Gavin Haines

London

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Journalist, travel writer and sometime columnist. Associate editor @PositiveNewsUK. Writes for @Telegraph @BBC @NatGeo @theipaper. Home is #Nunhead.

Articles

What went right this week: the good news that matters

3 weeks ago | positive.news | Gavin Haines

Scientists hailed a ‘golden age’ for cancer treatment, a cure for HIV moved closer, and Argentina got a vast new marine reserve, plus more good news Conservation Energy Environment Health Innovation Lifestyle Society UK World Scientists hailed a ‘golden age’ for cancer treatment, a cure for HIV moved closer, and Argentina got a vast new marine reserve, plus more good news Scientists heralded ‘golden age’ for cancer treatment Cancer survival rates have doubled in England and Wales over the...
A museum on the move: new institution captures human stories of migration

3 weeks ago | positive.news | Gavin Haines

Migration has become a politically charged topic of late. Those behind Fenix Rotterdam hope to offer a nuanced picture of the ‘timeless and universal’ phenomenon Arts Culture Lifestyle Society Migration has become a politically charged topic of late.
My day drinking in Britain’s biggest Wetherspoons

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Gavin Haines

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My day drinking in Britain's biggest Wetherspoons

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Gavin Haines

Our writer is led astray in the raucous seaside town of Ramsgate, home to the largest 'Spoons in the landA pie-eyed 60-something lady blows me a kiss before collapsing on the backseat of a cab outside The Waterfront pub. It's 5pm and she's peaked too soon. But haven't we all? Alcohol consumption is in terminal decline, apparently. It's all bubble tea and kombucha from here on in, people. Not in this town it ain't. Not in Ramsgate.
What went right this week: the good news that matters

1 month ago | positive.news | Gavin Haines

Scotland moved to make ecocide illegal, violent crime fell rapidly in the US, and lowland gorillas got a boost, plus more good news Conservation Culture Energy Society World Scotland moved to make ecocide illegal, violent crime fell rapidly in the US, and lowland gorillas got a boost, plus more good news Scotland proposes ecocide bill Scotland is poised to become the first UK nation to criminalise ecocide – severe and reckless harm to nature – under a new bill published in the Scottish...
What went right this week: the good news that matters

1 month ago | positive.news | Gavin Haines

Wild campers scored a major victory in England The UK’s supreme court has upheld the legal right to wild camp at a treasured English beauty spot – a judgement that was about much more than simply pitching a tent. Wednesday’s ruling followed attempts by landowner Alexander Darwall to end the right to wild camp on Dartmoor – the last place in England where it was permitted. The estate owner had argued that camping damaged the countryside.
What went right this week: the good news that matters

1 month ago | positive.news | Gavin Haines

China’s emissions tipped into reverse, scientists had a breast cancer breakthrough, and Europe’s best cycling city was revealed, plus more good news Environment Health Society UK World China’s emissions tipped into reverse, scientists had a breast cancer breakthrough, and Europe’s best cycling city was revealed, plus more good news China’s emissions tipped into reverse China’s embrace of renewables has tipped its emissions into reverse, with some experts predicting the country’s CO2 output...
I took the new eco-friendly Dover-Boulogne ferry - it has its own passport control

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Gavin Haines

Two hours ago, I stood atop the white cliffs of Dover under a clear blue sky, gazing across the glistening English Channel. The Strait of Dover looked still and inviting, a picture of calm. It was an illusion, I realise now, as our catamaran barrels over eight-foot waves and skipper Andrew Simons fetches the sick bucket. “Look at the horizon,” says the Yorkshireman, calmly.
Academics want to ‘decolonise’ Stratford-upon-Avon, but the town remains gloriously unchanged

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Gavin Haines

My hands are sticky with strawberry ice cream, so I wipe them on my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles T-shirt while someone blathers on about a bloke called William Shakespeare. I’m in a strange town with marauding swans, a lazy river, and a stone bridge that glows in the decadence of mid-summer. Colourful narrowboats float on a listless canal while cars trundle up streets lined with crooked Tudor buildings. You can’t move for badly dressed Yanks clutching camcorders.
Academics want to 'decolonise' Stratford-upon-Avon, but the town remains gloriously unchanged

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Gavin Haines

The Bard's birthplace has found itself at the centre of a woke row, but tourists continue to visitMy hands are sticky with strawberry ice cream, so I wipe them on my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles T-shirt while someone blathers on about a bloke called William Shakespeare. I'm in a strange town with marauding swans, a lazy river, and a stone bridge that glows in the decadence of mid-summer.