The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Streeting to next launch inquiry into “over-diagnosis” of left-handedness. “Never used to be like this,” he insists.

Or maybe diagnosis is at last catching up with the crises so many have been enduring, which have for so long been minimised, dismissed or ignored. share.google/1aKjHRJ596x6...

Last week I checked in on a friend, someone who I thought would be one of the very last immigrants (who have any other options) to leave Germany, only to find that they and their family are already in the process of leaving. Their explicit reason: the rise of fascism. Very, very disturbing times.

In light of the news about boat interceptions in the channel, I reshare my dispatch from Dunkirk for The Lead, where I heard how fraught and dangerous the situation on the beaches in Northern France already is. national.thelead.uk/p/immigratio...

I didn't realise it was possible to feel heartbroken over a place, but I genuinely miss Athens like the city is a person. I only have to hear a bit of traditional Greek music at a gyros stall and I'm a broken woman

bit of sass there from Reeves

I am once again calling on our top national institutions to employ more of us with OCD to safeguard the publishing of sensitive documents

Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel. At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found. Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

So many of the refugees that I met Calais and Dunkirk in September were women fleeing the war in Amhara, Ethiopia. It is, in the West, a totally forgotten war, which I regret to say I was totally ignorant of before I met them. bbc.com/news/article...

I had been slightly sceptical of the concept of “burnout”, as I often am of mental health buzzwords that I assume have their origins in social media memes. But I was wrong, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social.

Burnout can reveal itself in mysterious ways, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social. Like, for instance, at the airport...

Compelling piece about rent control as a political tool in New York. How do we re-open this conversation for London? www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

I had been slightly sceptical of the concept of “burnout”, as I often am of mental health buzzwords that I assume have their origins in social media memes. But I was wrong, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social.

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

The BBC just caving on this and making no attempt to defend itself feels quite scary. Where do we go from here?

Burnout can reveal itself in mysterious ways, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social. Like, for instance, at the airport...

I hope the producers on the Celebrity Traitors are given a raise for their contribution to our national mental health

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

I will defend Taylor and Life of a Showgirl for as long as I am allowed to do so on the pages of @prospectmagazine.co.uk. Eldest Daughter and Wi$h Li$t are actually very romantic songs and that is a hill I will happily die on www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/the-...

In the face of a world sliding into darkness, our sanity depends on holding on to joy, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social.

Hope can feel not only futile but almost disrespectful as fascism rises around the world. But it remains essential to our sanity, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social.

It feels embarrassing as a journalist to admit that the time I spent in Northern France has affected my mental wellbeing profoundly. But perhaps that is a compelling reflection of just how utterly brutal the UK's externalized border is www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

When I meet Hossein* he tells me has been living in the camp for 25 days and is frustrated that he hasn’t been able to cross yet. He doesn’t understand why so many people he has met in Loon Plage have made it to the UK, but he remains stuck... national.thelead.uk/p/immigratio...

Hope can feel not only futile but almost disrespectful as fascism rises around the world. But it remains essential to our sanity, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social.

In the week I visited the Loon Plage camp in Dunkirk for a special report for @theleaduk.bsky.social a man was found dead by the side of the road and another in critical condition after being hit by a truck. Six people died or went missing in the sea.

Life at Loon Plage is tough: there is no running water, no toilets, no permanent medical or welfare tents and people sleep in tents in the grass or bushes. @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social meets refugees waiting to cross the channel in northern France. national.thelead.uk/p/immigratio...

"They say its the hope that kills you, but without hope you are already dead." My latest column for @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/lives/...

Made a silly little portfolio for my reporting, columns and editing. Should probably have done so five years ago but alas here we are: authory.com/SarahCollins.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

@arusbridger.bsky.social will step down as Prospect's editor at the end of 2025. Our print & digital circulation grew 30% last year & he’s transformed Prospect into a flourishing multi-media company. Excited that acclaimed journalist Philip Collins will be our new editor.

I met a woman today in Dunkirk who said her tent had been slashed by the police and all her belongings had been taken during an eviction in the Loon Plage camp. She couldn't understand why the police would do this to her. "I have come all the way from Libya," she told me. "I'm not giving up."

As the UK suspends its refugee family reunion scheme, growing numbers of women and children in northern France face inhumane conditions. @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social reports from Dunkirk.

Two very important graphs. Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved. The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers. Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Myths and misinformation - my piece on the political battle over the ECHR for @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

🚨 MARCHING UNITED 🚨 In Central London, thousands are marching united against racism, the far right, and division. ✊ Last summer, a national tragedy was twisted to stoke Islamophobic and racist fear. A year on, racist intimidation continues.

British fascists are on the move again Yet Starmer does and says nothing except echo anti-migrant rhetoric and talk of a land of strangers It is dereliction of duty, and despicable politics www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

With awful news about Conor Gearty’s death, it’s apt to listen to & reflect on this searching & v recent discussion about the threats to human rights in Britain & what on Earth to do about it … In his gentle tones he forcefully convey the answer is NOT just to lie down & accept that decency is over

MPs express shock after alleged racially motivated rape of Sikh woman

One of the major reasons that asylum seekers wish to cross the channel to the UK, is that the UK is no longer bound by the EU's Dublin III regulation, which means the UK provides a new opportunity to claim asylum for those who failed in Europe Europe. Brexit has incentivisised channel crossings

We see endless stories about “Channel migrants”. But volunteering with a charity that supports displaced women and children living in Calais and Dunkirk, @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social sees a different side to the story.

Two children believed to have died this week

"I hate the thought that some of these women and girls will return to sleep in a scrub of trees tonight, where they are outnumbered by men, and where they do not have access to toilets or showers." My reporting on the people waiting to cross the channel www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

3 people dead and 3 people missing after a boat got into distress in the channel last night. Devastating news.

Many of the people seeking asylum I've met in recent days in Northern France have spent several years in Germany, and report feeling unable to continue with the life they've built there - presumably after change in government? Wonder this is part of wider trend - my evidence is of course anecdotal

As the UK suspends its refugee family reunion scheme, growing numbers of women and children in northern France face inhumane conditions. @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social reports from Dunkirk.

A dispatch from Dunkirk: where I met women and children waiting to seek asylum in the UK www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social reports from Dunkirk on migrants waiting at the UK-France border.