In season now: what to eat during May
This article first appeared in the Ecologist on 30 April 2012. Bank holiday weekends are becoming a regular occurrence and with the weather (hopefully) improving, it’s time to get out and explore. For...
View ArticleWorld Naked Bike Ride: a protest with a difference
This article first appeared in the Ecologist on 27 April 2012. A group of naked strangers cycling through a city centre is going to turn heads. Every year across the UK World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR),...
View ArticleThe dark side of soya: how one supercrop lost its way
This article was first published in the Ecologist on 1 May 2012. Once credited with power to prevent cancer and combat high cholesterol, over the last few years, evidence that soya is far from a...
View ArticleHow to…give your cocktail a green-over
This article first appeared in the Ecologist on 8 May 2012. Shaken or stirred, recreating the bar experience at home is becoming ever more popular as the economic downturn makes staying in the new...
View ArticleAre quotas the answer?
This was originally written as a university assignment and aimed at Press Gazette. Hundreds of journalists in Germany have called for gender quotas in top media jobs. Women in the UK media give their...
View ArticleCarry on Cwtching
This article first appeared in the June/July 2012 issue Red Pepper magazine. In January, a fledgling community group opened the first in a series of squatted social centres in Swansea. Naming...
View ArticleRaising the curtain on Atos
This article first appeared on the New Internationalist website on 31 July 2012. A cockroach, a tapeworm, herpes, a blood-sucking leech – just some of the terms used to describe Atos Healthcare by...
View ArticleSOS Dairy: British farmers against throwaway prices
This article first appeared on the New Internationalist website on 10 August 2012. Photo thanks to markhillary. Fairtrade is typically seen as something done by the West for the ‘developing world’,...
View ArticleGiving A-toss about disability
This article first appeared on the New Internationalist website. As the end of the London Paralympic Games draws closer, the legacy of the event for the disabled community is on the agenda. Will the...
View ArticleCameroon’s women call time on breast ironing
This article was originally published in the May 2013 New Internationalist magazine… When paediatrician Tamara Bugembe was first forwarded the email about ‘breast ironing’, she shuddered. But she...
View ArticleBeyond burnout: the mental health costs of activism
This article was originally published in the May 2014 issue of New Internationalist magazine. In 2009, the Iranian Green Movement became headline news as millions of people took to the streets to...
View ArticleRecent writing
This week I had a couple of posts published on the Transition Free Press blog: Real Media conference celebrates independent journalism about the new campaign and network to support and promote...
View ArticleNo justice, no peace: Black liberation movements
I’m really excited that the magazine on Black Lives Matter, race and activism which I guest edited for New Internationalist is out now. It’s been a long time dream of mine to edit an issue of New...
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