Today's newsletter is with Patrick Butler, about the shocking story he, Josh Halliday, and Helen Pidd have been revealing about carers convicted over benefit overpayments. Every minister should be asked about it in every interview until it's resolved. theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Here’s a media column about Labour’s preoccupation with the Sun and the Times, and whether the juice is worth the squeeze. Features mad google alert behaviour and the phrase ‘inside baseball perverts’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

'People don’t drop out of work because they saw a TikTok about stress'

Was good to talk to Archie Bland about the damage caused by a cynical & unfounded narrative that people are overstating mental health problems to claim benefits & avoid working theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Me in today’s The Guardian discussing the raising the age of sale, and other measures…

Lots of quotes, thanks for the insightful and engaged interview Archie Bland

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Very much enjoyed being interviewed by The Guardian's Archie Bland on the crisis in local government, with a spotlight on recent government comments on 'wasteful spending' on consultants and diversity initiatives, for today's First Edition 👉 theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

Excellent write up of yesterday’s evidence from sacked Inspector of Borders David Neal at the HA Committee by Archie Bland

Brings in ongoing reporting on shameful asylum accommodation conditions by Diane Taylor, which echoes Neal’s damning evidence theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

I wrote about Lee Anderson, and the political and media ecosystems that have richly rewarded him.
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this is a really really beautiful piece, via Alex Needham. If you're a parent frantically pitching the water out of any kind of adjacent boat and you ever wonder how to keep going, do read it.

Here's a media column on the dispiriting age of the dadcast: how double-bloke always-on shows are coining it, spawning umpteen imitators, and elbowing everything else out of the podcast universe. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This morning's newsletter with Dan Collyns explains what's going on in Ecuador after the astonishing news of gang members storming a live news broadcast. Sign up at theguardian.com/firstedition
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Today's newsletter on the numbers in Gaza. Among them:
• 160+ civilians killed/day by Israel's own rate; far higher than Mosul/Raqqa.
• 1.9m displaced; 1m in Rafah; 1,100 allowed to leave there.
• 58,416 injured; 1,400 hospital beds down from 3,500.

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This is such a great set of tributes theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/…

2023 in annoying, starting with the five families. Happy Christmas one and all

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Today's newsletter is on the new trans guidance for schools, which has a lot to say about peer pressure, 'gender identity ideology', and why schools probably can't handle pronouns, but almost nothing about the risks of outing children against their will.
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Media column - Piers Morgan has maintained his denial about phone hacking at the Mirror for a long time. You would be amazed at how carefully he's maintained it: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Here's Frances Ryan in today's First Edition on the message the government sends by effectively demoting the minister for disabled people. A representative number of MPs with disabilities would be somewhere between 65 and 130: in reality there are 5. theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…

Last December, seven chimpanzees escaped their enclosure at a zoo in Sweden. Here is my minute-by-minute Guardian Long Read about the insane 72 hours that followed theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…