Tom Witherow
@tomwitherow.bsky.social
News and special projects reporter for The Times. Uncovering scandals - the Post Office, gambling sector, NHS and more.
Got a story that needs covering? My DMs are open or ask for signal/proton.
Got a story that needs covering? My DMs are open or ask for signal/proton.
I've appeared on @thetimes's daily podcast The Story -
Talking about the fallout of the Afghan leak and the terrible story of the Triple soldier's brother in Monday's splash.
Big thanks to presenter Manveen Rana and producer Olivia Case for making it all happen.
Listen here: pod.fo/e/2ffc78
Talking about the fallout of the Afghan leak and the terrible story of the Triple soldier's brother in Monday's splash.
Big thanks to presenter Manveen Rana and producer Olivia Case for making it all happen.
Listen here: pod.fo/e/2ffc78
The Story: The Afghan leak: what next?
After last week’s shocking revelations that a list of tens of thousands of Afghans who’d helped the British was leaked, has that already led to deaths - and what happens now?This podcast was br...
pod.fo
July 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I've appeared on @thetimes's daily podcast The Story -
Talking about the fallout of the Afghan leak and the terrible story of the Triple soldier's brother in Monday's splash.
Big thanks to presenter Manveen Rana and producer Olivia Case for making it all happen.
Listen here: pod.fo/e/2ffc78
Talking about the fallout of the Afghan leak and the terrible story of the Triple soldier's brother in Monday's splash.
Big thanks to presenter Manveen Rana and producer Olivia Case for making it all happen.
Listen here: pod.fo/e/2ffc78
This long read on Liz Truss is free to read on @thetimes.com today - along with all the team's award-winning journalism 👇
New read - Will courting MAGA make Liz Truss great again?!
** Talks down Britain to its biggest ally as a “failed state” and preaches small government...
** All while costing UK taxpayers' £'00,000s.
** Now returning to UK with "free speech media network".
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
** Talks down Britain to its biggest ally as a “failed state” and preaches small government...
** All while costing UK taxpayers' £'00,000s.
** Now returning to UK with "free speech media network".
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Make Liz Truss Great Again: ex-PM seeks redemption from Republicans
Now a political pariah in Britain, the leader outlasted by a lettuce is setting her sights on Trump’s America
www.thetimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This long read on Liz Truss is free to read on @thetimes.com today - along with all the team's award-winning journalism 👇
New read - Will courting MAGA make Liz Truss great again?!
** Talks down Britain to its biggest ally as a “failed state” and preaches small government...
** All while costing UK taxpayers' £'00,000s.
** Now returning to UK with "free speech media network".
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
** Talks down Britain to its biggest ally as a “failed state” and preaches small government...
** All while costing UK taxpayers' £'00,000s.
** Now returning to UK with "free speech media network".
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Make Liz Truss Great Again: ex-PM seeks redemption from Republicans
Now a political pariah in Britain, the leader outlasted by a lettuce is setting her sights on Trump’s America
www.thetimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
New read - Will courting MAGA make Liz Truss great again?!
** Talks down Britain to its biggest ally as a “failed state” and preaches small government...
** All while costing UK taxpayers' £'00,000s.
** Now returning to UK with "free speech media network".
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
** Talks down Britain to its biggest ally as a “failed state” and preaches small government...
** All while costing UK taxpayers' £'00,000s.
** Now returning to UK with "free speech media network".
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Huge congrats to my close friend Rupert Dastur on the release of his debut novel, Cloudless!
Waterstone's named him out as one of the most exciting new authors to watch.
He's a fantastic writer, the loveliest man and the book has been in the works for many years so it's well deserved (1/2)
Waterstone's named him out as one of the most exciting new authors to watch.
He's a fantastic writer, the loveliest man and the book has been in the works for many years so it's well deserved (1/2)
February 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Huge congrats to my close friend Rupert Dastur on the release of his debut novel, Cloudless!
Waterstone's named him out as one of the most exciting new authors to watch.
He's a fantastic writer, the loveliest man and the book has been in the works for many years so it's well deserved (1/2)
Waterstone's named him out as one of the most exciting new authors to watch.
He's a fantastic writer, the loveliest man and the book has been in the works for many years so it's well deserved (1/2)
Act of total self harm by the Government 👎
February 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Act of total self harm by the Government 👎
Any tips on how to get faster broadband speeds?
We're in central London and Vodafone (in this case) can only guarantee 6-7 Mbps.
No fibre to the house available here - so it's all BT infrastructure
We're in central London and Vodafone (in this case) can only guarantee 6-7 Mbps.
No fibre to the house available here - so it's all BT infrastructure
February 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Any tips on how to get faster broadband speeds?
We're in central London and Vodafone (in this case) can only guarantee 6-7 Mbps.
No fibre to the house available here - so it's all BT infrastructure
We're in central London and Vodafone (in this case) can only guarantee 6-7 Mbps.
No fibre to the house available here - so it's all BT infrastructure
Big update on Post Office police investigation:
🚩 'Dozens' of potential suspects identified.
🚩 100 officers on the case.
🚩 Commander doesn't rule out senior execs or corporate charges.
🚩 Upbeat about chances - expects trials in 2027.
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
🚩 'Dozens' of potential suspects identified.
🚩 100 officers on the case.
🚩 Commander doesn't rule out senior execs or corporate charges.
🚩 Upbeat about chances - expects trials in 2027.
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
Post Office investigation: dozens of ‘people of interest’ identified
Officers are examining potential cases of perjury and perverting the course of justice but have said Horizon IT prosecutions will not go to trial until 2027
www.thetimes.com
December 11, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Big update on Post Office police investigation:
🚩 'Dozens' of potential suspects identified.
🚩 100 officers on the case.
🚩 Commander doesn't rule out senior execs or corporate charges.
🚩 Upbeat about chances - expects trials in 2027.
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
🚩 'Dozens' of potential suspects identified.
🚩 100 officers on the case.
🚩 Commander doesn't rule out senior execs or corporate charges.
🚩 Upbeat about chances - expects trials in 2027.
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
New: I spoke to the inspirational Waad Al-Kateab who won a Bafta for her film "For Sama" -
It documented the now London-based journalist's life in Aleppo during five years of uprising and war.
An amazing woman - End of Assad is "our happy ending" 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/a873...
It documented the now London-based journalist's life in Aleppo during five years of uprising and war.
An amazing woman - End of Assad is "our happy ending" 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/a873...
Syrian Bafta winner: End of cowardly Assad is our happy ending
Waad Al-Kateab, who documented her life in Aleppo during five years of uprising in For Sama calls for foreign powers to leave after Assad’s collapse
www.thetimes.com
December 11, 2024 at 12:54 PM
New: I spoke to the inspirational Waad Al-Kateab who won a Bafta for her film "For Sama" -
It documented the now London-based journalist's life in Aleppo during five years of uprising and war.
An amazing woman - End of Assad is "our happy ending" 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/a873...
It documented the now London-based journalist's life in Aleppo during five years of uprising and war.
An amazing woman - End of Assad is "our happy ending" 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/a873...
You can follow @thetimes.com journalists here -
All listed on the starter pack below:
go.bsky.app/NqDPCtV
All listed on the starter pack below:
go.bsky.app/NqDPCtV
December 4, 2024 at 10:51 AM
You can follow @thetimes.com journalists here -
All listed on the starter pack below:
go.bsky.app/NqDPCtV
All listed on the starter pack below:
go.bsky.app/NqDPCtV
Fewer than 2% of new dads have benefitted from shared parental leave.
It's 10 years since it began:
www.personneltoday.com/hr/shared-pa...
It's 10 years since it began:
www.personneltoday.com/hr/shared-pa...
Fewer than 2% of dads take shared parental leave
Fewer than 2% of new dads have benefitted from shared parental leave in the 10 years since it began, according to new research.
www.personneltoday.com
December 2, 2024 at 9:33 AM
Fewer than 2% of new dads have benefitted from shared parental leave.
It's 10 years since it began:
www.personneltoday.com/hr/shared-pa...
It's 10 years since it began:
www.personneltoday.com/hr/shared-pa...
We're fulfilling a dream of getting our own border terrier in the New Year:
Stevie is going to be trained as a therapy dog to work with my psychotherapist partner...
So this article/pic of Brian (longest serving therapy dog!) with a patient is a complete joy!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Stevie is going to be trained as a therapy dog to work with my psychotherapist partner...
So this article/pic of Brian (longest serving therapy dog!) with a patient is a complete joy!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Therapy dogs having 'phenomenal' effect on Hull hospital patients
Pets as Therapy dogs have won praise for helping seriously ill people and putting smiles on faces.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2024 at 8:40 AM
We're fulfilling a dream of getting our own border terrier in the New Year:
Stevie is going to be trained as a therapy dog to work with my psychotherapist partner...
So this article/pic of Brian (longest serving therapy dog!) with a patient is a complete joy!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Stevie is going to be trained as a therapy dog to work with my psychotherapist partner...
So this article/pic of Brian (longest serving therapy dog!) with a patient is a complete joy!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New: ‘My family have farmed here for 375 years’
Meet the farming influencers driving this morning's protest in Whitehall including the "accidental influencer" Olly Harrison, pictured below.
See you down there if you're going 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/fc07...
Meet the farming influencers driving this morning's protest in Whitehall including the "accidental influencer" Olly Harrison, pictured below.
See you down there if you're going 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/fc07...
They’ll destroy family farming, say influencers driving protest
The demonstration, galvanised by social media personalities including Gareth Wyn Jones and Rebecca Wilson, is expected to overshadow an official farmers’ union event
www.thetimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:40 AM
New: ‘My family have farmed here for 375 years’
Meet the farming influencers driving this morning's protest in Whitehall including the "accidental influencer" Olly Harrison, pictured below.
See you down there if you're going 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/fc07...
Meet the farming influencers driving this morning's protest in Whitehall including the "accidental influencer" Olly Harrison, pictured below.
See you down there if you're going 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/fc07...
Starter pack: Investigative journalists working for major UK titles and broadcasters.
Follow them below - and if you've been missed off drop me a DM.
go.bsky.app/ScQ3Y5s
Follow them below - and if you've been missed off drop me a DM.
go.bsky.app/ScQ3Y5s
November 18, 2024 at 7:50 AM
Starter pack: Investigative journalists working for major UK titles and broadcasters.
Follow them below - and if you've been missed off drop me a DM.
go.bsky.app/ScQ3Y5s
Follow them below - and if you've been missed off drop me a DM.
go.bsky.app/ScQ3Y5s
Didn't go for Glastonbury tix this year - but thought the dreaded queue seemed like a decent/possibly fairer idea than the old tech scramble.
But pals claimed who tried claimed you could keep buying sets of 5 tix once you were in!
Why is it so hard for Glasto find a fair way of selling tickets...
But pals claimed who tried claimed you could keep buying sets of 5 tix once you were in!
Why is it so hard for Glasto find a fair way of selling tickets...
November 17, 2024 at 10:54 AM
Didn't go for Glastonbury tix this year - but thought the dreaded queue seemed like a decent/possibly fairer idea than the old tech scramble.
But pals claimed who tried claimed you could keep buying sets of 5 tix once you were in!
Why is it so hard for Glasto find a fair way of selling tickets...
But pals claimed who tried claimed you could keep buying sets of 5 tix once you were in!
Why is it so hard for Glasto find a fair way of selling tickets...
A tentative entry into the world of starter packs with a list of -
Investigative journalists working for major UK titles and broadcasters.
Small list for now. Follow them below and if you've been missed off drop me a DM.
go.bsky.app/ScQ3Y5s
Investigative journalists working for major UK titles and broadcasters.
Small list for now. Follow them below and if you've been missed off drop me a DM.
go.bsky.app/ScQ3Y5s
November 15, 2024 at 2:59 PM
A tentative entry into the world of starter packs with a list of -
Investigative journalists working for major UK titles and broadcasters.
Small list for now. Follow them below and if you've been missed off drop me a DM.
go.bsky.app/ScQ3Y5s
Investigative journalists working for major UK titles and broadcasters.
Small list for now. Follow them below and if you've been missed off drop me a DM.
go.bsky.app/ScQ3Y5s
Great bit of work on the Post Office's ongoing investigation into its "internal police force".
Daniel finds that Project Phoenix has resulted in two referrals to the Met Police - but those staffers are still working on full pay.
Watch below 👇
Daniel finds that Project Phoenix has resulted in two referrals to the Met Police - but those staffers are still working on full pay.
Watch below 👇
INVESTIGATION;
We’ve been digging into Project Phoenix - the internal Post Office inquiry into the way it’s own investigators conducted interviews and interrogations of hundreds of innocent subpostmasters which helped get them prosecuted.
Watch the full report on ITVX
www.itv.com/watch/news/r...
We’ve been digging into Project Phoenix - the internal Post Office inquiry into the way it’s own investigators conducted interviews and interrogations of hundreds of innocent subpostmasters which helped get them prosecuted.
Watch the full report on ITVX
www.itv.com/watch/news/r...
www.itv.com
November 15, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Great bit of work on the Post Office's ongoing investigation into its "internal police force".
Daniel finds that Project Phoenix has resulted in two referrals to the Met Police - but those staffers are still working on full pay.
Watch below 👇
Daniel finds that Project Phoenix has resulted in two referrals to the Met Police - but those staffers are still working on full pay.
Watch below 👇
New: Deep dive into Post Office compensation -
Analysis: How many people have been paid - and why is it taking so long to pay victims compensation?
Most in-depth and up to date thing I've written on the state of redress for 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...
Analysis: How many people have been paid - and why is it taking so long to pay victims compensation?
Most in-depth and up to date thing I've written on the state of redress for 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...
Post Office scandal: why is it taking so long to pay victims compensation?
Five years after the Horizon IT scandal was revealed, only half of the victims have received their money — what is taking so long?
www.thetimes.com
November 15, 2024 at 12:10 PM
New: Deep dive into Post Office compensation -
Analysis: How many people have been paid - and why is it taking so long to pay victims compensation?
Most in-depth and up to date thing I've written on the state of redress for 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...
Analysis: How many people have been paid - and why is it taking so long to pay victims compensation?
Most in-depth and up to date thing I've written on the state of redress for 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...
Tickets to the Lords tests next year have gone up a crazy amount.
The same seat I sat in this year for £120 will be £175 for England v India in July 2025 - up almost a third.
That would be over £1,000 for the same group of family to go. Madness.
The same seat I sat in this year for £120 will be £175 for England v India in July 2025 - up almost a third.
That would be over £1,000 for the same group of family to go. Madness.
November 14, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Tickets to the Lords tests next year have gone up a crazy amount.
The same seat I sat in this year for £120 will be £175 for England v India in July 2025 - up almost a third.
That would be over £1,000 for the same group of family to go. Madness.
The same seat I sat in this year for £120 will be £175 for England v India in July 2025 - up almost a third.
That would be over £1,000 for the same group of family to go. Madness.
Reposted by Tom Witherow
Follow some of my excellent colleagues at @thetimes.com go.bsky.app/NqDPCtV
November 14, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Follow some of my excellent colleagues at @thetimes.com go.bsky.app/NqDPCtV
Reposted by Tom Witherow
Going to do a quick thread of my fellow @thetimes.com reporters who are on BlueSky and why you should follow them 👇
November 13, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Going to do a quick thread of my fellow @thetimes.com reporters who are on BlueSky and why you should follow them 👇
New on Post Office scandal -
What have we learnt as the inquiry comes to an end?
I tried to boil 2.5 years of evidence down to the key takeaways - of course so much more I could have included!
www.thetimes.com/article/dfa0...
What have we learnt as the inquiry comes to an end?
I tried to boil 2.5 years of evidence down to the key takeaways - of course so much more I could have included!
www.thetimes.com/article/dfa0...
Post Office inquiry: what have we learnt as it comes to an end?
The hearings covered the biggest scandal in British legal history, with almost 300 witnesses and two million pages of documents. Here are 14 key takeaways
www.thetimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 11:24 AM
New on Post Office scandal -
What have we learnt as the inquiry comes to an end?
I tried to boil 2.5 years of evidence down to the key takeaways - of course so much more I could have included!
www.thetimes.com/article/dfa0...
What have we learnt as the inquiry comes to an end?
I tried to boil 2.5 years of evidence down to the key takeaways - of course so much more I could have included!
www.thetimes.com/article/dfa0...
Hello, glad to be giving this place a try. I cover news of all stripes & especially home news, crime, politics and business.
My best-known work is on the Post Office scandal and gambling addiction - today's effort below 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/dfa0...
My best-known work is on the Post Office scandal and gambling addiction - today's effort below 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/dfa0...
Post Office inquiry: what have we learnt as it enters its final day?
The hearings covered the biggest scandal in British legal history, with almost 300 witnesses and two million pages of documents. Here are 14 key takeaways
www.thetimes.com
November 13, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Hello, glad to be giving this place a try. I cover news of all stripes & especially home news, crime, politics and business.
My best-known work is on the Post Office scandal and gambling addiction - today's effort below 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/dfa0...
My best-known work is on the Post Office scandal and gambling addiction - today's effort below 👇
www.thetimes.com/article/dfa0...