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.

What's happening in Borderline's cover art?

What's happening in Borderline's cover art?

Noboby asked but I'll explain anyway.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
Marine Le Pen has not changed

Marine Le Pen has not changed

Islamophobia, xenophobia, discrimination: Le Pen’s manifesto shows her as she always was

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
We need to start telling better stories about immigration

We need to start telling better stories about immigration

"Storytelling is the only place where nuance can happen," says Jose Antonio Vargas

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Isabelle Roughol
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052 | Jose Antonio Vargas | Telling the full, messy story of immigration

052 | Jose Antonio Vargas | Telling the full, messy story of immigration

"The dehumanization of migrants happens because we haven't heard stories that insist on complexity and nuance"

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Isabelle Roughol
All podcast episodes
051  | Sonita Gale  | Inside the hostile environment

051 | Sonita Gale | Inside the hostile environment

Filmmaker Sonita Gale follows people whose lives were upended by the UK's immigration system.

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Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
Why I've been waiting 100 days for settled status

Why I've been waiting 100 days for settled status

The Home Office has massive backlogs and hundreds of thousands of people are waiting.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
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The triumph of “What’s in it for us?” immigration policy

The triumph of “What’s in it for us?” immigration policy

"Let them pick fruit" is not a slip up. It's a philosophy.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
050 | Colin Yeo | The UK's very low bar on Ukrainian refugees

050 | Colin Yeo | The UK's very low bar on Ukrainian refugees

"It's not that the UK has done absolutely nothing. It's just _almost_ absolutely nothing."

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Isabelle Roughol
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