I am a freelance writer and journalist with a particular interest in social justice, subcultures and marginal voices.
I freelance regularly for the Independent, focusing on the refugee crisis and street protest in the UK alongside general news coverage, and also write freelance pieces for a number of other publications, particularly VICE.
I'm currently studying for an MA in Newspaper Journalism at City University in London.
On December 21, 2015, a Minecraft YouTuber with over 600,000 subscribers appeared to tweet out naked, pornographic photos of an underage fan. "I have fooled all of u and have made plenty of money while doing it," one tweet said, with another adding that since the fan was 15 years old, "her and I have had several sexual exchanges on Skype."
Police are blocking aid to one of France's largest refugee camps, prompting a desperate appeal for help amid rapidly deteriorating conditions. At least 24 hours of constant heavy rain have devastated the camp at Grande-Synthe near Dunkirk, and volunteers say local officers are refusing to allow them access to the camp with supplies to rebuild it.
Mostly male, shaven-headed and white, they can be found in almost any of Britain's urban centres - a jostling crowd beneath a thicket of placards and Crosses of St. George.
"Some of the most redneck, right-wing people have come around to accepting me."
The Conservative government has licenced £5.6bn in sales of arms, fighter jets and other military hardware to Saudi Arabia since David Cameron came to power, campaigners have claimed. New research by the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) states that in the nearly six years since Mr Cameron's election in May 2010, the UK has sold weapons to 24 of the 27 states included on its own list of "countries of humanitarian concern".
I was born in Dublin in 1928. In August 2015, at the age of 86, I joined the Labour Party to support Jeremy Corbyn. I'm so inspired by what he stands for that I am even taking up British citizenship and renouncing citizenship in Ireland, a country which I love.
"l consume all my urine," Brian Nexus tells me. "It's the third most powerful thing in my lifestyle [after] sungazing and meditation." This is far from the most unusual aspect of his diet-an extreme form of raw veganism known as 'sproutarianism'. Raw vegans eschew all animal products and any foodstuff heated above 48˚C.
Northerners are ‘the heroes of our country’, as Ed Miliband told the Labour Party’s autumn conference. They ‘go out to work. They love their kids. They bring up their families. They care for their neighbours. They are proud of their communities’. The men toil dutifully away at coalfaces while the women labour at kitchen sinks, an endless stream of babies plopping out from beneath their petticoats.
Matthew Broomfield looks at the similarities - as well as the differences - between the black and white supremacist music scenes "This is the Final Call, on white man and white woman, rich and poor... come together for this white mastery".
Website pageviews: 14287 Matt Broomfield has published 33 articles Matt Broomfield speaks to outrage-inducing TV commentator Katie Hopkins about social mobility and 'the shortcut system'. Katie Hopkins is hell-bent upon becoming the go-to bitch for television producers in need of a cheap villain to fill sofa space, capitalising on her notorious appearance on ITV's 'This Morning' .
Protesters from the group Sisters Uncut shut down a council meeting in Portsmouth, where £180,000 cuts to domestic violence services were due to be debated. The protesters chanted "you cut - we bleed" and "two women a week - murdered" as they unfurled a banner reading "CUTTING DV SERVICES KILLS WOMEN" from a public gallery during the meeting on 8 December.
The press was filled with stories yesterday about the middle class 'beating the downturn'. It's a shame it didn't happen, writes Matt Broomfield The Social Market Foundation, an institution which has the dubious distinction of being 'John Major's favourite think-tank', recently published a report on the 'squeezed middle' of Britain.
The European far-right is more united than it has been for over half a century. Nationalist, anti-EU and anti-immigration parties are coming together in increasingly cohesive pan-European movements. EU elections, with their low turnout and use of a proportional representation voting system, favour minor, radical and single-issue parties.
Website pageviews: 6167 Matt Broomfield has published 33 articles Where social justice meets science fiction: Matt Broomfield talks to Walidah Imarisha and Adrienne Maree Brown Photograph: rootsandwires "We believe it is our right and responsibility to write ourselves into the future."