Joseph Watt

2025 Foreign Press Association MA Student Foreign Correspondent of the Year.

Inside the covert mission to save Filipino children from British paedophiles

Maria Victoria Olaes, a police officer, sits inside a white van parked down a narrow alleyway in central Manila, waiting for the “go” signal.It is a clear night in the Philippine capital, with only a few dim street lights outlining faces watching warily from crowded windows and doorways.When the signal comes, officers quickly swarm a dusty yellow house, but Ms Olaes stays behind, monitoring the suspect’s online activity.In a small bathroom, the search team finds a mother instructing her young da...

Dartmoor campaigners call for national Right to Roam Act

More than 500 people gathered on Dartmoor on Monday to call for expanded Right to Roam laws across England following last week’s Supreme Court decision that restored wild camping on the moor without landowner permission. 


Landowners Alexander and Diana Darwall had claimed that moorland camping is a danger to the environment. Campaigners countered that extended land access would help the UK tackle its ecological crisis by increasing the public’s connection to nature.


The High Court initiall...

Review: ‘Dreamsick’ @ The Wardrobe Theatre

In 1930s San Francisco, draughtsman A. G. Rizzoli draws a portrait of his mother as a cathedral, part of a wider set of sketches constructing a future society reflected in architecture; Rizzoli calls this city ‘Yield To Total Elation!’In present-day Bristol, Dreamsick opens with writer/performer Nat Norland making a building by lifting their arms up over their head. A projection judges that Norland’s arms won’t hold for long, they don’t, and so flesh does not become concr...