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@simonchilds.bsky.social
Editor and reporter at Novara Media. Formerly Vice. Send stories and tips to simon@novaramedia.com for Novara or simonchildsjournalism@gmail.com for freelance. Nominated: Amnesty Media Awards 2025
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A few weeks ago this Reform rising star went on LBC & said young people were being paid too much,citing his experience in hospitality.
So we looked into his companies & found 3 tribunal judgments for failure to pay wages, holiday pay & provide contracts
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
So we looked into his companies & found 3 tribunal judgments for failure to pay wages, holiday pay & provide contracts
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
November 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
A few weeks ago this Reform rising star went on LBC & said young people were being paid too much,citing his experience in hospitality.
So we looked into his companies & found 3 tribunal judgments for failure to pay wages, holiday pay & provide contracts
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
So we looked into his companies & found 3 tribunal judgments for failure to pay wages, holiday pay & provide contracts
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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UEFA's failures have been almost entirely overlooked in the tawdry controversy over the Maccabi Tel Aviv supporter ban. Great piece from @simonchilds.bsky.social novaramedia.com/2025/11/05/u...
Uefa Promised to Investigate Maccabi Tel Aviv Over Amsterdam Racism. Then It Went Quiet | Novara Media
After Maccabi Tel Aviv fans rampaged through Amsterdam tearing down Palestine flags and chanting “fuck the Arabs”, Europe’s football authority pledged to investigate. A year later and days before anot...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
UEFA's failures have been almost entirely overlooked in the tawdry controversy over the Maccabi Tel Aviv supporter ban. Great piece from @simonchilds.bsky.social novaramedia.com/2025/11/05/u...
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We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.
November 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.
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Huge story with some absolutely shocking details. Big credit to @simonchilds.bsky.social and the workers who spoke to @novaramedia.com for this
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Union Leader Accused of Harassment and Heading Up ‘Sexist Boys Club’ | Novara Media
Exclusive: Workers at a huge federation of trade unions fear a redundancy process is being used to ‘wipe’ the institutional memory of a misogynistic workplace culture where union money was spent on st...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Huge story with some absolutely shocking details. Big credit to @simonchilds.bsky.social and the workers who spoke to @novaramedia.com for this
novaramedia.com/2025/10/15/u...
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A major coalition of trade unions turned into a "sexist, patriarchal boys' club" where union cards paid for strip clubs. Female colleagues were broken down and traumatised by the sexist culture...
October 16, 2025 at 9:24 AM
A major coalition of trade unions turned into a "sexist, patriarchal boys' club" where union cards paid for strip clubs. Female colleagues were broken down and traumatised by the sexist culture...
This is wild. People go through the mill taking on crappy employers in employment tribunals, win and then just... don't get the money. Really important investigation.
🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards
The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
This is wild. People go through the mill taking on crappy employers in employment tribunals, win and then just... don't get the money. Really important investigation.
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- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.
September 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
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![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
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Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
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September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On the same day in the Telegraph:
Police swooped on 5 members of Defend Our Juries this morning as they were about to announce that 1,000 people have signed up to defy the ban at their next protest novaramedia.com/2025/09/02/p...
Police Arrest Key Members of Protest Group Defying Palestine Action Ban After Dawn Raids | Novara Media
Counter-terror police arrested five key spokespeople for Defend Our Juries just hours before the group announced its latest protest. Simon Childs reports.
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September 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Police swooped on 5 members of Defend Our Juries this morning as they were about to announce that 1,000 people have signed up to defy the ban at their next protest novaramedia.com/2025/09/02/p...
Rolex-Wearing Union Leader Faces Allegations of Union-Busting novaramedia.com/2025/08/06/r...
Rolex-Wearing Union Leader Faces Allegations of Union-Busting | Novara Media
Staff at the International Transport Workers’ Federation stand up for the rights of millions of workers across the world. Now they’re being subjected to a ‘sham’ redundancy process. Simon Childs repor...
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August 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Rolex-Wearing Union Leader Faces Allegations of Union-Busting novaramedia.com/2025/08/06/r...
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Not every day you meet the iconic comedian behind the world's most famous joke
July 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Not every day you meet the iconic comedian behind the world's most famous joke
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🧵How @lewishamlabour.bsky.social suppress Palestine solidarity and crush dissent
Report in @novaramedia.com lays out how Chief Whip Eva Stamirowski punished me for speaking out on Israel's genocide
Also carried in @salamandernews.org 🦎 www.salamandernews.org/lewisham-cou...
Report in @novaramedia.com lays out how Chief Whip Eva Stamirowski punished me for speaking out on Israel's genocide
Also carried in @salamandernews.org 🦎 www.salamandernews.org/lewisham-cou...
June 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🧵How @lewishamlabour.bsky.social suppress Palestine solidarity and crush dissent
Report in @novaramedia.com lays out how Chief Whip Eva Stamirowski punished me for speaking out on Israel's genocide
Also carried in @salamandernews.org 🦎 www.salamandernews.org/lewisham-cou...
Report in @novaramedia.com lays out how Chief Whip Eva Stamirowski punished me for speaking out on Israel's genocide
Also carried in @salamandernews.org 🦎 www.salamandernews.org/lewisham-cou...
As Palestine Action faces being branded a terrorist group for throwing paint around, I took a look at the implications for the broader left novaramedia.com/2025/06/24/h...
Here’s How the Palestine Action Ban Could Affect You | Novara Media
Meeting with even two other people and expressing support for the protest group could land you in prison for up to 14 years if Yvette Cooper's proscription of it goes into effect. Simon Childs on what...
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June 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
As Palestine Action faces being branded a terrorist group for throwing paint around, I took a look at the implications for the broader left novaramedia.com/2025/06/24/h...
Folkies 1, Lockheed Martin 0 novaramedia.com/2025/06/19/a...
A Group of Musicians Took on an Arms Company – And Won | Novara Media
London music venue Kings Place quietly cut a Lockheed Martin-sponsored event after performers began cancelling shows. Maybe there’s hope for this world after all, writes Simon Childs.
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June 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Folkies 1, Lockheed Martin 0 novaramedia.com/2025/06/19/a...
I explained the UK government's fool-proof strategy to defeat the far-right by enacting all their policies while everyone on all sides of the political spectrum despise them for it, for the latest edition of Hell World c/o @lukeoneil47.bsky.social
www.welcometohellworld.com/the-next-tur...
www.welcometohellworld.com/the-next-tur...
The next turn of the ratchet
The right will never be satisfied with diet bigotry
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May 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I explained the UK government's fool-proof strategy to defeat the far-right by enacting all their policies while everyone on all sides of the political spectrum despise them for it, for the latest edition of Hell World c/o @lukeoneil47.bsky.social
www.welcometohellworld.com/the-next-tur...
www.welcometohellworld.com/the-next-tur...
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Today @simonchilds.bsky.social writes on the increasing anti-immigrant sentiment and further shift to the right from Labour and Keir Starmer. www.welcometohellworld.com/the-next-tur...
The next turn of the ratchet
The right will never be satisfied with diet bigotry
www.welcometohellworld.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Today @simonchilds.bsky.social writes on the increasing anti-immigrant sentiment and further shift to the right from Labour and Keir Starmer. www.welcometohellworld.com/the-next-tur...
In the High Court where Palestinian NGO Al Haq is challenging the legality of the government's "carve out" to send parts of lethal F35 jets to Israel. The court is packed, I'm in the overspill room which is also packed...
May 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
In the High Court where Palestinian NGO Al Haq is challenging the legality of the government's "carve out" to send parts of lethal F35 jets to Israel. The court is packed, I'm in the overspill room which is also packed...
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A controversial British company, which burns wood for electricity and receives lots of taxpayer subsidies, says it has a “revolving door” with government - @simonchilds.bsky.social reports novaramedia.com/2025/03/27/g...
Greenwashing Power Station Executive Admits ‘Revolving Door’ With Government | Novara Media
An executive for Drax said the greenwashing power plant has a ‘revolving door’ with the civil service, as its massive lobbying budget is revealed.
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March 30, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A controversial British company, which burns wood for electricity and receives lots of taxpayer subsidies, says it has a “revolving door” with government - @simonchilds.bsky.social reports novaramedia.com/2025/03/27/g...
Austerity under the coalition government in 2011 was met with the biggest public sector strikes in a generation. Now that we're getting austerity 2.0, similar strikes may be difficult because Labour is delaying getting rid of Tory anti-union laws. novaramedia.com/2025/03/27/l...
Labour Delays Repeal of Anti-Trade Union Law Ahead of Austerity 2.0 | Novara Media
The government is backsliding over reforms to Tory anti-strike laws. Perhaps it has something to do with the fresh round of cuts they have planned. Polly Smythe reports.
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March 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Austerity under the coalition government in 2011 was met with the biggest public sector strikes in a generation. Now that we're getting austerity 2.0, similar strikes may be difficult because Labour is delaying getting rid of Tory anti-union laws. novaramedia.com/2025/03/27/l...
Chuffed to have been nominated for an @amnestyuk.bsky.social
Media Award for the podcast documentary we made about the state repression of the Palestine movement! 🍾🥂
Media Award for the podcast documentary we made about the state repression of the Palestine movement! 🍾🥂
March 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Chuffed to have been nominated for an @amnestyuk.bsky.social
Media Award for the podcast documentary we made about the state repression of the Palestine movement! 🍾🥂
Media Award for the podcast documentary we made about the state repression of the Palestine movement! 🍾🥂
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£125,000+ per arrest at Reclaim the Power camp at Drax in August.
Ridiculous repression as @netpol.org says.
novaramedia.com/2025/03/18/r...
More great work from @simonchilds.bsky.social
Ridiculous repression as @netpol.org says.
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More great work from @simonchilds.bsky.social
Revealed: Police Spent £3m Shutting Down Climate Protest | Novara Media
Exclusive: Police spent over £3m and deployed over 1,000 officers from nearly every force in the country in order to arrest 24 climate activists protesting a greenwashing power station, Novara Media c...
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March 19, 2025 at 7:50 AM
£125,000+ per arrest at Reclaim the Power camp at Drax in August.
Ridiculous repression as @netpol.org says.
novaramedia.com/2025/03/18/r...
More great work from @simonchilds.bsky.social
Ridiculous repression as @netpol.org says.
novaramedia.com/2025/03/18/r...
More great work from @simonchilds.bsky.social
Exclusive: Police spent over £3m, deploying over 1,000 officers from almost every constabulary to shut down a climate protest at Drax, the "renewable" power station that burns trees ...
March 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Exclusive: Police spent over £3m, deploying over 1,000 officers from almost every constabulary to shut down a climate protest at Drax, the "renewable" power station that burns trees ...
Lots of juicy gossip coming out of an employment tribunal involving everyone's favourite tree-burning renewable power station, Drax. Here's a write up from me: novaramedia.com/2025/03/17/u...
UK’s Biggest ‘Renewable’ Power Station Sacked Employee Who Blew Whistle on Environmental Claims | Novara Media
The head of public affairs at Drax raised concerns about the company’s environmental credentials. It cost her her job, an employment tribunal has heard. Simon Childs reports.
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March 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Lots of juicy gossip coming out of an employment tribunal involving everyone's favourite tree-burning renewable power station, Drax. Here's a write up from me: novaramedia.com/2025/03/17/u...