As a follow up to my July 2025 piece for Inside Housing Management on preparations for Awaab’s Law coming into force, I spoke to housing associations about how it was going four months on.
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Cyberattacks are now an endemic fact of modern digital life. For Inside Housing Management, I looked at how housing associations are responding to this threat.
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For Inside Housing magazine, I wrote about the 1965 Race Relations Act, the first piece of race equality legislation in the UK.
Sixty years ago, a Labour government was facing pressure to restrict migration. Race relations were at a low point following a series of race riots over the preceding years, protests against discrimination and a shock 1964 election defeat in Smethwick, where Conservative candidate Peter Griffiths defeated the incumbent Labour MP using the slogan “if you want a n***** for a neighbour, vote Labour”.
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I wrote for Inside Housing Management about how housing associations are preparing for the introduction of Awaab’s Law, named after Awaab Ishak.
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For Inside Housing I looked at how trauma-informed approaches were being used to address “anti-social behaviour”.
I wrote for the BMJ about proposed regulation of non-clinical managers in the NHS, what it might look like and whether it will be effective.
Developments in AI now mean it is much easier to “fake” a voice and now video of a person. This poses a big fraud challenge for businesses. I looked into the rise of deepfake scams targeting businesses and how they can be prevented for People Management Magazine.
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Back in 2018 I visited Beirut to see friends who lived there and ended up reporting on the Beirut Marathon for the New Humanist and the New Internationalist. Following the invasion of Lebanon and the cancellation of the 2024 marathon, I revisited the story for the New Humanist.
Samir Jeraj - Freelance Journalist 