Isabelle Roughol

Journalist, podcaster, media consultant, public historian. Telling stories & building better newsrooms. 🎓 Mizzou '08, Birkbeck '25.

Exhale

Exhale

We can worry about everything else now because we don’t need to worry about him.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Geopolitics
We can barely cross borders anymore. Is it working?

We can barely cross borders anymore. Is it working?

Exploring the effectiveness of travel bans against Covid-19. Plus, an election night Borderline party, why crossing the Channel isn't illegal, and confronting Q madness.

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Isabelle Roughol
🎧 Borderline
013 | Are travel restrictions effective against Covid-19?

013 | Are travel restrictions effective against Covid-19?

In May, I found myself in tears when the British government decided to impose quarantines on anyone returning from France. That was the last straw. How dare they close *my* border? Did it even serve a purpose? When in doubt, go to the library. I turned to science to find

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Isabelle Roughol
Immigration
"I don't know what you are"

"I don't know what you are"

On our visceral need to put people into boxes and the third-culture kids that fall inbetween

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
🎧 Borderline
012 | Ferdous al-Faruque | "I don't know what you are"

012 | Ferdous al-Faruque | "I don't know what you are"

Why do we feel the need to put people into boxes, to assign categories in order to decipher them? And what happens to those who fit in many... and none at all? I discussed this and other things with Ferdous "Danny" al-Faruque, a third-culture kid all grown up.

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Isabelle Roughol
All podcast episodes
Will Brexit ever end?

Will Brexit ever end?

It's been Groundhog Day since 2016.

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Isabelle Roughol
🎧 Borderline
011 | Luke McGee | Will Brexit ever end?

011 | Luke McGee | Will Brexit ever end?

Now the EU and UK have less than two months to agree a free trade deal or face a cliff edge. And then, are we done? I caught up with CNN journalist Luke McGee, who’s roamed the halls of power in Brussels and Westminster for years now, to understand

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Isabelle Roughol
All podcast episodes
Stop praising us for our resilience

Stop praising us for our resilience

Why Lebanon is fed up with bearing up

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
🎧 Borderline