Nice work by TBIJ on Carter-Ruck, a scumbag law firm always willing to help organized crime try to shut down journalism, or in this case, criminals to perpetuate a scam. These firms are not acting in the public interest. They should be made to pay restitution to any victims harmed in this case.

I've been considering whether to do this for months. Now that Radiohead tickets are being offered for huge mark-ups on resale sites (as per our story today), I think the time has come. We're going to play a game of Catch The Ticket Tout. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

The FA has brought 74 charges against Chelsea FC for a wide array of breaches between 2009 and 2022 - when a certain Roman Abramovich was in charge. Breaches include transactions with intermediaries and third party investments.

📢 Mentoring: At @tbij.bsky.social we are launching a mentorship programme open to both staff and freelance journalists interested in gaining experience and guidance on reporting on the family courts. Full details here 👉 tinyurl.com/42xdkk5b

Reminded of that time I submitted an FOI to the FCA for a copy of a contract they entered with a PR firm. They refused on "commercial sensitivity" grounds, I appealed saying they could redact some bits. They agreed and sent me this....

Someone's really got a Bede in their bonnet about this.

Just over a year since this excellent piece by @jacobsteinberg1.bsky.social and its only become truer. Vitesse has now had its licence revoked (a decision upheld by the Dutch courts), it can no longer play in professional leagues and may cease to exist. www.theguardian.com/football/art...

The original story, a 5,000 word deep dive on the "most feared" libel firm in the UK is here: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023... Anyway, if you like the work, become a member today – TBIJ relies on donations and even small amounts go a long way: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/support-us

Vile firm reaps what it sows. Interesting update from SRA which comes off the back of Ed's mammoth piece on Carter Ruck back in 2023....

not a violin in the world small enough

NEW: Fake QR codes that trick people into handing over their card details have swept through public parking sites in the UK John is one of the hundreds of people who’ve been targeted by one of these so-called “quishing” scams (footage from @itvnews.bsky.social)

Latest investigation from my esteemed colleague @edsiddons.bsky.social - give it a read...

Kakistocracy manifest.

mRNA vaccines are legit a near-miracle tech, there's one in testing that might be able to cure pancreatic cancer, and this fucking degenerate might take them from us arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

The scenes in the Oval Office today will shame the US for decades. They’ll never be forgotten. A world leader, fighting for his country against the 21st century’s Nazis, came to the US and was attacked & abused by a gangster regime siding with the fascist invaders. A historic disgrace.

Oh look, an even newer low.

Every day they reach new lows...

Not even asteroids want anything to do with us

There must be one of those named adages already that anyone who describes themselves as "high IQ" (or views it as some positive attribute in e.g. leadership) is invariably a fucking moron.

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

A betrayal as total as it is awful.

Vance’s grotesqueness aside, the whole thing is one of the most horrific acts of betrayal ever committed by a democratic state against another. Just a moral abomination and a permanent stain on everyone who supports it

Richard I with a Top 6 finish? He should thank his lucky stars he got a cool nickname to make up for his abysmal ability to actually govern...

Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp

Smeagol-Deagol backstory revealed

It's a small thing but I do love how Offshore Alert publish without fail all the threats/legal threats they receive on their articles. Wish more publications would do this. www.offshorealert.com/id-love-to-s...

As chair of The APPG on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax, I’ve written to HMRC calling on them to urgently investigate the Abramovich case and recover what is owed following reports of a £1bn tax dodge by the sanctioned oligarch Read more: www.bbc.com/news/article...

More than 40 MPs and peers have written to HMRC to say that Roman Abramovich's tax affairs must be investigated in the light of an investigation by the Guardian, @tbij.bsky.social and BBC, which found that the former Chelsea FC owner's companies may owe the UK taxman £1bn. [1/3]

NEW: MPs have called on HMRC to investigate potential unpaid tax by Roman Abramovich, following @tbij.bsky.social's joint investigation with BBC and @theguardian.com this week. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

If you’re reading some of the new reporting on tax & Abramovich past few days, here’s an introduction to the Cypriot company at the heart of much of it: www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...

Excellent piece in the Guardian - fantastic to work with the indefatigable @byrobdavies.bsky.social on these pieces, alongside the BBC.

NEW: Abramovich may owe as much as £1bn to HMRC. Leaked documents suggest the sanctioned oligarch’s billions were in fact managed from UK, undermining his offshore tax avoidance structure. My latest piece for TBIJ, alongside BBC and Guardian! www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Prigozhin's "claim" against Bellingcat was the SLAPPiest SLAPP in the history of SLAPPs. If that doesn't reach the bar, wtf does? What metric are they judging these on?? Insanity.

New: How Roman Abramovich's aides created an elaborate tax-dodging scheme to pretend his superyachts were being used for commercial purposes when in fact the billionaire was using them for pleasure. Experts say it could amount to illegal tax evasion. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Important new investigation from @tbij.bsky.social revealing how sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich may have evaded millions in tax on cost of running his fleet of superyachts using opaque offshore corporate structures. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

NEW: our latest investigation on how Abramovich evaded millions of euros on his fleet of superyachts. His associates arranged for commercial exemptions on huge VAT bills by falsely claiming the boats were hired out to customers. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

The mental gymnastics necessary to find any other reason other than climate change for disasters directly related to climate change may soon supersede those needed to find any excuse other than lax gun laws for school shootings.

Love spending New Year's Eve cooped up in bed with a hacking cough and an Almighty headcoldy. Yayyyy.

NEW: Rifaat Al-Assad, "the butcher of Hama" & uncle of Bashar, used a Guernsey wealth advisor to help manage his billion-dollar empire amassed through massive looting of Syrian public funds, per court docs www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Hats off to the genuinely brilliant @byrobdavies.bsky.social - and his ridiculously talented accomplice @simonlock.bsky.social - who for the first time showed us exactly how Roman Abramovich bent the rules at Chelsea FC

Winners of the Sports Journalism category are @simonlock.bsky.social @byrobdavies.bsky.social @jacobsteinberg1.bsky.social of @tbij.bsky.social and @theguardian.com for their joint work “exposing the less salubrious machinations behind the lucrative world of football” #BritishJournalismAwards

Your cheesemongers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think about whether they should.

The Vogons would be proud of this one.

Headline of the Day comes from The People - 22nd November 1925. Discouraged, sure, but not prohibited.

Headline of the Day: The Morning Leader - 21 November 1898. A cunning disguise...

@edsiddons.bsky.social is here! #TBIJRepresent

Headline of the Day: Hull Daily Mail - 20th November 1937 The tale of the lonely goat-herder.

Does anyone actually know anyone who uses Threads frequently/at all? For 275m users it's had seemingly very little cultural impact.