Sarah Collins
@sarahelizacollins.bsky.social
Journalist and assistant editor at Prospect Magazine. Writer for The Week, The Guardian, The i paper etc
https://authory.com/SarahCollins
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Such brilliant news about Britain rejoining Erasmus! So many young people have missed out on what is a genuinely life enhancing experience
December 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Such brilliant news about Britain rejoining Erasmus! So many young people have missed out on what is a genuinely life enhancing experience
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It was unwise to seek mental health advice from a platform that isn’t regulated to provide it—and is incentivised to keep users online, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social.
Why I should never have used ChatGPT as an OCD therapist
I fear for people relying on AI for mental health advice
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
It was unwise to seek mental health advice from a platform that isn’t regulated to provide it—and is incentivised to keep users online, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social.
I haven't been in London much for the last year and on my return the city appears to be in rude health. Looks to me like it's positively thriving - nothing like the hellscape being described on Twitter
December 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I haven't been in London much for the last year and on my return the city appears to be in rude health. Looks to me like it's positively thriving - nothing like the hellscape being described on Twitter
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I fear for people relying on AI for mental health advice, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social.
Why I should never have used ChatGPT as an OCD therapist
I fear for people relying on AI for mental health advice
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I fear for people relying on AI for mental health advice, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social.
The lesson from my latest column is DO NOT USE CHATGPT FOR MENTAL HEALTH ADVICE even if in dire straits...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/lives/...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/lives/...
Why I should never have used ChatGPT as an OCD therapist
I fear for people relying on AI for mental health advice
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The lesson from my latest column is DO NOT USE CHATGPT FOR MENTAL HEALTH ADVICE even if in dire straits...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/lives/...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/lives/...
Having OCD is like being in a battle with an opponent that has infinite skills and resources and the ability to endlessly shape-shift. Mine has been producing some truly astounding, award-winning stuff recently, have to take my hat off to it
December 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Having OCD is like being in a battle with an opponent that has infinite skills and resources and the ability to endlessly shape-shift. Mine has been producing some truly astounding, award-winning stuff recently, have to take my hat off to it
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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Streeting to next launch inquiry into “over-diagnosis” of left-handedness.
“Never used to be like this,” he insists.
“Never used to be like this,” he insists.
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Streeting to next launch inquiry into “over-diagnosis” of left-handedness.
“Never used to be like this,” he insists.
“Never used to be like this,” he insists.
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Or maybe diagnosis is at last catching up with the crises so many have been enduring, which have for so long been minimised, dismissed or ignored.
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Wes Streeting orders inquiry into mental health ‘overdiagnosis’
Health secretary wants clinical review of the rise in conditions such as ADHD and autism that cause people to drop out of the workforce
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December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Or maybe diagnosis is at last catching up with the crises so many have been enduring, which have for so long been minimised, dismissed or ignored.
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Last week I checked in on a friend, someone who I thought would be one of the very last immigrants (who have any other options) to leave Germany, only to find that they and their family are already in the process of leaving. Their explicit reason: the rise of fascism. Very, very disturbing times.
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Last week I checked in on a friend, someone who I thought would be one of the very last immigrants (who have any other options) to leave Germany, only to find that they and their family are already in the process of leaving. Their explicit reason: the rise of fascism. Very, very disturbing times.
In light of the news about boat interceptions in the channel, I reshare my dispatch from Dunkirk for The Lead, where I heard how fraught and dangerous the situation on the beaches in Northern France already is.
national.thelead.uk/p/immigratio...
national.thelead.uk/p/immigratio...
Special report: hope, despair, and the deadly journey to Britain
Sarah Collins meets refugees waiting to cross the channel at Loon Plage in northern France
national.thelead.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
In light of the news about boat interceptions in the channel, I reshare my dispatch from Dunkirk for The Lead, where I heard how fraught and dangerous the situation on the beaches in Northern France already is.
national.thelead.uk/p/immigratio...
national.thelead.uk/p/immigratio...
I didn't realise it was possible to feel heartbroken over a place, but I genuinely miss Athens like the city is a person. I only have to hear a bit of traditional Greek music at a gyros stall and I'm a broken woman
November 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I didn't realise it was possible to feel heartbroken over a place, but I genuinely miss Athens like the city is a person. I only have to hear a bit of traditional Greek music at a gyros stall and I'm a broken woman
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bit of sass there from Reeves
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
bit of sass there from Reeves
I am once again calling on our top national institutions to employ more of us with OCD to safeguard the publishing of sensitive documents
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I am once again calling on our top national institutions to employ more of us with OCD to safeguard the publishing of sensitive documents
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Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
So many of the refugees that I met Calais and Dunkirk in September were women fleeing the war in Amhara, Ethiopia. It is, in the West, a totally forgotten war, which I regret to say I was totally ignorant of before I met them. bbc.com/news/article...
Ethiopia's Amhara conflict: The forgotten war destroying women's lives
Thousands of women have been raped in Ethiopia’s Amhara conflict, BBC Global Women finds.
bbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
So many of the refugees that I met Calais and Dunkirk in September were women fleeing the war in Amhara, Ethiopia. It is, in the West, a totally forgotten war, which I regret to say I was totally ignorant of before I met them. bbc.com/news/article...
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I had been slightly sceptical of the concept of “burnout”, as I often am of mental health buzzwords that I assume have their origins in social media memes. But I was wrong, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social.
Why I took my boyfriend’s passport to the airport and lost my mind
Burnout can reveal itself in mysterious ways
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I had been slightly sceptical of the concept of “burnout”, as I often am of mental health buzzwords that I assume have their origins in social media memes. But I was wrong, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social.
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Burnout can reveal itself in mysterious ways, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social. Like, for instance, at the airport...
Why I took my boyfriend’s passport to the airport and lost my mind
Burnout can reveal itself in mysterious ways
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Burnout can reveal itself in mysterious ways, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social. Like, for instance, at the airport...
Compelling piece about rent control as a political tool in New York. How do we re-open this conversation for London?
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
Mamdani Has a Point About Rent Control
In an interview, the candidate argued that the policy is essential to get voters on board with pro-housing reforms.
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Compelling piece about rent control as a political tool in New York. How do we re-open this conversation for London?
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
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I had been slightly sceptical of the concept of “burnout”, as I often am of mental health buzzwords that I assume have their origins in social media memes. But I was wrong, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social.
Why I took my boyfriend’s passport to the airport and lost my mind
Burnout can reveal itself in mysterious ways
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I had been slightly sceptical of the concept of “burnout”, as I often am of mental health buzzwords that I assume have their origins in social media memes. But I was wrong, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social.
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
The BBC just caving on this and making no attempt to defend itself feels quite scary. Where do we go from here?
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The BBC just caving on this and making no attempt to defend itself feels quite scary. Where do we go from here?
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Burnout can reveal itself in mysterious ways, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social. Like, for instance, at the airport...
Why I took my boyfriend’s passport to the airport and lost my mind
Burnout can reveal itself in mysterious ways
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Burnout can reveal itself in mysterious ways, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social. Like, for instance, at the airport...