Head of Investigations @ObserverUK | Host of #SweetBobby / #WhoTrolledAmber / #Hoaxed / #ElonsSpies | 3x Press Awards winner

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I'm not using or checking Twitter much these days, except to promo new work. If you need me, please email :)
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Can we just take a second to really take this in? How on earth has it come to this? Where a man can performatively ‘admit’ to sex with a child on an international platform but then couch it as some form of reflection or responsible accountability exercise - whilst deliberately leaning on our terrible, useless, outdated sexual offences act and age of consent? This man was 30 years old, and at the height of his fame - when he made an active choice to have sex with a child. I would use much stronger language here but he’s deliberately leaning on our consent laws, that a 16 year old child can technically consent to sex - meaning that he could technically have ‘consensual sex’ with a school age child. His admission and his disgusting performative ‘progressive’ ‘reflection’ that he is ‘exploitative’ makes my effin skin crawl. If this is not a predator in full swing, I do not know what is. This man is admitting to sex with children and no one is going to do a thing about it. Absolutely atrocious. Our laws need urgently updating to ensure no adult can ever have technically consensual sex with a child. No adult should ever want that; and no child should ever be exposed to it. End.
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This is pretty cool. Thanks @ApplePodcasts! ☺️
The team at @ApplePodcasts have selected 20 shows that have made a lasting impact on listeners and the podcast industry over the last 20 years. We're excited to share that Sweet Bobby has been named one of them! #ApplePodcasts20 apple.co/20podcasts
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This is quite worrying...
General population is cooked 😭 You can literally create news clips with Veo-3 now , what’s even real anymore?
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Brexiteers have had nine years to outline and deliver a British economy with less ties to the EU that is better for the country. They failed, preferring internecine feuding instead. Isn’t it just logical now for any neutral observer for someone to see if more ties works instead?
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RIP Andrew Norfolk. The bravest and most principled man I’ve ever met. ❤️
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26 Apr 2025
🚨Evidence obtained by The Observer reveals Tristan Tate was not just Andrew’s sidekick - he was leading the alleged tr*fficking operation. 30 women. Underage girls. Physical violence. Isolation. Control. The truth about Tristan Tate 🧵👇
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Tristan Tate is far less well known than his notorious elder sibling, Andrew. But today Tristan’s central role in the brothers’ alleged criminality can be revealed for the first time. @AlexiMostrous | @AndreiPopoviciu | @Phoebe_ivy Read more: bit.ly/4cYs6FZ
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Foreign Office warns British lawyers they risk being sanctioned by Donald Trump and could have their worldwide assets frozen including UK bank accounts - my first story for @ObserverUK observer.co.uk/news/national…
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Exciting to have co-written the leading story on the first *ever* digital edition of The Observer newspaper, now live. Congrats to @basialcummings and her team for creating observer.co.uk in record time and thank you to @phoebe_ivy and @AndreiPopoviciu for helping shed some light on the other Tate brother, @TateTheTalisman. observer.co.uk/news/internat…
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From “Noble,” which “tells a riveting, troubling story ethically,” to “Elon’s Spies,” which delivers “a wealth of detailed investigation about our proposed co-czar of government efficiency,” @asarahlarson shares her top picks for podcasts. nyer.cm/oDmZqcT
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Delighted that Gas Man has been shortlisted for best podcast of the year by #FPAawards24 #FPALondon The brilliant @tortoise team behind it includes: @claudiabromley @TomKinsella_ @hannvarr @GaryJMarshall90 and @senordelcorbett
FPA MEDIA AWARDS 24 SHORTLIST It’s out! Congrats to the outstanding nominees through to the final selection for #beststoryoftheyear in 11 categories! Winners on 25th November, remember remember… #mediaawards #journalism #press #tv #radio #webmedia #documentary #podcast
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16 Oct 2024
🎧 Episode two of Elon's Spies is out now. In this series, @AlexiMostrous investigates Elon Musk's use of private investigators and surveillance to target everyone from whistleblowers, to online critics and people in his own life. Listen here: lnk.to/ElonsSpies
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Three years ago, I worked with a small team at @tortoise and @JustKirat to make Sweet Bobby, certainly the strangest and most troubling story I've worked on in 15 years of journalism. Thanks mainly to @JustKirat's bravery, Sweet Bobby became a global hit and revealed just how damaging online entrapment can be. Today @netflix releases a brilliant documentary called Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare. I really recommend it. Here is @Stefano_Montali's excellent write-up in the @nytimes nytimes.com/2024/10/16/style…

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Elon's Spies. ⁦@tortoise⁩ smashes it yet again. Musk is a free speech hypocrite, a eugenics adjacent scientifically illiterate conspiracy nut bag, who is funding the election of a sex criminal and skewing social media to do it. shows.acast.com/the-tortoise…
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