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.

022 | Ian Dunt | Liberalism is in a fight for its life

022 | Ian Dunt | Liberalism is in a fight for its life

If there is one political philosophy that allows our global lives to exist, it’s liberalism. There is no freedom of movement without freedom. There is no belonging to multiple tribes if the individual does not supersede the collective. There is no room for our weird, compound identities if we’

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Liberalism is in a fight for its life

Liberalism is in a fight for its life

Episode 22 with Ian Dunt, British political journalist

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Members' letter #5

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021 | Amanda Bates | The Black expat

021 | Amanda Bates | The Black expat

People of all kinds – yes, people of color too – go abroad to live, love and learn. They study a language, they follow a partner, they go just for the heck of it or for a midlife crisis. Sometimes, they flee war or poverty, but not usually. Tired of not seeing

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Are you an expat or an immigrant?

Are you an expat or an immigrant?

Episode 21: Amanda Bates, founder of The Black Expat

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“writing a language in another script is like trying to drop off your skin” / Members' letter #4

“writing a language in another script is like trying to drop off your skin” / Members' letter #4

Your first members' newsletter and Zoom

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020 | Katherine Alexander-Dobrovolskaia | Why every child should spend a year abroad

020 | Katherine Alexander-Dobrovolskaia | Why every child should spend a year abroad

Exchange students aren’t just the butt of jokes in American teen comedies. They’re young people going through one of the most transformative experiences life has to offer. Expanding it to more children – dare we say, to all children? – could change not just them, but the world. Katherine Alexander-Dobrovolskaia

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Why every child should spend a year abroad

Why every child should spend a year abroad

Episode 20 with Katherine Alexander-Dobrovolskaia

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