Isabelle Roughol

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

How being hostile to immigrants became the law of the land

How being hostile to immigrants became the law of the land

Episode 05: Diving into the UK's "hostile environment" with Colin Yeo

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Borderline
004 | Jamie Kanki | The Trump administration sends foreign students home

004 | Jamie Kanki | The Trump administration sends foreign students home

The Trump administration has reinstated the rule that forbids international students from staying in the US if they are taking online classes only. The rule had been relaxed in the spring because of the covid-19 pandemic. Now despite institutions such as Harvard planning to go entirely online in 2020-21, the

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Death, deportation or both: the rage episode

Death, deportation or both: the rage episode

The Trump administration's targeting of international students and the global bullying of immigrants during covid-19

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Isabelle Roughol
What globalists should learn from nationalists

What globalists should learn from nationalists

“What would a united world look like other than people feeling, on a global level, something like what they do about their countrymen?”

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Isabelle Roughol
003 | Hassan Damluji | What globalists should learn from nationalists

003 | Hassan Damluji | What globalists should learn from nationalists

The great divide between nationalists and globalists is the political story of our times. But are they that far apart? "What would a united world look like other than people feeling, on a global level, something like what they do about their countrymen?" asks Hassan Damluji [https://www.

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Universities have been battling it out to woo international students. Can they survive without them?

Universities have been battling it out to woo international students. Can they survive without them?

Episode 2 of the Borderline podcast, with Jamie Kanki

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Borderline
002 | Jamie Kanki | The big wooing of international students

002 | Jamie Kanki | The big wooing of international students

Universities have been battling it out to woo international students. Can they survive without them? Schools in the US and UK, but also now China, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea... have been racing to attract international students from Asia, Eastern Europe or Africa, and cash in on a $300 billion market.

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Introducing Borderline: a podcast for defiant global citizens

Introducing Borderline: a podcast for defiant global citizens

Listen to episode 1, a conversation with Zach Honig on the super weird new way to travel

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Isabelle Roughol