Esther Bintliff
@estherbintliff.bsky.social
UK editor, The New York Times. Born in Bradford, raised in Durham, somewhat reluctantly now a Londoner.
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This is the Michael Prescott memo about BBC coverage (Telegraph).
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
Access Restricted
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This is the Michael Prescott memo about BBC coverage (Telegraph).
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
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:
This is worth a read:
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"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:
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)
@lizziedearden.bsky.social reports from Sheffield where he went on trial with 2 co-conspirators (gift link)
British Neo-Nazis Discussed Targeting Migrants, Mosques and Synagogues
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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)
@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
- 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
London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft. Now We Know Why.
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"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
- 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
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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...
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
October 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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...
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)
Read more in this brilliant investigation by @bradleyjane.bsky.social and Elizabeth Dias: (gift link)
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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)
Read more in this brilliant investigation by @bradleyjane.bsky.social and Elizabeth Dias: (gift link)
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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.
October 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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.
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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...
Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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...
Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
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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.
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.
October 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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.
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...
A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech
www.nytimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
“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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...
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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
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
October 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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
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:
Q&A: Our New Global Newsletter Host on Creating an ‘Antidote to the Overwhelm’
www.nytimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
❤️ 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:
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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)
September 22, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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...
‘Harrowing Beyond Description’: Dozens Killed While at Prayer in Sudan
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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...
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"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
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
September 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"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
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
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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...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Streeting says hate speech laws are having ‘unintended consequences’ after arrest of Father Ted writer – UK politics live
Health secretary says government needs to balance legislation so police are ‘not just policing tweets’ following detention of Graham Linehan over posts on transgender issues
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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September 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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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.
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.
The Guardian has successfully defended a libel action brought by the actor Noel Clarke over an investigation by the newspaper in which he was accused of sexual misconduct by more than 20 women.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
Noel Clarke loses libel case against Guardian over sexual misconduct investigation
High court rejects actor’s claim that accusations against him by more than 20 women were false and part of a conspiracy
www.theguardian.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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.
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
Opinion | When Is It Genocide?
www.nytimes.com
August 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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
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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 🗞️
I asked how much it cost.
Story coming soon 🗞️
August 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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 🗞️
I asked how much it cost.
Story coming soon 🗞️
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Well this by @jemima.bsky.social is fascinating on multiple levels...
Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right
What you learn at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled
www.ft.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Well this by @jemima.bsky.social is fascinating on multiple levels...
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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:
Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them
New AI regulations suggested by the White House mirror changes to environmental permitting suggested by Meta and a lobbying group representing firms like Google and Amazon Web Services.
www.wired.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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 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"
July 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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 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"
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‘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...
Timely review of the data on measles vaccines from @ourworldindata.org
ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...
How effective and safe are measles vaccines?
Data from large meta-analyses show that measles vaccination is highly effective and safe, giving a 95% reduction in the risk of measles.
ourworldindata.org
April 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
‘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...
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
July 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
'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