International journalist (winner @pressgazette Awards @premioluchetta @PressAwardsuk). Travel/crime author. Documentary consultant. Lecturer @cityjournalism
Joined August 2011
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My dispatch for @TelGlobalHealth following a week in Togo to report on the epidemic of road fatalities caused by an uncontrolled motorcycle boom. Replicated across Africa’s rapidly expanding cities, the constant influx of critically injured riders overwhelms Togo’s busy hospitals
6 Feb 2023
Togo’s largest trauma unit is awash with the blood of motorcycle riders.
The patient’s limbs are fractured, scalps gashed and feet twisted. Every day is the same – a relentless production line of injury which the hospital must triage.
Dispatch - free⬇️
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My submission included this long read from Guatemala which not only exposed the problem but also highlighted the solution created by @TheOceanCleanup
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My latest dispatch for @TelGlobalHealth with @SimonTownsley Met families in Bangladesh affected by an unprecedented measles outbreak which has already claimed hundreds of lives. An avoidable crisis triggered by a vaccination gap after the overthrow of Sheikh Hasina govt.
How measles unleashed a wave of suffering in Bangladesh
An immunisation gap following the overthrow of an authoritarian government has been the catalyst for an unprecedented surge in cases
Reporting by @ParryTom
Photos by @SimonTownsley
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May 20
How measles unleashed a wave of suffering in Bangladesh.
An immunisation gap following the overthrow of an authoritarian government has been the catalyst for an unprecedented surge in cases.
Powerful reporting and pictures from @ParryTom and @SimonTownsley on a devastating (and entirely avoidable) outbreak that few are talking about.
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My recollections of being at the table with Peter Mandelson, the day after Labour’s 2010 election campaign fell apart. Watching the Prince of Darkness holding court while - unbeknown to us - also setting up a gilded future with #Epstein #EpsteinFiles
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RT @TelGlobalHealth: How the Jonestown massacre became a blueprint for radicalisation
The dangerous groupthink behind the world’s most not…
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New dispatch for @TelGlobalHealth with @SimonTownsley from Guyana, the country with the fastest growing economy in the world after offshore oil wells started production. Yet, the gulf in wealth between those benefiting the boom and the 48% still living in poverty remains stark.
25 Nov 2025
Guyana’s oil bonanza: Will the vast wealth it is generating ever trickle down?
Black gold promises to transform the sleepy backwater into the new Qatar. Yet, so far, it has brought more hardship to its poorest people
✍️ @ParryTom and @SimonTownsley
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Wonderful to participate in the inspirational @premioluchetta award programme in beautiful Trieste during the weekend. Always an impressive shortlist, and with genuine integrity in its continued dedication to the journalistic values of brave Italian reporters who lost their lives
23 Nov 2025
🎥 Riguarda alcuni highlight della seconda giornata del #Premioluchetta!
Vi aspettiamo oggi al Teatro Miela a Trieste con la giornata conclusiva.
Link al programma 👉 premioluchetta.com/
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22 Oct 2025
‘We can’t become a narco-state’
South America's tiny state of Guyana could soon find itself caught in the crossfire of Donald Trump’s renewed war against drug smuggling
Dispatch by @ParryTom and @SimonTownsley
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My dispatch for @TelGlobalHealth from Guyana's disputed border with Venezuela, where recent US attacks on boats has prompted the smugglers to switch tactics, with @SimonTownsley - Caught between corruption and the cartels in South America’s new drug war telegraph.co.uk/global-healt…
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Very pleased to have made the shortlist in the Environmental Journalism (National) category for this year’s @EditorsUK Media Freedom Awards for three dispatches I wrote for @TelGlobalHealth - on plastic pollution and health impacts of rising salinity societyofeditors.org/events/…
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My dispatch from the most plastic-polluted river in the world. Ahead of plastic treaty talks next month, myself and @SimonTownsley saw the disastrous impact of a whole city throwing its household trash into a once beautiful valley. Plastic production has doubled in last 25 yrs
22 Jul 2025
(1/5) ‘This was a beautiful place – now look at it’: The river swallowed by plastic
Guatemala’s Rio Las Vacas is the most polluted river in the world, accounting for 2 per cent of the global total of river-derived plastic that enters the oceans
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My dispatch from the most plastic-polluted river in the world, the Rio Las Vacas near Guatemala City. Ahead of plastic treaty talks next month, myself and @SimonTownsley watched people throwing their trash directly into the ravine, with dire consequences telegraph.co.uk/global-healt…
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17 Jul 2025
Read and weep. This conflict needs to be wrapped up now….⬇️⬇️⬇️
Malnutrition surging in Gaza as snipers target ‘heads, legs and genitals’, says Oxford surgeon telegraph.co.uk/global-healt…
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My Glastonbury review for @louderthanwar
2 Jul 2025
Glastonbury 2025 - Festival Review
'Can Glastonbury live up to the weight of expectation? Louder Than War’s Tom Parry was on hand to breathe in the vibes and the big stories and the eclectic spirit of the UK's number one festival.'
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26 Jun 2025
‘Man-eating’ screw worm turns hospital into horror show
A long-forgotten parasite has made a comeback and is reasserting its dominance in Honduras
Words @ParryTom and photos by @SimonTownsley
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Dispatch for @TelGlobalHealth from Honduras, where I saw the distressing impact of New World screwworm on vulnerable people. This parasite had been eradicated from much of Central America but is again prospering, with illegal cattle ranching being blamed telegraph.co.uk/global-healt…
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16 Apr 2025
Interesting feature by @ParryTom on the funding crisis in international aid - some models more resilient than others, it seems
International aid sector looks to new business models as government funding dries up telegraph.co.uk/global-healt…
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Counterfeit motorcycle helmets contribute to so many people being seriously injured or killed in many cities across Africa and Asia. I would never have appreciated this before interviewing victims and their families in Togo and Kenya. A lifesaving initiative by @RoadSafetyNGOs
17 Mar 2025
🎥 Watch the full video, and discover the reality roads of Nepal: youtu.be/ae4i5UpXQOw?si=TClc…
📖 Read the White Paper and join our call for safe helmers for all: roadsafetyngos.org/act-now/h…
Project supported by @Uber
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Tom Parry retweeted
18 Mar 2025
‘Measles is back’: cases in the EU have jumped by ten-fold.
Cases of the Victorian-era disease in Europe surged by nearly 30,000 from 2023 to 2024.
@maeve_cullinan has the latest.
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