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Journalist on the Guardian Data Projects team Visiting lecturer at City St George's London and Brighton Ignore my silly posts

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Lord Dannatt urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US firm Police officer was concerned ex-army chief, a Teledyne adviser, sought to have ‘input’ into factory attack investigation

Exclusive with @robevansgdn.bsky.social: Lord Dannatt twice wrote to Home Office ministers, at request of US defence firm he works for, urging them to crack down on Palestine Action.

He asked ministers to address the “threat” posed by the group after its activists targeted a factory in 2022.

05.08.2025 08:09 — 👍 64    🔁 37    💬 5    📌 1
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Murder investigation after 45-year-old man shot dead in north London Police were called to reports of gunfire in the early hours of Tuesday in Stoke Newington

First and hopefully last breaking crime story for the Guardian as it happened outside where I live www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

05.08.2025 12:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That's true!

05.08.2025 11:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As a data journo I tend to be a more data the better person - agree with Stephen's presumption towards transparency. Perhaps some official release alongside the data contextualising and explaining it would be good though

05.08.2025 11:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good article - though you could maybe make a similar argument - ethnic minorities skew younger - for not releasing ethnic crime rate data (younger people tend to do more crime) as you could about releasing ethnic pay gap data (younger people get paid less)

05.08.2025 11:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

And demographic shift!

01.08.2025 08:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

According to 2021 census for England, Wales and NI (and 2022 for Scotland) 16% of the population were born outside of the UK. Which is more than one-in-eight.

Meaning foreign born people are underrepresented in prison, despite recent rises due to remand/courts backlog.

01.08.2025 08:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Palestine Action co-founder wins permission to challenge ban Huda Ammori argued that home secretary’s decision to proscribe group under terrorism laws was ‘abuse of power’ The co-founder of Palestine Action can bring a legal challenge to the home secretary’s decision to ban the direct action group under anti-terrorism laws, a high court judge has ruled. Lawyers for Huda Ammori argued at a hearing in London last week that the proscription of Palestine Action, placing it on a par with groups such as Islamic State and Boko Haram, was “repugnant” and an “authoritarian and blatant abuse of power”. Continue reading...

Palestine Action co-founder wins permission to challenge ban

30.07.2025 13:33 — 👍 166    🔁 43    💬 10    📌 9
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Very cool to be nominated as best podcast host alongside some actual legends. Bet Louis Theroux is quaking in his boots. I’m nothing without the amazing Today in Focus team @theguardian.com #BritishPodcastAwards

24.07.2025 10:53 — 👍 30    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 1
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Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story Hundreds of people have died while seeking food since delivery was taken over by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May. But Palestinians facing extreme hunger have no choice but to take the risk

“You always know that it could be you who gets shot, or it might be someone next to you.”

This is in the minds of Palestinians who see death when they seek aid from the GHF militarised food distribution sites. Still they go because they have no choice

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

22.07.2025 21:39 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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My court fight to lift superinjunction and expose government’s secret failings Social affairs correspondent Holly Bancroft was one of a handful of journalists who knew about a catastrophic Ministry of Defence data leak – but an unprecedented legal order meant it could not be rev...

worth reading from @hollybancroft.bsky.social on a government superinjunction that has just been lifted

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

15.07.2025 12:21 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Press release saying: fraid to say Gay? LGB employees face hostility for ‘wrong’ views at work

First ever survey of LGB employees reveals how staff LGBTQ+ groups drive “Compelled Conformity” in the workplace  

 

London, 15 July 2025: Workplace equality initiatives are fostering a culture of hostility towards LGB employees who do not conform to ‘correct’ opinions on sex and gender, new research today reveals.

Press release saying: fraid to say Gay? LGB employees face hostility for ‘wrong’ views at work First ever survey of LGB employees reveals how staff LGBTQ+ groups drive “Compelled Conformity” in the workplace London, 15 July 2025: Workplace equality initiatives are fostering a culture of hostility towards LGB employees who do not conform to ‘correct’ opinions on sex and gender, new research today reveals.

Footnote which says: AMARTA Research conducted an online survey with 235 lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) supporters of LGB Alliance

Footnote which says: AMARTA Research conducted an online survey with 235 lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) supporters of LGB Alliance

LGB alliance press release: Survey of all lesbian gay and bi employees finds many are being targeted for their opinions particularly around trans people.
Small print: Not a representative poll, all of the survey respondents are supporters of (noted trans-exclusionary organisation) LGB Alliance.

15.07.2025 11:25 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

"Nigel Farage is right" the 2025 "I agree with Nick"

14.07.2025 17:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Gambia (named after the river Gambia) chose to hang onto the 'The' after independence from the Brits because they were worried a load of post would get sent to Zambia iirc

14.07.2025 12:59 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Great work!

10.07.2025 16:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My research for @globalwitness.org in

- @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- @drilledmedia.bsky.social: drilled.media/news/Senate-...
- and my write-up: globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

10.07.2025 16:26 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

I remember when microsoft's chatbot tay did this it was very much against the will of its creators, not because they'd tweaked the code to make it more right wing

08.07.2025 21:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Gaza discourse has been Vylanised – but that diversionary strategy just doesn’t work any more | Archie Bland Those appalled by Israel’s actions in Gaza, and the kind of media frenzy prompted by Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury appearance, are finding their voice, says Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edit...

I wrote about the Vylanising of the Gaza discourse, and what happens if you keep telling people things they can see aren’t true. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

05.07.2025 09:19 — 👍 144    🔁 62    💬 8    📌 16

Actually hilarious that you can find an article every year saying jorts are back. Mainstream media is in the pocket of big jort

21.06.2025 11:09 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Why jorts are this summer’s most divisive (and popular) trend As we near warmer climes, Olivia Petter examines how the knee-length denim shorts have taken over the sartorial zeitgeist, becoming one of the few fashion trends to transcend generations

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/f...

21.06.2025 11:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Might email the managing eds to clarify whether jorts are allowed or not

21.06.2025 10:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Long and the short of it: why knee-grazing jorts are big this summer After last year’s craze for ‘one-inch inseam’ shorts, celebrities are championing a longer length style – and sales are surging

Incorrect. Jorts are back
www.theguardian.com/fashion/2023...

21.06.2025 10:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 20/6/2025 Cutting waste seems to involve a lot of Freedom of Information requests...

Happy to make it into @clairemiller.bsky.social's FOI Friday blog! (which is always a good source of inspo and worth a read)
clairemiller.net/2025/06/free...

21.06.2025 10:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Luke O’Sullivan Weird history, odd facts, forgotten places, and the infrastructure that shaped them. New videos most weeks, usually on a Monday. I’m just getting started, so any support, feedback, and suggestions rea...

really enjoying @osullivanluke.bsky.social's new youtube channel about weird history/infrastructure www.youtube.com/@osullivanlu...

20.06.2025 15:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Exactly! I politely told him I doubt I'd be the last data journalist to ask about it and that he should update it. There were a couple of other MPs who I had to clarify hours with too and said they'd made errors

20.06.2025 08:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When i contacted him for this article he said he had actually averaged less than one hour per week but mistakenly put his pre-election hours in the register when he became an MP (so I left him out of the article)

20.06.2025 08:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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When your editors ask you what you plan to say in the story you were supposed to file that afternoon:

19.06.2025 16:21 — 👍 242    🔁 28    💬 10    📌 7

Citing Matt Goodwin, of course

19.06.2025 15:34 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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19.06.2025 10:38 — 👍 26    🔁 20    💬 5    📌 2

in before someone coins 'vibe legislating'

18.06.2025 17:20 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

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