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Nick Dowson

Nick Dowson. Photo: Jacopo Rufo

Nick Dowson is a writer and investigative journalist who has written on topics including health, technology and power, housing, transport and the environment. From 2017-2018 he worked as part of New Internationalist’s online editorial team.

Nick Dowson is known as @nickmdowson on Twitter

Articles by Nick Dowson

Sirens: a top recommendation from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Edinburgh Festival Fringe: top picks
Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe, Nick Dowson suggests a few shows to get your teeth stuck into.
Passengers at Clapham Junction, south London. According to a 2017 Legatum Institute poll 76 per cent of British passengers want the railways in public ownership.
The efficiency myth
Nick Dowson dismantles the notion that the private sector does things better.
humanitarian drones
Humanitarian drones and other anachronisms
Aid-by-drone, what’s not to like? New tech in the sector brings many problems, Nick Dowson explains.
Anabela Carlón Flores
Meet Anabela Carlón Flores
Nick Dowson speaks with the indigenous lawyer and campaigner fighting a gas pipeline in Mexico.
Showtime from the Frontline: Alaa Shehada, Mark Thomas and Faisal Abu Alhayja.
Using comedy to break down stereotypes
Nick Dowson reports on Mark Thomas’s attempt to train a comedy troupe in the West Bank.
Saving our underwater meadows
Citizens are coming to the rescue of endangered seagrass meadows, writes Nick Dowson.
Game over for hunters in Tanzania
Maasai activists are hopeful that they will return to traditional grazing grounds lost to big-game trophy hunters, Nick Dowson...
Automation and basic income.
Plutocrats and paupers: life after robots
If automation decimates jobs, we need better solutions than these, argues Nick Dowson.
Brexit’s threat to Africa trade
Nick Dowson reports on Brexit’s impact on some Global South economies.
Monbiot: ‘we need that new political narrative’
The acclaimed journalist talks to Nick Dowson about how to get out of the mess we’re in.
Why a basic income could be a gift to the Right
The desirability of a basic income depends on what we are expected to give up in return, writes Nick Dowson.

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