It’s great to have been part of the amazing
@PoliticsJOE
team this election - and part of the informative, funny content we put out in six weeks! Here’s some of my personal highlights 🧵:
I've officially been
@PoliticsJOE
for one whole year today 🎉
In that time, we've recorded over 100 episodes of the PoliticsJOE podcast, I've produced interviews with the likes of Yanis Varoufakis and Žižek, vox popped, and received a promotion!
Huge thanks to colleagues (and,
Don’t worry if your A level results aren’t what you were hoping for. I got a C and two Us, and here I am, 46 years later, with my own pub.
It opens next weekend if you fancy dropping in.
Had so much fun doing my first live reporting from the BBC’s seven party debate last night with the amazing
@AvaSantina
(and
@seannhickey
and Sam Sharrocks) for
@PoliticsJOE_UK
!
MailOnline doing the full 'single line breaking news story not even time to add a photo' treatment on the end of the Pret coffee subscription.
Proper global news event treatment. (Understandably so based on various group chats.)
Thrilled with this. The PoliticsJOE Podcast got more YouTube views on average than the News Agents, and products from Sky and the Telegraph, and
#4
overall, beating Channel 4 News too
Lisa Cameron has clearly forgiven the Mail since (unsuccessfully) complaining to Ipso that the Scottish edition breached the harassment, children, privacy, accuracy, and clandestine devices clauses over a story detailing her £630,000 property empire, which included former council
Try not to vomit from cringe level impossible: Lib Dem Max Wilkinson squeezes as many Charli XCX puns as he can into answer about Kamala Harris' campaign.
According to the IfG, 12 cabinet ministers have lost their seat since 1974. 12 cabinet ministers are predicted to lose their seat at this election alone…
In some London boroughs, 1 in 10 children are in temporary accommodation.
In this
@PoliticsJOE
report, we saw first-hand the mould-infested temporary accommodation councils are placing children in.
Following polling this week that said he could be the first PM in history to lose his seat, I asked Rishi’s constituents if they’re still voting for him…
When I read Gender Trouble in university, I never thought I'd be producing an interview with its author, Judith Butler, only a few years later.
In her discussion with
@PoliticsJOE
she talks TERFs, Israel-Palestine, and "what is a woman?"
Produced this very important piece exploring how people with disabilities could be on the sharp end of council cuts, reported by
@edcmpbl
and shot by
@sammysharrocks
Today, I was stationed at Windsor as part of
@SW_Londoner
’s coverage of the Queen’s funeral. You can watch our interviews of those who came to pay their respects here:
Peter-John Wailes, 63, served in the RAF Regiment and came to Windsor to express his appreciation for the Queen.
“I’ve come to say goodbye to the boss, because I worked for her.
“Lots of memories, but good memories, so it’s just a farewell.”
After a month of Just Stop Oil protests, I spoke to protestors, Jeremy Corbyn, and the Head of Media and Communications at LSE to discover whether this form of civil disobedience can be effective when it seems to incite so much public derision:
"We are in the midst of a deep recruitment and retention crisis."
NEU General Secretary Daniel Kebede: Labour must award teachers an above-inflation pay rise.
A few weeks ago I attended London ComicCon as part of an exploration into the explosion of cosplaying on TikTok during the pandemic. You can watch Fan-demic here:
New: Five books on International Relations
War, diplomacy, and foreign affairs perforate our news on a daily basis,
@NEGSaunders
recommends five books that will introduce readers to the field of international relations.
Byline:
@LauraBeveridge7
“Their working conditions are our learning conditions” is a refrain I heard repeatedly as I created this video piece about the
#UCU
HE strikes.
Why were staff striking and why were many students supporting them?
Our content guy
@seannhickey
made his Pubcast debut this week, and got so hyped talking about the green transition he outed himself as a windmill shagger.
And producing this piece about the RAF Wethersfield Asylum Centre in James Cleverly’s constituency, reported sensitively and insightfully (as always) by
@AvaSantina
:
Independent student journalism is so important: not only for representing the voices of the student body, but for fostering journalistic talent!
I was lucky enough to be one of the paper's editors and I can assure supporting its GoFundMe is a worthwhile cause 🗞️
The Saint is an essential source within the St Andrews community for news and for students to experience working for a newspaper. However, we are struggling to keep up with the costs of staying in print. Visit our GoFundMe to learn more and help.
Today marked the 250th issue release of The Saint - an issue I had the privilege of writing the cover story for. I interviewed the four candidates for the NE Fife seat.
Received an exciting - and unexpected - email today which announced that I have been awarded the Professor Paul Wilkinson Prize for graduating “top” of my class
@univofstandrews
with a degree in International Relations!
‘Young party members want to challenge Conservative stereotypes. And, while they may be from the South of England - London to be exact - they are definitely not middle-aged and not all male. So, what’s the story, young London-based Tory?’
“The rink is nestled between CitiBank and One Canada Square, making you feel like the protagonist in a Hallmark Christmas film whose only purpose in life is to convince a grinch-y, but ultimately kind-hearted, banker about the joy of the festive season.”
The tax system’s design, so that capital gains are taxed at 20% and income at 40, only serves to entrench the new class divide: between asset-owners and workers 😗✌️
I had the honour of interviewing Dr Fiona Hill in yesterday’s edition of The Saint. We discussed her journey from St Andrews to the Trump White House. Read here:
Our Best Scottish Political Piece of the year is ‘Meet North East Fife’s Candidates: Scottish Parliamentary Elections 2021’, penned by Laura Beveridge for
@thesaintonline
!
#SPARC22
Aside from the ridiculously short journey, it’s disturbing the government is constructing the image that they are at war with people, largely, fleeing it or some other form of violence.
Fa uns dies vam conversar amb
@thesaintonline
, el diari independent estudiantil de la Universitat de St. Andrews.
A few days ago we chatted with
@thesaintonline
, the University of St Andrews' independent student newspaper.
Survivor Uri Winterstein spoke to me this Holocaust Memorial Day about the importance of memory, the power of language, and the woman who saved his life:
“Today, guest writer Laura Beveridge offers an alternative perspective to last week’s article, ‘Financial Discrimination Through Scottish University Tuition Fees.’“
Thank you to the St Andrew’s Law Review for publishing.