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- A full archive of my articles on global development, health and inequality for the International Reporting Project.
- On lies, liberation and Liberty (written for human rights/civil liberties organisation Liberty)
- When it comes to global health you need human resources to save human lives and Taking action on the global health worker crisis
- Nutrition and maternal, newborn and child health: joining the dots
- When free universal healthcare isn't free or universal: a case study from Burkina Faso
- Cutting us down to size: working to end female genital mutilation and The Cut: elders, daughters, health workers and activists talk about FGM in rural Kenya
- The Saudi women laughing in the face of inequality at home and ignorance abroad
- Syrian exodus: health, help, hypocrisy
- Healing the problem of flying toilets: solutions for tackling drought in Africa
- The power of simplicity: reducing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone and Burundi
- Persephone Speaks: the forgotten women of Bosnia
- World hunger: time is running out
- Women, war and peace: what we can all learn from the Zimbabwean women fighting violence as elections approach
- Outsourced labour: on the Indian international surrogacy trade
- The road to revolution, from street protestors to the Muslim Brotherhood, fiction to reportage, nonviolence to violence: Ahdaf Soueif on the Egyptian activism of the past, present and future
- A network world? Political protest in the middle east and the UK
- Help the mother, help the child, secure the future: maternal health in India
- Ghost towns and checkpoints: Palestine and military occupation
- You can't hold the developing world to ransom when it comes to medicines that would save millions of lives
- Deadly fire: illuminating disadvantage
- Vaccines and immunisation: don't leave a fifth of the world's children behind
UK society:
- Inside: the power of books in prisons
- A feminist guide to beauty and aesthetics.
- Tired of being the token woman
- The harassed strike back and a follow-up piece Hard wired harassment
- Pubic hair removal: the naked truth
- This casual sexism is nothing but misogyny
- The boys' club, old and new
- Sky Sports magazine hails rapist Mike Tyson as 'a legend'
- Feminism: the fight continues
- Amnesty International organise an evening of comedy and music in support of global free speech featuring 30 white men and 3 women and, unbelievably, Amnesty TV: a global human rights show produced by 11 white men and 0 women. One of the men, Chris Atkins, tells me positive discrimination 'harms the very people it is supposed to help.' It didn't harm you, pal.
- Stand by your man? Hell no
- The subtle art of misogyny
- Celibacy: the kinkiest option
- Sluts and sweethearts: sexist language is on the rise, but there's a new way to fight back
- Plagued by female troubles in advert land
- Gordon Ramsay's appetite for sexism
- Short column: nannies and matrons
- Short column: mistresses
- Short column: philanderers
- Forty years of women's lib
- Shut up ladies, can't you see we're trying to talk? A report on women and radio.
- So Radio 4's Today programme is a boys' club? What's new? and follow up pieces Today editor, it's simple: ask more women on air and We want to hear ourselves think: a call to action
- Women and plastic surgery: chumps on the block
- Ryanair: red hot fares, red hot sexism
- The Criterion Theatre put on a summer talks season with 15 men and 0 women while YouGov tell women to listen to what 12 men say about Europe and All men and no women cure climate change at the National Theatre and Publishers Frances Lincoln commission 2 young chaps to assemble a 600 page anthology with 200+ writers, 80% of them men
The arts and culture:
- Even the rich suffer: Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
- Reflecting badly on horror: Dolly by Susan Hill
- The Liars' Gospel by Naomi Alderman
- Savage Messiah by Laura Oldfield Ford
- Lucky Bunny by Jill Dawson
- He thinks you're scum but he fancies you, you're humiliated but you fancy him: the Darcy dilemma in Pride and Prejudice
- Rachel Johnson: The Diary of the Lady, My First Year as Editor
- On Angela Carter: the rise of Magical Democracy and Susanna Clapp's Carter biography
- 'It unlocks you from the inside': staging Veronique Olmi's infanticide novel
- Sapphire: 'I knew it was disturbing.'
- What's wrong with Hitchcock's women?
- All That I Am by Anna Funder
- Harry Potter: a home from home at Hogwarts and Why stifle Harry Potter's magic? and When Harry met sexism and My fantasy Potter film
- Dance: beyond the wordy angst
- Sarah LeFanu: the writer who travelled from outer space to Mozambique via Bath
- Why the Sex and the City 2 reviews were misogynistic and Why Candace Bushnell is more important than Sex and the City
- The dark heart of modern fairytales and a similar piece called No fairytale
- Pina Bausch, a genius of dance
- Polly Samson, Perfect Lives
- The moral brilliance of Iris Murdoch
- Paradoxical Undressing by Kristin Hersh
- Edith Pargeter: master of the medieval mystery
- On Colette's Cheri and the Frears film adaptation
- Self Made, directed by Gillian Wearing
- Hurrah for Sarah Waters
- All hail the spinster
- So tell me about your mother, Batman
- Stephenie Meyer's The Host: when souls take over humanity
- The sex lives of others aren't much fun to watch
- What makes a gay cinema classic?
- Neil Jordan's The Brave One: violence that transforms
- The Man Booker, raised and transformed: in celebration of a prize for the 21st century world
- Laugh til you cry, cry til you laugh: The Small Hours by Susie Boyt
- The story ritual: on the cultural importance of the short story and All bone and muscle: on the craft of the short story
