Esther Bintliff
@estherbintliff.bsky.social
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UK editor, The New York Times. Born in Bradford, raised in Durham, somewhat reluctantly now a Londoner.
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henrymance.ft.com
The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
estherbintliff.bsky.social
When Nigel Farage spoke to Congress on Sept. 3, it was thanks to the group that helped topple Roe v Wade.
Read more in this brilliant investigation by @bradleyjane.bsky.social and Elizabeth Dias: (gift link)
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
www.nytimes.com
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bradleyjane.bsky.social
We found out they’ve been courting Reform since at least 2024, in an attempt to build their UK influence, and have brokered a string of meetings and briefings with Farage.
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bradleyjane.bsky.social
NEW: How a U.S. anti-abortion group has quietly positioned itself as a powerbroker between the Trump administration and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias. 
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
www.nytimes.com
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duncanweldon.bsky.social
Been to the youngest’s harvest assembly.
Theory: every primary school built pre about 1980 in Britain has some version of this equipment. It is referred to as something like ‘the apparatus’.
No one has any memory of it ever being used.
estherbintliff.bsky.social
“All our tech businesses are turning awful,” Doctorow writes... “And they’re not dying. We remain trapped in their carcasses, unable to escape.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...
A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech
www.nytimes.com
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sundersays.bsky.social
As Yom Kippur ends, it is terrible that a holy day has seen people killed at a place of worship in Manchester

I hope many of us will express solidarity + support for Jews in Britain, and work with them + those of every faith and none to deepen our efforts to tackle antisemitism, hatred + extremism
To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone.

We will not let hate or those who spread it win.

We stand with you
estherbintliff.bsky.social
❤️ this Q&A with the incredible Katrin Bennhold, host of a new global newsletter from @nytimes.com. She's German, lives in Wales & has reported from around the world, and she brings curiosity, empathy and humility to everything she does:
Q&A: Our New Global Newsletter Host on Creating an ‘Antidote to the Overwhelm’
www.nytimes.com
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jdportes.bsky.social
Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)
Farage pledges to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants
Reform says mass deportation would save £234bn as it warns ‘Boriswave’ of migration will take critical toll on welfare system
estherbintliff.bsky.social
A doctor who spoke with The New York Times last week was among those killed when a missile hit a mosque on Friday, as paramilitaries stepped up their brutal siege of the city of El Fasher, reports @declanwalsh.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/w...
‘Harrowing Beyond Description’: Dozens Killed While at Prayer in Sudan
www.nytimes.com
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sundersays.bsky.social
"Commentary *like this* about a deputy Prime Minister felt politically unsurvivable" - Chris Mason, BBC ten o'cıock news.

This script over these pictures treats vandalism & criminal damage as a legitimate form of democratic voice. The BBC should avoid doing that, esp in broader current climate
Picture of graffiti Tax Evader Rayner Graiffiti: Tax Evader
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upshot.nytimes.com
How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
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jim.londoncentric.media
The thing you don’t see about lengthy libel cases like this is the mental impact on witnesses - and on news outlets’ willingness to do similar stories.

Respect to all the women who chose to go to court to defend this story - plus Sirin Kale, Lucy Osborne, Paul Lewis and the Guardian team.
direthoughts.com
The Guardian has successfully defended a libel action brought by the actor Noel Clarke over an investigation by the newspaper in which he was accused of sexual misconduct by more than 20 women.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
Noel Clarke loses libel case against Guardian over sexual misconduct investigation
High court rejects actor’s claim that accusations against him by more than 20 women were false and part of a conspiracy
www.theguardian.com
estherbintliff.bsky.social
If you listen to one thing this weekend, make it this incredibly insightful interview with @philippesands.bsky.social‬ on the history of genocide and its relevance to current conflicts
Opinion | When Is It Genocide?
www.nytimes.com
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lizziedearden.bsky.social
The unprecedented super injunction that banned reporting of the British government's Afghan data breach was in place for almost two years, and subject to numerous court hearings where the Ministry of Defence fought attempts to lift it

I asked how much it cost.

Story coming soon 🗞️
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mollytaft.com
SCOOP from me: Trump's AI action plan released last week makes a specific set of recommendations around loosening Clean Water Act permits for data centers — recommendations mirrored in letters sent to the administration by Big Tech lobbyists earlier this year:
Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them
New AI regulations suggested by the White House mirror changes to environmental permitting suggested by Meta and a lobbying group representing firms like Google and Amazon Web Services.
www.wired.com
estherbintliff.bsky.social
Powerful FT editorial:
"The world is failing the Palestinian people... Unless the Israeli government agrees to an immediate end to the war and a surge of aid into Gaza, western countries should be sanctioning Netanyahu and his government. They should halt all arms sales to Israel"
estherbintliff.bsky.social
'I learned, covering this war, that hatred is an elixir, a potent political bomb, a seductive answer to the banality of life... It is always available to the nationalist demagogue ready to identify scapegoats, promise vengeance and whip a pliant population into a frenzy' - Roger Cohen on Srebrenica
estherbintliff.bsky.social
“They weren’t shrapnel wounds anymore — bits of them had been blown off,” she said. “Children were coming in with knees missing and feet missing and hands missing.”

@lizziedearden.bsky.social interviewed Dr. Victoria Rose, a British plastic surgeon who recently returned from Gaza.

Gift link:
A British Surgeon on What She Saw in Gaza: ‘They’re Prepared to Die for a Bagful of Rice’
www.nytimes.com