About: The Curved House Editor

Byline Festival will be held June 2-4, at Pippington Park, Sussex. Protest against fake news and alternate facts while debating, thinking, laughing and dancing! Heidi will be joined by Sue MacGregor on Saturday June 2 at 2.30pm, to discuss women on war.   Download the full programme here. Visit the Byline Festival website to book tickets and help change…
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This article was first published in the June issue of Standpoint. Until Donald Trump dropped the $16 million, 21,600-pound GBU-43 Mother of all Bombs on rural Afghanistan, there was no indication that the country was even on the President’s radar. Then on April 13, he let IS have it. But IS numbers in Afghanistan had already…
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Originally published by Byline Investigations on 12 May 2017. As President Erdogan’s Clampdown Bites, the Young, the Talented and The Fearful are Getting Off in Droves. Millennials join Yuppies and Dissidents in Exile in Search of a Better Life. A sense of foreboding hangs over President Erdogan’s authoritarian Turkey for the young middle class who no…
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The upcoming May 2017 issue of Standpoint Magazine will feature an article by Heidi entitled Guns, Guts and Glamour in Kabul. Due for release on May 25th, you can read the article here or on Standpoint‘s website. 

This article was first published in the April 2017 issue of Standpoint.  The irony wasn’t lost on any of the 12 high-powered women who had gathered in the House of Lords at 2.30 pm on March 22. The Afghan Women’s Support Forum was holding one of its quarterly meetings to discuss keeping the issue of Afghan…
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