Mia Jones

Freelance investigative journalist based in North London. 

Channel 4 News •

Residents protest as UK looks to 'grey belts' to solve UK housing crisis

Labour has promised to create 1.5 million new homes during this parliament. Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he wants to see more social housing. So if they build it - where will it go?

Enter the Grey Belt - a new designation which is meant to include previously developed land in the green belt - sites like old car parks and former petrol stations.

But critics say these potential rebuilding plans would mean the loss of much valued green landscapes.
Substack •

First Responders: Right-Wing Keyboard Warriors and the Weaponisation of Tragedy in the UK.

Like many of us, my first port of call when I think something has happened is social media. News spreads fast and wide on sites like X before the reporters at the BBC or the Standard have managed to get their ‘scoop’ out there. A witness will tweet a sentence, a friend of a friend will ask what’s going on, a passerby will share a photo of some paramedics, some blue tape, a tarp on the floor.
STRAND Magazine •

TL;DR True Love Is Real When You’re Not Overstimulated

Recently, I’ve found myself forgetting the walk from the library to campus, unable to recall the faces of those around me on the Northern line that morning. By putting on my noise-cancelling headphones, at just the right level to drown out the screeching between Camden Town and Euston, I could block myself away from the outside world. Muscle memory would guide me from A to B, until it got to a point where I hadn’t mustered a single independent thought in what felt like weeks.
STRAND Magazine •

‘Neither and Both’: the Gender-Queer Body in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Gender-queer bodies, while seeming like a hot topic among politicians in recent weeks, have never been a modern invention. Although the term itself originated in the 1990s, humans that fit under the wide gender-queer or transgender umbrella have existed for a millennia. A 5000-year-old biologically male skeleton found dressed in feminine clothing surrounded by traditionally feminine grave-goods in Prague, the 4000 year history of Eunuchs (sometimes referred to as a third gender according to Wang...
STRAND Magazine •

Hiraeth: an Elegy for Forgotten Words.

Ferdinand de Saussure brings forward the hypothesis that a word requires a signifier (a physical appearance, a word, image, or sound) and a signified (a concept) to create meaning. Therefore if the signifier and signified are codependent to create meaning, meaning cannot exist without one or the other. A question was brought up in a seminar I attended in my first year on Saussure and it has been on my mind since: if a language does not have a word for feelings such as love and friendship (that i...

Inhabited Spaces and Ladybird

Social Media Experience

I am responsible for the graphic design and social media rollout of two student publications: Going Offscript With…, a podcast run in affiliation with STRAND Magazine, and Gals On Tour, a travel blog. 

I also run my own TikTok page, where I share student survival tips!