Max Daly
@maxdaly.bsky.social
Drugs and organised crime journalist. Orwell Prize winner. Author, Narcomania. Former Global Drugs Editor, Vice.
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Max Daly
@maxdaly.bsky.social
· Aug 17
How the mafia infiltrated Germany
unherd.com
I wrote an epic read about how the Italian mafia expanded in Germany via the pizza restaurant, and how this is linked to a global rise of organised crime.
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I wrote a few lines on festive season cocaine for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
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www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
White Christmas: why cocaine is everywhere in December
A seasoned drug dealer says cocaine sales rise by 50 per cent over the festive period
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December 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I wrote a few lines on festive season cocaine for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Footballers’ family Christmas shots, hmm, someone should do a compilation
December 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Footballers’ family Christmas shots, hmm, someone should do a compilation
Good thread on Epstein release/non-release
There’s a queue to access the Epstein Files because all of this wasn’t weird enough already
December 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Good thread on Epstein release/non-release
Good piece
‘Marijuana is not harmless. I still think it’s safer than alcohol’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
‘Marijuana is not harmless. I still think it’s safer than alcohol’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | Trump’s New Marijuana Policy Offers an Opportunity
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Good piece
‘Marijuana is not harmless. I still think it’s safer than alcohol’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
‘Marijuana is not harmless. I still think it’s safer than alcohol’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Had a chat with Nick Cave and some other interesting characters at the @unherd.com Christmas party last night
December 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Had a chat with Nick Cave and some other interesting characters at the @unherd.com Christmas party last night
Either Trump goes to war with the Mexican cartels or he doesn’t. This is just dicking about
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Trump designates street fentanyl as a WMD, escalating militarization of the drug war
Trump already declared the drug cartels terrorist organizations and ordered military strikes against suspected drug boats. Now he's declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. Experts are skeptic...
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December 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Either Trump goes to war with the Mexican cartels or he doesn’t. This is just dicking about
www.npr.org/2025/12/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/15/n...
Bluesky: 10 of the same people on repeat 😴
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Bluesky: 10 of the same people on repeat 😴
With the insights of an experienced youth expert, I wrote about continued child deaths on London's streets. These killings are just the surface of harm. Many, particularly the most vulnerable kids, are forever damaged by a hidden zone of fear, crime and petty retribution.
unherd.com/2025/12/gang...
unherd.com/2025/12/gang...
Gangs are menacing London’s schoolchildren
unherd.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
With the insights of an experienced youth expert, I wrote about continued child deaths on London's streets. These killings are just the surface of harm. Many, particularly the most vulnerable kids, are forever damaged by a hidden zone of fear, crime and petty retribution.
unherd.com/2025/12/gang...
unherd.com/2025/12/gang...
Keir Starmer, lame. All he’s got is to pretend the @greenparty.org.uk will allow drug selling outside schools, which is totally made up.
I’ve interviewed Keir Starmer for @theobserveruk.bsky.social. He is defiant about his leadership and says he’ll prove his critics wrong. He says Angela Rayner will be back in Cabinet, the Greens are “nuts” and young people have been “collateral damage” of past policy observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Keir Starmer: ‘The Greens are anti-Nato and think it’s all right to sell drugs. That’s nuts’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Keir Starmer, lame. All he’s got is to pretend the @greenparty.org.uk will allow drug selling outside schools, which is totally made up.
World Cup preamble: FIFA is corrupt
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
World Cup preamble: FIFA is corrupt
The ‘U.S.A U.S.A’ chant. The dumbest noise the universe has ever had to hear
December 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The ‘U.S.A U.S.A’ chant. The dumbest noise the universe has ever had to hear
Wonder if he only started after retiring?
Breaking News: An ex-DEA agent has been charged with agreeing to launder millions of dollars in narcotics proceeds for a Mexican drug cartel.
Ex-D.E.A. Agent Charged With Agreeing to Launder Millions for Cartel
The former agent, Paul Campo, laundered money for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Mexico, according to an indictment unsealed on Friday.
nyti.ms
December 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Wonder if he only started after retiring?
Was at the memorial for legendary journalist Duncan Campbell at Conway Hall last night. What a man he was, a journalistic hero really.
One of the first crime reporters to not be a mouthpiece for the cops, and to speak to the robbers too (he once arranged a notorious cat burglar’s funeral)
One of the first crime reporters to not be a mouthpiece for the cops, and to speak to the robbers too (he once arranged a notorious cat burglar’s funeral)
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Was at the memorial for legendary journalist Duncan Campbell at Conway Hall last night. What a man he was, a journalistic hero really.
One of the first crime reporters to not be a mouthpiece for the cops, and to speak to the robbers too (he once arranged a notorious cat burglar’s funeral)
One of the first crime reporters to not be a mouthpiece for the cops, and to speak to the robbers too (he once arranged a notorious cat burglar’s funeral)
Trump is a spiv who will always back the bad guys
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open.substack.com/pub/ioangril...
Honduras and Trump's Narco Pardon
Overturning a narco conviction throws Washington's war on drugs on its head; I look at the lobbying behind it
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Trump is a spiv who will always back the bad guys
open.substack.com/pub/ioangril...
open.substack.com/pub/ioangril...
“U know I’ve killed about 9 people and made about 4 die bro it’s fucked up init. First person was in 1st year in school bro kmt bro, after I do the ones on the list I think I’m gonna go into retirement.”
I wrote about Britain’s inept hitmen
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
I wrote about Britain’s inept hitmen
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
The truth about hitmen
unherd.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
“U know I’ve killed about 9 people and made about 4 die bro it’s fucked up init. First person was in 1st year in school bro kmt bro, after I do the ones on the list I think I’m gonna go into retirement.”
I wrote about Britain’s inept hitmen
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
I wrote about Britain’s inept hitmen
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
Downside of electric cars is loads of different companies running the charging points, each with their own annoying system (a bit like parking charges). Should all be nationalised.
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Downside of electric cars is loads of different companies running the charging points, each with their own annoying system (a bit like parking charges). Should all be nationalised.
If I was a Ukrainian my response to Trump’s peace plan would be to bomb the White House. See how he likes it.
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
If I was a Ukrainian my response to Trump’s peace plan would be to bomb the White House. See how he likes it.
Israeli teams, like Russian ones, should have already been banned from Europe. That’s the error.
November 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Israeli teams, like Russian ones, should have already been banned from Europe. That’s the error.
'An alleged Palestine Action member attacked a police officer with a sledgehammer, fracturing her back during an organised break-in at an Israeli defence firm'
Guess this is why Palestine Action were deemed a terrorist group
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Guess this is why Palestine Action were deemed a terrorist group
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears
Six Elbit Systems protesters caused
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
'An alleged Palestine Action member attacked a police officer with a sledgehammer, fracturing her back during an organised break-in at an Israeli defence firm'
Guess this is why Palestine Action were deemed a terrorist group
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Guess this is why Palestine Action were deemed a terrorist group
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...