Andrew Kersley
Freelance Journalist
Fix the Damn Sick Pay (Tribune)
Fix the Damn Sick Pay (Tribune)
The government is ending self-isolation requirements and urging 'personal responsibility' instead – but as the pandemic proved, it's hard to be 'responsible' when sick pay is so low that staying off work means not making rent.
Water firm bosses earn £15m as amount of raw sewage dumped in UK rivers rockets (Daily Mirror)
Water firm bosses earn £15m as amount of raw sewage dumped in UK rivers rockets (Daily Mirror)
The average wage for bosses at the water and sewage companies in England was nearly £1.7m and their standard salary rise was 27%, a Mirror probe has revealed
A Crypto Company Thinks It Can Help Fight Climate Change (Wired)
A Crypto Company Thinks It Can Help Fight Climate Change (Wired)
Toucan is leveraging blockchain to reinvent the carbon credit market. But thorny questions abound.
Polluters Left to Mark their Own Homework Due to Environment Agency Cuts, Warns Whistleblower (Byline Times)
Polluters Left to Mark their Own Homework Due to Environment Agency Cuts, Warns Whistleblower (Byline Times)
Andrew Kersley speaks to an insider about how austerity is damaging the regulator, as it battles against unprecedented sewage dumps
Firms Employing MPs Won £1.1 Billion in Contracts During Pandemic (Byline Times)
Firms Employing MPs Won £1.1 Billion in Contracts During Pandemic (Byline Times)
Andrew Kersley tracks the public sector deals awarded to companies that have MPs on their payroll
Scotland’s Bar Workers Are Fighting for Better (Tribune)
Scotland’s Bar Workers Are Fighting for Better (Tribune)
Workers at Macmerry bars in Glasgow and Dundee faced years of underpayment, unsafe conditions and impossible hours – but then they joined a trade union, and the tide in the workplace began to change.
Portugal’s Home Working Laws Are a Model for the Post-Pandemic World (Tribune)
Portugal’s Home Working Laws Are a Model for the Post-Pandemic World (Tribune)
‘Dead fish are floating in the river’: Inside Britain’s sewage crisis (Huck)
‘Dead fish are floating in the river’: Inside Britain’s sewage crisis (Huck)
How Cuts and Privatisation Caused the Sewage Crisis (Tribune)
How Cuts and Privatisation Caused the Sewage Crisis (Tribune)
The government hopes its recent U-turn will make the public forget about the sewage crisis – but unless it reverses privatisation and cuts to environmental authorities, the problem is here to stay.
Behind Glasgow’s COP26 Bin Strike (Tribune)
Behind Glasgow’s COP26 Bin Strike (Tribune)
After years of neglect, Glasgow's refuse workers are taking a stand for liveable wages, decent conditions and better services – by striking during COP26, they might finally get a hearing.
How Much Money Do Crypto Bros Actually Make? (Vice)
How Much Money Do Crypto Bros Actually Make? (Vice)
Behind the coke-white lambos and several-storey yachts, here's how much cash the average cryptocurrency investor has been raking in.
How do you deradicalise an incel? (Wired UK)
How do you deradicalise an incel? (Wired UK)
Pulling disaffected young men back from the brink is complicated, and it’s making academics question their whole approach to extremism
Poverty Shortens Your Life (Tribune)
Poverty Shortens Your Life (Tribune)
This charity wants to cure or kill Big Tech (Wired UK)
This charity wants to cure or kill Big Tech (Wired UK)
Foxglove is court-battling online platforms over algorithmic injustice and data shenanigans. And it’s just getting started
Noble Rot (Private Eye)
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Noble Rot (Private Eye)
Squid Game is the weird future of local-global TV (Wired UK)
Squid Game is the weird future of local-global TV (Wired UK)
Squid Game is just the start. Netflix has a plan for creating a global hits factory. The only hitch? There’s no magic formula.
The UK Is About to Cut Welfare, Even for Cancer Patients (Vice)
The UK Is About to Cut Welfare, Even for Cancer Patients (Vice)
The best games that you’ll never, ever beat (Wired UK)
The best games that you’ll never, ever beat (Wired UK)
Looking for a challenge? Try our pick of the toughest video games of all time, from fiendish roguelike to impossible side-scrollers.
Why won’t Skyrim die? (Wired UK)
Why won’t Skyrim die? (Wired UK)
Foundation is Apple’s first (flawed) TV masterpiece (Wired UK)
Foundation is Apple’s first (flawed) TV masterpiece (Wired UK)
Foundation on Apple TV+ is a masterclass in world-building that forgets its inhabitants
The Apple vs Epic ruling will change gaming forever (Wired UK)
The Apple vs Epic ruling will change gaming forever (Wired UK)
From Epic to the EU and South Korea, antitrust cases against Apple could reshape how it functions and flip mobile gaming on its head
This startup is making at-home fertility treatment affordable (Wired UK)
This startup is making at-home fertility treatment affordable (Wired UK)
The Real Way to Solve the Social Care Crisis (Tribune)
The Real Way to Solve the Social Care Crisis (Tribune)
They think they can stop burnout by playing around (Wired UK)
They think they can stop burnout by playing around (Wired UK)
The end of ‘Money Heist’: what to expect from the Spanish swindlers’ final season (NME)
The end of ‘Money Heist’: what to expect from the Spanish swindlers’ final season (NME)
Why young people are refusing to have children (Huck Magazine)
Why young people are refusing to have children (Huck Magazine)
Britain’s Labour Shortage Has an Easy Solution: Better Pay and Conditions (Tribune)
Britain’s Labour Shortage Has an Easy Solution: Better Pay and Conditions (Tribune)
You’re back in the office. So are your bad WFH habits (Wired UK)
You’re back in the office. So are your bad WFH habits (Wired UK)
The wild logistics of the Istanbul Canal megaproject (Wired UK)
The wild logistics of the Istanbul Canal megaproject (Wired UK)
Britain’s Minimum Wage Is a Joke (Tribune)
Britain’s Minimum Wage Is a Joke (Tribune)
The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream (Wired UK)
The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream (Wired UK)
The People Who Got Scammed Out of Hundreds of Thousands in Cryptocurrency (Vice)
The People Who Got Scammed Out of Hundreds of Thousands in Cryptocurrency (Vice)
Startups are scrambling to fix the social care system (Wired UK)
Startups are scrambling to fix the social care system (Wired UK)
Remembering Jean Charles de Menezes (Tribune)
Remembering Jean Charles de Menezes (Tribune)
Ending the UC Uplift Shows that Poverty Is Tory Government Policy (Tribune)
Ending the UC Uplift Shows that Poverty Is Tory Government Policy (Tribune)
This startup is reinventing dark kitchens (Wired UK)
This startup is reinventing dark kitchens (Wired UK)
Liveable Sick Pay Saves Lives – But the Tories Don’t Want You to Have It (Tribune)
Liveable Sick Pay Saves Lives – But the Tories Don’t Want You to Have It (Tribune)
Five Years After Jo Cox’s Death, Far-Right Violence Is a Growing Threat (Tribune)
Five Years After Jo Cox’s Death, Far-Right Violence Is a Growing Threat (Tribune)
How yoga teachers are exploited by the gig economy (Huck Magazine)
How yoga teachers are exploited by the gig economy (Huck Magazine)
Cleaners Say Bosses Treated Them So Badly It May Have Helped Spread COVID (Vice)
Cleaners Say Bosses Treated Them So Badly It May Have Helped Spread COVID (Vice)
The Short Pay Scandal in Our Hospitals (Tribune)
The Short Pay Scandal in Our Hospitals (Tribune)
The relentless rise of Royal Mail text message scams (Wired UK)
The relentless rise of Royal Mail text message scams (Wired UK)
Media News (Private Eye)
Media News (Private Eye)
How Britain’s Spy Cops Targeted Grieving Families (Tribune)
How Britain’s Spy Cops Targeted Grieving Families (Tribune)
Loot boxes are dead. What comes next will be worse (Wired UK)
Loot boxes are dead. What comes next will be worse (Wired UK)
Portugal’s Drugs Strategy Could Work in Britain (Tribune)
Portugal’s Drugs Strategy Could Work in Britain (Tribune)
Everything Gavin Williamson could be doing to support schools instead of banning mobile phones (Left Foot Forward)
Everything Gavin Williamson could be doing to support schools instead of banning mobile phones (Left Foot Forward)
Health anxiety: The fear of illness making people quit jobs and move home (BBC)
Health anxiety: The fear of illness making people quit jobs and move home (BBC)
Inside the Wave of Violence Shopkeepers Have Faced During the Pandemic (Vice)
Inside the Wave of Violence Shopkeepers Have Faced During the Pandemic (Vice)
How Barbara Castle Fought to Expose the British Empire’s Shame in Kenya (Tribune)
How Barbara Castle Fought to Expose the British Empire’s Shame in Kenya (Tribune)
How the Pandemic Screwed ‘Generation Left’ (Tribune)
How the Pandemic Screwed ‘Generation Left’ (Tribune)
Revealed: Many Asian people “afraid to leave the house” as Met records rise in hate crimes despite pandemic (Left Foot Forward)
Revealed: Many Asian people “afraid to leave the house” as Met records rise in hate crimes despite pandemic (Left Foot Forward)
The new kind of automation putting gig economy workers at risk of destitution (Left Foot Forward)
The new kind of automation putting gig economy workers at risk of destitution (Left Foot Forward)
How Joe Sacco Gave a Voice to ‘History’s Losers’ (Tribune)
How Joe Sacco Gave a Voice to ‘History’s Losers’ (Tribune)
The UK Is Tumbling Headfirst Into a Student Gambling Crisis (Vice)
The UK Is Tumbling Headfirst Into a Student Gambling Crisis (Vice)
Couriers say Uber’s ‘racist’ facial identification tech got them fired (Wired UK)
Couriers say Uber’s ‘racist’ facial identification tech got them fired (Wired UK)
The Forgotten Frontline (Tribune)
The Forgotten Frontline (Tribune)
Viral Payload (Private Eye)
Viral Payload (Private Eye)
Why Poverty Is So Expensive (Tribune)
Why Poverty Is So Expensive (Tribune)
Thousands of Brits left in the back of ambulances at A&E as delays double in five years (Daily Mirror)
Thousands of Brits left in the back of ambulances at A&E as delays double in five years (Daily Mirror)
No, Thatcher Didn’t Save the Economy (Tribune)
No, Thatcher Didn’t Save the Economy (Tribune)
How a small town in the Midlands became a gaming powerhouse (Wired UK)
How a small town in the Midlands became a gaming powerhouse (Wired UK)
Politicians have made an algorithm to fix the housing crisis. It’s bad (Wired UK)
Politicians have made an algorithm to fix the housing crisis. It’s bad (Wired UK)
Coronavirus drives surge in support for unionisation, say games industry activists (The Guardian)
Coronavirus drives surge in support for unionisation, say games industry activists (The Guardian)
Renters are rising up to unionise and take on dodgy landlords (Wired UK)
Renters are rising up to unionise and take on dodgy landlords (Wired UK)
‘Money Heist’ season four review: addictive thriller is the most underrated show on Netflix (NME)
‘Money Heist’ season four review: addictive thriller is the most underrated show on Netflix (NME)
The Londoner: Dan Jarvis MP says Labour have failed our troops (ES Diary)
The Londoner: Dan Jarvis MP says Labour have failed our troops (ES Diary)
Will Larry cope with Dilyn in Downing Street? Here’s Battersea’s advice on introducing dogs and cats (i)
Will Larry cope with Dilyn in Downing Street? Here’s Battersea’s advice on introducing dogs and cats (i)
‘Rape chat’ scandal hits Warwick University’s fundraising (The Times)
‘Rape chat’ scandal hits Warwick University’s fundraising (The Times)
Ancient melting pot gave rise to cannabis (The Times)
Ancient melting pot gave rise to cannabis (The Times)
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