An environmental catastrophe is unfolding right now in Russia, where 20,000 tons of oil has spilled in to the Arctic, turning rivers red and poisoning the land. It is one of the worst spills in history. "We've never seen anything like this in the Arctic." Thread:

🚨From 10 June: A new podcast series about a wargame that simulates a Russian attack on the UK Former ministers & military chiefs play the UK government pitched against an imagined Kremlin Russia knows our weaknesses - but do you? @SkyNews & @tortoise news.sky.com/story/the-warga…

Politicians run most of the sugar mills in the state of Maharashtra. That’s why they deny or downplay evidence of coerced hysterectomies, debt bondage and child labor in the fields. Searing new investigation from @meghara and @nytimes. nytimes.com/2024/10/11/world…

My latest for @NewYorker. Four Saudi princesses were kept drugged and imprisoned for almost two decades after challenging the regime. A Texan doctor who tried to free them speaks out about the life-threatening brutality they faced. newyorker.com/news/a-reporte…

In 2021, Kanye West paid $57.3 million for a beach house, in Malibu, designed by the heralded architect Tadao Ando. He then disembowelled its interior. Was Ye desecrating a masterpiece, or testing the limits of radical design? nyer.cm/58tdHUl

Exclusive: Workers at #NUFC sleeve sponsor Noon allege modern slavery within the company’s supply chain. Both #NUFC and Noon are part-owned by the PIF. This info was provided to Newcastle prior to their kit release. The club elected to retain them. nytimes.com/athletic/5545510…

Come to our session if you're going to IRE this year! Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Via the Reliable Sources newsletter: This is the stop-in-your-tracks front page of Friday's Wall Street Journal, marking the one-year anniversary of Evan Gershkovich's detention (cnn.it/3TBLHme)

In January, #Houthis sentenced 32 men to prison, death by stoning/crucifixion, and/or to flogging on dubious charges of "sodomy." This is one of many cases of Houthis charging people with immoral acts as a cover for their brutality lack of due process. hrw.org/news/2024/03/27/yeme…

Women are sterilised and children are married off in support of India's brutal sugar cane industry. It is a system that Coke and Pepsi profit from. That system is precisely unravelled, and beautifully humanised, in this must-read investigation. nytimes.com/2024/03/24/world…

I have arrived in Saudi Arabia to continue our regular dialogue with His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The first topic is the Peace Formula. Last year in Jeddah, we held an effective advisors' meeting to discuss its implementation. We are now nearing the first Peace Summit and rely on Saudi Arabia's ongoing active support. The second topic is the return of POWs and deportees. The Kingdom's leadership has already contributed to the release of our people. I am confident that this meeting will also yield results. We will also discuss promising areas of economic cooperation and Saudi Arabia's involvement in Ukraine's reconstruction.

Does anyone else find it weird that so many blue tick bots tweeted out effectively the same message about King Charles and his prostate just 15 minutes before it was announced that he had cancer?

EXCLUSIVE: Dead rats shoved through letter boxes, petrol bombed cars and rape threats. I've been investigating the abuse and harassment targeted at local councillors and their staff. It is disturbingly widespread and often severe. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-6…

Where We Come From is out TODAY ❤️ A exploration of Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain. I’m officially a published author 🥳 waterstones.com/book/where-w…

Such a smart, forward-looking hire. Aman is a great journalist and even better person. Really happy to see this.

Highly commended for Innovation of the Year sponsored by @GoogleNewsInit is Westminster Accounts by @SkyNews and @tortoise - @SamCoatesSky Joe White @katie__riley @TomLarkinSky @RaynerSkyNews @EdClowes @DavidMapstone #BJA2023

the number of likes and admiring comments in the QRTs and replies, am i going insane? is our collective cultural memory really so short?

I am being held by the UK Border Force at Gatwick Airport upon my return from Geneva. Where I addressed the UN human rights council session to discuss Bahrain’s human rights abuses. They gave me a paper which states that I am “liable to be detained” @UKMissionGeneva