I’m teaching university students how to write features, so I may as well write about it. ‘In journalism a feature, like a news story, aims to inform, but it may also narrate, describe, explain, persuade, or entertain, and sometimes all five. It may aim to inspire or stimulate the reader…

I went to Sicily with my partner from the start of August to the start of September 2020. This was after the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic had subsided, so things had opened back up, and the Italian tourist industry was figuring out how to cope with the new…

The COP26 climate conference starts in 10 days time, and governments are failing to meet the scale of the challenge to stop the climate crisis. As the world’s population has grown to around 7.8 billion people, greenhouse gas emissions have exploded. The task of creating a society in which so…

‘Clegg insisted individuals were responsible for their own actions on 6 January, and would not say if he believed Facebook bore any responsibility for amplifying toxic messaging such as Donald Trump’s baseless claims of a stolen election.’ Guardian, 10 October 2021 Neoliberal capitalism is fundamentally individualist in its concentration on…

In the case of E.S. v. Austria (2018), the European Court of Human Rights upheld the decision of an Austrian court to fine a woman who gave seminars for the far-right Austrian Freedom Party, in which she called the Prophet Mohammed a paedophile and suggested that all Muslim men were…

Covering a developing situation like the earthquake today in Turkey is an immediate process of finding media, verifying it to the best of your ability and publishing it on the media platform you work for as soon as you can. It’s hard to think about the future repurcussions of an…