The Spectator’s theatre critic has written a piece about how a female professional peer’s appearance made him so horny that he had to go pay for sex with a “buxom” Chinese woman near the train station.

Devastating report about covering Oct 7 and the Gaza War. Nataliya is one of my heroes

Obsessed with Keith’s letter in the The Telegraph this morning

VICE continuing its solid effort to turn every single one of its employees into the Joker

I had so many memories of my time with Alexei to share.
I was hoping to save them for when he walks free from jail or becomes Russia's president.
Now, it's an obituary.

The story of Andrew Tate’s abusive treatment of women, & toxic influence on boys, has been well-covered

But there’s another side to his activities that’s gotten less attention - that he's allegedly grifting his own fans

Here's a 🧵 about The Real World
​​vice.com/en/article/pka…

Had the world’s earliest ever conversation about cocaine, at 7.17am this morning with Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today

Listen here 17 mins in
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

We talked about this story (although Times is wrong to call it an epidemic)
thetimes.co.uk/article/cocain…

🚨 Journalists! 🚨 Looking for an exciting project for 2024?

Rest of World just launched a new fellowship looking for writers with story ideas at the intersection of tech and religion. Really interesting one. All info, including eligibility, here: restofworld.org/about/hiring/t…

Some professional news: I’ve joined BBC News (UK) as a senior journalist, where I will be curating, editing and writing newsletters. I’m glad to be here!

Oops, looks like this text message slipped through the net!

'Why is your 'reality' at odds with our lived reality?'

I suspect Putin won't be asked this one

Tape measure needed for a lot of these

'The journalists were clearly identified and remained in an open location throughout, with a clear line of sight to an Israeli military base for more than an hour before the first strike.'

airwars.org/investigations…

My story looking at some of the Palestinian prisoners released as part of the Israel-Hamas deal
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
'There was nothing there to surprise me: It was exactly just how dad told me it would be.'
14yo Ahmad's father spent 5 years in the same jail in the 1990s:

It's the most wonderful time of the year: I'm hiring three, full-time fellows for Vox's Future Perfect section (the salary is 72k, FYI!!!).
boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/jobs/…

PENGUIN HUDDLE is in today's i newspaper as one of their best books for Christmas!

It IS 'utterly charming', and penguins ARE the perfect bird for this season, one flipper planted firmly in the festive zone and the other just in general winter

NYPD’s hate crime task force is now investigating former Obama adviser Stuart Seldowitz, after videos showed him saying killing 4K Palestinian children “wasn’t enough” and calling a food truck vendor a “terrorist.” I’ll have an updated story later today vice.com/en/article/7kx…

About 750 Palestinian families in Hebron in the West Bank have been kept under lockdown for six weeks.

We went in to visit them and found them being prevented by Israeli soldiers from even opening their doors.

Activists say it is collective punishment.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…

Two weeks ago, Israeli strikes hit the densely populated Jabalia camp in Gaza.

We identified at least 126 civilians killed in the strike, including 116 full or partial names - the most named victims we have ever monitored in a single event.

airwars.org/civilian-casua…

The journalists of Gaza are the titans of our profession. Committee to Protect Journalists

this time with the correct link: thanks so much to Jewish News for letting me try and capture the awful torn feeling a lot of diaspora Jews are feeling right now about Israel and Gaza jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-this-i…