Category Archives: Journalism

Learning that you have a genetic predisposition to cancer can save your life. But the knowledge may be a double-edged sword, as it turns you into a lifetime patient of a disease you may never get. Rachel Topping and her sister Julie were on holiday in Morocco when they discovered they were more alike thanContinue reading “Maybe, someday: Living with a disease you may never get”

A brief history of women’s hair, and the hairbands that set you free. Is there a hair tie around your wrist? If you’re a long-haired person like me, I’ll bet there is — unless it’s already in your hair. Right now I’ve got a messy bun on the top of my head, absent-mindedly assembled forContinue reading “That hair tie on your wrist is such a hard worker”

Published in Lionheart Magazine #12, the Grow + Thrive issue, August 2020.  Pour me Drink the most expensive one first – that’s the rule for red wine, assuming you’re going to be having more than one and let’s face it, you are. When my friend Chris and I go to our favourite wine place, weContinue reading “Pour me”

Published in The Simple Things magazine, August 2020. Drinking coffee elsewhere I make sure to pick up a couple of postcards whenever I leave London – just a couple of old-fashioned ones with pictures of local sights. I love sending holiday cards even more than I like receiving them, which is fortunate as it’s aContinue reading “The promise of a postcard”

Published in BusinessLife, June 2020. Original article p 59-61. When the world locked down in March to fight coronavirus, most knowledge-businesses already had the technology in place to disperse their workforce. People created makeshift offices in their kitchens or bedrooms, propping up their laptops to resume office life via video: “The technology of remote workingContinue reading “Lockdown lessons for the future of work”

Published in Kinfolk #53, March 2020. (PDF here.) Ai-Da Meet Ai-Da. She’s a promising young artist who’s earned a million pounds in her first year of selling. She’s also a robot. Jessica Furseth visits her studio. Ai-Da looks up from her worktable as I walk into her studio, locking eyes with me over her pencilContinue reading “Ai-Da”

Published in Huck Magazine, May 2019. Original article here. Raves and resistance: the hidden history of Kings Cross The Disappearing City One of the most rapidly developing parts of the city, Kings Cross has a proud record of political activism. But if you dig a little under the surface, you’ll find much is still there.Continue reading “Raves and resistance: The hidden history of King’s Cross”

Lionheart Magazine issue 11 – November 2019.  On balance  I wanted to get more serious about my work, and be more deliberate about where I’m going with it. I started spending a lot of time thinking about work – what do I want to do? Because before you can go there, you need to knowContinue reading “On Balance”

Published in BL Magazine, July 2019 (original article p58-61). The case for making a digital will When writing a will that determines who gets the house and who gets the good china, take a moment to also consider what should happen also to your digital assets after the final curtain. We all know you can’tContinue reading “The case for making a digital will”

An extended version of the story published in Broadly by Vice on 16th January 2019. If your doctor told you to take two paracetamol before coming in for a small medical procedure, what would you expect? As I went in for my first hysteroscopy—a procedure that examines the inside of the uterus with a small cameraContinue reading “When women aren’t given pain relief for invasive gynae procedures”