Month: October 2015

  • Richard Beeston Bursary 2015

    I’m thrilled to have been awarded the 2015 Richard Beeston Bursary. Set up last year, the award is for a young British journalist to spend six weeks abroad, researching and…

  • Karachi Vice

    Earlier this year, I travelled to Karachi (where I lived in 2012) to spend some time with the city’s crime reporters. This is one of the most crime-ridden cities in…

  • Saudi suffragettes

    In Saudi Arabia, women will soon be able to vote for the first time in the country’s history. They can take part in the forthcoming municipal elections both as voters…

  • A deadly battle of ideas

    The full length version of my report on the violence against atheists in Bangladesh, which appeared on the cover of the Autumn New Humanist, is now online. A shorter version…

  • Bangladeshi secularists under attack

    So far this year, four atheist writers in Bangladesh have been brutally murdered, hacked to death on the streets. They are the latest victims in a line of violent attacks…

  • UK politics and the refugee crisis: some recent work

    Time to share some links to recent pieces from various corners of the internet. One of the subjects I’ve recently been most interested in – along with many other journalists…