Tommy Greene
@tommygreene.bsky.social
Journalist | ✍️ in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, openDemocracy, The Irish Times, The Detail, Private Eye, WIRED, The Journal.ie, ElDiario.es, Computer Weekly, Prospect Magazine, The Bel Tel, Irish News & others.
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"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."
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Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee
Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from presidential palace
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November 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."
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Farage crony Nathan Gill gets 10.5 year sentence for taking bribes from Russia www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes
The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a
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November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Farage crony Nathan Gill gets 10.5 year sentence for taking bribes from Russia www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...
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“Your responsibility in life is to take forward those things that you believe in, and eternal life is no more, in my book I’ve discovered, than doing that so that the things you believe in will live after you.”
Bernadette Devlin
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Bernadette Devlin
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November 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“Your responsibility in life is to take forward those things that you believe in, and eternal life is no more, in my book I’ve discovered, than doing that so that the things you believe in will live after you.”
Bernadette Devlin
Full podcast here: www.patreon.com/posts/patron...
Bernadette Devlin
Full podcast here: www.patreon.com/posts/patron...
Tendering concerns highlighted over Lough Neagh consultants, forcing management body the Lough Neagh Partnership to reprocure contract
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Tendering, ‘conflicts of interest’ concerns highlighted over Lough Neagh consultants
A key Lough Neagh management body has been forced to reprocure a contract to evaluate a high-profile heritage project, The Impartial Reporter can…
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November 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Tendering concerns highlighted over Lough Neagh consultants, forcing management body the Lough Neagh Partnership to reprocure contract
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Catherine Connolly set to claim the highest ever first-preference vote share (potentially upwards of 60%) in an Irish presidential election, based on readings of early tallies
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October 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Catherine Connolly set to claim the highest ever first-preference vote share (potentially upwards of 60%) in an Irish presidential election, based on readings of early tallies
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As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
October 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
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“In Ireland, data centers consume more than 20 percent of the country’s electricity. In Chile, precious aquifers are in danger of depletion. In South Africa, where blackouts have long been routine, data centers are further taxing the national grid.”
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From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
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October 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
“In Ireland, data centers consume more than 20 percent of the country’s electricity. In Chile, precious aquifers are in danger of depletion. In South Africa, where blackouts have long been routine, data centers are further taxing the national grid.”
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Great investigation into how a government initiative to force rogue bosses to pay up after tribunal findings against them is still failing workers nearly a decade after its launch 👇
🚨 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 10:02 AM
Great investigation into how a government initiative to force rogue bosses to pay up after tribunal findings against them is still failing workers nearly a decade after its launch 👇
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Nicolas Sarkozy found guilty of criminal conspiracy in Libya trial
Nicolas Sarkozy found guilty of criminal conspiracy in Libya trial
Former French president cleared of other charges in relation to alleged pact with Gaddafi regime
The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of criminal conspiracy in a trial in which he and aides were accused of making an alleged corruption pact with the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to receive funding for the 2007 French presidential election campaign.
But Sarkozy was was acquitted of three other charges, including passive corruption and illegal campaign financing. Continue reading...
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September 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Nicolas Sarkozy found guilty of criminal conspiracy in Libya trial
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📅 This week: join the conversation on Lough Neagh’s future 🌊
The new report is already live — setting the scene for a Citizens’ Assembly and opening nominations for a co-design group.
💬 On 12 Sept, take part in our launch event to ask questions + discuss what comes next 👇
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The new report is already live — setting the scene for a Citizens’ Assembly and opening nominations for a co-design group.
💬 On 12 Sept, take part in our launch event to ask questions + discuss what comes next 👇
🔗 lu.ma/zsw0617g
Who speaks for the Lough? · Zoom · Luma
Lough Neagh is in crisis, and without public involvement, its future risks being shaped by short-term political pressures and institutional inertia. We need…
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September 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
📅 This week: join the conversation on Lough Neagh’s future 🌊
The new report is already live — setting the scene for a Citizens’ Assembly and opening nominations for a co-design group.
💬 On 12 Sept, take part in our launch event to ask questions + discuss what comes next 👇
🔗 lu.ma/zsw0617g
The new report is already live — setting the scene for a Citizens’ Assembly and opening nominations for a co-design group.
💬 On 12 Sept, take part in our launch event to ask questions + discuss what comes next 👇
🔗 lu.ma/zsw0617g
Lough Neagh and its system of peripheral waterways on course to record worst year of algal blooms to date.
While rescue plans for Ireland's largest inland waterbody stall, the fallout from this pollution crisis deepens.
My story in today's @theguardian.com
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While rescue plans for Ireland's largest inland waterbody stall, the fallout from this pollution crisis deepens.
My story in today's @theguardian.com
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UK’s largest lake faces environmental crisis as rescue plans stall
Toxic algae cases in Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh have tripled since last year, as local fishers’ incomes plummet
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August 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Lough Neagh and its system of peripheral waterways on course to record worst year of algal blooms to date.
While rescue plans for Ireland's largest inland waterbody stall, the fallout from this pollution crisis deepens.
My story in today's @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
While rescue plans for Ireland's largest inland waterbody stall, the fallout from this pollution crisis deepens.
My story in today's @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Appeal tribunal throws out NHS whistleblower's challenge to ruling on deletion of 90,000 emails midway through legal hearing.
@drcmday.bsky.social tells @computerweekly.bsky.social judges have "ignored" and trivialised the attempted mass evidence destruction
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@drcmday.bsky.social tells @computerweekly.bsky.social judges have "ignored" and trivialised the attempted mass evidence destruction
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Judge throws out NHS whistleblower’s challenge to ruling on deletion of 90,000 emails | Computer Weekly
Appeal tribunal dismisses doctor’s bid to quash decision that cleared London hospital trust of concealing evidence through attempted destruction of electronic documents during live court proceedings.
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August 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Appeal tribunal throws out NHS whistleblower's challenge to ruling on deletion of 90,000 emails midway through legal hearing.
@drcmday.bsky.social tells @computerweekly.bsky.social judges have "ignored" and trivialised the attempted mass evidence destruction
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@drcmday.bsky.social tells @computerweekly.bsky.social judges have "ignored" and trivialised the attempted mass evidence destruction
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A Singapore-based coal firm is suing the UK Govt via the type of Investor Courts* that the Irish Govt are rushing to introduce to Ireland via CETA.
*found to be unconstitutional Supreme Court- Costello vs Govt of Ireland
*found to be unconstitutional Supreme Court- Costello vs Govt of Ireland
🔴 NEW: UK Government to be Sued in ‘Secret Corporate Court’ by Coal Firm Represented by Tory MP
Former attorney general Geoffrey Cox is leading the case that could cost the taxpayer billions.
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Former attorney general Geoffrey Cox is leading the case that could cost the taxpayer billions.
📝 @tommygreene.bsky.social
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UK Government to be Sued in ‘Secret Corporate Court’ by Coal Firm Represented by Tory MP
Keir Starmer’s Labour government is being sued by investors represented by a Conservative MP over court decisions to quash the now abandoned Cumbrian coal mine. West Cumbria Mining (WCM) developers wi...
www.desmog.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:53 AM
A Singapore-based coal firm is suing the UK Govt via the type of Investor Courts* that the Irish Govt are rushing to introduce to Ireland via CETA.
*found to be unconstitutional Supreme Court- Costello vs Govt of Ireland
*found to be unconstitutional Supreme Court- Costello vs Govt of Ireland
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“If politicians cannot offer more than gesture politics and get to grips with this area of policy, every indication is that cyanobacterial (or “blue-green algae”) blooms will become a recurrent event for many summers to come.”
Opinion: Gesture politics will do nothing to fix the ecological disaster at Lough Neagh
Opinion: Gesture politics will do nothing to fix the ecological disaster at Lough Neagh
We cannot continue to neglect the largest and perhaps most special contiguous ecosystem on the island of Ireland
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August 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“If politicians cannot offer more than gesture politics and get to grips with this area of policy, every indication is that cyanobacterial (or “blue-green algae”) blooms will become a recurrent event for many summers to come.”
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Bernadette McAliskey: With “water we can’t really drink” and “fish [that] can’t live… We have exploited [Lough Neagh] and ignored it. And now, nature is – quite rightly – taking her revenge.”
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Opinion: Gesture politics will do nothing to fix the ecological disaster at Lough Neagh
Opinion: Gesture politics will do nothing to fix the ecological disaster at Lough Neagh
We cannot continue to neglect the largest and perhaps most special contiguous ecosystem on the island of Ireland
www.irishtimes.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Bernadette McAliskey: With “water we can’t really drink” and “fish [that] can’t live… We have exploited [Lough Neagh] and ignored it. And now, nature is – quite rightly – taking her revenge.”
@tommygreene.bsky.social
@tommygreene.bsky.social
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🔴 NEW: UK Government to be Sued in ‘Secret Corporate Court’ by Coal Firm Represented by Tory MP
Former attorney general Geoffrey Cox is leading the case that could cost the taxpayer billions.
📝 @tommygreene.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/08/11/u...
Former attorney general Geoffrey Cox is leading the case that could cost the taxpayer billions.
📝 @tommygreene.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/08/11/u...
UK Government to be Sued in ‘Secret Corporate Court’ by Coal Firm Represented by Tory MP
Keir Starmer’s Labour government is being sued by investors represented by a Conservative MP over court decisions to quash the now abandoned Cumbrian coal mine. West Cumbria Mining (WCM) developers wi...
www.desmog.com
August 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🔴 NEW: UK Government to be Sued in ‘Secret Corporate Court’ by Coal Firm Represented by Tory MP
Former attorney general Geoffrey Cox is leading the case that could cost the taxpayer billions.
📝 @tommygreene.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/08/11/u...
Former attorney general Geoffrey Cox is leading the case that could cost the taxpayer billions.
📝 @tommygreene.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/08/11/u...
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Insightful writing on Lough Neagh, as ever, from @tommygreene.bsky.social. #LoughNeagh
Opinion: Gesture politics will do nothing to fix the ecological disaster at Lough Neagh
Opinion: Gesture politics will do nothing to fix the ecological disaster at Lough Neagh
We cannot continue to neglect the largest and perhaps most special contiguous ecosystem on the island of Ireland
www.irishtimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Insightful writing on Lough Neagh, as ever, from @tommygreene.bsky.social. #LoughNeagh
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“The Tony Blair Institute participated in a project to develop a postwar Gaza plan that envisaged kick-starting the enclave’s economy with a “Trump Riviera” and an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone”.”
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Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG
Former UK prime minister’s institute participated in meetings on plan to turn shattered enclave into trading hub
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July 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
“The Tony Blair Institute participated in a project to develop a postwar Gaza plan that envisaged kick-starting the enclave’s economy with a “Trump Riviera” and an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone”.”
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I had a look at the NHS maternity scandals of the past few years and this is what I found… journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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April 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I had a look at the NHS maternity scandals of the past few years and this is what I found… journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Jair Bolsonaro and several close allies must stand trial over attempts to overturn 2022 election, Brazil's Supreme Court unanimously decides.
Becomes country's first former president to be charged with plotting or attempting to instigate a coup
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Becomes country's first former president to be charged with plotting or attempting to instigate a coup
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Bolsonaro vira réu por tentativa de golpe de Estado com unanimidade dos votos na 1ª Turma do STF
Também se tornaram réus 7 aliados e assessores do ex-presidente, entre eles os ex-ministros Braga Netto e Anderson Torres. Agora, eles responderão a um processo criminal, que pode levar à prisão do ex...
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March 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Jair Bolsonaro and several close allies must stand trial over attempts to overturn 2022 election, Brazil's Supreme Court unanimously decides.
Becomes country's first former president to be charged with plotting or attempting to instigate a coup
g1.globo.com/politica/not...
Becomes country's first former president to be charged with plotting or attempting to instigate a coup
g1.globo.com/politica/not...
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Separate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed two media workers, including Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat aje.io/ylcl1j
March 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Separate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed two media workers, including Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat aje.io/ylcl1j
Some disabled people could lose up to £10,000 in benefits by the end of this decade through Labour government's planned welfare reforms
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Some disabled people could lose £10k a year in benefits by end of decade
Experts say planned cuts will deliver series of ‘painful income shocks’ for many
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March 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Some disabled people could lose up to £10,000 in benefits by the end of this decade through Labour government's planned welfare reforms
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