‘100s of vulnerable children sent to illegal & unregulated care homes in England’ So concerned for these children who will have experienced the worst trauma, abuse & neglect, with multiple & complex needs. They need care not inappropriate settings theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

You counted, you waited, and now...the #BigGardenBirdWatch results are officially in! 📣

But who has claimed the number one spot?

Introducing your top 10 for 2024...

I interviewed Carlos Moreno the inventor of the 15 minute city about his new book and why the idea has taken off in Paris but is toxic in the UK theguardian.com/cities/2024/ap…

A while ago I tweeted about loving the background hum in the cafe - coffee machine going, clinking of plates, radio in the kitchen, other people's conversations etc - and so many of you replied that you felt the same that I wrote about it newstatesman.com/culture/life/2…

It's my first week as deputy news editor of the Observer! I'll be editing UK and foreign news, and I'm on [email protected]

Jack Saunders, who was autistic, learned by copying others

He died of carbon monoxide poisoning after using a large gas stove in his enclosed tent on a solo Scouting expedition

Now, his parents are calling for his inquest to be reopened 👇

thetimes.co.uk/article/be2e2c…

I wrote about why it feels like we're back reliving the superficial vision of 'feminism' that arose in 2014 – and what happens when we keep treating shallow ideas (which were refuted or resolved ten years ago) as radical, nuanced and new newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

In 2015, I interviewed ⁦Rebecca Myers⁩ for our grad scheme.

After nine years, including two with me on the newsdesk, she left us today for ⁦The Observer⁩.

“Office parenting” really is a thing. Love, pride and already hoping she’ll come home soon.

Personal news: this is my last edition of The Sunday Times after 9 incredible years. I have been amazed by the talents of my colleagues since the day I arrived, and still am every week.
I'm joining the Observer as deputy news editor next month & can't wait for the next chapter🗞️

🚨 NEW 🚨

Meta's chequered past with users' privacy is well documented. I wanted to find out everything it knows about me since I created a Facebook account aged 11.

Now, I'm sharing everything I found out. Read the scary truth here 👇🏻

thetimes.co.uk/article/c2b5c9…

🚨 Exclusive: Grant Shapps was forced to abandon a trip to Odesa after British intelligence revealed there was a credible threat he could be targeted in a Russian missile strike

I spent three days embedded with his team in Ukraine - here is what I found:

thetimes.co.uk/article/grant-…

Fair play to Wes Streeting MP. I didn't really expect him to say yes when I asked, on a bit of a whim, if he'd write about BBC Casualty for us. A really nice piece.

EXCLUSIVE 🚨 Boris Johnson brought the founder of a Mayfair hedge fund to his secret meeting with Nicolás Maduro

Ex-PM is paid consultant to Merlyn Advisors, which covered cost of the trip

It stands to gain from improved relations bw West and Venezuela thetimes.co.uk/article/oris-j…

We lost my mum to cancer in 2021.

Sometime later, my dad met up with a couple of old friends for breakfast.

More than two years on, their breakfast club has expanded to over 100 members, helping older men combat loneliness and cope with bereavement.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

‘It was immediately clear that this was going to change policing’

Three years on from the murder of Sarah Everard, former Met detective Nick Harvey, who was responsible for finding Wayne Couzens, told @emmabarnett about when he discovered that he was a fellow police officer ⬇️

Rianna Croxford, Rianna Croxford, stumbled on an Instagram post during lockdown that would see her spend three years reporting on allegations by models linked to Abercrombie & Fitch. The FBI is now investigating ⬇️ thetimes.co.uk/article/abercr…

Writing in The Times and The Sunday Times about the Instagram post that sparked my investigation into the mogul behind Abercrombie & Fitch. What I unearthed has led to the FBI investigating and a lawsuit accusing the brand of funding a decades-long sex trafficking operation. thetimes.co.uk/article/abercr…

INVESTIGATION: Pregabalin has the fastest rising death toll of any drug in the UK + is now detected in a third of all drug deaths 📈

Doctors are calling for more careful prescribing 💊

What is pregabalin?

On the front page of today's The Times and The Sunday Times 👇

thetimes.co.uk/article/7ad460…

NEW: Israeli teenager Sofia Orr has just been sentenced to 20 days in prison for refusing to serve in the army

I met Sofia and others like her last week and she told me why she felt she had to refuse 👇
thetimes.co.uk/article/im-18-…

INVESTIGATION: For months I have been speaking with mothers of Scouts who died on trips after alleged failures to brief them about dangers or assess risks

Since 1995, there have been 17 deaths, incl. many boys who slipped from cliffs and mountains 1/6

thetimes.co.uk/article/boys-d…