[1] Harding was educated at Westminster School in London and then studied anthropology and political science at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

In 2010 the newspaper won a Freedom of Information Act case before the West Virginia Supreme Court, which resulted in referendum petitions being released to it.

[14] Doron Weber of the Washington Post described it as "a fine, brave book, a tough-minded, tender-hearted evocation of a beautiful boy, his all-too-short life and the impact of his death on a loving family.

It is the investigation of the 2006 murder of the London-based author Allan Chappelow and the man found guilty of the crime Wang Yam.

In 2020, Harding released two books for young readers: Future History: 2050 with the German publisher Jacoby & Stuart, and a picture-book adaptation of his 2015 The House by the Lake.

[19] When Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, he started research into Britain's role in slavery.