FT Weekend cover story on trauma
Here is a story I wrote the FT Weekend in which I argue that we need to embrace a far wider and more profound…
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Do magic mushrooms work better than Prozac?
I’m fascinated by the ‘psychedelic renaissance’: here’s a story I wrote for Ozy about Rosalind Watts, a clinical psychologist heading a new trail to…
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Talking to CNN’s Rosemary Church about the sex scandal in the aid industry
My interview w/journalist & author @Matthew__Green who has been covering the shocking scandal that’s exposed sex abuse at #Oxfam & other #NGOs https://t.co/ebKZsP45mn —…
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FT Weekend cover story on the Oxfam scandal
My take for FT Weekend on the sex scandal rocking the aid industry.
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A story for the New Statesman on the future of the NHS
A longread for the New Statesman on the future of the NHS.
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A radical therapy for treating the ‘untreatable’ victims of trauma
This is a cover story I wrote for Newsweek on the work of Lisa Schwarz, a psychologist I met while researching Aftershock, and who appears in…
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Ice and isolation in the Karakoram
Here is a story I wrote for The Financial Times about Karakoram: Tour operators are hoping trekkers will return to northern Pakistan after the…
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The Black Fish: undercover with the vigilantes fighting organised crime at sea
Here is a story I wrote for the Guardian about Illegal fishing and those who fight it: Illegal fishing controlled by organised crime is…
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The struggle Pakistan does not want reported
Hundreds of people have vanished, suffered torture or died in a little-known separatist conflict Abdul Razzaq Baloch worked nights. After dinner, he would start…
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Stalking the Taliban’s banker
Washington is trying to starve the insurgency of funds before handing over to Afghan forces in 2014 Haji Khairullah Barakzai is the ultimate Afghan…
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