Mick Hamer is an award-winning journalist, author and musician. He has been a freelance journalist for more than 45 years. For most of this time he was New Scientist’s transport correspondent. In 2001 he was short-listed in the Syngenta science writing awards. In May 2018 his book A Most Deliberate Swindle was named popular transport book of the year. He is currently working on an exposé of a dirty tricks campaign that killed off the British tram. This will be published later this year. Watch this space.
You’ll find a bit more about his journalism on the telling tales drop down menu. Elsewhere on this site you’ll also find a brief biography and a small select collection of old articles.
Mick lives in Brighton and has another life moonlighting as a jazz pianist. You can find his music website here.