I've been investigating the huge levels of exploitation faced by workers on the seasonal worker visa for the last few years, and have often asked myself why the trade union movement has ignored these workers. So I spoke to unions, big and small, to try and answer that question.

OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels. New from me @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

Feeding Europe, Failing Workers. Mittlerweile sind in sechs europäischen Ländern Texte zu unserer Crossborder-Recherche erschienen. Sie zeigt, wie die EU Arbeitsausbeutung in der Landwirtschaft mit Millionen subventioniert. Ein Überblick:

Reminder - carbon offsetting is a con. We have to BOTH stop burning fossil fuels and look after nature #ClimateEmergency #NatureCrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NEW INVESTIGATION: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse Financed by @journalismfund.bsky.social, this project traced dozens of EU payments to farms committing serious labour abuses. A🧵of cases demonstrating the lack of safeguards on CAP funds: www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...

Well done, Academy alumni @frnzskschwrz.bsky.social, @meriemm.bsky.social, @simonguichard.bsky.social & Carlotta Indiano!

The 2024 CLEW Summer Academy planted seeds for big stories Read about alumni collaborations into food systems & carbon capture: 🍽️ www.journalismfund.eu/feeding-euro... 🏭 www.journalismfund.eu/carbon-captu... & more to come! If you want to make a new Summer Academy possible, get in touch or donate!

🔴RÉVÉLATIONS🔴 Des agriculteurs reconnus coupables d'avoir exploité des travailleurs migrants continuent de toucher des millions d’euros de la PAC. Durant 9 mois, @humanite.fr et 5 médias européens ont enquêté sur le scandale de la conditionnalité sociale des aides PAC 🔽

Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in subsidies. Our investigation traced dozens of EU payments to farms that have breached, are under investigation for, or have already been convicted of labour-related offences. @journalismfund.bsky.social

My latest for De Smog

The U.K., a country without any written constitution and a tradition of absolute parliamentary sovereignty and no longer with the legal framework of the EU, has become a honeypot for crackpot tech accelerationists. You’re just one cabinet meeting away from instituting literally any mad notion.

Alternative medicine and supplements companies. A few businesses have made a fortune out of false claims that Ivermectin could cure COVID. A claim spread nonetheless than Joe Rogan himself.

🕯️ 𝟐𝟗 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓: 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐚𝐣𝐚𝐛: 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑅𝑎𝑗𝑎𝑏, 𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝐹𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐺𝑎𝑧𝑎

The docket containing documents investigating the case of #EmanuelaOrlandi, a young girl who disappeared in the summer of 1983 in Vatican City, and whose disappearance has been linked - among other theories - to a #Vatican sex ring, has been found empty. www.rainews.it/articoli/202...

Trusts are legal arrangements that can give opacity and protection by separating assets from their original owners — at least when such distance is convenient for tax planning or other purposes. Wyoming’s business code can take this a step further. https://buff.ly/4iTucta

Our latest investigation exposes the Briton who helped manage millions on behalf of Rifaat al-Assad. It also shines a light on the UK’s role in enabling some of the world’s most infamous kleptocrats. v/ a formidable team @edsiddons.bsky.social @meriemm.bsky.social & @eleanorrose87.bsky.social

🚨 BREAKING: @tbij.bsky.social and @theguardian.com are unmasking a Briton who helped manage hundreds of millions of pounds allegedly looted from the Syrian people The Briton worked on behalf of Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of Bashar and a man known as the “butcher of Hama”

BREAKING: TBIJ and the Guardian are unmasking a Briton who helped manage hundreds of millions of pounds allegedly looted from the Syrian people The Briton worked on behalf of Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of Bashar and a man known as the “butcher of Hama”