@goingmedieval.bsky.social @willmcphail.bsky.social @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social @chucktingle.bsky.social A Christmas haul!

Here’s a new piece from me about the violence enveloping Woolwich, & the young lives it has claimed. It’s also about the mothers who did everything to keep their children safe, only for their efforts to prove unequal to the forces set against them observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Typically excellent article by @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social talking to the mothers of London’s teenage murder victims observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Some cool news. Am now senior writer at The Observer!

Thanks to @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social for his really generous review of The Last Bell, and my boxing writing over the years, in the New Statesman. It meant a lot to read it....which can be done by just registering www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

My new @theguardian.com longread is about the UK's university innocence projects- a radical, if imperfect, attempt at addressing miscarriages of justice. I am grateful to everyone who gave me their time this past year. It is an extraordinary story www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...

‘100,000 people took to Slavija Square in Belgrade in the largest demonstration in Serbia for at least two decades. In January, students initiated a 24-hour blockade of the capital.’ Francisco Garcia on Belgrade’s Novi Sad disaster, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

If I ever lose millions in bitcoin in a Welsh dump, I like to believe I'd simply get over it and have a laugh www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Experiencing the sort of feverish deadline mania where I'm beginning to curse the fact I was ever taught to read and write

"During my reporting, the phrase neocolonial was never far from conversation." Great long read tracing the opposition to a huge lithium mine in Serbia. www.newstatesman.com/internationa.... | @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social

The need for lithium is driving a global race for resources – and plans for a mine 120 miles from Belgrade have triggered social and political turmoil. Read Francisco Garcia on the battle for the soul of Serbia:

Good piece by @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social on geopolitics of lithium mining in Serbia. Resonates with Irish context. Ireland also been identified as a 'hot spot' for critical minerals, which has everything to do with its peripheral position within the EU. www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

For the past six months, I’ve been reporting on the highly controversial plan to open ‘Europe’s largest lithium mine’ in Serbia. You can read the resulting long read here if you’d like www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Glaswegians made up 12% of the Scottish volunteers who died in Spain. In our weekend read, Francisco Garcia battles November slush to unpick the heroic and complicated legacies of four men who differed in temperament but were bonded by political belief - and imprisonment.

Very happy to have written this piece on a remarkable book coauthored by four very remarkable people

Here’s a fun piece that I wrote for this weekend’s FT about the history and contested future of London’s Blue Plaques www.ft.com/content/371f...

In third place, @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social spent months speaking to the declining band of residents in Soho. www.the-fence.com/last-days-of...

Been a very productive and interesting year of work. Slowly finishing up for 2024, though excited to share some new projects and long form pieces in the NY. Cheers!

New longread on 'the future of Soho' and its dwindling residential community in the @thefence.bsky.social, which was an editor's pic in @longreads.com www.the-fence.com/last-days-of...

My April @theguardian.com longread which was shortlisted for best investigation at last months Anti-Slavery Awards in parliament www.theguardian.com/law/ng-inter...

Hello! Getting set up here and thought I'd share a few substantial pieces from this year. Here's my October 5th @financialtimes.com cover on the 'Blake Escape' and why it took 25 years for the British state to catch up with those responsible www.ft.com/content/2c9e...