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Matthew Engel’s first newspaper article was a paragraph about a small fire in a barn that appeared in the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph in 1971. He was advised to praise the efficiency of the fire brigade, so they would continue to hand out information.

In the years since then, he has had one of the most varied and unusual careers in British journalism, mainly for The Guardian and now the Financial Times, covering sport, politics and many of the great global events of our time.

Most of his latest FT pieces can be found here.

In the winter of 2010-11 he was in Australia, reporting on England’s triumphs in the Ashes, including their great victories in Melbourne and Sydney.

He came back to earth by observing Tony Blair’s latest appearance at the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War.