A new road to riches
In the Autumn of 2021 a shortage of lorry drivers in the UK sent hauliers wages spiralling and I considered a career change In my household, Britain’s HGV crisis has played out as a Dutch auction. A month ago my …
Category: Culture
‘Nordic’ walkout sparks identity crisis
Bright winter sun lit the forest track I was following. In the distance, through the trees, I could see Tirana, miles below. I had the mountainside to myself – or so I thought. Then close behind me an angry shout …
Deflecting bullets should be our priority
WHY THE IFJ AND EFJ SHOULD REMAIN UNITED Last summer I participated in a Zoom call with several Ukrainian journalists who had been helped by an emergency fund established by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional group, …
We must save initiative that gives adults with learning disabilities a voice
Lewisham Speaking Up supporters at a People's Parliament event
People’s Parliament unites and empowers people with learning disabilities to fight for change – we must ensure its survival Article originally published in The Independent, 29 November 2022. Here is a chilling statistic. During the pandemic adults with learning disabilities …
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Info Tsar promises journalists’ fast track
John Edwards, Information Commissioner
It is reassuring to witness John Edwards and Maurice Frankel share a platform and nod over shared understandings. Edwards is the recently-installed Information Commissioner, responsible, among other things, for regulating provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (2000). Frankel has …
Better value journalists for a thriving news media
Striking NUJ journalists picketing the Hull Daily Mail on 31 August 2022.
Originally published in the October 2022 edition of InPublishing magazine. A bright future is within the grasp of the UK’s news media – but it is not assured. It requires imaginative cross-industry effort and resources: fail at this and a …
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Don’t outlaw free speech
Chris Mullin outside the Old Bailey © Tim Dawson
Union pressure is critical to keep journalists free from legislative binds… Read the 9,887 words with which Judge Mark Lucraft upheld Chris Mullin’s right to protect his sources, and one thing shines through. The case law cited will be very …
Truths revealed by the camera’s lies
Opinion column originally published in Amateur Photographer 5 October 2019 Photojournalism succeeds because of its apparent veracity. That ‘the camera doesn’t lie’ is at the heart of the reportage captured through the lens. Of course we know that images can …
English customs reveal Dutch lorry driver’s hidden depths
Reporting for Dutch tv station Omroep Flevoland, I chronicled lorry driver Jelle Post’s, successful bid to explain away the £25 million worth of cocaine and ketamine that found amongst his cargo in July 2020. In Dutch law, the surname of …
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The Letraset Insurectionary
Review of David King Designer Activist Visual Historian, by Rick Poynor Like many1970s teenagers, a postal order dispatched to Finsbury Park, London initiated my engagement with politics. I received by return several sheets of lapel stickers, a poster and some …