I spent months on this investigation and gathered docs from the UK courts, Land Registry and a French local authority, to show that Raynor and Moth Winn's story is not as they claim. @tortoisemedia.bsky.social @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with their story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. The Salt Path became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film. But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth. @chloehadj.bsky.social Read more:

THE OBSERVER: The real Salt Path #TomorrowsPapersToday

I mean, this is just straight up censorship by the government and the BBC

With so many ways to track us online, just how easy is it to vanish in the 21st century? Well, easier...and more common... than you might think. Listen to Francisco Garcia's brilliant bit of storytelling on the two brothers who suddenly found themselves missing: observer.co.uk/listen/the-s...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Gaza.

I love the bit at the end where she says that is being done in the interests of kids learning "what it means to promote freedom and liberty" it's directly ripped from Orwell, censorship for freedom

Thought this was a really beautiful piece on the Sycamore Gap tree. Amid the mass of coverage it's gathered, this is the piece that has stuck with me the most observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

The UK is locking up protesters for up to four years. Has the government's crackdown on climate activism led to the end of Just Stop Oil? Listen to @geordiedav.bsky.social as he tries to find out: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...

observer.co.uk/listen/the-s... Listen: The space for non-violent protest has shrunk, the UK state is jailing people for years whilst the rest of Europe measures sentences in days. Where does the climate activism movement go next - and why is Labour defending Tory laws? New pod for The Observer

Beyond anything else, Labour's inability to learn a lesson from Canada and Australia's recent elections is baffling. bsky.app/profile/chad...

Surreal to have written this week's @theobserveruk.bsky.social cover story about the Trump family’s conflicts of interest. It builds on my reporting with @barneymac.bsky.social on the launch of Trump's memecoin and the dogged work of so many US journalists. There is still so much more to say.

The Firm: Trump Inc. and the new age of corruption. Buy your copy of The Observer, available across the country, tomorrow morning. Get the newspaper delivered to your door every Sunday: bit.ly/4jFwQCW

A shocking story. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

The new Observer has gone to press. Buy your copy, available across the country, tomorrow morning. observer.co.uk/print

Tristan Tate is far less well known than his notorious elder sibling, Andrew. But today Tristan’s central role in the brothers’ alleged criminality can be revealed for the first time. Alexi Mostrous | Andrei Popoviciu | Phoebe Davis Read more: bit.ly/4cYs6FZ

This is a story about growth, net-zero and the kind of country we want the UK to be. And it is the story of an ordinary man who the Prime Minister believes is costing the country its future. www.tortoisemedia.com/listen/the-s...

None of the fake reasons she gives for hating trans people applies to also mocking asexual people but the “horrendous human being” theory holds up

Come work @tortoisemedia.bsky.social where we have some exciting opportunities in our audio team with an Assistant Producer and Producer roles open. Info on roles and how to apply are here: www.tortoisemedia.com/search?tags=... But do get in touch if you have any questions

Come work @tortoisemedia.bsky.social where we have some exciting opportunities in our audio team with an Assistant Producer and Producer roles open. Info on roles and how to apply are here: www.tortoisemedia.com/search?tags=... But do get in touch if you have any questions

Come work with us! The Observer is looking for a chief international correspondent and a slate of new contributors across the world. It's a fantastic chance to join a revamped international team and play a role in shaping global coverage in the new Observer. www.tortoisemedia.com/2025/03/13/c...

At Tortoise we're not ones to shun the big questions facing us. So thanks to @gwhittell.bsky.social for trying to answer the biggest one there is...are we alone? And the story that might give us the answer. Listen on Spotify: shorturl.at/ykeVY Or Apple: shorturl.at/yu8CD

This is a beautiful piece of writing and such a touching, galvanising story, I'm so glad Sam Dick shared it A moment that changed me: I was 16, gay and bullied for it. Then my father wrote to the Guardian … www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Through the "Voices of Gaza" series I attempt to center the lives of people who have become a political symbol, but who themselves are increasingly abandoned as they put together the pieces of worlds destroyed by genocide & occupation. I'm consolidating the links here.

I spent countless childhood evenings listening to BBC Radio 5 Live in my mum’s car, so it’s a dream to have written this series for 5 Live about Man City. All four eps out on BBC Sounds and on the radio soon. Produced with @mrabutler.bsky.social & hosted by Clive Myrie. @tortoisemedia.bsky.social

🎧 New podcast out today – very pleased to announce the four-part podcast series I've co-produced with my @tortoisemedia.bsky.social colleague @xaviergreenwood.bsky.social is out now on BBC Sounds. Full series on BBC Sounds: bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand... First 2 eps on Apple/Spotify: lnk.to/FOTTMCC

for the second time today, Tom Homan is on Fox News confirming that he asked the DOJ to investigate AOC

This is a damning and brilliant piece, already beginning to ring true. The deconstruction of American democracy: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

A SpaceX Dragon docked with the ISS in September - for this purpose - and is already scheduled to return in March. All arranged by NASA while Biden was president. Trump has had nothing to do with it. Fantasy stuff.

Given the news years today, two years back @tortoisemedia.bsky.social looked at Prince Harry's legal claims. www.tortoisemedia.com/listen/the-s...

Four more women have accused Neil Gaiman of sexual misconduct in an article for New York Magazine. It follows reporting by Tortoise, beginning in July 2024, and brings the total number of women who have alleged abuse by the author to nine. Listen to our original podcast: lnk.to/NG-MasterBS

An absolutely harrowing piece: bsky.app/profile/lila... A hard read, but an important one. Having worked on the original reporting for Tortoise, cannot understate what a difficult and good job Lila has done.

Read here: www.vulture.com/article/neil...

“I knew immediately there’s this dissonance between who he says he is and these stories.”

First Slow Newscast of the new year is, I'm afraid, all about men. That's what it might seem anyway, but of course that's not really the case. This is the story of one man, Jordan Peterson, and the strange places it might take us. Reported with @stephena1984.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/tort...

Jordan Peterson is a controversial figure, but he is also a man with a long-standing appeal to a particular demographic. In this Slow Newscast, Tortoise reporter Stephen Armstrong asks: what does his popularity tell us about a possible crisis in young men today? Listen: lnk.to/86O19hBS

This is a beautiful piece by @xaviergreenwood.bsky.social. A great listen to start your new year with open.spotify.com/episode/0pN3...

Doing something a bit different over the next two weeks with two of our favourite essays written for @tortoisemedia.bsky.social This by @zeldaperkins.bsky.social is a truly lovely piece

Tortoise is pleased to announce that it has signed a deal to buy The Observer from The Guardian Media Group and The Scott Trust. Read more ⬇️ torto.se/3Bw2br1

Chuffed to see Who Trolled Amber, which I made w/ Alexi Mostrous (not of this parish), named one of Amazon Music’s best new shows of 2024. Hugely grateful to @tortoisemedia.bsky.social which gives space for deep coverage not always possible in the rush of 24h news. open.spotify.com/episode/4okm...

Read this piece - aeon.co/essays/why-i... And it reminded me of a fantastic RadioLab episode. In the 70s in Nicaragua, a community of Deaf children first began to have their own language, and their understandings of their selves and their emotions expand substantially.

Art imitating life imitating art www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/b...

Some key facts about Tortoise's proposal for The Observer, including info about our award-winning journalists and journalism, what we hope to achieve with the deal, and where the money is coming from www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/12/04/t...

Here's a story I've been working on with @paticlarke.bsky.social It's a bit mad and hopefully as interesting to hear as it was to report

NEW 🎙️: I investigated the people behind Replika: “the AI companion who cares”. The chatbot can text you, flirt with you, and promises to love you unconditionally. But who are users really handing their hearts – and their data – to? open.spotify.com/episode/3A0G...

As a lot of people flock here, this is a great piece of immersive, cinematic reporting and storytelling from @basialc.bsky.social and @xaviergreenwood.bsky.social Feels incredibly timely as people work out how to make their voices heard.

Emerging from the belly of a blue whale to ask you to listen to my latest podcast for @tortoisemedia.bsky.social, made with Basia Cummings. The story of Paul Watson, a whaling activist who could spend the rest of his life in jail in Japan, and a parable for our time. open.spotify.com/episode/1gR4...

I followed the story of "eco-terrorist" Paul Watson, arrested for his fight to save whales from Japan's hunting fleet. A story for @tortoisemedia.bsky.social Slow Newscast about how we treat the people willing to go to extremes to protect our world. podcasts.apple.com/mt/podcast/o...