Big jobs on news investigations teams don't come around very often so I'm really excited to share these two adverts for senior roles at The Times If you are a journalist with loads of ideas, tenacity and experience breaking agenda-setting stories, we'd love to hear from you

When I worked news shifts, at some places I’d write 6-10 pieces a day. I’d leave feeling so frazzled all I was good for was lying in a dark room. It’s also pure churning, minimal checking — I’d set a goal of at least one original quote a day and even that was exhausting.

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Court reporting is the bones of good journalism. Couldn’t agree more. The fact that publishers don’t see it is astonishing

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In the last few weeks there have been serious and concerning developments regarding my sons’ father, Imran Khan’s treatment in prison. The Pakistan authorities have stopped all visits to him by his family and his lawyers. They have also postponed all court hearings. In addition

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How the royal family operate Via ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩

It's been brought to my attention that there's videos published on social media claiming I've made various statements about the US election, related to election integrity. These are part of a Russian disinformation campaign, and the quotes are fabricated, but it's nice to know

Just thinking of that time in 2018 when Quincy Jones gave a couple of remarkable interviews with eye-popping details. RIP to a real one. Here's the Vulture interview (1/2) vulture.com/2018/02/quincy…

Azealia Banks shares that she has decided to vote for Kamala Harris: “I will be Voting For Kamala Harris tomorrow because Elon Musk (a fucking overrated Ketamine addict) belongs no where near American Politics. The End.”

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

I'm just going to leave this here for posterity.

Musk will find NASA to be wasteful is my guess

The Onion just bought Infowars and plans to turn it into a comedy platform. This is perhaps the greatest act of satirical genius we have witnessed this century. pbs.org/newshour/natio…

The Onion has acquired Infowars in a bankruptcy auction. They plan to debut a new Infowars in January that will serve as parody, mocking weird Internet personalities like Alex Jones. The Onion CEO says they acquired it because “this is the funniest thing that has ever happened”

Whether it's Tim Walz expanding his state's school lunch program or Matt Gaetz giving cocaine and Ecstasy to underage sex workers, both sides have taken controversial approaches towards feeding children.

The fact that someone from The Onion had to have a meeting with the Sandy Hook families and go “I’m sorry for your loss but do you guys want to do something really funny” is the wildest part of the InfoWars purchase

I fear I may be such a host, yes it’s x 🙃 but we have our traditions