🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK Blackpool South candidate Mark Butcher is being investigated by Charity Commission over his campaign activity thelead.uk/charity-commis…

🚨🧵'This is a betrayal of all of those at risk of these abusive practices and a craven capitulation by a Prime Minister too weak to stand up to the right of his party' Anneliese Dodds tells us today as reports spread of Rishi Sunak's u-turn on banning conversion therapy.

less than one day left to submit for Paul Foot Award

Just 24 hours to enter the #PaulFootAward ! Gogogo! private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-award

I'd very much encourage entering your work. If you're even half considering submitting an entry, just do it!

One thing I loved when judging last year was the range of entries. And it is, of course, the best award in journalism 😉

Enter: private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-award

Private Eye Magazine

You don't have to be a recognised/big name journo to win the Paul Foot Award.
I was a (mostly, and ridiculously) unpaid journo when I won it, working with friends to end an injustice—child immigration detention—that enraged us.
Have a go: deadline Tuesday 26th March at 1pm

I take some pride in being the only person to review George Galloway’s Nazi novel littleatoms.com/review-george-…

The WLC welcomes the news that would-be assassin Polad Omarov is to be extradited to the United States for his part in an attempt to kill our president, Masih Alinejad.

Read the full statement here:
worldlibertycongress.org/wlc-statement-…

A short piece on my late friend Henry McDonald and why taking people at their word can be a useful journalistic trait padraigreidy.substack.com/p/my-friend-he…

A year on from Henry McDonald’s death, nice piece by PdrgRdy on the natural story-teller with a ‘punk journo’ suspicion of self styled holders of the intellectual & moral high ground
padraigreidy.substack.com/p/my-friend-he…

Here it is! Very happy to have played on a few of the tracks. It was a memorable experience working on this with Mohammad and Cathal Roche for Nyahh Records . If you get a chance to see him perform live don't miss it! Also buy the album! It is a pure joy to listen to!

Deeply concerned about the prospect of a military offensive in Rafah – over half of Gaza’s population are sheltering in the area.

The priority must be an immediate pause in the fighting to get aid in and hostages out, then progress towards a sustainable, permanent ceasefire.

It's that time, of year already, hacks. You can now send in your entry for the 2024 Paul Foot Award - top prize now an inflation-busting £8,000! Details below private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-award

New from me on Anna Funder’s Wifedom: travesty sold as biography padraigreidy.substack.com/p/anna-funders…

New from me on Anna Funder’s Wifedom: travesty sold as biography padraigreidy.substack.com/p/anna-funders…