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Waugh Stories


The Waugh Stories are a collection of writings from my travels through the world’s darkest and brightest places.


Embracing Ukraine mural, Brighton

Mirror mirror on the wall – where the fukarwee…..?

May 12, 2022

My mum has these funky friends across the pond in Canada who like kayaking. One day they set off with a bunch of pals, to…

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Beware Gaza Ice-cream

May 19, 2021

Yesterday, I heard a familiar voice on the radio. It was an old friend of mine from Gaza. Her name is Najla Shawa. She was…

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Emergency appeal for Gaza

May 17, 2021

This Gaza city image was taken on 14th May by photographer Mohammed Zaanoun.  As many of you know, I used to live inside Gaza. I…

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You, me & the dopamine gangs: how to (start) wackamoling internet trolls

May 3, 2021

How does online violence affect women and how do we start wackamoling online hatred ?

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The dark art of romance (and how to find true love forever…)

February 14, 2021

  Is romance still alive – or has it been asphyxiated by these dark viral days? What’s the difference between romance and love, and how…

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As the sun sets on this weirdo year, I drink to uncertainty

December 31, 2020

The worst thing about having Covid was the anxiety. The fourth or fifth morning I had a hiccup of breathlessness and felt knived with fear:…

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Once upon a camp on fire: why is the EU looking on as refugees die?

September 11, 2020

Like a scene at the end of an adrenalised movie: a flimsy, overcrowded dinghy flailing in rough waves. Women, men and kids clinging to the…

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Dear COVID – 19: a viral invitation

April 27, 2020

Hello virus. I haven’t met you personally, thank God. You haven’t visited my mum and my stepfather, my sister and her family, or my best…

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The camp above Vathy town on Samos

Far from the madding crowd…… an appeal to support refugees on Samos

December 31, 2019

Last New Year’s Eve, I was in Greece, sitting round a beach fire on the isle of Samos, just a few kilometres from the coast…

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Remembrance Day for remarkable humans

November 14, 2019

On Monday, just after 11 in the morning I paused for thought. Remembrance Day marks the moment World War One ended, at 11 o’clock on…

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The isle of Gorée just off the coast of Dakar

Teranga ! Why Senegal is super, and sadly not for me #renowned-she-warrior

September 12, 2019

For those of you who’ve never logged on here before (Welcome 😎 ) I’m a conflict nerd, by which I mean a professional humanitarian peacebuilder.…

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So what would you do with €700 million?

April 17, 2019

I love cathedrals: the spaciousness, the stone flag floors and rising columns, archways and sensual stained glass. The echoes of history, walls soaked in hymns…

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Support Samos Volunteers


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We all know this long-term crisis demands a long-term political strategy, instead of EU member states abandoning refugees, and Greek communities, to fend for themselves. In the meantime, self-organised groups like SV are on the ground seven days a week, working alongside refugees on Samos, to make life in the camp more bearable.

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