Morning Star • 17th February 2020 Viva la Barba! Who are the Beard Liberation Front? THEY are more bacteria-infested than a dog’s coat. They only belong on woodsman and Glastonbury hipsters. They convey a sense of laziness you don’t get with other men.
Serious About Rugby League • 26th January 2021 Brighton & Hove Rugby League aiming for Challenge Cup after formation on south coast While sport continues to be disrupted – especially the grassroots game – a newly established rugby league club in Brighton and Hove is aiming to provide some sporting relief.
Saigoneer • 14th June 2020 Remembering Anthony Bourdain and His Passion for Southeast Asian Food Anthony Bourdain meant many things to many people...
The Ferret • 4th March 2020 The Western friends of North Korea “We believe in defending the DPRK, and its system, without any ifs or buts,” says Dermot Hudson, the official UK delegate for the Korean Friendship Association (KFA)
Morning Star • 22nd February 2020 Viva la Barba! Talking beards with the Beard Liberation Front The Beard Liberation Front talk about why male facial hair remains so taboo in politics — and what is being done to change things
NK News - North Korea News • 5th December 2019 From Wiltshire to Pyongyang: North Korea’s Taedonggang brewery The story of how Ushers of Trowbridge was reassembled in the DPRK, brick by brick, becoming the country's first brewery
Lacuna Magazine • 3rd December 2019 "Never again": The defiant Rohingya of Bradford “The international community always says never again”, says Salah Uddin, a Rohingya man born in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, “but we are letting genocide happen in the 21st century.”
Writers On The Run • 25th September 2019 Retracing Anthony Bourdain in Scotland Following the late chef through Edinburgh and Glasgow
Writers On The Run • 5th August 2019 The Places in Between Looking further afield for your next holiday spot
New Internationalist • 2nd February 2018 Thailand’s intergenerational exiles ‘My mother said to me “this is just history repeating itself’.” Thai-British academic Giles Ji Ungpakorn speaks with Alexi Demetriadi
New Internationalist • 22nd June 2017 Lost in exile: The forgotten Chagos Islanders A little-known group of Indian Ocean islanders, forcibly removed from their homes almost half-a-century ago and left to their own devices after being deported to England, are still fighting for recognition and basic rights.
The Diplomat • 22nd June 2017 Thailand’s Winding Road to Democracy Thailand’s latest constitution set a roadmap for elections, but analysts fear true democracy may never return
New Internationalist • 7th October 2015 Syrian refugees in Bangkok: caught between a rock and a hard place Many Syrians fleeing their war-torn homeland risk the perilous journey over the Mediterranean Sea but a minority have chosen a different route to escape the bloodshed and danger of their native Syria: they head to Thailand. This route, however, harbours its own perils.
New Internationalist • 17th September 2015 A different kind of politics, respected and revered On a visit to Ghana, Alexi Demetriadi finds inspiration for a new politics in Britain
