I love telling true stories about big ideas and the people whose lives are shaped by them
- “Look they’re getting skin!” are we right to save the world’s tiniest babies? (The Guardian) Doctors are pushing the limits of science and human biology to save more extremely premature babies than ever before. But when so few survive, are we putting them through needless suffering?
- “Sam Bankman-Fried and the Effective Altruism Delusion” (New Statesman) Will the idealist philosophy survive the conviction of its crypto king?
- “The reckoning: rape culture and the crisis in British schools” (New Statesman cover story) After Scarlett Mansfield collated 200 accounts of sexual harassment, inspectors put her former school on notice. Could it be the first of many?
- “The voice in your head” New Statesman How a movement of people who hear voices is reshaping our understanding of mental illness – and consciousness itself.
- Inside the UK hotel that became home to 150 refugees New Statesman The Koofi family were airlifted to safety in August 2021. This is their story – and that of thousands like them.
- Mourning and Melancholia (New Statesman cover story) Why the Covid pandemic is the biggest hit to mental health since the Second World War
- Are you mentally ill, or very unhappy? Psychiatrists can’t agree (New Statesman) As rates of diagnosis rise, a fierce debate rages in psychiatry. Are we experiencing a parallel pandemic, or having a rational response to a traumatic world?