Tom Parry

My dispatch for @TelGlobalHealth following a week in Togo to report on the epidemic of road fatalities caused by an uncontrolled motorcycle boom. Replicated across Africa’s rapidly expanding cities, the constant influx of critically injured riders overwhelms Togo’s busy hospitals

My recollections of being at the table with Peter Mandelson, the day after Labour’s 2010 election campaign fell apart. Watching the Prince of Darkness holding court while - unbeknown to us - also setting up a gilded future with #Epstein #EpsteinFiles tomparrywriter.substack.com/p/memory-of-a-…

How the Jonestown massacre became a blueprint for radicalisation The dangerous groupthink behind the world’s most notorious mass murder-suicide is stronger than ever Latest Guyana dispatch by @ParryTom and @SimonTownsley Free to read🔓 telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

New dispatch for @TelGlobalHealth with @SimonTownsley from Guyana, the country with the fastest growing economy in the world after offshore oil wells started production. Yet, the gulf in wealth between those benefiting the boom and the 48% still living in poverty remains stark.

Wonderful to participate in the inspirational @premioluchetta award programme in beautiful Trieste during the weekend. Always an impressive shortlist, and with genuine integrity in its continued dedication to the journalistic values of brave Italian reporters who lost their lives

‘We can’t become a narco-state’ South America's tiny state of Guyana could soon find itself caught in the crossfire of Donald Trump’s renewed war against drug smuggling Dispatch by @ParryTom and @SimonTownsley Free to read🔓 telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

My dispatch for @TelGlobalHealth from Guyana's disputed border with Venezuela, where recent US attacks on boats has prompted the smugglers to switch tactics, with @SimonTownsley - Caught between corruption and the cartels in South America’s new drug war telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Very pleased to have made the shortlist in the Environmental Journalism (National) category for this year’s @EditorsUK Media Freedom Awards for three dispatches I wrote for @TelGlobalHealth - on plastic pollution and health impacts of rising salinity societyofeditors.org/events/media-f…

My dispatch from the most plastic-polluted river in the world. Ahead of plastic treaty talks next month, myself and @SimonTownsley saw the disastrous impact of a whole city throwing its household trash into a once beautiful valley. Plastic production has doubled in last 25 yrs

My dispatch from the most plastic-polluted river in the world, the Rio Las Vacas near Guatemala City. Ahead of plastic treaty talks next month, myself and @SimonTownsley watched people throwing their trash directly into the ravine, with dire consequences telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Read and weep. This conflict needs to be wrapped up now….⬇️⬇️⬇️ Malnutrition surging in Gaza as snipers target ‘heads, legs and genitals’, says Oxford surgeon telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

@thesmithsltd 200,000 mostly happy people. I’m not sure whether you’d be in your comfort zone!

@ParryTom Nicely written, interesting piece. Glasto sounds bloody awful as usual.

My Glastonbury review for @louderthanwar

‘Man-eating’ screw worm turns hospital into horror show A long-forgotten parasite has made a comeback and is reasserting its dominance in Honduras Words @ParryTom and photos by @SimonTownsley telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Dispatch for @TelGlobalHealth from Honduras, where I saw the distressing impact of New World screwworm on vulnerable people. This parasite had been eradicated from much of Central America but is again prospering, with illegal cattle ranching being blamed telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Interesting feature by @ParryTom on the funding crisis in international aid - some models more resilient than others, it seems International aid sector looks to new business models as government funding dries up telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Counterfeit motorcycle helmets contribute to so many people being seriously injured or killed in many cities across Africa and Asia. I would never have appreciated this before interviewing victims and their families in Togo and Kenya. A lifesaving initiative by @RoadSafetyNGOs

‘Measles is back’: cases in the EU have jumped by ten-fold. Cases of the Victorian-era disease in Europe surged by nearly 30,000 from 2023 to 2024. @maeve_cullinan has the latest. telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Excellent work by ⁦@EnfieldDispatch⁩ shining a light on cars parked on pavements, which has somehow become normalised. As ever, digging into the stories that need to be explored. A local paper ⁦performing vital function

The best explanation I've read yet of why overseas development spending is so directly intertwined with our own security and health by @PaulNuki for @TelGlobalHealth America's star is waning. Now Britain and Europe must step up – with bombs and aid telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

The government’s decision to cut aid to unprecedentedly low levels is short-sighted and damaging. Increasing defence spending is right, but doing so at the expense of health and security risks to the UK, on the backs of the world’s poorest is, plain and simply, wrong.