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Deputy News Editor, @ObserverUK, previously in Germany and Pakistan.

London, England
Joined February 2017
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Went to Sierra Leone with @SimonTownsley to report on its horrific mpox outbreak. The country has clearly had success in getting the virus under control, but explosions like this could become a much bigger global problem. Free to read @TelGlobalHealth telegraph.co.uk/global-healt…
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NEW: A teenager told ChatGPT he was planning a school shooting. OpenAI flagged his chats – but a whistleblower says staff only reviewed them after the planned attack date. My investigation exposes serious gaps in the company’s safety operation: observer.co.uk/news/technolo…
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Justice catches up with Odysseus after 3,000 years. Supreme Court finds careless Greek mariner too cunning for his own good and convicts him for loss of entire fleet and crew. Wrote this for @ObserverUK on the annual @classicsforall moot trial observer.co.uk/news/national…
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Excl: A second member of staff working under Reform UK mayor Luke Campbell has claimed they were suspended from their job after raising concerns about threatening and racist behaviour in the workplace observer.co.uk/news/national…
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Fresh complaints over Reform mayor’s ‘toxic’ office Threats and racist behaviour reported at Hull workplace, as police investigation into Luke Campbell’s alleged cyberflashing continues ✍️ @CatNeilan bit.ly/4kf0hij
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‘Charles was fantastic. William can go to hell’: Duchy tenants face eviction as prince sells historic land For generations they trusted their royal landlords, but now frightened farmers and locals in Devon feel betrayed by the ‘urban’ Prince of Wales ✍️ @RSylvester1 bit.ly/4zRag1J
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“To many people it feels as if he cares more about the urban poor than the rural poor. It’s hypocrisy” - my story for @ObserverUK about the Duchy of Cornwall tenants facing eviction by the Prince of Wales in Devon observer.co.uk/news/national…
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“Bullying, intimidation, threats of physical violence, racist abuse, homophobia, breaches of confidentiality and failures to provide a safe working environment” - new allegations against Reform mayor’s office revealed by @CatNeilan in today’s @ObserverUK observer.co.uk/news/national…
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Reform mayor under police investigation for alleged cyberflashing Luke Campbell, an Olympic gold medallist boxer and rising star in Nigel Farage’s party, is accused of showing naked pictures of himself to female colleague ✍️ Catherine Neilan bit.ly/4zvosgW
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The woman was left feeling “shocked, embarrassed and humiliated”, docs seen by @ObserverUK state. Three weeks later, the prior offer of a permanent position was withdrawn
Reform mayor under police investigation for alleged cyberflashing Luke Campbell, an Olympic gold medallist boxer and rising star in Nigel Farage’s party, is accused of showing naked pictures of himself to female colleague ✍️ Catherine Neilan bit.ly/4zvosgW
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Big story from @CatNeilan
Reform mayor under police investigation for alleged cyberflashing Luke Campbell, an Olympic gold medallist boxer and rising star in Nigel Farage’s party, is accused of showing naked pictures of himself to female colleague ✍️ Catherine Neilan bit.ly/4zvosgW
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The salvation of Elliott Smith Nobody Broke Your Heart is an excellent, even-handed attempt to restore the influential singer-songwriter’s image from tragic, dead-rock-star cliche ✍️ @kittyempire666 bit.ly/47iysOx
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Revolutionaries or vandals? The rioting teenagers who are dividing France Chaos on the streets and pressured public finances are giving Macron one last headache as election looms ✍️ @IsabelColes bit.ly/4jagrsS
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Greens facing ‘existential threat’ as membership plummets after anti-Zionist motion Polls reveal support for the party has plunged after it was accused of endorsing an antisemitic policy and leader Zack Polanski lost the key Holborn and St Pancras byelection ✍️ @RSylvester1 bit.ly/47MtREp
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A livestreamed death by firing squad will change the US for ever US defence secretary Pete Hegseth’s desire to broadcast the execution of an army major who killed 13 fellow soldiers will put his nation on a par with regimes in Iraq and North Korea ✍️ @GWhittell bit.ly/4dvLCex
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Raise a glass to Eva Marie Saint, Hitchcock’s coolest, savviest spy The actor, who died this week at the age of 102, was more than a match for Cary Grant in the director’s finest film ✍️ @EricaWgnr bit.ly/4jgPaFi
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