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Tom Lamont

Tom Lamont is a freelance writer for the Guardian and the Observer. Twitter @tomlamont

December 2024

  • John Burton, next to Hyperia, the rollercoaster he co-designed at Thorpe Park. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK’s fastest thrill-ride – podcast

  • Jeff Goldblum portrait with orange flowers. Photographer: David Vintiner

    Weekend
    Revisited: actor Jeff Goldblum, eccentric as ever at 71; and America’s top pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world – podcast

November 2024

  • Illustration: Ben the Illustrator

    The Audio Long Read
    10 years of the long read: The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground (2020) – podcast

    This week from 2020: After decades among the hidden homeless, Dominic Van Allen dug himself a bunker beneath a public park. But his life would get even more precarious. By Tom Lamont

October 2024

  • John Burton, next to Hyperia, the rollercoaster he co-designed at Thorpe Park.

    The long read
    The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK’s fastest thrill-ride

    The long read: John Burton was just 27 when he was put in charge of creating Thorpe Park’s biggest-ever project. Once too scared to go on rides himself, how did he become the architect of so many daredevils’ dreams?

September 2024

  • An illustration of a man with most of his face obscured by a hoodie, sitting at a table with a pint of beer and a football-shaped crystal ball in front of him

    Pore over data, obsess about football – and trust your gut: how to become the best Fantasy Premier League manager in the world

  • Tom Lamont with a partial view of his son sitting on his shoulders

    Dadhood and me: how becoming a father made me reflect on my own childhood

August 2024

  • Jeff Goldblum photographed in London June, 2024. Photographer: David Vintiner Photographer's assistants: Adam Orzechowski and Kristina Salgvik Stylist: Andrew T. Vottero Sittings Editor: Helen Seamons Grooming: Gareth Bromell at A Frame agency using Sisley Paris and 111skin Set design and build by wyliewood.co.uk All clothes prada.com

    ‘It’s foolish to mask your age. Accept it. Present it’: Jeff Goldblum on vanity, mortality and becoming a father in his 60s

  • Jeff Goldblum smiling, behind a table full of orange flowers

    Weekend
    Jeff Goldblum, eccentric as ever at 71; the fallacy of ‘tradwives’; and ‘My dying wife found me a girlfriend’ – podcast

July 2024

  • Clockwise from top left: Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis, Lauryn Hill of the Fugees, Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta in Grease, DJ Jazzy Jeff (right) and the Fresh Prince (AKA Jeffrey A Townes and Will Smith).

    CDs sales are growing. How I wish I hadn’t given my beloved collection away

    Compact discs provided the soundtrack to his life. Then came streaming and he couldn’t get rid of them fast enough. As CDs enjoy a renaissance, our writer looks back at what he lost
  • Writer Tom Lamont sitting in a garden, July 2024

    ‘There are lots of us who hover on margins, who are not quickly definable’: my life as a so-called ‘stealth Jew’

    It’s a complicated time to be Jewish – even more so if your heritage is not instantly obvious to others
  • Chris Buck Kevin Bacon DSF5424 V3

    Weekend
    Actor Kevin Bacon on learning selflessness, the secret lives of porn addicts, and what’s it like to be a private tutor for the rich? – podcast

    The actor Kevin Bacon, Hollywood’s great survivor, discusses his band, politics, family, embracing change and learning selflessness; as pornography use soars, some men feel their behaviour is moving from a compulsion to an addiction; and, last week, a job advert emerged for a private tutor to an architecture student with potential earnings of more than £2m: one man who has worked with wealthy families describes what it takes.

June 2024

  • Kevin Bacon, in a pale blue shirt, arms and hands resting on a table next to his black-framed glasses

    ‘You have to get over the me thing’: Kevin Bacon on money, marriage – and learning to live with himself

  • All at sea – or not? … books on fatherhood.

    Five of the best
    Five of the best books about fatherhood

February 2024

  • An illustration of a circuit board dotted with small fires, bombs and comic-book-style ‘BOOM!’s

    Life, unplugged: a no-tech special
    ‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’: meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse

    From the academic who warns of a robot uprising to the workers worried for their future – is it time we started paying attention to the tech sceptics?

January 2024

  • Kingley Ben-Adir shot for OM - tiff files not for use on web

    ‘Thank God I asked for a singing teacher!’: Kingsley Ben-Adir on bringing Bob Marley to life

    It was always going to be a dream gig. Here, the actor talks about perfecting his patois, the power of authenticity and what he learned working on the Barbie set
  • Peter Capaldi, head and shoulder shot, holding his hand to his mouth and looking up; wearing a black jacket and brown shirt

    ‘The government has been too terrible to make fun of’: Peter Capaldi on satire, politics and privilege

    He brought an unhinged fury to The Thick of It and played a stern Doctor Who. Peter Capaldi talks about his new role as an ageing DCI, his Weinstein encounter – and why recent governments have been so incompetent he can’t even make jokes about them
  • Tom Lamont’s old toys lined up against a blue background: Captain America, Skeletor, Swamp Thing, Chainsaw from Robocop, Matt Tracker from Mask, Lothar from Defenders of the Earth, Mother-1 from the Bionic Six, Mekaneck from He-Man and Crusty Crab from Battle Beasts

    First Barbie then … Boglins? My quest to find a superstar in my bag of old toys

    With studios desperate for other franchises to exploit, I wondered about the toys I’d kept from my childhood – could there be hidden gold among my obscure action figures?

September 2023

  • The hands of war-gamers sitting around a table with maps on it

    What would happen if Russia invaded Finland? I went to a giant war game in London to find out

  • Illustration for long read about hidden homeless people - 'the invisible city'

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground – podcast

August 2023

  • Fish and chips at the Anstruther Fish Bar. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    A funeral for fish and chips: why are Britain’s chippies disappearing? – podcast

    Plenty of people will tell you the East Neuk of Fife in Scotland is the best place in the world to eat fish and chips. So what happens when its chippies – and chippies across the UK – start to close?
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