Robbie Griffiths
@robbieegrif.bsky.social
Journalist | @privateeyenews.bsky.social | @npr.org
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BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special
The new Private Eye is out now.
The new Private Eye is out now.
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special
The new Private Eye is out now.
The new Private Eye is out now.
My piece for NPR on why so many British football teams are owned by rich Americans. Now just need to retrain myself to stop saying soccer...
American millionaires and celebrities are buying up British soccer teams in record numbers. n.pr/438NXqL
Why are so many rich Americans investing in British soccer teams?
American millionaires and celebrities are buying up British soccer teams in record numbers.
n.pr
October 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
My piece for NPR on why so many British football teams are owned by rich Americans. Now just need to retrain myself to stop saying soccer...
I explored Ziggy Stardust‘s pants at the new V&A David Bowie Centre for NPR - click to listen
A new exhibition in London shares David Bowie's archive, tracing his personas and evolution as a musician and artist.
David Bowie fans can explore his legacy at close quarters at an unusual new archive in London
A new exhibition in London shares David Bowie's archive, tracing his personas and evolution as a musician and artist.
n.pr
September 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I explored Ziggy Stardust‘s pants at the new V&A David Bowie Centre for NPR - click to listen
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Mariam Abu Dagga: Gaza journalist killed in Israeli strike ‘carried her camera into the heart of the field’
Mariam Abu Dagga: Gaza journalist killed in Israeli strike ‘carried her camera into the heart of the field’
The 33-year-old photojournalist committed to conveying suffering of civilians with ‘rare honesty and courage’
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August 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Mariam Abu Dagga: Gaza journalist killed in Israeli strike ‘carried her camera into the heart of the field’
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Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
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August 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
July 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.
His name is Mohammad Al-Motawaq. He is 18 months old. And he is starving in Gaza
Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.
n.pr
July 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.
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Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal?
PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard!
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PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard!
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July 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal?
PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard!
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PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard!
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Hear my trip to a Georgian ball celebrating 250 years of Jane Austen.
Click the blue media player to listen to me doing my bit to give Americans the sense the UK is a twee and gentle place.
Click the blue media player to listen to me doing my bit to give Americans the sense the UK is a twee and gentle place.
Jane Austen fans are celebrating 250 years since the writer's birth with a series of celebrations – including Georgian costume balls, where attendees try out period dancing.
Jane Austen fans mark 250 years since the writer's birth with a wave of parties
Jane Austen fans are celebrating 250 years since the writer's birth with a series of celebrations – including Georgian costume balls, where attendees try out period dancing.
n.pr
July 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Hear my trip to a Georgian ball celebrating 250 years of Jane Austen.
Click the blue media player to listen to me doing my bit to give Americans the sense the UK is a twee and gentle place.
Click the blue media player to listen to me doing my bit to give Americans the sense the UK is a twee and gentle place.
Very powerful story by NPR's Gaza producer Anas Baba, going to a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid site
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.
By Anas Baba
By Anas Baba
Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.
n.pr
July 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Very powerful story by NPR's Gaza producer Anas Baba, going to a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid site
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One of my favourite bits of the year is here: getting to interview the shortlistees for the Paul Foot Awards. Amazing journalists with amazing stories. Will be re-posting these over the next week and the full, remarkable mini-episodes of Page 94 can be found here: www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast
First up is Laura Hughes (The Financial Times) for her deep-dive about the abandoned mines leaching toxic lead into British soil, livestock and food, and why nobody is taking responsibility.
May 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
One of my favourite bits of the year is here: getting to interview the shortlistees for the Paul Foot Awards. Amazing journalists with amazing stories. Will be re-posting these over the next week and the full, remarkable mini-episodes of Page 94 can be found here: www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast
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Wonderful profile of NPR's wonderful Gaza producer
www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
For NPR’s Anas Baba, covering the war in Gaza also means living it
The NPR producer is one of few Palestinian journalists working with a U.S. news organization to file dispatches from Gaza.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Wonderful profile of NPR's wonderful Gaza producer
www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
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Boris Johnson’s million-pound Daily Mail gig continues to be farcical. A recent column, confidently praising Trump’s Ukraine stance, was swiftly pulled after Trump and JD Vance launched a scathing attack on Zelensky.
Full story online and in the latest issue: www.private-eye.co.uk/news
Full story online and in the latest issue: www.private-eye.co.uk/news
Private Eye | Boris Johnson
: Boris spiked
THE Daily Mail's star signing Boris Johnson continues to earn every penny of his million-pound fee.
www.private-eye.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Boris Johnson’s million-pound Daily Mail gig continues to be farcical. A recent column, confidently praising Trump’s Ukraine stance, was swiftly pulled after Trump and JD Vance launched a scathing attack on Zelensky.
Full story online and in the latest issue: www.private-eye.co.uk/news
Full story online and in the latest issue: www.private-eye.co.uk/news
As alcohol-related deaths in the UK hit a record high, Private Eye can reveal the industry's biggest firms have been pressuring the charity they fund, Drinkaware, to water down its work. Read more in the latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
As alcohol-related deaths in the UK hit a record high, Private Eye can reveal the industry's biggest firms have been pressuring the charity they fund, Drinkaware, to water down its work. Read more in the latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social
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📍Dispatch from Sudan: The first of a three-part series shines a light on a conflict that has had a devastating impact, yet remains at the periphery of international attention
Inside Sudan’s forgotten war: 150,000 dead, 11 million displaced
The first of a three-part series shines a light on a conflict that has had a devastating impact, yet remains at the periphery of international attention
www.thetimes.com
January 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
📍Dispatch from Sudan: The first of a three-part series shines a light on a conflict that has had a devastating impact, yet remains at the periphery of international attention
Proud to start 2025 working at my favourite magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social alongside many excellent colleagues. If you have any stories about media, politics or anything else please do let us know.. and you too could be played by Toby Jones in an ITV drama
January 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Proud to start 2025 working at my favourite magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social alongside many excellent colleagues. If you have any stories about media, politics or anything else please do let us know.. and you too could be played by Toby Jones in an ITV drama