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Tuesday, 28 May 2013

The Murder of Lee Rigby in Woolwich Holds a Mirror up to Society

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My heart goes out to the family of Lee Rigby who was brutally murdered last Wednesday. For a brief moment, before this story was hijacked by...
Friday, 17 May 2013

Child Sex Gangs Flourish in a Society That Sexualises Girls

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In the wake of the Oxford child slavery scandal there has been lots of soul searching. We owe it to the victims to do more than that. We nee...
Friday, 10 May 2013

Mary McCarthy, R.I.P

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“The lengths some people will go to, to flog a book”. Those were my parting words to Mary McCarthy, the accomplished author, mother and tea...
Friday, 3 May 2013

Sweatshops Exist Because We Allow Them to

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The collapse of the Dhaka building last week, killing at over 1,000 people, was a catastrophe waiting to happen. Public fury was directed at...
Friday, 5 April 2013

Boris Johnson, Midsomer Murders and Big Pants

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In the run up to Boris Johnson’s first bid for London Mayor in 2007, I got a call. A menacing male voice told me to stay away from the town ...
Tuesday, 2 April 2013

I'm sure Andrew Mitchell has some redeeming features but they're not obvious

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What astonishes me about Andrew Mitchell, is not whether he said what he allegedly said, but that he has managed to fly under the radar unti...

Discrimination is at the Heart of Dale farm Evictions (October 2011)

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I got an email this week from a builder blaming travellers for a late quote. The BT lines in his village were down, “Probably gypsies steali...

When Different Rules Apply (November 2011)

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When David Cameron talks about a culture of greed and the need to take individual responsibility he’s not referring to the miscreants in sui...

Belle de Jour/Brooke Magnanti is a Turn Off. Fact (2010)

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Spare me the hackneyed, hollow, "There’s still work to be done", headlines that surround International Women’s day. What about the...

Women Only Question Time Panel. Big Deal. 2010

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A few years ago, a then executive at the BBC and I went head to head in Sydney, debating the motion that the BBC is an ethical broadcaster. ...
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About Me

Tess Finch-Lees
I'm an Irish journalist and broadcaster, specialising in politics, ethics and human rights. I've lived in Colombia, France and Britain and have worked around the world. I speak English, Spanish and French and have an MSc in Organisational Behaviour from the University of London. As a qualified therapist, I've also worked in the NHS, Broadmoor Hospital and with vulnerable children and families in Dublin, London and Bogota. I'm a recipient of the Woman of the Year Award (for my human rights work) and have featured on BBC radio 4. I write for The Irish Independent, The UK Independent and The Guardian. I've also written for The New Statesman, The Huffington Post, The Telegraph, The Belfast Telegraph, The Financial Times, The Connacht Tribune and The Irish Times, amongst others. I've been a panellist on the BBC’s Sunday Morning Live show and have appeared on ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky news. I was a cross party advisor on Sudan in the UK parliament and worked with MPs from all the main parties, campaigning against the genocide in Darfur.
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