Nick Owen

Christmas column in praise of the eternal Bossman and how corner shops became the high street of last resort www.economist.com/britain/2024...

More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD Exclusive: Diagnoses part of lawsuit being brought against parent company Meta and outsourcer Samasource Kenya

This story is so appalling - the dark underside of social media moderation: www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

There's public support for assisted dying so it may have happened sooner or later. But if it happens now I think Kim Leadbeater will be able to claim much personal credit. A less able, sympathetic and effective champion could easily have put off 30 or so wavering MPs. She'll have a place in history.

Revealed: Home Office ‘completely lost grip’ at notorious Manston asylum centre Court documents contain admissions by officials that they were unable to control the situation at the Kent facility where 18,000 asylum seekers were illegally detained

This was the tipping point that led to us deciding that MSF had to intervene in the UK.

I hope the investigation not only prevents a repeat of Manston, but leads to an overhaul of an irrational asylum management system which seems designed to cause harm.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

I never tire of reading about Russell Crowe commissioning Nick Cave to write Gladiator 2, what he ended up getting & his considered response.
faroutmagazine.co.uk/nick-cave-glad…

Bluesky has overtaken Threads in the US!

Twitter you're next 👉

Exciting prospect for NTD treatment: “We hope that one day... we will reduce the time from years, maybe even decades to design a drug, down to months, or perhaps even weeks”

Who knew a picture of a billboard could be so exciting? Very pleased to see these digital out of home ads in the wild for MSF UK's end-of-year Emergency Trauma Care campaign.