Examining
power &
people
I'm Hugo Harvey, a 24-year-old journalist based in London, born in Cork and raised in Paris. I interview the leading voices in politics, fundamentally interested in people and the stories they have to tell, leading with good-faith and an open mind.
Snapshots from the field
Short dispatches from Westminster, the picket line and wherever the story is, clipped, captioned, and posted as it happens.
Long-form interviews
Long-form conversations with the leading voices in politics, from Noam Chomsky and Jeremy Corbyn to Zarah Sultana and Zack Polanski. Good-faith, open-minded, and built on the belief that the most interesting answers come from letting people talk.
Words in print
From jobs to jawlines: how looksmaxxing is turning men far-right
Nothing to Report at Shannon Airport
Is This Illegal? It Feels Legal
My mother dragged me under protest aged 10 to see Seamus Heaney read, but the impact stayed
Leftist President, Neoliberal Government
Bataclan attacks: I was an Irish 13-year-old in Paris and had sneaked out to a party
An Irishman at Oxford: It was an education in being an outsider. I felt alienated from the very start
Without reform, the EU's CBAM risks leaving developing countries behind
From jobs to jawlines: how looksmaxxing is turning men far-right
Nothing to Report at Shannon Airport
Is This Illegal? It Feels Legal
My mother dragged me under protest aged 10 to see Seamus Heaney read, but the impact stayed
Leftist President, Neoliberal Government
Bataclan attacks: I was an Irish 13-year-old in Paris and had sneaked out to a party
An Irishman at Oxford: It was an education in being an outsider. I felt alienated from the very start
Without reform, the EU's CBAM risks leaving developing countries behind
Long-reads, essays and reportage published in Tribune, The Irish Times and Land & Climate Review, covering the people, movements and ideas reshaping politics on both sides of the Irish Sea.
Recent news
Orwell Society & NUJ Young Journalist Award 2026
Is music journalism really dying, or just morphing?
Letter to the editor on proportional representation
Ten years on from the Bataclan attacks
Oxford Mail picks up the Irishman at Oxford piece
An Irishman at Oxford, and a spot in the Most Read
Orwell Society & NUJ Young Journalist Award 2026
Is music journalism really dying, or just morphing?
Letter to the editor on proportional representation
Ten years on from the Bataclan attacks
Oxford Mail picks up the Irishman at Oxford piece
An Irishman at Oxford, and a spot in the Most Read
Awards, fellowships and bylines, the latest from a working journalist's year.
I've always been chasing the same question: who actually holds power, and what would it take to shift it.
It started at 21 with one of the last interviews with Noam Chomsky. Three years on I'm a 24-year-old journalist in London, conducting long-form political interviews with the likes of Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Sultana and Zack Polanski, with clips that have gathered millions of views across social media. I write for Tribune, The Irish Times and Land & Climate Review, and my first-person features for The Irish Times have ranked among the site's most read, with one piece named a Top Story of 2025. In 2026 I won the Orwell Society and NUJ's Young Journalist of the Year for a column on protest at Shannon Airport, after being picked as one of 16 fellows (from around 200 applicants) for the 2025/26 Journo Resources Fellowship, which culminated in a long-form print feature on the state of music journalism. I've also had a letter to the editor of The Guardian on proportional representation, been on air on BCfm's Weekend World, and seen my work picked up by the Oxford Mail.
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