Archive for the ‘articles’ Category

Greens and rural elections

Posted: October 10, 2024 in articles, environment

I wrote for the Green European Journal about the challenges and opportunities for Green Parties seeking to win national elections in rural areas.

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For the British Medical Journal, I looked into the system for issuing “prevention of future deaths” reports by coroners, and what impact these really have.

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This was a fun piece to write for Digital Frontier. I’ve always been fascinated by the glimpses we’re still getting into the ancient world whenever, and with the growing power of AI tools it seems that we are likely to be able to reconstruct more. I looked at what this could mean for our understanding of ancient music.

The article is paywalled.

Article on poverty and GPs

Posted: March 14, 2024 in articles, housing

Levels of poverty are rising in the UK due to the cost of living crisis. As a result, the pressure on GPs has grown. I wrote this feature for the British Medical Journal about what that looks like for practices and what it means for the profession.

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Article on Islamophobia

Posted: March 12, 2024 in articles

Islamophobia is a growing challenge in Europe. Ahead of the European Elections, I wrote for the Green European Journal about how Green politics and politicians are approaching the issue.

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I looked into the restrictions on the “right to work” for asylum seekers in the UK for The Lead.

The skilled workers the Home Office doesn’t want you to know about

Life the ban on work, migrant groups tell Cleverly

This was a great project to work on, looking at the impact of ransomware on private companies. The content comprised a long read, three short features and a stats package.

Tomislav Tomašević was elected on a grassroots reform wave, I interviewed him and spoke to people around him about how his history of youth and environmental activism has informed his administration.

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For Euronews I wrote about the EU’s emerging gender-based violence policy.

“On New Year’s Day this year, three women were found dead in different parts of France. All had been killed in the previous 24 hours by their partners. The brutal murders prompted a wave of protest and outcry that, in 2022 in one of the richest countries of the world, the government had failed to tackle femicide.”

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My second piece for Euronews, this time on how EU law is helping to protect forests threatened by the combination of eroding democratic freedoms and the money that can be earned from logging.

At the beginning of the year, Poland started cutting a swathe through one of Europe’s most ancient forests, Białowieża, to block refugees with a 190-kilmometre wall along its border with Belarus.

“It’s five, almost six meters high. It goes down with concrete that is underground. And it has razor wire on the top,” said Augustyn Mikos from the environmental organisation Workshop For all Beings, one that has frequently come into conflict with the Polish government’s forestry policies.

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