Squad weak, limp defending for the penalty, ridiculous give-away third goal…but still so exciting when you think you can see the beginnings of something good at Swansea, even for 45 minutes

EXCLUSIVE: The Conservatives have received an as-yet-undeclared £5 million sum from Frank Hester, the party donor embroiled in a race row, Tortoise understands. ✍️Cat Neilan Read: torto.se/4a9adSf

EXC: King’s College London has received over £1.5 million from a Sackler family-owned pharmaceutical company to research opioid overdose reversal drugs. Read in today’s Sensemaker newsletter: torto.se/3PsBjvQ ✍️Phoebe Davis

Beyond delighted to have won this at the The Wincott Foundation awards for my reporting on effective altruism and OpenAI w/ producer extraordinaire Matt Russell Audio is always a massive team effort. Thanks to everyone who worked with Matt and me: Tom Kinsella Barney Macintyre Ceri Thomas

Great praise for our series Podcast Rex Catherine Carr ‘Crystal clear scripting’ Winifred Robinson and ‘impressive on every level: construction, ambition, style and results’ Joel Moors BBC Radio 4 @djoeclarke @roblawrieofficial podcastrex.com/reviews/new-di…

For those who have listened to Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman, or have yet to, note last line of this story in Air Mail Episode 5 is well underway. More big news imminent from Tortoise about follow-up reporting from Paul Caruana Galizia and me.

Yes another outstanding piece of journalism by Ceri Thomas and team at Tortoise, this time on the Letby case. Before you decide to form an opinion on it, listen here: shows.acast.com/the-tortoise-p…

So proud of my colleagues Abi Whistance mollie simpson and Kate Knowles - our cross-title investigation into the horrors of 'exempt' housing has been shortlisted for a British Journalism Award! Huge Mill Media effort over the course of a year.

A great week for The Mill is a good week for all of us. Congratulations to Joshi Herrmann and everyone else there, building something important.

Proud brother moment: Paul Caruana Galizia joins the Financial Times today as an investigations reporter. Lucky them, and lucky FT subscribers.

Great work Paul Caruana Galizia. Not often we get great credit in the States.

So pleased to have joined the wonderful Mishal Husain today for her last BBC Radio 4 Today today programme & to have been able to share this really encouraging data from the hospitals who have introduced #MarthasRule. It shows how lifesaving the intiative can be theguardian.com/society/2024/d…

Hats off to you Sanchia Berg, to Louise Tickle and all the other dogged reporters who’ve made this happen. We’d be in a much worse place without you.

And a very fine rat you were…

I’m not sure I’d be ‘excited’ about getting a thumbs up from Evgeny. Don’t know about you, Paul…

This level of openness is rare and maybe (?) refreshing BUT seriously a hands-on chairman shouldn't be this much in the dark with only 48 hours of a transfer window to go.

It’s all a bit ‘knock me down with a feather’, isn’t it? Agents not completely trustworthy? No way! And naive: Mr Smith Goes To Swansea without the happy ending.

It's an astonishing story and a brilliant piece of work

Here’s Will Hutton with a piercing look at a long-running mystery: why do we treat our children so badly? I agree with every word. More on this in The Observer soon.