🚩NEW Human Rights Watch report: Migrant workers in Saudi Arabia are facing widespread abuses, some amount to forced labor including at giga-projects funded by the Public Investment Fund Saudi authorities are systematically failing to protect workers from grave abuses. hrw.org/node/389873

🚨I'm leaving City A.M. to go freelance, focusing on features & more - please get in touch via DM or email with pitches. Big thanks to many colleagues, esp Steve Dinneen & Anna Moloney. I feel lucky to have worked on news, lifestyle & opinion. Here are some of my favourite pieces:

Lucy was a superstar at City A.M. - ace writer, good egg

Went underground in my first piece for The Times and The Sunday Times thetimes.com/uk/london/arti…

Nobody worked harder than Ben at City A.M. or took training and mentoring reporters more seriously... He'll smash whatever's next

Incredible moment when Israel's occupation, Israel's apartheid, and Israel's destruction of Gaza are called out at the Oscars! Thank you Basel Adra & Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם for your powerful voices. #Oscars #Oscars2025

The main thing I have been doing since taking some time out from journalism is finishing my debut EP. It's out today! Give it a listen (link below) and follow me on Instagram (@my_fathers_son_music) if you want to stay up to date with my music. open.spotify.com/album/0QiIZTCX…

stoked to win a SABEW best in business award for my reporting covering NY’s cannabis industry and its troubled loan fund that’s left licensees trapped in debt

Managing to complete an Avanti West Coast train journey without any disruptions.

AFP Journalists’ Association on reporters in Gaza: ‘Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can remember seeing a colleague die of hunger. We refuse to see them die’

Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal? PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested, bundled into a van and taken to the cells during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece

Excellent, if deeply depressing reporting for Standard News by Ben Lucas: standard.co.uk/lifestyle/eppi…

I wrote about the protests in Epping on Sunday after meeting locals, protestors, counter-protestors and a gecko🦎 My long read for the The Standard 'Inside the Essex town at the forefront of the migrant protests' standard.co.uk/lifestyle/eppi…