Katharine Quarmby
Award-winning writer, editor and journalist.
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Investigating flooding across Europe – our findings: why governments need to get serious about the harms of flooding Last year our European journalism team was supported by public interest funder IJ4EU to shape an investigation called After The Floods, to look at flood preparedness, resilience and aftermath in various European nations (England, Scotland, Poland, the…
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Asbestos is banned in over 70 countries, including the UK but still lurks in our buildings, our landfills – and our water pipes. Men, women and children are still being exposed to it – and are dying from that exposure or living with very serious cancers as a result. Most of us know that inhaling…
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The Low Road was published last month (Unbound, June 2023) , and I’m grateful to everyone who has supported it, reviewed it and read it so far – please keep your comments coming. This book means a huge amount to me, as many of you will know. It’s taken seven years to research and write.…
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In January this year our cross-border environmental team started work looking at the legacy of asbestos across Europe, supported by Journalismfund.eu This is our central investigation, published by EUobserver, written by the central investigating team, Nils Mulvad, Staffan Dahllöf and me. Nils co-ordinated the investigation and I edited the nine-country investigation. The full list of…
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I’ve spent much of the last few years digging into how the UK planning system seems to embed racism and segregation, placing authorised Traveller sites in unhealthy, isolated and hazardous places, separated from settled communities and in areas that in some cases had been identified by local authorities as dangerous. I want to thank the…
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In this post I’m going to briefly review three books that look at family life and disability. I’ve grouped these three together because disability affects individuals but also determine and impact life in a family. It’s easy to feel sometimes that the voices of those who live with people with a disabilty become segregated from…
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Over this year, the tenth anniversary since the eviction of Dale Farm, I’m going to be reporting on how Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are treated in the UK. The first site I visited was Dale Farm, in Essex, well before the 2011 eviction. The veteran campaigner, Grattan Puxon, picked me up at a nearby station…
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I wrote the piece above with Andrew Ellson of the Times, which you can read here, looking at the effect of the hasty implementation of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) on disabled Londoners. I spoke to disabled peoples’ organisations and charities and also to individual disabled Londoners across a number of the LTNs – Islington (where…
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George Floyd was an African-American man murdered by police during an arrest in May 2020 after a store clerk alleged he had passed a counterfeit $20 bill in Minneapolis. Police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into the back of Mr Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, as the suspect and several bystanders pleaded for his life.…
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