Mick HamerMick Hamer has been a freelance journalist for more than 40 years, writing mostly for Fleet Street papers and newsstand magazines. For most of this time he was New Scientist’s transport consultant. In 2001 he was shortlisted in the Syngenta science witing awards. His last book, A Most Deliberate Swindle, was named popular transport book of the year in 2018 by the Railway and Canal Historical Society. Transport has been the focus of much of his journalism. He covered the public inquiries into the King’s Cross Fire, the Clapham train crash and the Zeebrugge ferry disaster for several national media organisations, including ITN and the Evening Standard. Before taking up journalism he was Friends of the Earth’s first transport campaigner. In 1977 he became the first director of Transport 2000,  and he later had a spell at the Transport Research Group at University College, London. He lives in Brighton and Hove and has another life moonlighting as a jazz pianist. Read More Read Less