Matthew Thompson

Nov 25, 2024 | nytimes.com | Matthew Thompson

Places that make and prepare food have a quietly revolutionary impact on the communities around them. In a new series from Headway, we train a lens on kitchens that are sparking change.

Sep 28, 2024 | mkfm.com | Matthew Thompson

Jerri MacDonald was 28 when she moved from Cheshire to the South East for what she thought was her dream job as a stewardess for Fayair, now Harrods Aviation. But in her first broadcast interview, she told Sky News how it quickly became a nightmare. After her very first flight from London to Paris on al Fayed's private jet, Ms MacDonald said the billionaire quickly singled her out, and left her "like a deer in headlights" as he insisted she accompany him to the Ritz hotel.

Sep 21, 2024 | mkfm.com | Matthew Thompson

Tamim Habimana died from a single stab wound after he was attacked in Woolwich, southeast London, in July 2021. The blade that killed the schoolboy was not a zombie knife - the name given to ornate-bladed weapons inspired by zombie films and TV shows. Now, three years after his death, his mother, Hawa Haragazika, told Sky News: "I'm never going to be OK. I'm trying to live daily. But I just think they should stop disrespecting us. "It shouldn't be only zombie knives, first of all.

Sep 8, 2024 | nytimes.com | Matthew Thompson

For most teenagers, a presidential election year offers a dilemma. Elections have consequences, as the saying goes, and this is especially true for young people, who are at the center of any number of issues dividing the U.S. electorate. Yet most teens can't vote. All spring and summer, the Headway team has been talking with high school students about this year's election. Headway is an initiative at The New York Times that covers the world's challenges through the lens of progress.

Jul 23, 2024 | journals.sagepub.com | Matthew Thompson

Book review: Beveridge Ross and Koch Philippe, How Cities Can Transform Democracy, Cambridge: Polity, 2023; 200 pp.: ISBN: 978-1-509-54599-5, £15.99 (pbk), ISBN: 978-1-509-54598-8, £50.00 (hbk), ISBN: 978-1-509-54600-8, £14.99 (eBook)Get full access to this articleView all access and purchase options for this article. ReferencesAngelo H, Wachsmuth D (2015) Urbanizing urban political ecology: A critique of methodological cityism. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 39(1): 16–27.