Rachael Healy

London

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Senior Writer and Digital Content Editor at RCN Bulletin

Journalist/lapsed mackem | Freelance features/reviews/investigations. Mostly on culture, mostly in @guardian @observeruk | British Journalism Awards winner 2023

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Articles

The great unmuzzling: Parliament’s debate on banning non-disclosure agreements

1 week ago | observer.co.uk | Rachael Healy

Last week the House of Lords debated amendments to the Employment Rights Bill that would ban the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to hush up cases of workplace harassment, discrimination and bullying. So what? It’s taken a while, but these amendments shouldhelp workers speak out about workplace misconduct;limit abuse of the law to silence complainants; andleave NDAs legal for appropriate commercial use.
Outpatient review - a journalist seeks the inside scoop on death

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Rachael Healy

‘It’s weird we don’t talk about it,” declares journalist Olive, the alter-ego of writer and performer Harriet Madeley. Sick of reporting on Love Island, she wants to write about something worthy of a Pulitzer prize: death. Specifically, our societal reluctance to broach the subject. She visits a hospital to get the inside scoop from dying people. But she’s also having symptoms of her own and when she’s diagnosed with a rare illness, primary sclerosing cholangitis, things unravel.
How Beckham rift shed light on the growing craze for ‘forensic fandom’

2 weeks ago | observer.co.uk | Rachael Healy

Followers who hunt for clues about celebrities’ lives via social media posts led the way on Brooklyn story An alleged rift between David and Victoria Beckham’s eldest son Brooklyn and the rest of the family has trained a spotlight on the concept of “forensic fandom”.
Overshare review - provocative tour inside a livestreamed breakdown

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Rachael Healy

Social media is a place for sharing, but as we lead more of our lives online, when does the urge to connect become destructive? The question permeates writer and performer Eleanor Hill’s show, a tour through personal crises, mediated by the compulsion to broadcast it all online. Hill livestreamed her very real breakdown on Instagram in 2020, when she was struggling to access mental health support during the Covid pandemic.
‘It’s Fleabag’s home - the audience is unshockable’: Phoebe Waller-Bridge and more on 25 years of Soho theatre

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Rachael Healy

A fixture on London’s Dean Street for 25 years, Soho theatre has hatched plays that won Oliviers, shows that earned the Edinburgh comedy award and ideas that became TV hits. On any night, across its upstairs studio theatre, its main house and basement cabaret bar, you’ll find plays from new writers, experimentations in clowning, drag performance, standup comedy, or a hybrid of them all. The Guardian’s journalism is independent.
MP, rape victim, teenage mum . . . and first Mother’s Day as a grandparent

2 months ago | msn.com | Rachael Healy

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MP, rape victim, teenage mum . . . and first Mother’s Day as a grandparent

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Rachael Healy

Today marks Natalie Fleet’s first Mother’s Day as a grandmother – or nana, as she says. The Labour MP for Bolsover will spend the day in her constituency, surrounded by her children, her daughter’s newborn baby, her husband, mother and sister. Fleet is only 40 years old. Her eldest daughter, now 24, was conceived when Fleet was a teenager after she was groomed by a much older man. “To have a child conceived at 15 felt as bad as it could get.
What Are Femcels & Why Are They Just As Dangerous As Incels?

2 months ago | marieclaire.com.au | Rachael Healy

The manosphere, the misogynist internet world populated by influencers such as Andrew Tate, is widely recognised as a toxic space where young men are at risk of radicalisation. Now, say researchers, women and girls are being sucked into potentially dangerous online spaces of their own: the femosphere. It is a term used by Dr Jilly Kay, an expert in feminist media and cultural studies at England’s Loughborough University, in a paper published last year.
Dulcé Sloan review - former Daily Show correspondent’s dispatches from family life

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Rachael Healy

Dulcé Sloan, a seven-year veteran of The Daily Show, feared that that pedigree would leave her with an audience of “three white people who listen to NPR” for her first appearance at Soho theatre. The US comic needn’t have worried: the room is full and she opens with local material for the London crowd. Why do we add an “s” to “math”? Why are Black people living here – “you knew it was cold”?
Why we all love a good gossip, from The White Lotus, to books and podcasts

2 months ago | msn.com | Rachael Healy

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