London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Exclusive: Josh Simons claimed to be “surprised” and “furious” at a PR agency’s work to investigate journalists on his behalf. He had been personally involved in naming them to British intelligence officials and falsely linking them to pro-Russian propaganda. w/ @dansabbagh.bsky.social

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

My column in this week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social, on bad data used in bad faith. FOI-ing the stats myself, I didn't find a great deal of difference in sex offending rates: 5 per 10,000 Afghan men, 7 per 10,000 UK men:

This is outrageous and the minister involved ought to resign. je suis @direthoughts.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Exclusive: Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons was provided with intelligence files gathered on journalists (including me) who had reported on Labour Together, the thinktank he chaired at the time (before he became an MP), sources say. Know more about this story? Contact me, Signal: henrydyer.01

Peter Mandelson resigns from Lords after Epstein email leak scandal

"Tick-box" playgrounds, rising numbers of "no ball games" signs, play curfews... My column in this week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social on "deplaytion" - inspired by the Chernobyl-like property developer-run playground on my street:

‘It’s soul destroying watching your local area turning to shit’ Doom loop of decline: how struggling high streets fuel far-right sympathies in UK - my analysis for the series - www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I wonder where it's all coming from?

Britain's high streets will be one of the key electoral battlegrounds for months and years to come. Reform UK are making big advances in towns suffering the greatest high street decline. Big piece from one multibillionaire-owned town centre in County Durham: www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

New with @ajwl.bsky.social - how does your high street compare to the rest of the country and how has it changed since 2019?

Just got off a coach from Manchester where several people sitting in all directions from me were playing tiktoks and TV shows etc out loud for the duration. Feel like my brain has been dipped in acid

In fact this is *£380k* - around FOUR times an MP’s salary

NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct. He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

Looking like every first round match at the snooker Masters is going to end with a 6-2 score

📈 Chartle for 12 Jan 2026: Fertility rate: births per woman Guessed in 2 tries 🟥✅⬜️⬜️⬜️ Play at chartle.cc

I've seen the horrific video and there has been professional analysis done of it by outlets like Bellingcat and NYT. It is not in fact an optical illusion like an image of a white and gold dress that others see in shades of blue. Some people are lying

This platform won't ever be a place to follow breaking news events if they can't fix the search functionality. Searching for Iran on my phone app is only serving me posts from two hours ago despite seeing plenty of more recent posts from people I follow

The MPS has published a review of historic vetting practices, which identifies that standards were cut in order to achieve a recruitment surge associated with the Police Uplift Programme (linked to ££), and to tackle disproportionality in vetting refusals news.met.police.uk/news/met-con...

what about Ethos - what are the government's guiding beliefs Ends - what is the government trying to achieve Execution - doing the stuff that follows on from the governments ethos in order to meet its ends

Then: Mirrors Edge, Now: MKWii

My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this.

This was an extraordinary, spine-tingling moment, recognising fearless and crucial journalism. I don't think I've ever seen a standing ovation like that at a journalism awards do.

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

THE ASSET CLASS, my first book, will be published by @wnbooks.bsky.social on 9 April 2026. It’s a narrative investigation of private equity, a secretive and relentlessly destructive wing of finance that penetrates almost every aspect of our lives - and it’s available to pre-order now!

further to the quoted section below from one former pupil: The Guardian has acquired a copy of the Dulwich College roll in 1980. It shows (this collage is just an excerpt) how there were 13 pupils that year with the surname Patel, and 12 with the surname Smith.

Great scoop by @robwaugh.bsky.social in Press Gazette. Just searched my emails and I have 113 unread from this spam PR company pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Really enjoyed working on this one with @journo-jess.bsky.social looking at the areas where deprived and non deprived neighborhoods sit side by side. Good example of using datasets to find case studies www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation

Also the 'nick 30 ans' thing started in 2020 and the British one in 2023 apparently so made-up Nick would actually be 32-35. Thanks for reading my fact check.

From now on, when discussing the budget, please use “is this measure bigger than the cost to the exchequer of gen Z drinking less” as your metric for assessing whether something actually raises or costs a significant sum

Office for Budget Revelations

Absolutely extraordinary - this seems to be the OBR's entire economic outlook, posted half an hour before the chancelor stands up: obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...

Have got my friends hooked on @chartle.cc - honestly one of the great puzzle games

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world

Very happy to make the shortlist alongside brilliant colleagues @robevansgdn.bsky.social @rowenamason.bsky.social @michaelgoodier.bsky.social David Conn @anlugonz.bsky.social for this year's Public Service Journalism category at the British Journalism Awards for our project The Lords Debate.

Exclusive: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations w/ Dan Boffey and @drblacklock.bsky.social

The government recently started publishing the immigration status of Universal Credit claimants. It showed that EU claimants are more likely to be in work than their UK counterparts. 46% of EU citizens claiming Universal Credit are in work compared to just 31% of those from the UK and Ireland.

The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims

How many people would be comfortable buying a wedding ring that had been seized from a refugee. Maybe it was the last item they had to remember a loved one. Is that the world we want our government to actively encourage?

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Exclusive: Lib Dems demand to know how HMRC child benefit crackdown got go ahead after data from pilot scheme shows high error rate, with 46% of those originally flagged as emigrated, living in the country. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"Home Office data suggests that recent immigrants are more likely to be working than British nationals and make higher wages than them." ✍️ Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

A London lawyer is demanding dozens of Sheffield homeowners pay £25k to buy the freehold off him - or face court action for covenant breaches Given he acquired these freeholds for under £400 each, this equates to a potential profit margin of over 6,000% www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

the line has passed away. RIP u will live on forever. Cant believe it. I wanna run to u. Really cant believe this. @ ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

A great opportunity in the US for a data journalist!

Here are some emails from the MHCLG while Angela Rayner was DPM/Housing Secretary showing the department acting unlawfully by not treating an FOI request as "applicant blind" but instead seeking clearance from SpAds and the newsdesk on both my FOI and then an internal review.

This is UK based, a great job with a great team!

We're looking for a new data viz person on our graphics desk to work closely with us in the data projects team!