The Serious Fraud Office has just agreed to make a payment of UK taxpayers' money - the amount is being kept secret - to a mining empire controlled by oligarchs and backed by Russian banks. More is likely to follow. Here's my The Guardian Long Read telling the whole staggering saga...

Lucy Letby convictions: police and CPS handling of the case raises new concerns about convictions. With the exceptional ⁦felicity lawrence⁩ . theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/o…

Huge thanks to Patrick Butler & Josh Halliday for their incredible work bringing this issue to light. This is what great journalism looks like! theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/o…

🚨Deaths of rough sleepers in the UK have increased by 42 per cent in a year in an alarming indicator of the surging #homelessness crisis. New research from @our_MoH found that 1,474 people died while homeless in 2023, up 12 per cent on the year before. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

The researchers at @our_MoH do this important investigation each year into deaths of homeless people in the UK. When will policy-makers take the change in direction we need to reduce harm to people facing homelessness? They could start by properly funding homeless services...

Simon Mullings obituary HammersmithLawCentre theguardian.com/law/2024/oct/2…

Simon was a lovely man and a fantastically dedicated lawyer. He will be missed.

I've been reporting on an alarming case at Cardiff family court. It's been one of the most nightmarish experiences imaginable for two parents who did nothing wrong. Their baby was taken away for six months because of a bruise that was not their fault.

🚨Please remember that the alarming rise in "rough sleeper" numbers reported are only the official figures of those who have 'engaged' with outreach services. The real figures are, sadly, much much higher!

Wonderful service of commemoration today for the 132 named and 64 unnamed people who have died in London whilst homeless in the last year. So important to read those names aloud, remember them, grieve for them and make them matter #homelessness #dyinghomeless

Commission to examine #JointEnterprise – A Parliamentary inquiry into the Joint Enterprise legal doctrine is to be chaired by Labour peer Lord Woodley (pictured) and will beging in November ⁦⁦Lucy Powell MP⁩ Afzal Khan MP⁩ ⁦Kim Johnson⁩ insidetime.org/newsround/comm…

Important piece from @our_MoH “It’s remembering as I call it comrades or friends who have been out there – slept out, been through it, been in the homelessness situation. We’re just remembering them.” bigissue.com/opinion/homele…

Joined the cool kids. I’m now on @maevemcclenaghan.bsky.social

I will be joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours over the sale of the Observer. For more information please follow The Guardian and Observer NUJ and NUJ or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver

What Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey have been through to get the truth out is horrendous and truly scary for British and Irish journalism. Hear McCaffrey talk about their amazing investigation ⁦The Tip Off podcast⁩ thetipoffpodcast.com/podcast/ep-35-… theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/d…

What’s it like to be hunted? A new The Guardian investigation with Maeve McClenaghan into the campaign to incite far right violence against Hongkonger democracy activists in the UK Finn Lau 劉祖廸 Nathan Law 羅冠聰 others. With ICIJ HOPE not hate theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma implicated in intimidation campaign by Chinese regime - latest from me and the great Tom Burgis theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

Blowing the whistle on wrongdoing has always taken bravery. Secure Messaging is an amazing new tool from the Guardian that makes it easier to share confidential info and tips theguardian.com/tips

‘Dad, imam, God’: children living with self-declared pope in former UK orphanage theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

Abdullah Hashem started out as a film-maker, making documentaries exposing cults. Then he started his own religion and declared himself the saviour of mankind. He lives with around 100 followers in Crewe, Cheshire theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…