I’m an award-winning journalist covering sustainability and human rights. I have experience in news and investigations, and have written for the Guardian, Observer, Al Jazeera, openDemocracy, and the New Statesman, among others. I have a Master’s in Human Rights Law and have worked on campaigns and investigative research projects for a number of non-profits.
Reporting
- Most of my current work is here.
- 4/07/2025: Exclusive: UK leaves the market open to conflict minerals
- Lexology PRO, 14/03/2025: Exclusive: Oil giants and banks get seat at the table for private meetings on EU Omnibus
- openDemocracy, 12/07/23: Thousands of couples face “humiliating” sham marriage checks
- The Government is facing legal action over automated system that decides on investigations, with discriminatory outcomes.
- Observer, 26/02/23: Surge in number of Britons fighting to hold onto their citizenship
- openDemocracy, 23/02/23: Revealed: Home Office paying asylum seekers £1 an hour to clean detention centres
- Bristol Cable, 15/02/23: Exclusive: Police paying out damages to protestors in hundreds of claims
- openDemocracy, 13/12/22: Revealed: Police may be assessing climate protesters for terrorism
- openDemocracy, 19/10/22: Revealed: Police began monitoring ‘social justice’ activity after BLM protests
- Observer, 21/08/22: Police call monitoring could deny help to people in mental health crisis
- Al Jazeera, 06/15/22: UK wrongfully deported dozens over five years: Official data
- openDemocracy: 16/6/22: Two years on £38 a week: life inside the UK’s trafficking support system
- Huck Magazine: 1/6/22: Immigration raids are being carried out with impunity
- The Guardian, 05/01/22: Immigration officers placed in 25 local authorities by Home Office, FoI reveals
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