I think there are few journalists who know as much about the Covid Inquiry (which will rumble on for years even when it's not top of the news agenda) as Ruby does - she would be a great hire anywhere but especially at news orgs interested in quality reporting of the inquiry.

🆕What happened to all the APPGs? 👀

Yesterday the new register of All Party Parliamentary Groups was published, and 278 of the 722 groups were removed - a 39% reduction.

🧵What was behind the change, which groups were removed, and where did they go?

NEW 🚨: Digital trail identifying IDF cyber-intelligence chief Yossi Sariel has been online for years. We found his social media activity [including his photo], and an accidental government leak identifying him. By me & Harry Davies
#Israel #Gaza
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'She also gave me two words of advice: ‘Pace yourself.’ Maybe I should have listened.'

Looking forward to speaking on Saturday about investigative journalism as part of what looks like a great line-up of events and talks.

Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse.

Yossi Sariel unmasked as head of Unit 8200 and architect of AI strategy after book written under pen name reveals his Google account, via Harry Davies and Bethan McKernan theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

EXCLUSIVE: A businessman who boasted of using spies trained by the CIA, Mossad and MI6 for private espionage operations was invited to a dinner with the home secretary after the company he ran gave £70k to the Conservatives. Scoop with Henry Dyer (1/4) theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

GUARDIAN: Biden demands Gaza ceasefire in strongest rebuke yet to Israel #TomorrowsPapersToday

*raises eyebrow in Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, where the govt is proposing to relax rules about how political parties can use your data*

With Tom Burgis: how the Tories planned to make millions from their members' data with the 'True Blue' app. And how the party considered proposals to 'maximise' voter turnout by directing members to polling stations and issuing a voter ID card in the app.

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‘It’s rather sad, really, to see the Conservative party treating their own brand and membership like a failing asset to be raided and stripped for cash as if they were some kind of vulture fund.’

Cori Crider nails it, as ever. Great scoop from Tom Burgis Henry Dyer 👇

EXCLUSIVE: Senior Conservative party officials worked on plans to hand over its entire membership database for a commercial venture that promised to make tens of millions of pounds. My scoop on the 'True Blue' app, with Henry Dyer
theguardian.com/politics/2024/… The Guardian

‘I wanted to end my life’: ‘Bookseller of Kabul’ rebuilds destroyed business | Afghanistan | The Guardian by ⁦Diane Taylor⁩ theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Very interesting investigation:

Ex-Boris Johnson ethics adviser Lord Geidt found to have broken Lords rules theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Latest story with matthew weaver and Rowena Mason:

Nine more asylum seekers died in first half of 2023 than Home Office disclosed theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

My colleagues have dug out from a former PAC chair’s archived papers at the LSE one of only two copies made for MPs of an NAO report into corruption on an arms deal. The report has been hidden and unpublished since 1992 (!)

Yesterday, History Today removed for a week the paywall to my 2013 piece on the political role played by early Victorian private members’ clubs.

I wrote this at the end of my PhD, as a succinct summary of the findings, after three years of research in archives & libraries…

Hester latest - one Tory donor: “We should not accept any more money until the investigation will be completed, and a proper apology must be expressed, in any case.”

But another donor said investigation by West Yorks police is a “waste of police time”. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…