perhaps it was Hello! that won the battle, but lost the war: The Times, 15/04/2003
Formats for success: The Guardian, 05/04/2003
Hey, that's my idea: The Guardian, 01/04/2003
The untouchables: The Guardian, 31/03/2003
A declaration of liability?: The Guardian, 17/02/2003
This Europe: Albania: The Independent, 13/02/2003
Free press makes full use of lax libel laws: The Independent, 13/02/2003
Albania: On The Wild Side: The Independent, 12/02/2003
The Terrier All Set To Be The New Graveney: The Independent, 02/02/2003
Could bookmakers be out of the running?: The Times, 28/01/2003
Albania - it's a jungle out there: The Times, 17/01/2003
Pecs And The City Packs A Punch With Businessmen: The Times, 11/01/2003
Light Entertainment. Atlantic winds and waves have created a unique and little explored costa in southern Spain. Alex Wade shares a beach with his family on the Costa de la Luz: Living Spain, Jan/Feb 2003
The odd bit of rain never hurt anyone: The Independent on Sunday, 27/10/2002
Message on phone texting: your next one may be a libel: The Times, 17/09/2002
What's the best way to climb Mont Blanc?: The Independent on Sunday, 11/08/2002
Great view. Shame about the unexploded artillery shells: The Independent on Sunday, 14/04/2002