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Nick Davies
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Former special correspondent of The Guardian - phone-hacking, Wikileaks, Edward Snowden, toil and trouble.
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Nick Davies @bynickdavies.bsky.social · 15h
This very revealing story is not getting nearly enough attention - At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials
Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths
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Nick Davies @bynickdavies.bsky.social · 12d
This is highly revealing about the power play behind what is happening in Gaza, especially on the increasingly alarming influence of Larry Ellison. tinyurl.com/46t5m6en
'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION
As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...
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Nick Davies @bynickdavies.bsky.social · 15d
A very strong launch by the new independent news outfit www.thenerve.news - more energy and revelation in one issue than the dead-souled Fleet Street Sundays have managed in months.
The Nerve
Fearless, independent journalism covering culture, politics and tech
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · May 2
“.. Tesla's new car sales in April fell by 80.7% in Sweden, national data showed on Friday, a day after Denmark recorded a 67.2% drop .. and France reported a 59.4% fall, its fourth straight month of sales contraction.”

$TSLA @reuters.com
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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · May 1
Russia is a land of mystery, the wonders of Ermitage, the enigma of beautiful women, tantalising Westerners with its boundless puzzle of Russian soul.

But perhaps more importantly, Russia is this.
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Nick Davies @bynickdavies.bsky.social · Mar 19
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · Feb 16
Israeli forces strapped explosives around the neck of an elderly Palestinian man in Gaza and forced him to act as a human shield before killing him and his wife, an investigation by the Israeli news website HaMakom has revealed www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-is...
Israeli forces used 80-year-old Palestinian as human shield before killing him
Israeli forces strapped explosives around the neck of an elderly Palestinian who used a walking stick and forced him to inspect areas used by Hamas before killing him and his wife
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Nick Davies @bynickdavies.bsky.social · Feb 13
Somebody should give this BBC reporter a prize. He's taken on the lies of MI5 - and won. Any judge or politician who is supposed to supervise MI5 must now be asking if they too have been lied to. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How I exposed MI5’s lie about its violent abusive agent
The Security Service gambled BBC correspondent Daniel De Simone had no evidence. A note, an email and a recording proved it wrong.
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Nick Davies @bynickdavies.bsky.social · Feb 2
An important idea for dealing with Trump, from north of the border
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An important idea for dealing with Trump, from north of the border
Friends,
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Jan 29
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · Jan 28
You can't accuse the Solicitors' Regulatory Authority of not whole-heartedly embracing the government's pro-growth agenda.

If lawyers can't take money from murderous scum to sue journalists for writing true things, how will we ever have growth again?

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UK law firm that acted for Putin’s warlord Prigozhin 'broke no rules'
Exclusive: Taking cash from a sanctioned Russian mercenary chief to enable him to sue a British journalist is not an abuse of our legal system, solicitors' regulator finds
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Nick Davies @bynickdavies.bsky.social · Jan 25
Most of the evidence which Murdoch has suppressed is here - allegations that execs conspired in crime to get stories; to spy on politicians; and to pervert the course of justice. All allegations remain untested in court; all are denied by Murdoch company. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The Murdoch spy papers
What if phone hacking was worse—much worse—than previously thought? Reporter Nick Davies uncovered the original scandal. Now, with remarkable document...
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Nick Davies @bynickdavies.bsky.social · Jan 24
This is spot on. I was in court for the settlement negotiations. It was explicit in comments from both sets of lawyers that the the suppression of evidence due to be heard in the trial was an absolutely essential requirement for the Murdoch side.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Jan 9
I mean, that's outstanding.
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · Jan 5
New for @motherjones.com: Jeff Bezos’ Media Companies Kiss Trump’s Ring…Again

Amazon Studios will release a documentary about Melania Trump that she’s exec producing, and WaPo killed an editorial cartoon satirizing Bezos’s fealty to Trump.

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Jeff Bezos' media companies kiss Trump's ring…again
Amazon Studios will release a documentary about Melania Trump, and the Washington Post just killed an editorial cartoon satirizing its owner's fealty to the incoming president.
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Paul Lashmar @paullashmar.bsky.social · Dec 27
PL: This is the big education story, not parents having to pay VAT on a luxury education. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Revealed: 1.5m children in England studying in unfit school buildings
Underinvestment has led to crumbling infrastructure in schools, hospitals and courts, Guardian study shows
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · Dec 13
The Observer strike is about the future of liberal journalism - in the same week when the Murdoch succession drama plays out in court. My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The Observer strike is about the future of liberal journalism. We should be worried
The sale of the Observer has prompted the biggest staff strike in more than 50 years and created a fracture that will be hard to heal
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Simon Hattenstone @shattenstone.bsky.social · Dec 11
Another two days on the picket line tomorrow & Friday with fellow Guardian & Observer journalists to protest shocking decision to give away the Observer to loss-making startup Tortoise. Please join us from 9am – 90 York Way, London N1 9GU. Cake, songs, anger & surprise guests
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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · Dec 10
This letter in today’s Guardian, signed by some of the UK’s finest journalists, warns that The Observer, bought by Tortoise Media, could be stripped of much of its excellent foreign reporting.
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
Why foreign correspondents are alarmed and dismayed at plans to sell the Observer | Letter
Letter: Current and former contributors to the international pages of the Guardian and Observer respond to an article by Ole Jacob Sunde, chair of the Scott Trust
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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · Dec 9
"The seeds of its own impending implosion."

Journalist @carolecadwalla.bsky.social of The Observer describes the "crisis" caused by the sale of the publication to Tortoise Media, calling it a blow to her defence of mainstream media.
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Nick Davies @bynickdavies.bsky.social · Dec 9
As the Observer’s editor, I was not consulted on its sale to Tortoise Media | Letter www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
As the Observer’s editor, I was not consulted on its sale to Tortoise Media | Letter
Letters: Former Observer editor Paul Webster responds to an article by the chair of the Scott Trust
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Nick Davies @bynickdavies.bsky.social · Dec 9
Key questions about the sale of the Observer that remain unanswered | Letter www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
Key questions about the sale of the Observer that remain unanswered | Letter
Letters: Observer and Guardian staff and writers respond to an article by the chair of the Scott Trust
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Dec 6
The very idea that Mexico must be bullied with tariffs into cracking down on migrants is designed to imply that it’s doing nothing right now—it’s taking advantage of us, Trump might say—and only his fearsome threats can force it into submission.

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Mexican President’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Exposes an Ugly MAGA Scam
Claudia Sheinbaum’s response to Trump’s threat of tariffs revealed truths that the president-elect doesn’t want Americans to know.
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Nick Davies @bynickdavies.bsky.social · Dec 6
The Guardian's management appears to have declared war on its journalists.
nujofficial.bsky.social The National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social · Dec 6
Statement on decision by The Scott Trust and GMG boards to approve the sale in principle of the Observer to Tortoise Media: NUJ general secretary-elect Laura Davison said: “Members at the Guardian and Observer will be angry and extremely disappointed that The Scott Trust and GMG boards have chosen..
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · Dec 5
It is 50 years since the IRA planted bombs in two Guildford pubs.

It is 50 years since the police began an investigation that ended up imprisoning four innocent people.

And now we finally have the full truth about this terrible injustice, writes @bynickdavies.bsky.social.
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The truth of the Guildford bombings
An updated book exposes the institutional and individual failings that resulted in four people being wrongly imprisoned
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