Isabelle Roughol

Journalist, podcaster, media consultant, historian. Telling stories & building better newsrooms. Ex- LinkedIn News, Le Figaro, The Guardian, The Cambodia Daily. 🎓 Mizzou '08, Birkbeck '25.

Nationalist or globalist? It may come down to psychological health.

Nationalist or globalist? It may come down to psychological health.

Episode 28: Dr Steve Taylor explains the psychology of thinking beyond borders... or not.

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Steve Taylor's psychology of nationalism (episode 28) | Members' letter #10

Episode 28 with psychologist Dr Steve Taylor

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027 | For transnational families, lockdown has no end

027 | For transnational families, lockdown has no end

The UK is reopening, but not transnational families. Visiting friends or relatives abroad is the second most frequent reason for foreign travel. It's about one in four trips out of the UK, twice the volume of business travel. Travel restrictions have reduced these trips to a trickle. For

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PSA: International travel isn't just about holidays

PSA: International travel isn't just about holidays

International travel restrictions stop a lot more than holidays. Millions have been separated from loved ones abroad for a year or more. Episode 27.

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Episode 27: A Brit in Uganda and a New Zealander in Britain share their experience of maintaining family ties across borders in the time of Covid-19.

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026 | Ty McCormick | One refugee family's 30-year quest for home

026 | Ty McCormick | One refugee family's 30-year quest for home

Asad Husein was born in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. Today he’s a student at Princeton University. His story is a miracle of grit and luck. It didn’t have to be that hard. Asad and Marian’s family fled conflict in Somalia and found refuge in eastern

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How we think about refugees is a fiction

How we think about refugees is a fiction

From refugee camp to Princeton University, a story of incredible grit and luck. Episode 26 with Ty McCormick.

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Episode 26: Ty McCormick on the maze of refugee resettlement

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