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Freelance editor and writer, 🏴, volunteer with locate.international
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November 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
🚨 We've just launched our first ever membership campaign - with six pledges chosen by our readers and a 50,000-copy print edition hitting the streets.
Please share with friends - and join up! New members can choose their price.
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Is it because you don’t know him and you weren’t invited?
November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Is it because you don’t know him and you weren’t invited?
Eurgh
November 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Eurgh
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getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
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These patriotic displays have gone a bit too far now, if you ask me.
November 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
These patriotic displays have gone a bit too far now, if you ask me.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Six years ago, there wasn’t even a Wikipedia page for the biggest robbery of all time. But I was obsessed with the story and pitched it as a documentary - now, finally, it’s out there, and here’s my story about the robbery in the Mail today. It’s pretty wild. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Revealed: The masterminds behind the briefcase robbery
It's late in the afternoon on the Turkish Riviera and the sun is glinting into Keith Cheeseman's apartment above the Mediterranean sea.
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Six years ago, there wasn’t even a Wikipedia page for the biggest robbery of all time. But I was obsessed with the story and pitched it as a documentary - now, finally, it’s out there, and here’s my story about the robbery in the Mail today. It’s pretty wild. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
A story to make your blood boil. But as an aside, I'm a big fan of Mill Media sometimes printing the full aggressive responses they get to their questions (see also: Twamley, Lee)
This summer, Andrew Milne - a City of London solicitor - bought up hundreds of freeholds in west Sheffield.
Then the letters started to arrive. They included threats of high court action and offers to sell the freeholds - for £25,000.
Read today's story: www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Then the letters started to arrive. They included threats of high court action and offers to sell the freeholds - for £25,000.
Read today's story: www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A story to make your blood boil. But as an aside, I'm a big fan of Mill Media sometimes printing the full aggressive responses they get to their questions (see also: Twamley, Lee)
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Brilliant investigation into Saudi Arabia's discovery that the optimal shape for a city is not a 170-kilometre straight line ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Brilliant investigation into Saudi Arabia's discovery that the optimal shape for a city is not a 170-kilometre straight line ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
Attenborough should narrate a new series called Absolute Bastards, that follows the absolute bastards of the animal kingdom
November 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Attenborough should narrate a new series called Absolute Bastards, that follows the absolute bastards of the animal kingdom
The hero we need in these times www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The ‘pavement vigilante’: why Cameron Roh is naming and shaming bad walking etiquette
He films people breaking his self-created ‘laws’ of street decorum and posts the videos online – with many viewers expressing their gratitude. So watch out if you’re rushing along on your phone or whe...
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The hero we need in these times www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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It’s fascinating comparing the front page coverage of the Huntingdon train attack (below) with how the British press treated another case 30 years ago.
I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.
I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.
November 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
It’s fascinating comparing the front page coverage of the Huntingdon train attack (below) with how the British press treated another case 30 years ago.
I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.
I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.
All prepared for tonight’s trick-or-treaters
October 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
All prepared for tonight’s trick-or-treaters
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Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
Whoever channeled Billy Idol for this headline… I applaud you and your very strange decision
October 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Whoever channeled Billy Idol for this headline… I applaud you and your very strange decision
I'm sorry, you what now?
October 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I'm sorry, you what now?
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NL was always among most Atlanticist in continental Europe. Supported US invasion Iraq, blindly pro-Israel, provided troops in Afghanistan & Iraq, often bought American rather than European arms (Joint Strike Fighter). Quite something for top intelligence people to come out and say this out loud.
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
NL was always among most Atlanticist in continental Europe. Supported US invasion Iraq, blindly pro-Israel, provided troops in Afghanistan & Iraq, often bought American rather than European arms (Joint Strike Fighter). Quite something for top intelligence people to come out and say this out loud.
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A new island erupted from the sea – can it show us how nature works without human interference?
A new island erupted from the sea – can it show us how nature works without human interference?
The volcanic island of Surtsey emerged in the 1960s, and scientists say studying its development offers hope for damaged ecosystems worldwide
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
A new island erupted from the sea – can it show us how nature works without human interference?
Immediately got an earworm of "Nuns on Fire" stuck in my head, to the tune of "Girls on Film" bbc.com/news/videos/c1jzj1n797yo
Fire rips through historic Italian monastery
Drone footage shows blaze destroying the historic Bernaga Monastery in Italy.
bbc.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Immediately got an earworm of "Nuns on Fire" stuck in my head, to the tune of "Girls on Film" bbc.com/news/videos/c1jzj1n797yo
Every single line of this horrific story delivers some new wonderful detail/sense of revulsion www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge
Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Every single line of this horrific story delivers some new wonderful detail/sense of revulsion www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is fine
National security threatened by climate crisis, UK defence chiefs due to warn
National security threatened by climate crisis, UK defence chiefs due to warn
Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published
The UK’s national security is under severe threat from the climate crisis and the looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages and economic disaster potentially just years away, a powerful report by the UK’s defence chiefs is due to warn.
However, the report, which was supposed to launch tomorrow at a landmark event in London, has been delayed, and concerns have been expressed to the Guardian that it may not now be published. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This is fine
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Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.
Thought you'd enjoy this.
Thought you'd enjoy this.
September 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.
Thought you'd enjoy this.
Thought you'd enjoy this.
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Sarah Mullally, now the Archbishop of Canterbury, was at the heart of the appalling Martin Sargeant fiasco. Read our investigation from last year
www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...
www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...
In the Shadow of St Paul’s
A taste for the finer things in life.
www.the-fence.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Sarah Mullally, now the Archbishop of Canterbury, was at the heart of the appalling Martin Sargeant fiasco. Read our investigation from last year
www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...
www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...
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On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.
Our story about today’s attack.
manchestermill.co.uk/on-their-hol...
Our story about today’s attack.
manchestermill.co.uk/on-their-hol...
On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’
Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall
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October 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.
Our story about today’s attack.
manchestermill.co.uk/on-their-hol...
Our story about today’s attack.
manchestermill.co.uk/on-their-hol...