Stan Portus is a writer and editor based in London. 

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Selected writing



Rapha CEO Fran Millar: “We are the originals, we started this”


“Sportswashing pure and simple”: pro-Palestine organisers at La Vuelta explain why they’re disrupting the race

Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst: The Call review

Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent review

Never precious, always impermanent: notes on moving house

‘In the haze and turmoil: Responding to cherrypicker’ in Parallax: Conspiracy Theories, Details, and the Act of Looking Closely

A collision with a car has left me angrier than ever about cycling culture wars

Extinction Rebellion's Tour Down Under protests should be a wake-up call for cycling

Brompton CEO on building a 'green' factory, the contradiction of net-zero and the future of cycling in cities

Is the cycling industry getting real about its environmental impact?

"This is planet-saving stuff right now": Chris Boardman on COP26 & cycling's role in the climate crisis

Desire Discrimination Determination: Dr Marlon Lee Moncrieffe's new book reframes cycling through the history and perspectives of Black cyclists

Cornish Clay, an essay in Ossian Magazine

Eman Ali: Succession review

David Blandy: How to Fly | How to Live review

Elvia Wilk: Oval review

James N. Kienitz Wilkins: This Action Lies review

The Violence of the Family is Eternal: Jean-Baptiste Del Amo’s Animalia review

Consumed: Facing the Underbelly of Western Consumption

Berlinde De Bruyckere: Stages & Tales review

Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World review 

Interview with Mark Jenkin, director of Bait

John Akomfrah: Purple review