Media
I have been regularly published and interviewed in the media, online and off, for the past few years for a variety of different things, from protests to volunteering. Publications include The Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Advocate, Manchester Evening News, BBC Bradford, BBC Essex, Real FM, and World's Children (Save the Children's magazine), as well as my student paper and radio. If you would like an interview or comment, please message me here and I will get back to you promptly.
I like to try to get hold of records of interviews that I have done, but it is extraordinarily difficult to do for non-student media, particularly local media, who are notoriously bad at putting their archived content online.
General Media
In iSmoke magazine, an internet zine, "the voice for cannabis users nationwide":"Re:Vision Drug Policy Network" - a lengthy feature explaining the Re:Vision Drug Policy Network's history and viewpoint on cannabis. July 2011.
"A New Phase for the Student Movement is Starting" - an article analysing the achievements of the student movement against the rise in tuition fees. March 2011.
"Dispatches from Copenhagen II: Being a Protest Medic" - a report from the COP-15 protests in 2009 in Copenhagen, where I was an action medic. January 2010.
I also used to spend a great deal of time editing Wikipedia, and several media appearances came of it. The major one was being interviewed for an article in The Times, but I was also briefly featured in The Advocate, and wrote an article on the LGBT WikiProject I was running at the time in the American Library Association Roundtable Spring newsletter.
- Something Wiki this way comes, SX News, September 19, 2007.
- You couldn't make it up, The Times, March 2, 2007.
- The LGBT Wikipedians behind the mammoth online encyclopedia,The Advocate, Issue #987, June 19 2007, page 26.
- GLBTRT Newsletter/Spring 2007, Vol. 19 No. 1, Page 6.
Student Media
In Student Direct, the University of Manchester Student Union's Newspaper:“The Chemists are Winning”: The Rise of Mephedrone and Legal Highs - a feature recounting the events leading up to the banning of mephedrone. October 2010.
Has the World Gone Drug-free? - a feature looking at the global drug trade. April 2009.
BNP: More Important than NO2ID? - a column written after an anti-ID cards motion failed to reach quorum at a General Meeting because anti-fascists passed a no platform policy and then left en masse. Original article available at the SD website here: BNP: More Important Than NO2ID?. December 2008.
"Want to stop rape? Don’t put rapists in prison." - an abridged version of a longer blogpost. September 2009.
Women in History – Caroline Norton - a very short biography of one of the first feminists in Britain. September 2009.
Into the Archive
Work pre-dating university.- A level blues? How about a free gap year? Case study for the Ilkeston Advertiser about being a full-time volunteer in my gap year. 15th August, 2008.
- Handing over to the Next Generation Essentially an attack on the Sunday Telegraph in the Essex Chronicle for writing "Police give teenage tearaways lessons in handling the media". I was interviewed by the Telegraph for the article and then my words were twisted out of all recognition, and I was unsurprisingly very annoyed at the result. January 2007.
- Smoking is Bad for You A short article for a column on "youth voices" in the Essex Chronicle. I was doing my A level coursework on revolutionary France at the time, why is why I assume I kept quoting the Declarations of the Rights of Man. November 2006.
- The Importance of Volunteering Again, the managing to link everything in the world to my coursework at the time (in this case, volunteering and the liberal reforms of 1906) would suggest this was published in 2006.
- Trip to Parliament A report for my school newsletter about our English department's trip to parliament was never actually published, but I include it here for the same reason it was denied publication - it was fucking funny and unfit to print as an actual report. October 2006.
Video
There's a rather fantastic video below of the Bradford Burma Total blockade of October 2007, the first protest I ever went to. The event was also memorable because I was almost hit by a car that decided that the best way to deal with the blockade was to ram it. If you watch carefully, you can hear my squeaks of protest. :)
My Youtube channel also has a small number of videos that I have shot out and about.