[3] He has worked as the editor for the Belief section of The Guardian's Comment is Free, which won a Webby under his leadership,[4] and is currently a leader writer and member of the paper's editorial board.
Fishing in Utopia (2008) won the Orwell Prize and was nominated for the Dolman Best Travel Book Award in 2009.
"[7] He has written that he is "constantly astonished by the way in which the Church of England contains such a large number of clever, learned and dedicated people giving their lives to an institution that is none of those things."
'"[7][8] Brown has criticised Richard Dawkins for what he calls the cult of personality that has grown around him and his positions.
[10][11] In September 2019, Private Eye magazine named Brown as the author of an editorial in The Guardian newspaper about former British prime minister David Cameron.
The article provoked outrage across the political spectrum, and the paper later said the piece "fell far short of our standards.