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Words, pictures. Good at finding things out. Based in Scotland, happy to go anywhere.
Generally happy to engage in civilised conversations but if you send me abusive messages, you get blocked and if you come onto my timeline to post argumentative stuff you get blocked too. Use your own timeline to make whatever points you want.
March 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Generally happy to engage in civilised conversations but if you send me abusive messages, you get blocked and if you come onto my timeline to post argumentative stuff you get blocked too. Use your own timeline to make whatever points you want.
@sophiemolly.co.uk Hi - looking to talk to you for a report on the event next week in Aberdeen. Could you message me? Thanks.
February 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
@sophiemolly.co.uk Hi - looking to talk to you for a report on the event next week in Aberdeen. Could you message me? Thanks.
Yesterday I was shouted at by several people here for posting my reporting for the splash for The Sunday Post.
It was a dispiriting experience.
So here’s a picture from a crafting session at the community woodland I run in the Scottish Borders.
It’s a gnome. I hope this is acceptable.
It was a dispiriting experience.
So here’s a picture from a crafting session at the community woodland I run in the Scottish Borders.
It’s a gnome. I hope this is acceptable.
December 16, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Yesterday I was shouted at by several people here for posting my reporting for the splash for The Sunday Post.
It was a dispiriting experience.
So here’s a picture from a crafting session at the community woodland I run in the Scottish Borders.
It’s a gnome. I hope this is acceptable.
It was a dispiriting experience.
So here’s a picture from a crafting session at the community woodland I run in the Scottish Borders.
It’s a gnome. I hope this is acceptable.
Compulsory minimum prices for alcohol in Scotland are now so high that Scots are heading over the border to English supermarkets or buying online at English prices. My report for the Sunday Post is now online.
www.sundaypost.com/fp/scotland-...
www.sundaypost.com/fp/scotland-...
Soaring alcohol prices drive Scots over the border in search of bargains
Soaring alcohol prices in Scotland are driving shoppers online and over the border into England in search of bargains.
www.sundaypost.com
December 15, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Compulsory minimum prices for alcohol in Scotland are now so high that Scots are heading over the border to English supermarkets or buying online at English prices. My report for the Sunday Post is now online.
www.sundaypost.com/fp/scotland-...
www.sundaypost.com/fp/scotland-...
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Would also point you to this article from the English edition of
Le Monde detailing the full horror of this trial.
If you read one other piece on it, read this. Needs a content warning.
"After eight weeks of wading through the swamp, our notebooks are full of mud."
www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...
www.lemonde.fr
December 14, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Would also point you to this article from the English edition of
Le Monde detailing the full horror of this trial.
If you read one other piece on it, read this. Needs a content warning.
"After eight weeks of wading through the swamp, our notebooks are full of mud."
www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...
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‘Gisèle is waiting for explanations’: the dark questions at the heart of the Pelicot trial’.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
‘Gisèle is waiting for explanations’: the dark questions at the heart of the Pelicot trial
The evidence heard in court has horrified the world. But as the trial comes to an end, the questions it has raised about ‘ordinary’ men, French society, and rape culture have still not been answered
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2024 at 9:18 AM
‘Gisèle is waiting for explanations’: the dark questions at the heart of the Pelicot trial’.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
I have better things to do on a Sunday morning than argue with people who haven’t read a story or who are angry about the subject of a story or dislike newspapers in general and just want to shout at a journalist. Go and do something productive.
December 15, 2024 at 10:14 AM
I have better things to do on a Sunday morning than argue with people who haven’t read a story or who are angry about the subject of a story or dislike newspapers in general and just want to shout at a journalist. Go and do something productive.
Turns out that if you make something much more expensive on one side of an open border, people will vote with their feet. How minimum unit pricing for alcohol in Scotland backfired and boosted sales in England - my story for the Sunday Post.
December 15, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Turns out that if you make something much more expensive on one side of an open border, people will vote with their feet. How minimum unit pricing for alcohol in Scotland backfired and boosted sales in England - my story for the Sunday Post.
Save The Observer: keep the free press free.
December 4, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Save The Observer: keep the free press free.
How green was my EV? The average electric vehicle uses 60kg of copper: around 190 new copper mines are needed by 2050 to meet demand. My investigation for The Independent into what that means for workers and the environment as China ramps up production.
archive.ph/KkT88
archive.ph/KkT88
November 25, 2024 at 11:20 AM
How green was my EV? The average electric vehicle uses 60kg of copper: around 190 new copper mines are needed by 2050 to meet demand. My investigation for The Independent into what that means for workers and the environment as China ramps up production.
archive.ph/KkT88
archive.ph/KkT88
Thanks for all the new follows.
Away from journalism for a while: back now, writing and pitching labour rights stuff. Just back from Serbia if you’re interested in China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
If you want to work with me, I’m easy to find online.
Meanwhile, something from the archives.
Away from journalism for a while: back now, writing and pitching labour rights stuff. Just back from Serbia if you’re interested in China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
If you want to work with me, I’m easy to find online.
Meanwhile, something from the archives.
Admit it. You love cheap clothes. And you don't care about child slave labour | India | The Guardian
<p>Despite a series of revelations for the Observer about the brutal conditions in garment factories, companies, western consumers and India are still complicit in turning a blind eye</p>
amp.theguardian.com
November 11, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Thanks for all the new follows.
Away from journalism for a while: back now, writing and pitching labour rights stuff. Just back from Serbia if you’re interested in China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
If you want to work with me, I’m easy to find online.
Meanwhile, something from the archives.
Away from journalism for a while: back now, writing and pitching labour rights stuff. Just back from Serbia if you’re interested in China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
If you want to work with me, I’m easy to find online.
Meanwhile, something from the archives.
Working on an investigation into the production of EV batteries. But getting distracted by editing pictures from first return to India for 10 years. Kingfisher, fruit bat, brahminy kite, palm squirrel.
November 10, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Working on an investigation into the production of EV batteries. But getting distracted by editing pictures from first return to India for 10 years. Kingfisher, fruit bat, brahminy kite, palm squirrel.
Working on a story about Scottish wildcats. Would love to talk to anyone involved in the breeding programme. The pic? Highlands, mine, couple of weeks ago.
September 30, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Working on a story about Scottish wildcats. Would love to talk to anyone involved in the breeding programme. The pic? Highlands, mine, couple of weeks ago.
Sixteen years since the first picture, we took our son back to India so he could see where he grew up.
September 11, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Sixteen years since the first picture, we took our son back to India so he could see where he grew up.
Helping son prepare to head off to university next month turns out to be rather more emotional than expected. It goes quickly.
August 19, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Helping son prepare to head off to university next month turns out to be rather more emotional than expected. It goes quickly.
Journalism: the Foreign Desk translation guide:
“Bob’s looking at it” - it’s being rewritten
“The intro’s not quite right “ - the intro is wrong
“We’re holding it for Monday” - it is boring
“Looks all right to me” - effusive praise
(from Michael Holman, former FT Africa Editor)
“Bob’s looking at it” - it’s being rewritten
“The intro’s not quite right “ - the intro is wrong
“We’re holding it for Monday” - it is boring
“Looks all right to me” - effusive praise
(from Michael Holman, former FT Africa Editor)
August 18, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Journalism: the Foreign Desk translation guide:
“Bob’s looking at it” - it’s being rewritten
“The intro’s not quite right “ - the intro is wrong
“We’re holding it for Monday” - it is boring
“Looks all right to me” - effusive praise
(from Michael Holman, former FT Africa Editor)
“Bob’s looking at it” - it’s being rewritten
“The intro’s not quite right “ - the intro is wrong
“We’re holding it for Monday” - it is boring
“Looks all right to me” - effusive praise
(from Michael Holman, former FT Africa Editor)
You can’t have too many owls. And today was mainly owls. Barn, pygmy and tawny, since you ask. This is what happens when you find yourself accidentally running a community nature reserve.
August 18, 2024 at 7:51 PM
You can’t have too many owls. And today was mainly owls. Barn, pygmy and tawny, since you ask. This is what happens when you find yourself accidentally running a community nature reserve.
This is a thing of beauty. River catchment map: it’s been around a while, but still remarkable.
August 17, 2024 at 9:27 PM
This is a thing of beauty. River catchment map: it’s been around a while, but still remarkable.
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I've updated and filled my UK-based journalists starter pack #2. Am indebted to @aloner.bsky.social @tomirwin.bsky.social @catneilan.bsky.social who also have great starter packs and/or v useful following lists 👇👇
go.bsky.app/SRXaz4q
go.bsky.app/SRXaz4q
August 16, 2024 at 8:22 AM
I've updated and filled my UK-based journalists starter pack #2. Am indebted to @aloner.bsky.social @tomirwin.bsky.social @catneilan.bsky.social who also have great starter packs and/or v useful following lists 👇👇
go.bsky.app/SRXaz4q
go.bsky.app/SRXaz4q
Hello. If you’re wondering why I’m on the list you followed, I used to be someone you may have vaguely remembered reading. Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, etc. Had a break to build a nature reserve, as you do. Returning to journalism next month.
Here’s a pic from a long thing about child marriage.
Here’s a pic from a long thing about child marriage.
August 16, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Hello. If you’re wondering why I’m on the list you followed, I used to be someone you may have vaguely remembered reading. Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, etc. Had a break to build a nature reserve, as you do. Returning to journalism next month.
Here’s a pic from a long thing about child marriage.
Here’s a pic from a long thing about child marriage.
Referee* scores spectacular own goal.
The world of Scottish politics is slightly more interesting today after Scottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross was reported to have fouled several of his teammates after sending himself off.
*Ross is, remarkably, a qualified Scottish football referee.
The world of Scottish politics is slightly more interesting today after Scottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross was reported to have fouled several of his teammates after sending himself off.
*Ross is, remarkably, a qualified Scottish football referee.
August 16, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Referee* scores spectacular own goal.
The world of Scottish politics is slightly more interesting today after Scottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross was reported to have fouled several of his teammates after sending himself off.
*Ross is, remarkably, a qualified Scottish football referee.
The world of Scottish politics is slightly more interesting today after Scottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross was reported to have fouled several of his teammates after sending himself off.
*Ross is, remarkably, a qualified Scottish football referee.
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Here's another starter pack, featuring a selection of Scottish politics, media, policy, academic and civic society accounts (more to follow, I hope!)
Please repost! 🏴 👇
go.bsky.app/7UPYap8
Please repost! 🏴 👇
go.bsky.app/7UPYap8
August 16, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Here's another starter pack, featuring a selection of Scottish politics, media, policy, academic and civic society accounts (more to follow, I hope!)
Please repost! 🏴 👇
go.bsky.app/7UPYap8
Please repost! 🏴 👇
go.bsky.app/7UPYap8
Scotland is different: a polite reporting tip.
Free university tuition for Scottish students is not universal.
Scottish student numbers for Scottish universities are capped.
Those who elect to study in England (for a more suitable course or missed the cut) have to pay their own tuition fees.
Free university tuition for Scottish students is not universal.
Scottish student numbers for Scottish universities are capped.
Those who elect to study in England (for a more suitable course or missed the cut) have to pay their own tuition fees.
August 15, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Scotland is different: a polite reporting tip.
Free university tuition for Scottish students is not universal.
Scottish student numbers for Scottish universities are capped.
Those who elect to study in England (for a more suitable course or missed the cut) have to pay their own tuition fees.
Free university tuition for Scottish students is not universal.
Scottish student numbers for Scottish universities are capped.
Those who elect to study in England (for a more suitable course or missed the cut) have to pay their own tuition fees.
Red squirrel, Scottish Borders forest.
August 15, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Red squirrel, Scottish Borders forest.
Looking for an experienced journalist and photographer?
Former Sunday Telegraph, Observer, Scotsman foreign correspondent.
Freelance, investigations, available for words and pictures. Based in Scotland, can travel anywhere.
Specialist in labour rights: who made it and where?
#journalism #freelance
Former Sunday Telegraph, Observer, Scotsman foreign correspondent.
Freelance, investigations, available for words and pictures. Based in Scotland, can travel anywhere.
Specialist in labour rights: who made it and where?
#journalism #freelance
August 13, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Looking for an experienced journalist and photographer?
Former Sunday Telegraph, Observer, Scotsman foreign correspondent.
Freelance, investigations, available for words and pictures. Based in Scotland, can travel anywhere.
Specialist in labour rights: who made it and where?
#journalism #freelance
Former Sunday Telegraph, Observer, Scotsman foreign correspondent.
Freelance, investigations, available for words and pictures. Based in Scotland, can travel anywhere.
Specialist in labour rights: who made it and where?
#journalism #freelance