Isabelle Roughol
@isabelleroughol.com
Journalist + immigrant. Telling stories & building media orgs where people love to work. World affairs & women’s history nerd. 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - understandably mistaken for 🇺🇸 - once 🇦🇺 & 🇰🇭 - forever MIZ 🐯
Indie media gets ripped off across borders now: spotted @jim.londoncentric.media ´s snail farm story on French public radio, uncredited of course www.instagram.com/reel/DRVTNf7...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Indie media gets ripped off across borders now: spotted @jim.londoncentric.media ´s snail farm story on French public radio, uncredited of course www.instagram.com/reel/DRVTNf7...
When the three countries you love & belong to are France, the UK and the US, and you believe in principled and effective government, every day you’re conscious is a tough one right now.
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
When the three countries you love & belong to are France, the UK and the US, and you believe in principled and effective government, every day you’re conscious is a tough one right now.
The "we went the proper route" argument from 2nd gen immigrants is like Boomers saying you just need to scrimp a little to buy a house – wilfully ignorant of reality to the point of cruelty.
Mahmood writes in today's paper on "earned settlement," which will move the goalposts for people here, about her parents from Pakistan who "became Brits."
As context, arriving pre-1973, her dad probably would've been granted settlement *immediately* and could register as a UK citizen after 5 years.
As context, arriving pre-1973, her dad probably would've been granted settlement *immediately* and could register as a UK citizen after 5 years.
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The "we went the proper route" argument from 2nd gen immigrants is like Boomers saying you just need to scrimp a little to buy a house – wilfully ignorant of reality to the point of cruelty.
I'm getting a bunch of new subscribers to my newsletter, mostly based in Germany, direct from homepage with no referral source, even though I've not published anything lately or advertised. If you can explain it, please do.
November 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I'm getting a bunch of new subscribers to my newsletter, mostly based in Germany, direct from homepage with no referral source, even though I've not published anything lately or advertised. If you can explain it, please do.
People are hallucinating the meaning of a piece of AI “art”. Worst timeline once more.
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
People are hallucinating the meaning of a piece of AI “art”. Worst timeline once more.
It’s a pretty scary time being an immigrant, even a lawful one.
This… 👇
We Came Here Legally. ICE Locked Us Up Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
We Came Here Legally. ICE Locked Us Up Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
Opinion | We Came Here Legally. ICE Locked Us Up Anyway.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
It’s a pretty scary time being an immigrant, even a lawful one.
what this moment is really calling for is a piece of nostalgiacore lifestyle journalism
November 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
what this moment is really calling for is a piece of nostalgiacore lifestyle journalism
what this moment is really calling for is a piece of nostalgiacore lifestyle journalism
November 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
what this moment is really calling for is a piece of nostalgiacore lifestyle journalism
I’m with Jonn on this one. I get why we have to operate that way, but let’s all admit it’s a bit absurd.
We're stuck with it, but determining someone's legal rights based on a nebulous combination of birthplace and parentage is actually pretty fucking weird, and it'd be better if we talked about it as an unfortunate practical necessity not a natural phenomenon
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I’m with Jonn on this one. I get why we have to operate that way, but let’s all admit it’s a bit absurd.
I have officially passed the upper threshold of 16,000 words on the dissertation and will have to make some cuts but by Jove, it is getting quite... good?
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I have officially passed the upper threshold of 16,000 words on the dissertation and will have to make some cuts but by Jove, it is getting quite... good?
Honestly, newspapers, you can't keep doing this. There are 18 words of the story I came to read on this entire (wide) screen.
November 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Honestly, newspapers, you can't keep doing this. There are 18 words of the story I came to read on this entire (wide) screen.
Getting near my final word count on the dissertation and... can I please, pretty please, just get an extra 2,000 words?
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Getting near my final word count on the dissertation and... can I please, pretty please, just get an extra 2,000 words?
Tried to preorder from Boots to just make things faster at the store tomorrow morning. The fastest they can do a click & collect order is... 6 days. Always stunning to find a company with no online retail game in 2025.
November 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Tried to preorder from Boots to just make things faster at the store tomorrow morning. The fastest they can do a click & collect order is... 6 days. Always stunning to find a company with no online retail game in 2025.
I (unscientifically) estimate I've spent at least 15% of my dissertation research time on choppy library wifi, incessant logouts from databases, inexplicable blocks on useful sites and ebooks suddenly becoming inaccessible.
November 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I (unscientifically) estimate I've spent at least 15% of my dissertation research time on choppy library wifi, incessant logouts from databases, inexplicable blocks on useful sites and ebooks suddenly becoming inaccessible.
Watched House of Dynamite and sure, it’s a race to nuclear war, but I found it soothing the way it portrayed competent US government
October 31, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Watched House of Dynamite and sure, it’s a race to nuclear war, but I found it soothing the way it portrayed competent US government
Make it make sense: ebooks with page numbers that change depending on device/screen size. What other use is there for page numbers except being able to reliably tell someone "hey, check out page 64"?
October 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Make it make sense: ebooks with page numbers that change depending on device/screen size. What other use is there for page numbers except being able to reliably tell someone "hey, check out page 64"?
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Please forgive me for making a dark joke in print about a very serious story
October 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Please forgive me for making a dark joke in print about a very serious story
The way the Today show has interviewed two separate white tourist families about the Jamaica storm in the last 15 mn, but not one of the hundreds of thousands of dual citizens or Britons with Jamaican relatives tells you all you need to know about immigrant representation in this country’s media.
October 28, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The way the Today show has interviewed two separate white tourist families about the Jamaica storm in the last 15 mn, but not one of the hundreds of thousands of dual citizens or Britons with Jamaican relatives tells you all you need to know about immigrant representation in this country’s media.
Knowing exactly who these people are and then… inviting them round to the house for your teenage daughter’s birthday 🤯 🤢 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Prince Andrew hosted Epstein, Maxwell and Weinstein at Royal Lodge
The trio were at Andrew's mansion in 2006 as part of his daughter Beatrice's 18th birthday celebrations.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Knowing exactly who these people are and then… inviting them round to the house for your teenage daughter’s birthday 🤯 🤢 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Me on the Internet
2005: swatting away pop-up ads
2015: swatting away autoplay videos
2020: swatting away GDPR policies
2025: swatting away AI assistants
2005: swatting away pop-up ads
2015: swatting away autoplay videos
2020: swatting away GDPR policies
2025: swatting away AI assistants
October 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Me on the Internet
2005: swatting away pop-up ads
2015: swatting away autoplay videos
2020: swatting away GDPR policies
2025: swatting away AI assistants
2005: swatting away pop-up ads
2015: swatting away autoplay videos
2020: swatting away GDPR policies
2025: swatting away AI assistants
If in 2025, you subscribe me to your newsletter without asking, I won't just unsubscribe. I will mark you as spam, block you and do everything in my power to destroy your domain reputation. Sorry not sorry.
October 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
If in 2025, you subscribe me to your newsletter without asking, I won't just unsubscribe. I will mark you as spam, block you and do everything in my power to destroy your domain reputation. Sorry not sorry.
I’m ok (except, you know, the journalism job market…) but I am holding up multiple very dear people through extremely tough mental health moments and my god, is this just what middle age is going to be?
October 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I’m ok (except, you know, the journalism job market…) but I am holding up multiple very dear people through extremely tough mental health moments and my god, is this just what middle age is going to be?
@radiofrance.fr Il serait si bon, pour l'accessibilité et pour la recherche, que vous publiiez les transcripts de vos émissions. Un vrai casse-tête de référencer les propos d'un chercheur quand il n'y en a aucune trace écrite. Et puis sympa pour les malentendants...
October 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
@radiofrance.fr Il serait si bon, pour l'accessibilité et pour la recherche, que vous publiiez les transcripts de vos émissions. Un vrai casse-tête de référencer les propos d'un chercheur quand il n'y en a aucune trace écrite. Et puis sympa pour les malentendants...
If you wanna see life, go to your public library. And I don't mean in the books. I'm sitting between a couple high school girls giggling, an older man annotating sheet music with a very serious face on and a middle-aged man failing to hide his tears while handwriting a letter in Chinese.
October 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
If you wanna see life, go to your public library. And I don't mean in the books. I'm sitting between a couple high school girls giggling, an older man annotating sheet music with a very serious face on and a middle-aged man failing to hide his tears while handwriting a letter in Chinese.
Editing like this makes me so angry. In the newsletter, it's a point blank affirmation. In the headline, it's actually in quotes. In the lede, it's a statement from a government minister. Read on... and there is zero evidence put forth in the article.
October 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Editing like this makes me so angry. In the newsletter, it's a point blank affirmation. In the headline, it's actually in quotes. In the lede, it's a statement from a government minister. Read on... and there is zero evidence put forth in the article.