ARTICLES
Prospect
14 June 2023
Report from the site of a deadly missile strike in a frontline town
Donetsk, Ukraine
Sunday Post
9 April 2023
Reflections on a year covering the war, in University of Edinburgh's alumni magazine
Enlightened
7 April 2023
‘The basement won’t save you’: Jen Stout reports from Kramatorsk
London Review of Books
16 March 2023
Evacuations from frontline villages in Donbas: Report
Sunday Post
13 March 2023
Hunting for Vakulenko - a long reported feature on the search for a children's writer abducted by Russian forces
New Humanist
16 February 2023
Sunday Post
19 February 2023
Remembering Vlada Chernykh - Obituary of a 28-year-old volunteer soldier I'd reported on in November. Killed at the front
on 28th December.
Sunday Post
8 January 2023
Life in Kupyansk, Ukraine: No water, firewood or power
[translator for Ivanna Skyba-Yakubova]
Sunday National
8 January 2023
Shetland power outage: Life is lived one day at a time as many islanders shiver and wait
Sunday Post
18 December 2022
Sunday Post
18 December 2022
One day in Donbas: Close to the frontline, Ukrainians stay strong as winter is weaponised by Putin
Sunday Post
27 November 2022
In the air: A day on the road with Ukrainian specialist drone unit near Russian border
Sunday Post
20 November 2022
Battered but unbowed, in Kyiv, there is only defiance
Sunday Post
16 October 2022
Oil tankers line Shetland’s horizon, but islanders face bitter fuel poverty
openDemocracy
6 September 2022
A Cult of Violence - essay on attitudes to the invasion
Bella Caledonia
29 August 2022
Experts despair as avian flu inflicts mounting toll in once safe haven of Fair Isle
Sunday Post
Fair Isle, Scotland
3 July 2022
Sunday Post
Glasgow, UK
19 June 2022
London Review of Books
Kharkiv, Ukraine
9 June
War in Ukraine: Train journey into the unknown as refugees begin to rebuild their lives
Sunday Post
Donetsk, Ukraine
5 June 2022
Kharkiv's Patchwork Resistance - dispatch
New Internationalist
Kharkiv, Ukraine
30 May 2022
Sunday Post
Kharkiv, Ukraine
30 May 2022
This article was translated into Ukrainian for local human rights group Maidan Monitoring Information Centre:
Inside Kharkiv: a city surviving the carnage of war
The Ferret
Kharkiv, Ukraine
18 May 2022
In the rubble and ruins, nothing is untouched in the villages Russian troops left behind
Sunday Post
Kharkiv, Ukraine
14 May 2022
'They usually fire in the morning but I do not fear death. We are in God’s hands’
Sunday Post
Kharkiv, Ukraine
7 May 2022
Sunday Post
Odesa, Ukraine
1 May 2022
’Nothing is sacred’ – 60 days since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began
Shetland News
Odesa, Ukraine
24 April 2022
Sunday Post
Odesa, Ukraine
24 April 2022
London Review of Books
Tulcea, Romania & Orlivka, Ukraine
8 April 2022
Sunday Post
Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky, Ukraine
3 April 2022
Sunday Post
28 March 2022
Ukraine invasion / All sorts of people turn up in a crisis
Shetland News
Isaccea, Romania
22 March 2022
Sunday Post
Isaccea, Romania
21 March 2022
Photo essay: Refugees at Isaccea border crossing, Romania
Greater Govanhill
Isaccea, Romania
16 March 2022
‘Everyone is pulling together’ - Isaccea dispatch
Shetland News
Isaccea, Romania
14 March 2022
Sunday Post
Isaccea, Romania
13 March 2022
Dispatch from Romanian border crossing with Ukraine
Shetland News
Isaccea, Romania
7 March 2022
‘Ужас is a word I heard a lot recently. It means horror’
Account of leaving Moscow as war broke out
Shetland News
Vienna, Austria
1 March 2022
Shetland News
Moscow, Russian Federation
23 February 2022
Investigation: Climate pollution from wind farms on peat ‘underestimated’
The Ferret
Shetland
October 29 2021
Experts warn wind farms should not be built on peatlands
Shetland News
29 October 2021
Shetland fires 'should act as warning to modular building industry'
BBC News
Shetland
27 July 2021
Year-long investigation which uncovered serious nation-wide safety concerns.
Every adult is vaccinated in Fair Isle, the UK's remotest island community
BBC News
14 April 2021
Concern over Shetland 'parking lot' for floating oil storage
BBC News
Shetland
2 February 2021
Czech Republic: Prague wants to exhume dead from mass graves
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
Prague, Czech Republic
February 21 2020
Why Chernobyl is still relevant today (Interview with historian Serhii Plokhi)
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
Vienna, Austria
January 16 2020
German elections: Far-right threat to Left closer than ever
Herald Scotland
Erfurt, Germany
27 October 2019
Land Commissioner intervenes in Buccleuch tenant farmer row
BBC News
17 October 2018
“It’s a lonely position”: crowdfunding for a Scottish inquiry into undercover police abuse
The New Statesman
5 July 2017
Behind bank heists and organised crime: are shell companies finally facing a crackdown?
The New Statesman
3 July 2017
Why is Scottish Labour celebrating? It missed a trick – and perhaps a ton of votes, too
The New Statesman
30 June 2017
Why have we had to rely on hackers to stop catastrophic ransomware again?
The New Statesman
28 June 2017
Tail docking is described as “barbaric” – so why did the SNP vote to bring it back?
The New Statesman
28 June 2017
“We repealed, then forgot”: the long shadow of Section 28 homophobia
The New Statesman
27 June 2017
Mission (im)possible? The British left and the future of Europe
Open Democracy
Manchester
26 April 2017
Do you know who's watching you?
Open Democracy
17 March 2017
Caleb Behn: 'After oil & gas, no amount of money can restore your fractured land'
The Ecologist
24 November 2016
Dazzle Ships (Art & Culture)
Bella Caledonia
Edinburgh
19 November 2016
New Responses to Domestic Abuse
Bella Caledonia
11 November 2016
Articles on surveillance, technology, and the film 'A Good American'
Moving Docs via Film & Campaign Ltd
2016
A big range of articles exploring all aspects of edible insects!
For Film & Campaign Ltd, 2016
Bella Caledonia
Barcelona
11 May 2016
Back to the Roots of Celtic Connections
Bella Caledonia
Glasgow
1 February 2016
Gender and the Alternative Media
Bella Caledonia
27 October 2015
Bella Caledonia
Aberdeen
17 October 2015
SNP members must force the party to strengthen watered-down Land Reform Bill
The National
14 October 2015
Let's try to imagine a genuinely modern face of landownership
The National
24 August 2015
In 2021 I wrote the introduction for a reprint of Sheila Gear's extraordinary 'Island West of the Sun', for Shetland publisher Northus.
Copies available at the Shetland Times
