For Foreign Policy, I embedded with an artillery brigade on the frontlines of Europe. What I saw there should terrify Western leaders.
Ukraine is bleeding out, and without immediate ammunition deliveries the total collapse of the eastern front is at risk.
foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/17/ukr…

This is Labour politician Alun Michael.

He currently occupies 1 of the most pointless jobs in Britain - a Police and Crime Commissioner.

Banking a tidy £86,700 a year as PCC for South Wales he is, IMO, a perfect example of what a missed opportunity the PCCs are.

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Blown away to win the Most Impactful Journalism category at the BBC News (UK) Awards for our McDonalds investigation. Top team zoe conway Mark Broad Ellie Doward George Dabby Esyllt Carr but the biggest thanks goes to all the young people who bravely shared their stories with us 🙌🏽

In response to a growing dental emergency, I have been following a dental bus which has been visiting food banks in Newcastle.

People can’t access an NHS dentist and going private is out of the question. If something's wrong they have to live in pain, as I told BBC Breakfast...

🧵If you walk through the cobbled alleys of occupied East Jerusalem's Muslim quarter, you will come across a community of Afro-Palestinians whose recent history is closely linked to al-Aqsa Mosque - the third holiest site in Islam.

I've been going through the ONS crime stats because trawling through numbers is my idea of a good time and I didn't expect to see such a big drop off in bigamy from 2005-2012. Did it just get harder to have multiple families?

NEW 🚨: Digital trail identifying IDF cyber-intelligence chief Yossi Sariel has been online for years. We found his social media activity [including his photo], and an accidental government leak identifying him. By me & Harry Davies
#Israel #Gaza
theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

“I was working round the clock, being the only doctor at night. Feeling constantly burnt out…this is not safe for the patients”

One of 28 testimonies from resident doctors who’ve worked at Spire. Almost all concerned about the workload & patient safety.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-687170…

Sometimes when you’re a journalist people from all walks of life tell you stuff that doesn’t quite ring true. They might believe it themselves, you might want to believe it too because it sounds like a good story… but figuring out the facts is literally the job!
Well done Emma

Emails I obtained via FOIA request show Elon Musk's Twitter/X was selling user data for government surveillance at the exact same time it was fighting government surveillance in court theintercept.com/2024/03/25/elo…

Clear from the beginning that Musk's suit against Center for Countering Digital Hate was about silencing their freedom of speech.

That's not just my view, the court says it at the top of their ruling dismissing the case.

Congrats to the Center for Countering Digital Hate team on this important win.

Interesting choice of banner on the daily mail given their splash….

And you wonder why kids today are fed up with generation boomer…

330,000!? Why isn’t this news everywhere 🧐 horrifying. As is sadly often the case, some of the most important global stories lie hidden in (the wonderful) World Service languages unit away from English readers

EXCL: Data obtained by Newsnight + analysed by BBC suggests NHS England adult gender clinics facing 10 year backlog of 1st appointments.
NHS Eng confirm they will begin a review into adult services in “coming weeks”.
Full story 22:30 BBC Newsnight
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bbc.co.uk/news/uk-686029…

There's been a boom in personalised diets based on measuring stuff like your blood sugar or gut bacteria. But leading docs and scientiststs tell me they're concerned some elements of these programmes are not based in good evidence - and could risk harm bbc.co.uk/news/health-68…

As a medium income earner with no parents to gift me a huge deposit I have looked into shared ownership recently as a way to get off private renting. But these service charge stories are scaring the shit out of me so I’ll probably pass on it.

NEW: 96% of neurodiverse founders in the UK report experiencing discrimination, according to a new report from The Entrepreneurs Network.

🧵 A short thread on the findings — and what this means for entrepreneurship.

sifted.eu/articles/neuro…

Egg freezing is booming.

I have spent time with some of the people who’ve done it, including Vicky Pattison, to find out why they chose a procedure described as expensive and invasive but also empowering.

Egg freezing and Me is available on the iPlayer now.

To save you clicks -
- Lived at home since 16
- Paid £150pcm 'board' which their parents gave back to them as 'savings'
- Still took 8/9 years of saving.

Please just build more houses.

Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing