Hannah Bernsau

NCTJ-trained Multimedia Journalist with international newsroom experience

Featured Articles

Explore a featured selection of my writing work below.

‘I feel worthless’: Are men’s community groups the antidote to the loneliness epidemic?

“It's kind of an anti-manosphere group, really,” Tom Stroud said when asked how he would
describe his community.
He is talking about Shoulder to Shoulder, a London based men’s community that he and his
friend, Dan Shrigley, founded in February last year, when Dan reached out to Tom after seeing
one of his videos. When they met up, they bonded over how hard it is to make friends as adults
and wondered if other men feel the same. The community was born.

My quest to become British through a 1996 Cool Britannia exhibition - Written by a German with pre-settled status

As someone who didn’t grow up in the UK, I’m constantly looking for things that help me understand how the Brits tick.
When I heard the former editor of The Sun, Dominic Mohan, was opening a free exhibition about
all the things that made Cool Britannia cool in the nineties, I knew that was my chance to
become a little more British.
Maybe, once I understand what happened during Euro 96, which of the Spice Girls’ dresses was
the most iconic and learn all Oasis songs, Reform won’t kick me out in a few years....

’A disabled loo shouldn’t be an optional extra’ - On a mission to make London toilets truly accessible

Accessible toilets for the public should not be treated as ‘an optional extra’, a North London
wheelchair user has argued.
Wheelchair user Kate said London is not inclusive if you have a physical disability and is calling for
change.
When Kate moves around London, she assumes a toilet for her either does not exist, is out of order,
the lift is broken or it is simply unusable.