Matthew Clayfield

is a freelance foreign correspondent.

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Life April 20, 2019

Whisky business at the Laphroaig distillery

A wee dram at the Laphroaig distillery in the Scottish Hebrides turns into an invocation of a whisky-loving soul.

Travel November 18, 2017

Street art in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Street artists in Banja Luka are lobbying the EU to have the city in Bosnia and Herzegovina deemed the European Capital of Culture in 2024, to help the region overcome its association with civil war.

News May 12, 2018

Dhaka’s climate refugees a warning

Dhaka is on the frontline of climate change disaster, as refugees from Bangladesh’s flooding south are migrating to the capital in abject poverty. Experts fear that failure to persuade regional towns to rapidly expand could lead to anarchy.

News June 24, 2017

Sicily’s tide of misery

The G7 summit in Sicily discussed aid and investment in Africa to stem the flow of refugees heading across the Mediterranean, but also brought tighter Italian maritime borders now threatening the lives of thousands.

News May 20, 2017

Brexit and UKIP in Margate, England

The depressed English seaside town of Margate was the epicentre of Nigel Farage’s pitch to those left behind by globalisation. But it’s now Theresa May they’re counting on to deliver UKIP’s platform.

Travel July 11, 2015

Going off-road in Mexico’s Baja 1000

An Australian fulfils his dream to tear across north-west Mexico.

Travel November 29, 2014

Bus etiquette in changing Turkey

Taking a seat on a bus in Turkey reveals the country shifting secularism.

Travel October 11, 2014

Cycle of life in southern Africa

Mountain biking in the rugged landscape of Lesotho makes for some uneasy riders.

Travel May 17, 2014

Life on Ascension Island

On Ascension Island, a speck in the middle of the South Atlantic, even the locals are far from home. To survive, its international workers seek common ground.

Travel March 15, 2014

Bullfighting without matadors in northern Spain

Running with the bulls and the bullish in northern Spain.