Update on our libel case 🚨 - the businessman suing us didn’t turn up to the high court for the first hearing. Judge was unimpressed with his medical evidence.
Fighting these threats to journalism in the UK is frustrating and expensive but we will win.
www.the-londoner.co.uk/that-busines...
A tax barrister sued me personally for £8m for libel after we linked him to a tax avoidance scheme.
Today the High Court struck out the claim, granted summary judgment, and ruled it was a SLAPP. The judgment is highly critical.
‘The gift of Andy and Fergie, which comes at too high a price, has been to bring the antiseptic of daylight to the culture of royal privilege.’
Andrew O’Hagan on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, online early from the next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Still the only story I can think about at the moment
www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.alja...
Savour the irony here. For a year the Trump administration have browbeaten Zelensky as a loser with no cards. Now they turn to him for anti-drone defences. Perhaps they will now recognise that Ukraine is a valuable, battle-hardened ally.
Very "Black Doves"
Meanwhile Western media frothing with excitement over these "clinical" strikes and a targeted "decapitation" . It's sickening
This is the only story you need to read right now if you want to understand the values of the US and Israel
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/w...
This is precisely why I never bring a faberge egg to the pub
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
I keep hearing that the rise of the populist right is one of the biggest threats to the climate. Watching Trump’s second term it’s hard to disagree
So @tbij.bsky.social looked at what councils controlled by Reform UK are doing on climate
What we found was pretty shocking
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
Great interview on the Epstein Files with Julie K Brown, an inspiring journalist
www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
The legacy of populist parties is rich in stories of embezzlement and graft, because their leaders have a strong drive for self-enrichment and little interest in actual governance. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"if it’s a Fitzcarraldo, I’m more likely to match regardless of whether I’ve read it or not.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
Willing to bet that by next year this will be the plot of a Netflix romcom called "Off piste"
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
Da da da da daaaa da da da da da daaa who's Mandelson?
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
EXCLUSIVE:
Peter Mandelson sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein on setting up his advisory firm, Global Counsel, including how to target potential new clients such as the Chinese government.
www.ft.com/content/13d2...
As real journalists from The Washington Post, the AP and elsewhere are getting laid off, pink-slime news sites are stepping in to fill the void.
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Bad, bad editorial decisions. I don't want to be watching a documentary about heavily disputed facts, while wondering about the extent to which the images on my TV screen are actually real...
Even worse, inserting the digitally anonymised individual into photographs with Letby...wtaf!?
Impossible to process the words of a grieving mother, or heartbroken friend when you're staring at what is, essentially, AI slop
Watched the Netflix Lucy Letby doc and kinda speechless at what appeas to be the use of AI to "digitally anonymise" interviewees
"osteopath course"
Great reporting by @tomfaber91.bsky.social on this tragic case, badly fumbled by the Met
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
Hey parents check it out a new style just dropped
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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I’m really quite surprised at the BBC website today. ‘Here is a video, some people say it does not show what it very obviously shows’ is not how you report this.
