@charlottehelen
Writing about transnationalism and the political economy of true costs and real value. Literature, economics, power. Words in the Atlantic, Vogue, Time, the Guardian, Prospect etc. https://www.charlottehelenbailey.co.uk
I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just a year and a half is devastating.
He was literally called the Prince of Darkness. And now the position is that they couldn't have possibly guessed he was lying.
cc @iandunt.bsky.social
Watch this. You need it.
Trump's Davos speech was the act of a madman and that is the only sensible manner in which it should have been covered iandunt.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
@crisisgroup.org
She told me for my piece for British Vogue back in 2021: "There’s a sense that there’s a certain type of person who holds these positions – and that type of person isn’t like me” www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lif...
Congratulations to @comfortero.crisisgroup.org for her place on the New Years' Honours list in recognition of Comfort’s services to Crisis Response and Conflict Prevention.
It brings me no pleasure to report that my beat — offshore wind power — skyrocketed to the top of new sites today.
I just published a scoop about Trump's halt on 5 in-progress wind farms capable of powering 2.7 million homes.
Here's a mega🧵
🔗 2nd post is a link to my scoop
🎁 last post is a gift
Charlotte Bailey’s article on asbestos has been named one of Longreads’ Best of 2025:
"Usually topical, always unforgettable, number one stories exemplify the power of the written word to pique our curiosity and move us as human beings." Proud that my piece for @prospectmagazine.co.uk on asbestos was a @longreads.com number one story this year. longreads.com/2025/12/17/b...
Europe imagines it can win at Washington’s “neo-royalist” game. Trump sees Europe as an extension of his domestic retribution campaign. Both are wrong, and both underestimate Europe’s ability to fight back (if it finds the will). My thoughts for @agendapublica.es:
agendapublica.es/noticia/2047...
The shift in Europe is part of a wider pattern: groundwater is depleting in parts of the Middle East, Asia, South America, along the US west coast + across swathes of Canada, Greenland, Iceland + Svalbard. We need to act now to preserve what is becoming an increasingly scarce resource.
A biodiverse world outside creates a healthy microbiome inside.
The same conditions that let wildlife thrive also keeps people healthy.
Fascinating article from @phoebeweston.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.
If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.
Read this in @bloomberg.com👇
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
'Rather than addressing the fundamental problems with existing verification systems, the Britcard threatens to digitise and amplify the very hostile environment policies that created these problems in the first place'
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
NEW
The government is considering plans to weaken a law protecting England’s national parks, in a move criticised as “outrageous” and “devastating”.
Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...
Thank you for reading x
Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’
For there to be no comment from the government on Musk's call for violence, let alone action against X, is unconscionable. An utter dereliction of its responsibility for national security and an affront to every member of an ethnic minority, who is being put at risk by this rhetoric.
EXCLUSIVE: England’s farms are being fertilised with a cocktail of toxic landfill juice + sewage sludge.
750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I've just ordered your book -- very glad you weren't bullied into sounding "less bitter" wtf
Thank you for this beautiful piece @pollyrowena.bsky.social I remember hating this book and other nature cure narratives as my dad died prematurely from a terminal cancer. Nobody I knew had spent more time walking in the great outdoors than he had.
“Europe is risking its political soul. It has put itself in a situation in which leaders cannot say publicly what they are actually trying to do. That is a recipe for distrust and a poison for democracy”
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My dad died two years ago today. He died of industrial disease caused by asbestos. But he was an accountant. I wrote about how this happened -- and why so many others are still at risk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
My dad died two years ago today. He died of industrial disease caused by asbestos. But he was an accountant. I wrote about how this happened -- and why so many others are still at risk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
They've managed to criminalise legitimate protest and undermine anti-terror laws in one move. They should be goddamned ashamed of themselves.
Thank you. I'm sorry your dad has suffered too. The dangers of asbestos are still not as widely known as they should be.
She didn’t intend to work. It was a misunderstanding. The French term for babysitting loosely translates as “spending time with children”. She tries to clear it up, saying she wouldn’t be paid or at any time be left alone with children, but he insisted she was barred from the country
An astonishing story