Writing mostly about health, innovation and people. Britain correspondent at The Economist.https://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3mpm6r3ylb22yWhich Cambridge is better? It depends on what you measure https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/07/01/why-cambridge-and-cambridge-need-each-other01 Jul 2026 18:51 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpm6r3ylb22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3moy24gntvc2hNick Clegg not mincing his words at an IPPR event tonight on Britain's place in the world. Says all the Silicon Valley bros tell him Europe is "dead". Also that hardly anyone in America cares about us, apart from when they send their kids to LSE, play golf in Scotland and enjoy our period dramas.23 Jun 2026 18:35 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3moy24gntvc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3mnknqoic6k26It was a real pleasure to be one of the judges for the ABSW awards this year. Some brilliant entries; well done to everyone shortlisted! [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Jun 2026 17:24 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnknqoic6k26https://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3mlxmmbbryc2yI'm currently on my way to Tommy Robinson's latest rally. He's a convicted criminal, too extreme even for Nigel Farage & liked by only 14% of Brits. Yet last September he got 150,000 people onto the streets. He's helped shift the Overton window on immigration. How? I try to explain in this article 👇 https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/05/14/how-tommy-robinson-gained-extraordinary-influence16 May 2026 10:17 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlxmmbbryc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3mif3nozmps24I first wrote about this in 2023 in a cover story for The Economist. I interviewed Simon Wessely, who became the co-chair of this review. The article cost me two friends and a therapist. Wes Streeting (who commissioned this report) agreed with me, but back then it was still taboo 1/6 https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/young-people-incentivised-diagnosed-adhd-autism-vr5m2qngf?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfVXzeSbQ1hruhVmUEk-0EbwBihLxv87SnSQtmYmb280PRH7qoYGIUH&gaa_ts=69cc265f&gaa_sig=nN3-Zq53TbK5VgpLA0hpTvYtX2ihqNFHpMwHnDEW2HYykTZA6crjhQJ_dbONFMCRx43oGye4dTDxvh-7NjmjFw%3D%3D31 Mar 2026 21:10 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mif3nozmps24https://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3mhvsenp2ak26This is a heartbreaking story from Spain. This young woman was gang raped and later tried to kill herself by jumping from a building. She became paraplegic and now lives in constant pain. After years of appeals, including from her father and Christian Lawyers, she is scheduled to die tomorrow. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2VLlFM5nZC425 Mar 2026 19:14 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhvsenp2ak26https://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3mhusd3lmzs2eSarah Mullally is being enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral this morning. She's the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in 1,400 years. She's walking into an institution that is increasingly irrelevant, scandal-hit, and divided over whether a gay-friendly woman should lead it at all. My long read: https://www.economist.com/interactive/1843/2026/03/19/the-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-church-of-england25 Mar 2026 09:41 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhusd3lmzs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3mhiaiwoies2lThe Church of England crowns kings, runs a quarter of English primary schools and it's bishops sit in parliament. It also has fewer than 1m weekly worshippers, and is deeply divided. Something has to give. In my long read for 1843 I write about what could come next https://www.economist.com/interactive/1843/2026/03/19/the-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-church-of-england20 Mar 2026 09:50 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhiaiwoies2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3meh7sfzwlc22Probably a trick from Mandelson's playbook https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/09/peter-mandelson-wes-streeting-vetting-moral-seriousness?CMP=bsky_gu#Echobox=177066195409 Feb 2026 19:49 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3meh7sfzwlc22https://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3me6sthabec2hA letter from Carlos Hernández, the Spanish journalist who died this week. Our job as journalists is to hold power to account, explain what's happening and give voice to the voiceless. Many still do this, but we don't do it enough. It's a big reason why trust in the mainstream media has cratered.06 Feb 2026 11:36 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3me6sthabec2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3me6osdub222hGreat analysis. It was also clear from the beginning it wouldn't work. Guy's and St Thomas's was the model for all this, but after starting the programme the trust's wait times fell slower than the national average and the theatre staff went on strike... [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Feb 2026 10:24 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3me6osdub222hhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3lqet4hifk22yEnjoyed writing about the two faces of Harley Street this week. Home to 40% of London's private healthcare market, it's known for its quality and treating royals. It's also where TikTokkers go for botched penis-filler ops and sperm-salmon facials. A townhouse was once a hub for international fraud https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/05/29/harley-street-resists-a-facelift30 May 2025 08:33 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqet4hifk22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3lqcaj7lqec2jMy take on England’s daftest sport: Should cheese rolling be protected as British heritage? https://economist.com/britain/2025/05/27/should-cheese-rolling-be-protected-as-british-heritage29 May 2025 07:55 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqcaj7lqec2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3lkb4gxdnek2yThe PM has just announced the abolition of NHS England, the body responsible for running the £192bn NHS. That was just a formality though: it's death was confirmed with a DOGE-style purge that I wrote about this week. Too soon to say whether it will devolve power or centralise it even further. https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/03/12/doge-comes-to-englands-health-service13 Mar 2025 12:38 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkb4gxdnek2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3ljbr32adtc2mThis is only getting clearer by the day. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Mar 2025 01:22 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljbr32adtc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3lhv7bl6roc2uI’m well aware of the risks of trial (or retrial) by media but much about the Lucy Letby case seems deeply troubling. There seems to be a distinct possibility that what was thought to be signs of a killer nurse may actually have just been poor medical care https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/02/10/it-increasingly-looks-as-if-lucy-letbys-conviction-was-unsafe11 Feb 2025 08:06 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhv7bl6roc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3lhg2v3m5mk24America is finished as the dominant global power which made the world in its image. This is only the beginning of the end, but it is the end. Now it behaves like any other brazen empire [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Feb 2025 07:38 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhg2v3m5mk24https://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3lgzpfc352c2nThis chart from my article this week is pretty scary. 12-hour waits in emergency departments were non-existent in the 2010s in England. Now they're the new normal and are leading to thousands of extra deaths a year: https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/01/30/many-britons-are-waiting-12-hours-at-aande31 Jan 2025 09:40 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgzpfc352c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3lfcln5s4ec2oThere are many reasons why rising flu cases are putting pressure on A&E this winter. But if this government is really serious about shifting to prevention, now would be a good time to look at inadequate vaccination programmes, and the number of old people we have living in cold and damp homes09 Jan 2025 11:37 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfcln5s4ec2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3ldjbauxbxs2xI don't agree with Kate Andrews often but she does have a point here. In a tax-based system more money for the NHS does mean less money for schools, local govt, defence etc. The answer is to focus more on the wider determinants of health and do NHS reform, but that does mean higher taxes. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Dec 2024 16:29 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldjbauxbxs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3ld75wsu6xs22How is it that an influencer with a financial interest in promoting quackery can end up as a main source of info for health and wellness? This man has 8.6m YouTube subscribers and his show is saying things like diet can reverse autism. Another consequence of the distrust in mainstream media! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gpz163vg2o13 Dec 2024 16:03 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld75wsu6xs22https://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3ld3txwzboc2wThis is staggering even for me who covers the NHS every week. Report out estimating that the NHS spends £15bn a year treating patients harmed by its own care. That doesn’t include negligence claims https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/12/nhs-spends-147bn-a-year-treating-patients-in-england-hurt-by-care-mistakes-says-report12 Dec 2024 08:27 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld3txwzboc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3lcwxezsjus26It never fails to amaze me how whenever I get on a train everyone (including me right now) is on their phones. The world transformed in a generation10 Dec 2024 09:45 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcwxezsjus26https://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3lcvcskkp5s2jBest news of the day: Swedish study finds that the occasional sweet treat is good for your heart (or at least it needn’t be bad). The study tracked 70,000 participants and found that those who ate a few sweets/pastries a week had a lower risk of cardiovascular disease than those who didn’t eat any https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2024/12/09/sugary-drinks-raise-cardiovascular-disease-risk-frontiers-public-health09 Dec 2024 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcvcskkp5s2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3lcn52q4ovc2gAgree this is good, but tightening eligibility criteria (as governments always do) won’t solve the problem. We have stagnant real wages and the stingiest unemployment benefits in Europe: until we fix both we’ll always oscillate between incentivising gaming of incapacity and leaving people destitute [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Dec 2024 12:00 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcn52q4ovc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3lcmvp2v4dc2cThis is why I still occasionally read The Mirror06 Dec 2024 09:48 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcmvp2v4dc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3lclkdjty6c2xLots going on in France but a lovely piece by @sophiepedder.bsky.social on the reconstruction of Notre Dame. Until his death last year it was led by Jean-Louis Georgelin, my old prof at Sciences Po & the most patriotic man I ever met (he insisted we call him “mon général”). He would've been proud! https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/11/29/emmanuel-macron-shows-off-the-gloriously-restored-notre-dame-to-the-world05 Dec 2024 20:52 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lclkdjty6c2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/georgiabanjo.bsky.social/post/3lckqjbu3js2aOminous [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Dec 2024 13:10 +0000at://did:plc:vez2wird4nd3u6c6pquzwot4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lckqjbu3js2a