Katharine Quarmby
Award-winning writer, editor and journalist.
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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 extract from my book, Scapegoat: why we are failing disabled people (Portobello, 2011), on Holocaust Memorial Day, I am sharing my analysis of how the T4 Nazi killing machine was inspired by eugenics enthusiasts in the UK and the US. It’s a grim read, I’m afraid, but important to remember why so many…
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The pandemic dominated journalism this year and last, but I wanted to use this last post of 2021 to give a round-up of the work I’ve been lucky enough to carry out this year, what I’m doing next year – and to thank everyone with whom I’ve worked – whether as a collaborator, an editor…
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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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It’s Empathy Day today, and I’m delighted that one of the books I co-wrote with Richard O’Neill, last year, illustrated by Hannah Tolson and published by Child’s Play, is on the list of 21 recommended books for the day (and beyond). Ossiri and the Bala Mengro is the story of a young girl from the Traveller…
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About a month ago, I designed and sent out a short survey about disability hate crime, concentrating on motivation, but also covering a few other questions such as location of incidents, gender and race of attackers and nature of the incident or attack. This was done under the auspices of the Disability Hate Crime Network,…
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