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Nichi Hodgson

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(She/Her)
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As seen in: BBC, Sky News, TalkTV, BBC Sounds, Business Insider, Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Daily Express, Metro (UK), NBC News, Broadly, Cosmopolitan (UK) and
Covers:  General news/current affairs, politics, technology ethics, law, parenting, feminism, gender, mental health
Doesn't Cover: Banking/finance
Broadcaster: bit.ly/3WGWv3O Author: bit.ly/historyofdating Journalist: muckrack.com/nichi-hodgson & @alsofestival co-curator

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Nichi Hodgson’s Biography

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Want a politically-astute, policy-grounded view on the issues others treat as mere 'lifestyle' topics? From gender issues and mental health, to tech surveillance and Tory sleaze, with more than a decade's journalism experience in the international media, commission me to speak or write, and I will express myself with flair, verve, and confidence on TV, radio, in print, or digitally.

I've been a regular newspaper reviewer for Sky News for more than a decade, and now debate everywhere from BBCR2 …

Nichi Hodgson’s Journalist Portfolio

After my father died I was sectioned with severe psychosis

After my father died I was sectioned with severe psychosis

Grieving and alone, I lost control of my mind. Soon I thought a trafficking ring was after me and that I was …

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Nichi speaks on abortion laws on BBC R2 Jeremy Vine

Nichi speaks on abortion laws on BBC R2 Jeremy Vine

Nichi discusses the case of Carla Foster, the 44-year-old mother of three who was sentenced to jail for takin…

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My dream microwedding

My dream microwedding

Why my pandemic microwedding was every bit as special as I had hoped for - by Nichi Hodgson

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Are food banks being POLITICISED | Mike Parry and Nichi Hodgson CLASH over Britain's safety net

Are food banks being POLITICISED | Mike Parry and Nichi Hodgson CLASH over Britain's safety net

On Breakfast with Stephen and Rosie, broadcaster Mike Parry and author Nichi Hodgson debate Britain's food ba…

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Why overhauling the student loan system will penalise poorer graduates

Why overhauling the student loan system will penalise poorer graduates

Nichi discusses Tory plans to overhaul the student loan system and how it will penalise vital lower earners.

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Articles

Young people need jobs, not therapy Original

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By Nichi Hodgson Verified
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Wes Streeting must be mad to think a few therapy sessions will solve the UK’s worklessness epidemic. Share Topics UK Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. In case you missed it, UK health secretary Wes Streeting has just had a brainwave. If you’re a millennial, and this thing called ‘life’ is your problem, then apparently talking therapy on the NHS is the solution.
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Jilly Cooper was the undisputed queen of smut

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By Nichi Hodgson Verified
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Her posh bonkbusters capture the joy of sex, love and desire like nothing else. Share Topics Culture Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Desire, sex expert Esther Perel tells us, lives in the gap between the unknown and the unknowable. It’s why married life – with its warts-and-all reckoning with someone you used to be insatiably curious about – tends to kill it.
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Jilly Cooper was the undisputed queen of smut

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By Nichi Hodgson Verified, Brendan O'Neill Verified
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Her posh bonkbusters capture the joy of sex, love and desire like nothing else. Share Topics Culture Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Desire, sex expert Esther Perel tells us, lives in the gap between the unknown and the unknowable. It’s why married life – with its warts-and-all reckoning with someone you used to be insatiably curious about – tends to kill it.
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Interview

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What was your first job as a journalist?

Copytaker for PA in Leeds

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Oh yes, I learned to type in a typewriter as my mum was actually a typing teacher at one point! It was electronic - I'm not THAT old!

How is social media changing news?

For the better, allowing more people to engage with it that wouldn't have traditionally. For the worse, driving us to more sensationalism.