How do 700,000 cows go missing?
Thatβs the question gripping Uruguay, after a violent death exposed a Ponzi scheme that fooled a nation.
What happened next? Meredith Jackson reports:
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How do 700,000 cows go missing?
Thatβs the question gripping Uruguay, after a violent death exposed a Ponzi scheme that fooled a nation.
What happened next? Meredith Jackson reports:
dispatch-media.com/how-do-70000...
Forget Nigel Farage. Forget Keir Starmer.
What if the two most most influential figures in British politics were a pair of Essex geezers who love enormous dinners and saying βBosh!β?
@laurabeveridge.bsky.social reports from Romford:
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This is going to be loads of fun. Independent magazines on stage, at St Brides on Thursday night, with @thefence.bsky.social, Die Quieter Please, @dispatchmedia.bsky.social, and Piscine. Tickets are Β£6.50 and all proceeds go to St Brides. Come join us! billetto.co.uk/e/stack-inde...
02.02.2026 13:35 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Shout out to @dispatchmedia.bsky.social which is consistently publishing some of the most interesting, well written features on the UK (and occasionally US) out there. Their weekend newsletter, which highlights content elsewhere too, is also great.
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Slab City is described as 'the last free place in America'.
But what's it really like?
Jack Burke ventured to the Californian desert outpost. It wasn't pretty.
Link below.
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what's the happiest place in england like on the saddest day of the year? and WHY does it smell like that?? i investigate for @dispatchmedia.bsky.social dispatch-media.com/how-to-be-ha...
27.01.2026 10:09 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Skipton in North Yorkshire is officially the "happiest place in England".
But what's it like on the most miserable day of the year?
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports:
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How did a 21-year-old student mastermind a phishing empire that stole Β£100m from victims in 24 countries?
Drawing on court records, private Telegram channels and interviews with those who knew him, Fin Carter reveals how Ollie Holman almost got away with it:
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Trailer parks arenβt just an American phenomenon β thousands of people live on them in Britain.
New data obtained by Dispatch shows that in just one English county, fires break out almost every fortnight.
@jacobfuredi.bsky.social tells the story of one of them:
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Constable Country is one of Englandβs most cherished landscapes β immortalised in the paintings of John Constable.
But what if those paintings were forgeries?
@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social:
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40 years ago this week, in a quiet cul-de-sac in Tottenham, an Islamist group called al-Muhajiroun was born.
Its aim was to create an English caliphate.
Tam Hussein reports on its legacy:
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This is a brilliant dispatch from Nottingham, the table top gaming capital of the world, and its "lead belt"
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Once upon a time, Nottingham powered England with coal.
Today, its biggest export are goblin figurines.
@petercarlyon.bsky.social reports from the Warhammer capital of the world:
A year ago this week, two wildfires tore through Los Angeles.
One ravaged a wealthy enclave in the Palisades. Another destroyed the poorer neighbourhood of Altadena.
This is the story of the second fire, by Jack Burke.
Meet Father Seraphim, the Romanian monk leading an Orthodox revival on a remote Scottish island β with a little help from YouTube.
Huw Paige
From Tommy Robinson's 'Holy Spirit Hooligans' to a shadowy group called the Kingβs Army, a militant Christian revival is taking shape across Britain.
Fred Sculthorp meets England's new crusaders:
Locals across the country are waging a guerilla war against Roots, a VC-backed start-up offering private allotments.
Laura Beveridge reports:
Britain has an empty-homes crisis β and nowhere shows it more starkly than Horden, a former pit village.
Jonathan McAloon spent a month with the residents fighting to save it.
Last week, the council ruled it would be knocked down.
"Politics is my work, for sure."
A few weeks before Martin Parr died, he sat down with Dispatch to discuss his legacy.
Read the interview below:
Is Bitcoin dead?
Not according to Britain's Bitcoin's ultras.
They still believe it can cure all of society's ills β from inflation and immigration to welfare and war.
Ed Campbell reports:
I spent two days in Americaβs most notorious open drug scene, hearing how the new tranq, medetomidine, has the most fast-acting and dangerous withdrawal symptoms of all drugs. And why its prevalence is the result of the drug war. For @dispatchmedia.bsky.social
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