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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 Penguin Books send me a sexist package of sexist books 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
- Literary women, literary prizes: not often to be found in the same room
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
