12th April 2025

Barcelona in the Spotlight

‘It is, hands down, one of the most spectacular things I have ever participated in’ - Aileen Marie Kelly on co-founding Blue Book, the international theatre company, born in and inspired by the heart of Catalunya.

Millie’s Substack • 21st November 2024

Diaries from a dorm room in Hanoi

There you lie, in your ten-person mixed-sex dormitory. How ruinous can a young man in your bed-chamber really be?

Mexico News Daily • 18th November 2025

Mexican directors are making waves at 2025's film festivals

Identifying the recurring theme of using nostalgia and childhood memory as lenses to explore Mexico’s history and sociopolitical identity .

12th April 2025

The ‘Desecration of Sacred Nature for Human Beings’ – Reimagining Kafka’s in State of the Ape Address

27th January 2025

An Ode to Cotswold Stones

Celebrating the staddle, trough, and dry stone wall.

Millie’s Substack • 19th November 2024

Mama Vuvi

She is Mama: matriarch of family, business, and the valley.

24th March 2025

The Top Three Women Organisations for Expats in Barcelona

Millie’s Substack • 31st January 2025

Quelling Sunsets

How are we draining the sky of its colours?

Mexico News Daily • 10th November 2025

What will Mexico do this year at COP30 to overhaul its environmental record?

As COP30 opens Monday in the Brazilian city of Belém, Mexico’s national climate plan still faces criticism,

Photo by Necip Duman on Pexels

Strangeways, Oxford • 1st November 2024

Teams to armies. Bullets to art.

Nestled in the slope of Mount Trebevic, Sarajevo’s bobsleigh track winds through the bitten memories of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s history.

Photo by Nick Wehrli on Pexels

3rd October 2025

‘They’re provoking the city to become a showcase, a real estate show’ - A Catalan Housing Solicitor’s Lament on Barcelona’s Gentrification

Millie’s Substack • 28th March 2025

Los Bunkers del Carmel

A brief visit to Barcelona's barracas

Publication in Ploof • 1st November 2024

Since when did cats become so political?

Now, don’t get me wrong, political pieces aren’t usually where I get my daily dose of the feline 411, but I was struck by how critical cats are to our current politics.

4th February 2025

Death by Saproxylic Beetle

A More-than-human Reading of Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Round & About Magazine • 7th January 2025

One to watch: musician Baby Maker

Baby Maker's dry-wit lyrics toying with evocative rhymes make him one to watch on Oxford’s up-and-coming music scene.

9th March 2025

‘You have a constant reminder that life can be joy’ – Tanya van Gastel on being a digital entrepreneur in Barcelona and the hidden benefits of being a woman in tech

Instagram • 23rd December 2025

Rob McLoughlin: An Actor Abroad

An interview with the director Rob McLoughlin of the Motherfucker with the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis.

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels

20th December 2024

Little victories for animal welfare. The UK Government backs a Bill on pet importation.

Last month the UK Government pushed out one positive piece of news to inject our nation with a bit of festive spirit: a crackdown on illegal pet smuggling.

Ploof Pet • 8th December 2024

Love and Other Dogs

Are pets a window to the soul? Or is this just another pop psych fad?

Photo by Mareks Steins on Pexels

Publication in Ploof • 25th November 2024

Can animal actors finally retire? A definite positive in the future of AI.

From the mundane to the sublime, humanity’s rhythms are being reattuned every day to the capacities of the digital universe.

Photo by SHVETS production on Pexels

Publication in Ploof • 24th November 2024

HRT; a new topic in the spotlight

Menopause medication explored

24th November 2024

“Elemental worlds in river poetry: a cultural geographical reading of Oswald’s Dart ”.

A geographic-poetic interrogation of the conceptual and ethico-political questions of elemental worlds.

15th November 2024

Food and foodways in Shenzhen and Guangzhou.

Academic writing sample from essay: ‘Critically examine the role of food and foodways in shaping urban migrants’ experiences of Shenzhen and Guangzhou.’