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Miles Ellingham

Miles Ellingham is a senior writer for The Observer whose work has appeared in various publications. He is interested in the underside of modern life.

Photo of Miles Ellingham

Miles Ellingham

Miles Ellingham is a senior writer for The Observer whose work has appeared in various publications. He is interested in the underside of modern life.

  • Miles Ellingham
    Canapes at the end of the world

    Miles Ellingham spends a lost week at the Venice Biennale

    Fri, 15 May 2026

  • Miles Ellingham
    How to become a tech bro

    In a new book, the 21-year-old journalist Theo Baker lifts the lid on the lucrative world of clubs, hackathons and venture capitalists that make Stanford University a breeding ground for Silicon Valley billionaires

    Fri, 8 May 2026

  • Miles Ellingham
    At home with Slavoj Žižek

    At 77, the Slovenian philosopher is still the world’s most incorrigible and wayward public intellectual. Miles Ellingham is invited into his home to talk free speech, fascism and farts

    Fri, 10 Apr 2026

  • Miles Ellingham
    Inside the Jeff Koons bubble

    The man who holds the record for the highest price paid at auction for work by a living artist unveils a shiny new Venus in Athens – and answers questions about balloon animals, porn stars and dinner with Jeffrey Epstein

    Sat, 4 Apr 2026

  • Miles Ellingham
    Among the dog people at Crufts

    Meet the 20,000 pedigree pooches, breeders, obsessive owners and fastidious judges at ‘the world’s greatest dog show’

    Sat, 14 Mar 2026

  • Miles Ellingham
    48 hours in... Cádiz

    Soak up the atmosphere in this Andalucían city

    Sun, 1 Feb 2026

  • Miles Ellingham
    On the frontline with London’s Air Ambulance service

    As the capital celebrates Guy Fawkes Night, a rapid-response team awaits the call to come to the aid of the city’s critically injured

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025

  • Miles Ellingham
    My week with the clean-water warriors

    Just Stop Oil activists have moved on to a new campaign: citizen’s arrests of CEOs

    Sat, 25 Oct 2025

  • Miles Ellingham
    Art, raves and four-minute warnings: 24 hours in Kyiv

    How the city’s young are clinging to normality while war rages on

    Fri, 26 Sept 2025

  • Miles Ellingham
    Gilbert and George: ‘No artist of our generation did what we did’

    Impolite, outlandish and determinedly eccentric, the art world’s ‘inside-outers’ have spent 60 years dividing opinion. They share their collective wisdom on love, politics and mortality

    Sun, 21 Sept 2025

  • Miles Ellingham
    Why do fascists love yoga?

    For more than a century, elements of the far-right have been attracted by the rigour of eastern disciplines

    Thu, 24 Jul 2025

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