Very good Unhedged podcast on Venezuela and oil - with @jamiesmythft.bsky.social @robarmstrong.bsky.social @katie0martin.ft.com highly recommended podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...

Just a few more days left to apply for the Paul McLean graduate trainee programme at the FT. This is an amazing opportunity for any aspiring journalist job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

If you'd like a little break from the news, here's a happy story about bats (gift link 🎁🦇) via @amelia-nierenberg.bsky.social

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991. From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

The Trump administration's updated National Security Strategy is a really striking document that offers the clearest expression yet of what it is trying to do in Europe: "Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations" 👀

This is the Michael Prescott memo about BBC coverage (Telegraph). www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...

"On top of that, I’d wonder why such close editorial scrutiny should have been entrusted to three key people who themselves rejected journalism in order to enjoy lucrative careers in corporate and political communications." This is worth a read:

Brogan Stewart liked to refer to himself as the “Führer” in his group chat with fellow neo-Nazis. At his home in Tingley, a swastika flag hung on his bedroom wall. @lizziedearden.bsky.social reports from Sheffield where he went on trial with 2 co-conspirators (gift link)

"At one point, the police said at a news conference, they observed the men buying almost 1.5 miles’ worth of foil in Costco" - is my favourite fact in @lizziedearden.bsky.social & @amelia-nierenberg.bsky.social's story today. So much so I decided we'd make it a subheading

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage. Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

When Nigel Farage spoke to Congress on Sept. 3, it was thanks to the group that helped topple Roe v Wade. Read more in this brilliant investigation by @bradleyjane.bsky.social and Elizabeth Dias: (gift link)

We found out they’ve been courting Reform since at least 2024, in an attempt to build their UK influence, and have brokered a string of meetings and briefings with Farage.

NEW: How a U.S. anti-abortion group has quietly positioned itself as a powerbroker between the Trump administration and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.  www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

Been to the youngest’s harvest assembly. Theory: every primary school built pre about 1980 in Britain has some version of this equipment. It is referred to as something like ‘the apparatus’. No one has any memory of it ever being used.

“All our tech businesses are turning awful,” Doctorow writes... “And they’re not dying. We remain trapped in their carcasses, unable to escape.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

As Yom Kippur ends, it is terrible that a holy day has seen people killed at a place of worship in Manchester I hope many of us will express solidarity + support for Jews in Britain, and work with them + those of every faith and none to deepen our efforts to tackle antisemitism, hatred + extremism

❤️ this Q&A with the incredible Katrin Bennhold, host of a new global newsletter from @nytimes.com. She's German, lives in Wales & has reported from around the world, and she brings curiosity, empathy and humility to everything she does:

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

A doctor who spoke with The New York Times last week was among those killed when a missile hit a mosque on Friday, as paramilitaries stepped up their brutal siege of the city of El Fasher, reports @declanwalsh.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/w...

"Commentary *like this* about a deputy Prime Minister felt politically unsurvivable" - Chris Mason, BBC ten o'cıock news. This script over these pictures treats vandalism & criminal damage as a legitimate form of democratic voice. The BBC should avoid doing that, esp in broader current climate

Much of the current debate around speech, and the government’s response, misses the deeper issue: society’s information systems have shifted. Epistemic judgements are now shaped by algorithmic visibility rather than through gatekeeping institutions. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

The thing you don’t see about lengthy libel cases like this is the mental impact on witnesses - and on news outlets’ willingness to do similar stories. Respect to all the women who chose to go to court to defend this story - plus Sirin Kale, Lucy Osborne, Paul Lewis and the Guardian team.

If you listen to one thing this weekend, make it this incredibly insightful interview with @philippesands.bsky.social‬ on the history of genocide and its relevance to current conflicts

The unprecedented super injunction that banned reporting of the British government's Afghan data breach was in place for almost two years, and subject to numerous court hearings where the Ministry of Defence fought attempts to lift it I asked how much it cost. Story coming soon 🗞️

Well this by @jemima.bsky.social is fascinating on multiple levels...

SCOOP from me: Trump's AI action plan released last week makes a specific set of recommendations around loosening Clean Water Act permits for data centers — recommendations mirrored in letters sent to the administration by Big Tech lobbyists earlier this year:

Powerful FT editorial: "The world is failing the Palestinian people... Unless the Israeli government agrees to an immediate end to the war and a surge of aid into Gaza, western countries should be sanctioning Netanyahu and his government. They should halt all arms sales to Israel"

‘The data shows that just one dose cuts the chances of measles by about 95%, and two doses do even better.’ Timely review of the data on measles vaccines from @ourworldindata.org ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

'I learned, covering this war, that hatred is an elixir, a potent political bomb, a seductive answer to the banality of life... It is always available to the nationalist demagogue ready to identify scapegoats, promise vengeance and whip a pliant population into a frenzy' - Roger Cohen on Srebrenica

“They weren’t shrapnel wounds anymore — bits of them had been blown off,” she said. “Children were coming in with knees missing and feet missing and hands missing.” @lizziedearden.bsky.social interviewed Dr. Victoria Rose, a British plastic surgeon who recently returned from Gaza. Gift link:

"People are prepared to die for a bagful of rice and a bit of pasta" That is the assessment of a British surgeon who was among the few international witnesses to the aftermath of the first shooting near a Gaza food distribution point. Read my interview with her here: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...

Russian agents paid a group of UK criminals to set warehouses filled with supplies for Ukraine on fire Their next mission was to kidnap a Putin critic and burn down his Michelin-starred restaurant, but their efforts to "move clean" failed and they were caught in time www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/w...

Chart in that FT explainer on how the US tax cuts will affect different income groups www.ft.com/content/7eca...

I’m hiring a reporter for London Centric, looking for someone smart who can use a phone, knock on doors and wants to cause trouble. Don’t care if you’ve got qualifications, just want evidence of caring about news. Initial six month contract, pay above national rates. www.londoncentric.media/p/jobs

oof, this is a tough but important read on.ft.com/4l1CTlK

Russia and Iran are paying criminals to carry out acts of violence, espionage and intimidation on British soil, as well as “exploiting divisions in the West” to recruit agents via social media, the UK government’s independent adviser on state threats has warned www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/w...

I’m proud that Total Politics is launching the Lord Cormack Fellowship - a paid, with accommodation in London, month-long introduction to political journalism, Westminster and publishing. Apply below!

"most of the victims were children aged between 10 and 13, many with gunshot wounds to the head or chest" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/w...

Decent politicians need to push back against Farage's comments on Lucy Connelly. "millions of mothers after Southport feeling exactly the same way"? No. Millions did NOT feel the need to call for mass murder of asylum seekers & we simply cannot allow the idea to be normalised.

The Spy Factory: How Russia’s intelligence services turned Brazil into an assembly line for its deep-cover operatives –– until an elite team of Brazilian cops hunted them down. New investigation with Michael Schwirtz. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/w...

“David sent it with a message saying, ‘What do you think that is?’” said Professor Vincent. “I wrote back within seconds, saying, ‘You and I both know what that is!’” Stephen Castle spoke to the 2 British academics who discovered, by accident, that a 'copy' of the Magna Carta was a 1300 original...

Very thorough explanation of all the glaring holes in the case against Lucy Letby www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“When history comes to be written about the king, this will reflect badly on him,” said Peter Hunt, a former royal correspondent. “He represents an institution that is about family, unity and fostering forgiveness.” Not a popular view in the UK press but a valid one I think:

'The second the molecules hit the air, I was catapulted through time to June 1995, off to Glastonbury after my A-levels, obsessing about a boy, wearing glitter on my eyelids' - ❤️ this evocative paean to CK One + perfume in general, by my brilliant friend Rebecca on.ft.com/3H57lwg

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

'There’s one more thing that Labour’s left flank and those tempted by Reform have in common: they are repelled by anything that resembles austerity. And that’s Labour’s real dilemma.' Fascinating column by @greenmirandahere.bsky.social