Emily Lawford

London

Commissioning Editor at Prospect Magazine

Commissioning editor @prospect_uk | Previously @EveningStandard | [email protected]

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Articles

Confessions of a San Fran stripper

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Emily Lawford
This ghost story perfectly captures the horrors of Generation Rent

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Emily Lawford
Mining, hellish? Plenty of men miss it

2 months ago | msn.com | Emily Lawford

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Mining, hellish? Plenty of men miss it

2 months ago | msn.com | Emily Lawford

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Mining Men by Emily Webber: 4-star review

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Emily Lawford

There were a lot of ways to die in a coal mine. You could stumble upon a deadly gas, which they called “damp”: “choke-damp” (carbon dioxide and nitrogen), “white damp” (toxic carbon monoxide) and the most dangerous, “fire damp” (flammable methane). The pit could flood or the roof could cave in. Weil’s disease, contracted from the urine of underground rats, could lead to kidney failure.
Peta founder Ingrid Newkirk: ‘The press wants something sexy‘

Jan 21, 2025 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Emily Lawford

When she dies, Ingrid Newkirk wants her skin to be turned into a leather belt and an umbrella stand to be fashioned from one of her feet. In her will, which she has published online, she asks that her flesh be carved up and grilled on a barbeque and one of her eyes delivered to the Home Office—a reminder, she hopes, that Peta is watching. After all, Newkirk, who founded Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) in March 1980, is no stranger to using grand gestures to make a point.
Uketsu, Japan's 'mystery horror' phenomenon arrives in Britain

Jan 10, 2025 | thetimes.com | Emily Lawford
Esther Rantzen: ‘I’m not seeking to shorten my life, only my death’

Nov 28, 2024 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Emily Lawford

Esther Rantzen has to talk about death too much. In 2023, the former BBC That’s Life! presenter and founder of Childline was diagnosed with lung cancer. Her diagnosis made her value every new day, she tells me over email, and stop feeling bored. It also made her sign up to membership of Dignitas, the Swiss euthanasia clinic. Rantzen, now 84, has since become a passionate advocate for assisted dying, urging people to write to their MP to back the current bill before parliament.
Troll by Johanna Sinisalo review - a very weird love story

Nov 22, 2024 | thetimes.com | Emily Lawford

Do trolls age in dog years or like humans? What’s the troll age of consent? Johanna Sinisalo’s novel Troll: A Love Story may have you fruitlessly googling a few questions along these lines. Sinisalo coined the term suomikumma —“Finnish weird” to describe her work. Weird is an understatement. Troll was first published in Finland in 2000 and won the Finlandia prize. A 2003 translation by Herbert Lomas was titled Not Before Sundown, after a line from an old Finnish song about meeting a troll at dusk.
The strange optimism of the Conservative conference

Oct 3, 2024 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Emily Lawford

Nineteen-ninety seven wasn’t the worst Conservative party conference, a Tory supporter reflected. That was in 1998, once they’d realised how bad opposition was going to be. In 2024, at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, everyone agreed the Tories were buoyant. “The thing we had hanging over us for several years—defeat—has happened,” Neil O’Brien, the MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, told me. “Labour has had a worse start than people expected, with cronyism and wardrobe stories.