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Jo Phillips

Jo Phillips is a journalist and former political press officer

April 2021

  • Margate’s beach.

    ‘A petri dish for innovation’: how 10 years of Turner Contemporary have impacted Margate

    It has staged exhibitions from Grayson Perry and Ai Weiwei to Rodin and attracted millions of visitors. But a decade on, what effect has Turner Contemporary had on the seaside town?

April 2018

  • A march against knife crime in London in 2008

    double quotation markStab her, your friend said, and you did. I survived – but you scarred my life

    Jo Phillips
    Ten years after you plunged a screwdriver into my neck, I carry the fear you sowed. Now I see it spreading through society, says the journalist Jo Phillips