A zeitgeisty poem spotted today on the London Underground.

Powerful photo by my Reuters colleague Thomas Peter of a shopkeeper in Ukraine’s frontline city of Kramatorsk. Her face covered in dust from a drone blast, she stands at her counter, refusing to leave.

Full story here: www.reuters.com/world/ukrain...

This is an important editorial by the editor of the Courier about the Dundee “knife incident” and how the law holds the traditional media to higher standards than social media.

www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/5...

It's worth reading these expert views compiled by the Science Media Centre ahead of reports that the Trump administration will link paracetamol to autism.

www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...

A review of Dan Brown’s new book www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Finally, the wheels are coming off Thailand's infamous "Temple of Doom," with its abbot's resignation and the overdue burial of AIDS victims who helped generate so many donations. It took the Thai authorities long enough. I wrote this expose in 2008.

web.archive.org/web/20240418...

In "Deaf Republic," a soldier shoots a young deaf boy and his whole community protests by refusing to hear their oppressors. It opens with a poem that compels us to confront our complicity and impotence in the face of faraway atrocities.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

Israeli fire kills 67 people seeking aid in Gaza, medics say, as hunger worsens - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

From Martin Wolf’s FT column, “A return to tariffs, Taco or not.”

Thrilled to see one of my (many) journals exhibited so creatively at Sarajevo’s WARM Festival 2025. It records a near-disastrous trip to a war-torn South Pacific island in 1997 that taught me a valuable journalistic lesson: if you’re going to do something stupid and dangerous, bring a friend.

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Ad on the London Underground.

Trump's call for 100% tariffs on foreign films reminded me of this recent scene outside Reuters office in London's Canary Wharf district, which - with a few well-placed cars and fake steam vents - was transformed into a New York City block for a movie.

A zeitgeisty gift idea at a shop here in South London.

I took this video three years ago today outside Lviv station, then thronging with exhausted refugees fleeing war in eastern Ukraine. The accomplished pianist is @olya_olyusia, and her rendition of “What a Wonderful World” was unforgettable.

A journalist friend gave me a notebook.