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Thrilled that I was shortlisted this year for The Gaby Rado Award for New Journalist at the
#AmnestyMediaAwards
!
I put forward my work w/
@Gabriel_Pogrund
exposing the alleged trafficking and exploitation of southeast Asian women by millionaire Tory donor, Hamish Ogston 1/2
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When I started investigating this secret, "inhumane" policy last year, the Home Office denied it ever existed.
Today: HO admits it unlawfully seized mobile phones from all migrants crossing the Channel.
About time. Here's my original exclusive:
Breaking: The Home Office has admitted exercising an unlawful and secret policy of seizing mobile phones from all migrants crossing the English Channel
Lawyers made admission at the High Court, while fighting legal action brought by three asylum seekers
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EXCLUSIVE: Home Office carried out a “secret” and “inhumane” policy of seizing the phones of more than 7,000 refugees arriving in the UK for data extraction
Now it faces a judicial review as to whether the policy was ever lawful
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🚨 Some personal news: After graduating with a distinction in my Investigative MA, I am THRILLED to be joining
@thesundaytimes
as a News reporter next week.
It’s a dream come true, to say the least.
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Women were not allowed to surf in Teahupoo, where powerful waves can reach 23 feet, for 16 years
The World Surf League removed female surfing competitions citing “safety concerns” - but allowed men to continue
… until this week - where the women were expectedly epic
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🔺EXCLUSIVE: One of Britain’s wealthiest men, Hamish Ogston, appears to have breached immigration and human trafficking laws to sexually exploit women - yet police failed to investigate him when approached by an alleged victim.
w/
@Gabriel_Pogrund
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Stories like this rely on the bravery of sources and months of investigation, and we care about doing them right. They’re not easy to read, but they’re important.
If you have a story that needs to be heard, please get in touch in confidence katherine.tarrant
@sunday
-times.co.uk
🔺EXCLUSIVE: One of Britain’s wealthiest men, Hamish Ogston, appears to have breached immigration and human trafficking laws to sexually exploit women - yet police failed to investigate him when approached by an alleged victim.
w/
@Gabriel_Pogrund
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EXCLUSIVE: 84 police officers or staff disciplined in 2019+20 for WhatsApp messages.
After two officers were charged this week for photos with the bodies of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, top police action lawyer says our findings are “just the tip of the iceberg”.
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Some asylum seekers couldn’t tell families they were safe for months. One had been waiting a year for his phone to be returned, and another was told their phone was lost.
That waiting and uncertainty is devastating.
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Starting now❗️100s outside the Royal Courts of Justice in support of the march to decriminalise abortion
Most attendees baffled to learn the 1861 law used in Carla Foster’s case still in play today and say there’s no public interest in jailing her
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I found evidence that more than 7,000 asylum seekers arriving in the UK had their phones confiscated for data extraction.
Documents showed immigration enforcement threatening refugees with legal action if they refused to allow access to their phones
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Latest for
@BylineTimes
with
@WritesBright
: I uncovered contracts showing tens of millions of pounds were spent on emergency PPE freight deliveries to the UK, even as the Government assured the public that its stockpiles were burgeoning
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INVESTIGATION: For months I have been speaking with mothers of Scouts who died on trips after alleged failures to brief them about dangers or assess risks
Since 1995, there have been 17 deaths, incl. many boys who slipped from cliffs and mountains 1/6
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A week before my course starts feels like a good time to announce that I’m going to be joining
@CityUniLondon
to study an MA in Investigative Journalism after graduating with a First in English Literature from
@warwickuni
✨and I have a few more updates...
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Today I’ll be starting two months on
@thesundaytimes
foreign desk, helping to edit and shape ideas for the section 🌍
Get in touch with tips, stories and commentary ideas katherine.tarrant
@sunday
-times.co.uk
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Delighted to have been named a winner of this year’s 30 to Watch in the News and Investigations category, alongside some very talented colleagues 🎉
I submitted my investigations into human trafficking, failures by the Scout Association, and a dispatch from Israel 👇
This year's
#30ToWatch
Journalism Award winners in the News & Investigations category are:
🏆
@SophieBraybrook
,
@Channel4News
🏆
@ConorGogarty
,
@WalesOnline
🏆
@AliMitib
,
@thetimes
🏆
@SabriSun_Miller
,
#MailOnSunday
🏆
@KatieTarrant_
,
@thetimes
Thanks to our category judges -
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Watch the video and read surfer pros Brisa Hennessy, Johanne Defay and Lakey Paterson’s takes on the historic occasion here:
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The Great Pandemic Gold Rush: £1 BILLION in Covid contracts awarded to 15 companies, all linked to Conservative party donors❗️❗️❗️
Proud to have worked with the incredible
@WritesBright
@iainoverton
@BataDaisy
and
@Jack__Daw
on this investigation ⬇️
🔴EXCLUSIVE: Mapping the Pandemic: £1 Billion in Contracts Awarded to Conservative Donors
One year after THE first COVID-19 lockdown,
@BylineTimes
&
@allthecitizens
reveal almost £1bn awarded to 15 firms linked to £millions of Conservative donations 🔽
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Hoping my second favourite black cat
@RolfatWarwick
crosses my path today while laying up this term’s first issue of
@WarwickBoar
🥰
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Teenage girls drop out of sport at three times the rate of boys
@EilishMccolgan
with an important message about periods and body image in today’s
@thetimes
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First exclusive in
@BylineTimes
today!
After a four-year row over fishing quotas, the UK is in the dark about how much produce the EU is taking.
🔴 EXCLUSIVE
UK Government has No Idea how Much Fish has been Caught in British Waters by EU Fishing Vessels this Month
After a four-year row over fishing quotas, the UK is in the dark about how much produce the EU is taking, reports
@katietarrant98
🔽
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NEW: Israeli teenager Sofia Orr has just been sentenced to 20 days in prison for refusing to serve in the army
I met Sofia and others like her last week and she told me why she felt she had to refuse 👇
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Some asylum seekers couldn’t tell families they were safe for months.
One has been waiting a year for his phone to be returned, and another was told their phone was lost.
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Only half the Grenfell Recovery Fund is actually spent on survivors and the bereaved, and even then they described what they received as wasteful and ignorant to individual needs
This is such a difficult read from
@WritesBright
One of the most important stories I have ever written...
I spoke to Grenfell survivors and the bereaved, who believe the council is squandering its disaster recovery budget.
They call the council a 'Mafia'...
New and exclusive for
@BylineTimes
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Domestic abuse victims face serious risk of physical and psychological harm as we enter this second lockdown, and the upcoming domestic abuse bill doesn’t go far enough to protect them, say its critics.
Me and
@maryohara1
in
@guardian
today.
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👆+
@ICOnews
report suggests they don’t.
Phones mean “absolutely everything” to asylum seekers, says a wonderful volunteer
@Care4Calais
who’s been chasing the HO to release phones for almost a year. They have family photos, contacts - and documents proving their asylum claim
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I’ll be covering the Coronation of King Charles III from the (hopefully dry) Queen Victoria Memorial outside Buckingham Palace all day - follow
@thetimes
and link below for live updates
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Reports of domestic abuse in the West Midlands rose 28% last year. 28%.
Cases made up 43% of all violent offending in the region and the increase was four times higher than the UK average.
Read and watch w/ insight from
@jessphillips
Reports of domestic violence in the UK increased by 7% last year.
But in the West Midlands, reports were up 28%
Me and
@hannahbechITV
spoke to women at a refuge for
@ITVCentral
. One said she miscarried her baby as a result of the abuse she suffered.
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EXCLUSIVE: £2bn in Covid contracts awarded to top Tory associates
That’s now over £3bn (!) to donors, ex- or current Tory politicians, the Chummings lot, Lords + more
With the formidable
@WritesBright
@BataDaisy
@Jack__Daw
@iainoverton
@Hardeep_Matharu
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Over the past three years as a journalist, I’ve seen a hell of a lot of victim blaming. From the abuser, from onlookers, and especially from the system. It happens ALL the time, everywhere, but
#iwasblamed
trending today shows just how little we are willing to put up with it
TODAY 26th April 2020
Together we launch
#IWasBlamed
#iwasblamed
Women and girls:
Use the # to tweet about how you were blamed and who by
RT the tweets containing the hashtag
Show love to others who have been blamed
We will collect thousands of experiences today.
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🔺EXCL on Hamish Ogston w/
@Gabriel_Pogrund
The millionaire accused of trafficking set up his charity after asking lobbyists to help him secure a knighthood
Ogston spoke to consultants incl. Lord Bethell about how to get honour
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It’s not everyday you get to meet (or see again) such an inspiring and genuine group of journalists who consistently produce work that is so true to what they believe in. Thank you all again for your generosity in speaking for free and making journalism more accessible! 🤩
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One teenage model described how she was “discovered” at the camp last September and flown to Paris, where she was deemed too malnourished to work and flown back after just six days
Important and shocking by
@brinksmate
@HugoCDaniel
@Edwincowino
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Coronavirus: how is the lockdown affecting students?
I spoke to dozens of students from across the world after the UK's lockdown announcement about the effects of this pandemic on life as a university student. Here's a short clip, full video here👉
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NEW: A woman is killed every 130 minutes in Mexico.
3 contradictory autopsies, 2 state prosecutor firings and 1 painful exhumation later, the case of Debanhi Escobar has become an emblem of Mexicans’ reasons to distrust the authorities.
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Exclusive: Afghan refugees at risk of homelessness are being moved into new hotels and unused military accommodation as the government has failed to provide the long-term homes it promised they should be in by the end of the month
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.
@SarahChampionMP
– whose questions have been repeatedly dodged by the HO - said this demonstrated a “worrying disregard for the human rights of vulnerable asylum seekers and migrants”
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I just saw an elderly woman wandering the woods and I asked her (from 2m apart) if she was okay. She told me she’s a week out of isolation after surviving Covid-19 and she’d just been walking through the bluebells with a vividly fresh appreciation for life.
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NEW for the wonderful
@journoresources
on what to do if you’re struggling to get into journalism right now from those who managed it during the 2008 recession 👇👇👇
NEW: For the Class of 2020, securing their first break has not been the ride they were promised. But there are reasons for hope.
@katietarrant98
spoke to some of the graduates of 2008's recession to see what we should be doing now.
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New policy - released at least two YEARS after this started happening - does not tally with revelations from the ground. Documents show immigration enforcement threatened refugees with legal action if they refused to allow access to their phones.
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A baffling revelation on the Malkinson case:
The lead detective authorised the destruction of evidence in 2013… because he thought Andy was no longer in prison
A “pathetic” excuse for unlawfully destroying evidence which could have secured justice sooner says
@we_are_APPEAL
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It’s been an incredible whirlwind since I started at The Sunday Times in September.
I’ve been lucky this year to see work that I really care about published in a few different outlets, and I wanted to share a few before we enter 2022 👉🧵 1/9
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Emily Drouet, 18, took her own life after physical and psychological abuse by her student boyfriend
@Emilytest12
, founded by her mother, created a deeply informed charter for unis to prevent deaths like hers - but most have not signed up
#16days
#endgbv
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Best student publication as awarded by
@BBCr4today
for the SECOND year in a row?!
@WarwickBoar
we are amazing I’m so proud!! ☺️🐗 📰
Student Publication of the Year
The Boar: University of Warwick, Isabelle Atkins, Katie Tarrant, Megan Benham and Gurpreet Dhaliwal 🏅
Runner up - Concrete, UEA: University of East Anglia: Sophie Bunce, Matt Nixon, Shannon McDonagh and Chris Matthews
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“The revolution has already begun, you are a carrier.”
This is Russell Brand today.
Inside Brand’s Community festival, published alongside
@RosamundUrwin
@char_wace
@pmorganbentley
investigation👇
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Exclusive investigation in
@thetimes
with
@billykenber
As deaths where the Priory Group were criticised mounted, NHS England demanded rapid improvements - or action would be taken
“Patients and their families deserve better,” senior executives said
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I arrived at Clapham Common yesterday at 4:30pm to a moving, peaceful and very sad scene of women and men paying their respects to a life that should never have been so cruelly taken.
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A new project for this year... and excited is an understatement. We always planned to launch today, but what a week to start.
I hope to see student opinion writers expressing their take on what governments across the world ought to be doing to fight the
#ClimateCrisis
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The climate crisis is here, and it is here to stay.
That is why it is more important than ever to us that our readers are informed as to how their University is handling its responsibility to sustainability.
As such, we’d like to introduce our new Climate Section!
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Students are sharing severe anxiety over having less than a month’s notice for exams, some with three exams during the week beginning 13th May. Some students also have up to five assignments this Easter, with deadlines as late as 9th May and exams the following week.
Larissa Kennedy writes that there has been “an inordinate amount of stress for students“ around the Warwick exam timetable shortly after the publication of the final version
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Fancy feeling inspired this Sunday morning?
I’ve been interviewing some of the most influential young people in the UK, who are sharing their advice for the inaugural
#youngpowerlist2024
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This is 15 year old André and his sister Sofia
André has asthma and struggles to breathe in Portugal’s sweltering heat waves
This week they’ll be in the European Court of Human Rights arguing that climate change has affected their childhoods - and 32 governments are to blame
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Looking to speak to women who game about misogyny and sexual harassment in gaming for a report I’m sending to parliament with
@YGAMuk
- DM if you’d be happy to chat! Please RT to help us get as many diverse voices as possible 🎮❗️
@girlfromcanada
@blackgirlgamers
@hood_vic
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Sending our final paper to print in 30 minutes and seeing this pop up... shortlisted for Best Publication alongside some outstanding publications. So proud of the formidable
@WarwickBoar
team🐗❤️
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🔺ICYMI: Calls for an investigation into the source of cash Trump used to buy his iconic Scottish golf courses
Why? Because Trump’s right-hand man Allen Weisselberg, now a convicted fraudster, ran the Balmedie course for more than a decade
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So chuffed, thank you
@SPAJournalism
and well done to everyone who has contributed to
@WarwickBoar
over the last year for the other shortlists too!📰✨
The full shortlist for Best Reporter. As always, this category will be judged by Bill Coles 🖋
#SPAawards
#SPANC19
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Thrilled and honoured to see
@WarwickBoar
nominated; a true testament to the hours of hard work that go into every issue and an extremely dedicated team ✨ Congrats to other nominees too - student journalism is fire 🔥
Student Publication of the Year
Concrete, UEA: Sophie Bunce, Matt Nixon, Shannon McDonagh, Chris Matthews.
InQuire Media, Kent: George Knight, Bill Bowkett, Caitlin Casey, Ellie Fielding.
The Boar, Warwick: Isabelle Atkins, Katie Tarrant, Megan Benham, Gurpreet Dhaliwal.
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Catch me on
@BBCNews
@ 2:15pm discussing the conclusions of
@warwickuni
’s external disciplinary review📝 I’m seeing a lot of attentive and positive suggestions for change, but what do students and, most importantly, what do the original complainants think?
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It isn’t just about privacy - it’s about safety.
@privacyint
tells me: “If [HO] holds very sensitive data related to migrants, some of whom could be of interest to nation states because they’re political activists, they need to have a good security policy”
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What does big tech really know about you?
The brilliant
@ellielhouse
has a new documentary coming out next week which delves into just how much info Netflix, Facebook, TikTok etc has about you, and how it can use it 👉
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NEW: An app dubbed “Tinder for teens” was once praised for safeguarding
But our undercover investigation found sexual harassment, incitement of self-harm and racism are rife among 13-17yr old users, with no immediate action taken
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Busy day at the office... a very important story that I’m glad to see receiving national coverage. Thank you
@bbcmtd
and
@BBCNewsbeat
for the interviews today!
The department's Katie Tarrant on BBC news this evening. Good work, Katie!
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Professor: “men are ‘far more likely’ than women to be murdered… we shouldn’t get hysterical”
@TimesLucy
@Fhamiltontimes
report: "At least five women and one girl were killed in the UK during the week Everard went missing." In that WEEK
Excellent coverage
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INVESTIGATION: A Thai man who claimed to be an asylum seeker set up a prostitution ring under the Home Office’s nose
Saranwee Kwanpetch has been operating since at least Aug 2019, offering sex with vulnerable southeast Asian women
w/
@Gabriel_Pogrund
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Today
@georgiaharisonx
is revealing the impact revenge porn has had on her life
An estimated 4.4 million adults have received threats to share intimate images - but only 4% of cases result in charges
I broke down the complexities of this crime for
@thetimes
on TikTok:
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In response to our story, The Metropolitan Police has launched an investigation into its officers’ handling of previous reports of criminality allegedly involving Ogston
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NEW: £10,000 in donations for MPs’ Covid Recovery Group from ‘The Recovery Alliance’
Who, you ask?
We don’t know, and they don’t have to say. But
@electoralreform
says groups like this let ‘dark money’ into our political system.
With
@PeterKGeoghegan
and
@martinrw
👇
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: A group of anti-lockdown MPs has been criticised for taking thousands of pounds’ worth of donations from a secretive organisation which is not listed on any official company registers
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Today is the 25th anniversary of the Lancet’s publication of Andrew Wakefield’s fraudulent study on the link between MMR and autism.
The legacy of the “godfather of the modern American antivax movement” lives on in the story of “B”:
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In today's Times: Read the stories of 3 families who are taking on the Priory Group through legal action
“It’s like David and Goliath: fighting the might of the Priory Group in the hope that they’ll stop it happening to somebody else"
@DebatINQUEST
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▶️ Evidence obtained suggests Hamish Ogston has trafficked or attempted to traffic Thai and Filipina sex workers into the UK.
Ogston denies entirely that his conduct amounts to the systematic exploitation of vulnerable sex workers.
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What a day to be talking about how to get the best job in the world!
Looking forward to joining
@EJ_Burrows
and
@IanDunt
this evening at the
@frontlineclub
to speak to students about how to get into journalism, tickets below 👇
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Trish Malkinson never doubted her son was not a rapist. Enduring 20 years without him felt like she had been served a prison sentence too.
My interview with Trish and lifetime friend Karin on 17 years of visits, letters and fighting for justice:
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A report I wrote for
@YGAMuk
on sexual harassment and misogyny in gaming covered by
@BBCNewsbeat
today. We need to stop the "normality of rape threats" and “jokey” sexism
See the recommendations we sent to MPs yesterday at the bottom of the piece 👇
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🔺 This investigation is based on about 1,000 leaked documents and confidential sources
It also draws on Ogston’s handwritten notes, which he is said to make obsessively to record his thoughts
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In 2016, Scotland Yard contacted a vulnerable woman who Ogston had paid for sex and who he accused of blackmail. Extraordinarily, an officer sent two emails in which she complained to the Met of exploitation by Ogston back to the man himself
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For our penultimate issue, we ask: why are more students turning to sex work?
@Warwickboar
spoke to two male escorts, two webcam models and one stripper who manage their degree alongside what one student called her “deadly secret”
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“Women in England and Wales do not have the same human rights as their sisters in Northern Ireland. Within our nation, there is an inequality in human rights.”
Strong words from
@stellacreasy
MP outside Downing Street
Starting now❗️100s outside the Royal Courts of Justice in support of the march to decriminalise abortion
Most attendees baffled to learn the 1861 law used in Carla Foster’s case still in play today and say there’s no public interest in jailing her
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🚨 New from Scotland Yard on Ogston
“We are aware of media reporting allegations of exploitation and drugs offences.”
“We take reports of this nature extremely seriously and are now reviewing this information to assess what further action is needed.”
@Gabriel_Pogrund
🔺EXCLUSIVE: One of Britain’s wealthiest men, Hamish Ogston, appears to have breached immigration and human trafficking laws to sexually exploit women - yet police failed to investigate him when approached by an alleged victim.
w/
@Gabriel_Pogrund
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Super proud of this whopping 48-page issue, complete with candidate interviews and polls in our General Election pullout and some fab Christmas content. Thanks
@WarwickBoar
for all the hard work and bring on next term✨
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I revealed in
@BylineTimes
that the Home Office has had a secret policy of seizing the phones of more than 7,000 refugees arriving in the UK by boat for data extraction
3/9
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I worked with Byline Times and
@allthecitizens
incredible investigative team, headed by
@WritesBright
, to expose the extent of contracts awarded to Conservative donors and associates 7/9
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As recently as last year, he hired a partner at a City law firm to examine if he could use his charity as a “foil” to bring “Thai girls” into the UK. Ogston knew the women had no qualifications beyond being able to “do something better than anyone else”.
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While I’m at
@BBCr4today
student publication awards tonight, you can tune in to
@BBCCovWarks
to hear me talking all things youth and democracy between 7-9pm 📻 Wouldn’t have predicted being able to say that a year ago 😱🥰
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It’s surreal to announce this as my first two articles for the paper - covering tragedy in Afghanistan and a beautiful story of hope - are out today
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Who is Hamish Ogston? Read our profile below 🔽
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It’s time to say goodbye to the 2018/2019
@WarwickBoar
exec and to my role as News Co-Editor 😢 it’s been an amazing year with an incredibly talented team, and I can’t wait to start the next chapter as Co-Editor-in-Chief with a new team of brilliant journalists🐗❤️
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The Metropolitan Police received reports of his use of women and drug consumption in 2012 and 2013. Despite acknowledging criminality at his property, detectives failed to investigate… ▶️
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🔺NEW on Russell Brand
In her only interview since legal documents were filed in New York, the woman who has accused Brand of sexually assaulting her on the set of ‘Arthur’ speaks to The Sunday Times
@RosamundUrwin
,
@char_wace
and me
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Others are, in his words, already in the country “illegally” and beholden to mama-sans (female Thai pimps) or members of organised crime, making them less likely to report potential abuse
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It’s the calm before the storm here at
#Nuneaton
... tune into Sky News for our live coverage NOW! ⏰
#GE2019
#SkyNewsDCP
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Was an absolute blast editing the Freshers issue, launching our new climate section (in print) and QR code front cover! Bring on the first issue😎
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Ogston’s alleged exploitation has severely affected a number of the women involved.
He has asked sex workers to perform acts on himself, his friends and other prostitutes which are so extreme some have required medical attention
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With 7 exclusive new donors, we reveal that:
🔴 1/3rd of the contracts were awarded under emergency procurement rules.
🔴 77% weren't published within the 30 day legal time frame.
The Billion Pound Pandemic Gold-Rush:
A year after the anniversary of the 1st UK lockdown,
@allthecitizens
@BylineTimes
have uncovered almost £1bn in COVID-19 contracts awarded to 15 companies, all linked to Conservative party donors. THREAD:
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Officers and staff sent racist, sexist and homophobic material, mocked crime victims and sent confidential information to others
But despite a catalogue of transgressions - including pestering women for sex - just nine workers were sacked in two years
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Families were rounded up, their dogs gassed, and forced to leave their homeland in the Chagos Islands to make way for an American military base
They still cannot return without supervision
A shocking story of injustice to work on with
@christinalamb
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Who are Conservative party members leaning towards to be our next PM? More support for Rishi than the polls suggest?
@ShippersUnbound
and I report from inside the leadership hustings
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Last night with
@joshglancy
I spoke to the father of the suspected killer of Sir David Amess.
“I’m feeling very traumatised. It’s not something that I expected or even dreamt of,” said Kullane, a former advisor to the prime minister of Somalia.
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It’s almost a year since Andrew Malkinson, wrongly imprisoned for 17 years for a brutal rape, was exonerated
But freedom has meant he was homeless up until 3 months ago and is using food banks amid no compensation payout:
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🚨NEW: As 10 men make fresh allegations of sexual assault and harassment against Spacey in a new documentary, he asks the public to be his judge
My read on the twists and turns of this story in
@thetimes
Spacey denies allegations of illegality👇
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I went to Newport Pagnell to see an incredible effort from locals to welcome dozens of newly arrived families.
Children had big ambitions: Sadia, 12, wants to be a journalist; Sano, 8, hopes to train as a doctor, and Hadia, 14, wants to study business.
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