Isabelle Roughol

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

"Why should my gratitude be any more explicit than yours?"

"Why should my gratitude be any more explicit than yours?"

Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee, on everything newcomers keep from the native-born

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
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036 | Dina Nayeri | What immigrants never tell you

036 | Dina Nayeri | What immigrants never tell you

A wide-ranging conversation with Iranian American author Dina Nayeri on the refugee experience, what humans are entitled to and why we won’t let others have it. "There's just so much that the displaced don't tell the native-born."

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
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036 extra | What immigrants never tell you: the uncut interview with Dina Nayeri

036 extra | What immigrants never tell you: the uncut interview with Dina Nayeri

"There's so much that the displaced don't tell the native-born."

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Isabelle Roughol
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Loving a country sneaks up on you

Loving a country sneaks up on you

"It's a melancholy feeling to be othered by the State just as I'm starting to feel like I belong here."

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Isabelle Roughol
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Will the Brexit generation be the next Windrush scandal?

Will the Brexit generation be the next Windrush scandal?

What went wrong for Caribbean immigrants to the UK could befall Europeans a generation later. I explore past and future with Amelia Gentleman.

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Isabelle Roughol
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Is travel from amber list countries dangerous? A look at the data.

Is travel from amber list countries dangerous? A look at the data.

Are travel restrictions commensurate with the public health risk? Or are they a mildly xenophobic bit of security theatre?

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Isabelle Roughol
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035 | Amelia Gentleman | The unkept promises of the Windrush scandal

035 | Amelia Gentleman | The unkept promises of the Windrush scandal

In 2018, Amelia Gentleman revealed the Windrush scandal. Three years on, does Britain treat its immigrants any better?

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
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We are one (literally)

We are one (literally)

A new format for Borderline's first birthday. This week, the EU settlement scheme, Refugee Week, Kamala Harris, the G7 and the Fastly outage. Tuck in.

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Isabelle Roughol
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