Mathilda Mallinson
@mathildamall.bsky.social
Middle East Eye Journalist. I write columns & record podcasts critiquing news and platforming the voices missing from the mainstream. Can talk all things immigration.
📝 @bylinetimes.bsky.social 🎙️Media Storm podcast
📝 @bylinetimes.bsky.social 🎙️Media Storm podcast
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🔴How Western Media Whitewashed Israel’s Mass-Abduction of Activists
Over 450 members of the aid flotilla to Gaza are now being held by Israel in an “anti-terror” prison in the Negev desert, reports @mathildamall.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/h...
Over 450 members of the aid flotilla to Gaza are now being held by Israel in an “anti-terror” prison in the Negev desert, reports @mathildamall.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/h...
How Western Media Whitewashed Israel’s Mass-Abduction of Activists
Over 450 members of the aid flotilla to Gaza are now being held by Israel in an “anti-terror” prison in the Negev desert
bylinetimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Please read. Please share. This is not ok.
Reposted by Mathilda Mallinson
On today’s News Watch:
👉 Doctors strike - do they make £100k?
👉 Zohran Mamdani’s win reveals rampant Islamophobia
👉 What does the Afghan data leak tell us about the UK media’s priorities?
👉 Japan’s far-right surge
🎙️ Your hosts are
@helenawadia.bsky.social &
@mathildamall.bsky.social
LISTEN ⤵️
👉 Doctors strike - do they make £100k?
👉 Zohran Mamdani’s win reveals rampant Islamophobia
👉 What does the Afghan data leak tell us about the UK media’s priorities?
👉 Japan’s far-right surge
🎙️ Your hosts are
@helenawadia.bsky.social &
@mathildamall.bsky.social
LISTEN ⤵️
News Watch: Striking doctors' salaries, Islamophobia against Zohran Mamdani, and Japan's far-right surge
Media Storm · Episode
open.spotify.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
On today’s News Watch:
👉 Doctors strike - do they make £100k?
👉 Zohran Mamdani’s win reveals rampant Islamophobia
👉 What does the Afghan data leak tell us about the UK media’s priorities?
👉 Japan’s far-right surge
🎙️ Your hosts are
@helenawadia.bsky.social &
@mathildamall.bsky.social
LISTEN ⤵️
👉 Doctors strike - do they make £100k?
👉 Zohran Mamdani’s win reveals rampant Islamophobia
👉 What does the Afghan data leak tell us about the UK media’s priorities?
👉 Japan’s far-right surge
🎙️ Your hosts are
@helenawadia.bsky.social &
@mathildamall.bsky.social
LISTEN ⤵️
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🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
‘What is a woman?’ The question that has plagued British media and distracted politians for years.
This episode, we ask: why?
🗣️ With @katymontgomerie.com
🎙️ Hosts @helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social
‘What is a woman?’ The question that has plagued British media and distracted politians for years.
This episode, we ask: why?
🗣️ With @katymontgomerie.com
🎙️ Hosts @helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social
What is a woman? Common sense vs culture wars
Media Storm · Episode
open.spotify.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
‘What is a woman?’ The question that has plagued British media and distracted politians for years.
This episode, we ask: why?
🗣️ With @katymontgomerie.com
🎙️ Hosts @helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social
‘What is a woman?’ The question that has plagued British media and distracted politians for years.
This episode, we ask: why?
🗣️ With @katymontgomerie.com
🎙️ Hosts @helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social
'Poor Piers Morgan... that is the most upset I ever get.'
UN Special Rapporteur to the occupied Palestine Territories Francesca Albanese reacts with MEE Live's @mathildamall to "that" Piers Morgan clip where she ends the interview with him prematurely our of frustration.
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UN Special Rapporteur to the occupied Palestine Territories Francesca Albanese reacts with MEE Live's @mathildamall to "that" Piers Morgan clip where she ends the interview with him prematurely our of frustration.
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June 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Any ideas? 👀🙏
🔴‘When Hate Spreads Faster Than Truth, Should We Fight Fascism With Censorship?’
Censorship is dangerous, but I am struggling to see how we fight the rising tide of hate and fear without it, writes @mathildamall.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/w...
Censorship is dangerous, but I am struggling to see how we fight the rising tide of hate and fear without it, writes @mathildamall.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/w...
'When Hate Spreads Faster Than Truth, Should We Fight Fascism With Censorship?'
Censorship is dangerous, but I am struggling to see how we fight the rising tide of hate and fear without it, writes Mathilda Mallinson
bylinetimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Any ideas? 👀🙏
Reposted by Mathilda Mallinson
What does Hungary’s decision to withdraw from the ICC mean for international law? Should we be worried?
Our Director @tayabali.bsky.social spoke with @mathildamall.bsky.social of Middle East Eye to explain why accountability will win out in the long run.
#Hungary #InternationalLaw #ICC
Our Director @tayabali.bsky.social spoke with @mathildamall.bsky.social of Middle East Eye to explain why accountability will win out in the long run.
#Hungary #InternationalLaw #ICC
May 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
What does Hungary’s decision to withdraw from the ICC mean for international law? Should we be worried?
Our Director @tayabali.bsky.social spoke with @mathildamall.bsky.social of Middle East Eye to explain why accountability will win out in the long run.
#Hungary #InternationalLaw #ICC
Our Director @tayabali.bsky.social spoke with @mathildamall.bsky.social of Middle East Eye to explain why accountability will win out in the long run.
#Hungary #InternationalLaw #ICC
I measured Starmer’s immigration white paper against his own standards. He found himself wanting.
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'Keir Starmer’s Painful Immigration Speech Is a Direct Affront to the Diagnosis He Was Voted in On'
The PM's white paper was not the 'evidence-led' policymaking he promised, rather it was 'cheap, short-termist, headline politics', writes Mathilda Mallinson
bylinetimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I measured Starmer’s immigration white paper against his own standards. He found himself wanting.
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
We are back. And we’re coming for Starmer.
MEDIA STORM SERIES 6 IS OUT NOW!
Kicking off with a News Watch:
🔴 Post-Brexit #tradedeal hypocrisy
🔴 #GérardDepardieu is guilty of sexual assault, so why is the media heroising him?
🔴 Taking apart Keir Starmer's now infamous #immigration speech
Listen 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/73It...
Kicking off with a News Watch:
🔴 Post-Brexit #tradedeal hypocrisy
🔴 #GérardDepardieu is guilty of sexual assault, so why is the media heroising him?
🔴 Taking apart Keir Starmer's now infamous #immigration speech
Listen 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/73It...
News Watch: Post-Brexit trade deals, Gérard Depardieu convicted, Starmer's immigration speech
Media Storm · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We are back. And we’re coming for Starmer.
Any listeners out there? We’re going live! I’d really love to meet those of you who value what we do at Media Storm (or have no idea what we do but have your own ideas about how the media can improve). Come join us for some fun & fury on 20th May ✨
Join us at the Media Storm LIVE recording!
👉 With LBC presenter @natashadevon.bsky.social and funny man @miloedwards.bsky.social
🎟️ Tickets here!: www.aegpresents.co.uk/event/media-...
We’d love to see you there 🩵
👉 With LBC presenter @natashadevon.bsky.social and funny man @miloedwards.bsky.social
🎟️ Tickets here!: www.aegpresents.co.uk/event/media-...
We’d love to see you there 🩵
May 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Any listeners out there? We’re going live! I’d really love to meet those of you who value what we do at Media Storm (or have no idea what we do but have your own ideas about how the media can improve). Come join us for some fun & fury on 20th May ✨
1/ Why did UK media not pick up this story? Of all mainstream outlets it only made the Guardian, oddly a full 24 hours later.
A secret meeting in London between UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, and Israel's Foreign Affairs minister Gideon Sa'ar 👉 This *should* have been a major political story...
A secret meeting in London between UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, and Israel's Foreign Affairs minister Gideon Sa'ar 👉 This *should* have been a major political story...
April 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
1/ Why did UK media not pick up this story? Of all mainstream outlets it only made the Guardian, oddly a full 24 hours later.
A secret meeting in London between UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, and Israel's Foreign Affairs minister Gideon Sa'ar 👉 This *should* have been a major political story...
A secret meeting in London between UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, and Israel's Foreign Affairs minister Gideon Sa'ar 👉 This *should* have been a major political story...
Reposted by Mathilda Mallinson
Having excluded all trans people from proceedings before it, the Supreme Court decides in favour of For Some Women Scotland.
April 16, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Having excluded all trans people from proceedings before it, the Supreme Court decides in favour of For Some Women Scotland.
Reposted by Mathilda Mallinson
Huge, if true.
April 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Huge, if true.
Situation A: 14 abuse allegations against one male professor result in him staying and multiple female staff resigning in protest
Situation B: Academia gets more male-dominated every level up you go
Is it possible Situations A and B are related? I investigated.
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/17/m...
Situation B: Academia gets more male-dominated every level up you go
Is it possible Situations A and B are related? I investigated.
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/17/m...
Media Storm Investigates: Are Universities Protecting Predatory Professors?
Universities have turned the complaints process into a 'warning not to challenge the behaviour of men and the institutions that protect them', reports Mathilda Mallinson
bylinetimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Situation A: 14 abuse allegations against one male professor result in him staying and multiple female staff resigning in protest
Situation B: Academia gets more male-dominated every level up you go
Is it possible Situations A and B are related? I investigated.
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/17/m...
Situation B: Academia gets more male-dominated every level up you go
Is it possible Situations A and B are related? I investigated.
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/17/m...
I spoke to women leaving academia posts because they feel universities are protecting predatory professors.
Is this one cause for the ‘leaky pipeline’ problem, which sees women falling out of academia at every rung of the ladder?
Is this one cause for the ‘leaky pipeline’ problem, which sees women falling out of academia at every rung of the ladder?
The journalists at @mediastormpod.bsky.social podcast are fab and always speak to the unheard voices often ignored by the media. So many great episodes but this recent one is relevant to our research ecosystems.
Abuse in academia: Are universities protecting predatory professors?
Épisode de l’émission · Media Storm · 13/03/2025 · 43 min
podcasts.apple.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I spoke to women leaving academia posts because they feel universities are protecting predatory professors.
Is this one cause for the ‘leaky pipeline’ problem, which sees women falling out of academia at every rung of the ladder?
Is this one cause for the ‘leaky pipeline’ problem, which sees women falling out of academia at every rung of the ladder?
Reposted by Mathilda Mallinson
🔴'The Media is Misreporting Why People Aren't Having Children'
These are the real reasons birth rates are falling, argue @mathildamall.bsky.social and @helenawadia.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/10/b...
These are the real reasons birth rates are falling, argue @mathildamall.bsky.social and @helenawadia.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/10/b...
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🔴'The Media is Misreporting Why People Aren't Having Children'
These are the real reasons birth rates are falling, argue @mathildamall.bsky.social and @helenawadia.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/10/b...
These are the real reasons birth rates are falling, argue @mathildamall.bsky.social and @helenawadia.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/10/b...
Believe it or not, I went on a Channel 4 reality show titled ‘Go Back To Where You Came From’ to try to fight sensationalist polarisation. It was really hard.
Here’s what I learned.
Here’s what I learned.
‘I went on Channel 4 Show Go Back To Where You Came From – There’s One Thing We All Agreed on’
Mathilda Mallinson was one of two pro-immigration cast members on the controversial Channel 4 show. She explains what the show taught her
Mathilda Mallinson was one of two pro-immigration cast members on the controversial Channel 4 show. She explains what the show taught her
‘I went on Channel 4 Show Go Back To Where You Came From – There’s One Thing We All Agreed on’
Mathilda Mallinson was one of two pro-immigration cast members on the controversial Channel 4 show. She explains what the show taught her
bylinetimes.com
March 2, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Believe it or not, I went on a Channel 4 reality show titled ‘Go Back To Where You Came From’ to try to fight sensationalist polarisation. It was really hard.
Here’s what I learned.
Here’s what I learned.
I’m calling for a trump news boycott
Please.
Please.
February 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I’m calling for a trump news boycott
Please.
Please.
👋 Bluesky followers, if you’re sussing out whether I’m worth your feed, this podcast is the best way to know. Here’s our latest weekly news watch (wrapped just before Jeff Bezos took a shit on America’s free press).
Our USP? 👇
Our USP? 👇
Today’s #NewsWatch:
➡️ Palestinian-American child’s murder trial
➡️ BBC Gaza documentary pulled from streaming
➡️ Is history repeating itself in Germany?
& more
open.spotify.com/episode/5Xou...
➡️ Palestinian-American child’s murder trial
➡️ BBC Gaza documentary pulled from streaming
➡️ Is history repeating itself in Germany?
& more
open.spotify.com/episode/5Xou...
News Watch: Palestinian child murder trial, BBC Gaza doc, and is history repeating in Germany?
Media Storm · Episode
open.spotify.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
👋 Bluesky followers, if you’re sussing out whether I’m worth your feed, this podcast is the best way to know. Here’s our latest weekly news watch (wrapped just before Jeff Bezos took a shit on America’s free press).
Our USP? 👇
Our USP? 👇
We have a winner
February 20, 2025 at 7:27 AM
We have a winner
Sadly think we’re playing a fool’s game throwing moral words like ‘appals’ and ‘shameful’ at Trump.
His currency is ego. So mock the idiot swallowing what Putin shoves down his throat. Laugh cos the US chose a gullible child. Say this man is thick as fuck.‘Stuns the world’ is praise to him.
His currency is ego. So mock the idiot swallowing what Putin shoves down his throat. Laugh cos the US chose a gullible child. Say this man is thick as fuck.‘Stuns the world’ is praise to him.
February 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Sadly think we’re playing a fool’s game throwing moral words like ‘appals’ and ‘shameful’ at Trump.
His currency is ego. So mock the idiot swallowing what Putin shoves down his throat. Laugh cos the US chose a gullible child. Say this man is thick as fuck.‘Stuns the world’ is praise to him.
His currency is ego. So mock the idiot swallowing what Putin shoves down his throat. Laugh cos the US chose a gullible child. Say this man is thick as fuck.‘Stuns the world’ is praise to him.
Reposted by Mathilda Mallinson
💥 Latest episode
❓Why does asexuality make the media so angry?
🎙️ Featuring @theyasminbenoit.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/2Hr4...
❓Why does asexuality make the media so angry?
🎙️ Featuring @theyasminbenoit.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/2Hr4...
S5E2 Why does asexuality make the media so angry?
Media Storm · Episode
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February 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
💥 Latest episode
❓Why does asexuality make the media so angry?
🎙️ Featuring @theyasminbenoit.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/2Hr4...
❓Why does asexuality make the media so angry?
🎙️ Featuring @theyasminbenoit.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/2Hr4...
Reposted by Mathilda Mallinson
Today’s NEWS WATCH:
🗞️ Trump’s “war” on women’s sport
🗞️ Hostage handovers are delayed: why?
🗞️ Is Labour Reform-ing?
🎙️ Hosted by
@helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/2S5g...
🗞️ Trump’s “war” on women’s sport
🗞️ Hostage handovers are delayed: why?
🗞️ Is Labour Reform-ing?
🎙️ Hosted by
@helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/2S5g...
News Watch: Trump’s ‘war on women’s sports’, hostage handovers, and is Labour Reform-ing?
Media Storm · Episode
open.spotify.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Today’s NEWS WATCH:
🗞️ Trump’s “war” on women’s sport
🗞️ Hostage handovers are delayed: why?
🗞️ Is Labour Reform-ing?
🎙️ Hosted by
@helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/2S5g...
🗞️ Trump’s “war” on women’s sport
🗞️ Hostage handovers are delayed: why?
🗞️ Is Labour Reform-ing?
🎙️ Hosted by
@helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/2S5g...
There are (a small but loud number of) people who used Somali women’s testimonies of FGM as a ‘cultural’ case against taking in refugees, after it appeared on C4’s #gobacktowhereyoucamefrom
We invited those women to respond directly on @mediastormpod.bsky.social
We invited those women to respond directly on @mediastormpod.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
There are (a small but loud number of) people who used Somali women’s testimonies of FGM as a ‘cultural’ case against taking in refugees, after it appeared on C4’s #gobacktowhereyoucamefrom
We invited those women to respond directly on @mediastormpod.bsky.social
We invited those women to respond directly on @mediastormpod.bsky.social
Reposted by Mathilda Mallinson
🔴FGM: How Can We Achieve Zero Tolerance With Zero Coverage?
230m girls and women alive today are believed to have been subjected to some form of female genital mutilation – yet it rarely ever makes the news
@mathildamall.bsky.social & @helenawadia.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/f...
230m girls and women alive today are believed to have been subjected to some form of female genital mutilation – yet it rarely ever makes the news
@mathildamall.bsky.social & @helenawadia.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/f...
FGM: How Can We Achieve Zero Tolerance With Zero Coverage?
An estimated 230 million girls and women alive today are believed to have been subjected to some form of female genital mutilation - yet it rarely ever makes the news
bylinetimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🔴FGM: How Can We Achieve Zero Tolerance With Zero Coverage?
230m girls and women alive today are believed to have been subjected to some form of female genital mutilation – yet it rarely ever makes the news
@mathildamall.bsky.social & @helenawadia.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/f...
230m girls and women alive today are believed to have been subjected to some form of female genital mutilation – yet it rarely ever makes the news
@mathildamall.bsky.social & @helenawadia.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/f...