I am a journalist, writer, researcher and political commentator.I was born in Lisbon in 1988. Due to a bizarre set of events I happen to be bilingual in Portuguese and German. While most of my work is mostly in English, I can also speak French and Spanish, for good measure.I moved to London in 2006, graduated in Advertising three years later, a... Read More

I am a journalist, writer, researcher and political commentator.I was born in Lisbon in 1988. Due to a bizarre set of events I happen to be bilingual in Portuguese and German. While most of my work is mostly in English, I can also speak French and Spanish, for good measure.I moved to London in 2006, graduated in Advertising three years later, and worked in fashion PR & communications for a bit, writing for Fashion 156 and WWD. I kept my love for clothes but got a bit tired of the salad-only diets imposed by the haute-couture industry.By February 2010 I became one of the founders of the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts, as well as its Chief Press Officer – a job I held until after the collapse of the student movement.Around the same time I started writing for a series of blogs and publications. In the summer of 2010 I visited Palestine, from where I wrote about the plight of people living in internal refugee camps and the effects of the Apartheid Wall.In February 2011 I travelled to Cairo to cover the occupation of Tahrir Square. I returned to Cairo after the fall of President Mubarak which allowed me to report on the wake of the “Arab Spring”.Back in Britain I was the first reporter to cover the fight of Focus E15, a group of London single mothers campaigning to be rehoused after being evicted from a hostel by Newham Council in 2014. I have reported from a series of mass demonstrations, occupations, deportations and strikes, focusing on the effects of austerity policies in British society.My foreign coverage also includes reporting from the Greek elections in January 2015, the Calais refugee camp and a series of pieces on Portuguese social, economic and political matters.As a political commentator I have been featured on Channel 4 News, BBC and LBC radio, as well as debates against fellow pundits Peter Oborne, Michael White and Peter Hitchens.I hold an MSc in Middle East Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. I have worked as editorial assistant at Pluto Press, as the social affairs correspondent for the Morning Star, as an online reporter and presenter for RT UK, and as a translator and presenter for TeleSUR. I have also worked as senior journalist and author Paul Mason's researcher, as well as in-house editor for a few other authors.My byline also appears on Grazia UK, Grazia Korea, the Independent, the New Humanist, the New Statesman, Vice, Novara Media, Open Democracy, Red Pepper and several Portuguese dailies. Read Less