Maria Spirova

Journalist, stoic. Mad about Europe, Eastern Europe + all things sociopolitical & politicultural. Winner of Reporting Europe Prize 2014. Compulsive questioner.

[Maria Spirova @MariaSpirova]

Endless #ToryCorruption

[Maria Spirova @MariaSpirova]

Stop the deportation of a peaceful climate activist! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/gGCxHdGl2V via @UKChange

[Maria Spirova @MariaSpirova]

Can you confirm what is the reality here?

[Maria Spirova @MariaSpirova]

@Oxford_Tube For the record, do you stand by the following time table? It clearly shows buses stopping at Thornhill at times that I have personally witnessed repeatedly as untrue. https://t.co/YacHlULWCu

[Maria Spirova @MariaSpirova]

I just spoke to the bus driver of a coach arriving at 17:37. He told me the 17:15 bus :"definitely" ran. I am here to tell you that it didn't. At 17:07 the electronic table at Thornhill indicated a wait time for a London service of 29 minutes. The math simply doesn't check out.

[The Booker Prizes @TheBookerPrizes]

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the #InternationalBooker2023 is ‘Time Shelter’ written by @Gospodinov68 and translated by @rodel_angela - congratulations!

[Maria Spirova @MariaSpirova]

Excellent thread #TurkeyElections

[Milan Svolik @MilanSvolik]

A historic election this Sunday in Turkey. Many wonder: will Erdoğan concede if he loses?

My take: the closest historical parallel we have is the 2019 Istanbul mayoral race.

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

.@AP received a Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism for coverage of Mariupol’s siege by Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Vasilisa Stepanenko & Lori Hinnant.
Evgeniy Maloletka was also recognised for AP’s Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography.

[Maria Spirova @MariaSpirova]

@Oxford_Tube The more pertinent thing you could have mentioned to the long-suffering passengers on your oxygen-free, blue light migraine-inducing Hell vehicles is that it now takes like a week to complete a single trip to Oxford. Warning people of increased journey times would have made sense

[Maria Spirova @MariaSpirova]

@FCBCoffee Today's Guatelmalan filter at Blackfriars is a work of art! Wow, that made my day :)

[Brennan Murphy @brenonade]

Burchett on Drag Shows vs. Shootings:

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

🚨MPs FOR HIRE: a Led By Donkeys undercover investigation🚨

Watch the trailer…

[Christo Grozev @christogrozev]

In a parliamentary hearing focused on me being put on Russia's Wanted list, reportedly over my journalistic work, the self-described Bulgarian "nationalist" party proposed that I be extradited to Russia. Moments like this are a litmus tests *which* nation "nationalists" work for.

[Vesselin Dremdjiev @vdremdjiev]

"В началото на януари Путин ще затвори границите и ще обяви военно положение..."

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Leadership means stepping up, @SteveBarclay. Being visible. Being courageous. Giving desperate staff a reason to hope, to keep going.

How does it feel to be the health secretary hiding from the public as the NHS dies on your watch?

[Maria Spirova @MariaSpirova]

Mone needs to stand trial fast. The government and the Tory party should urgently reveal every scrap of communication they hold on this unconscionable grand theft of public money during a deathly crisis.
#ToryCorruption
#ToryCostOfGreedCrisis

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Strap in, we’re going on a ride from Westminster to the Isle of Man. This is the story of Michelle Mone and that £29m.

[Maria Spirova @MariaSpirova]

An amazing thread on the sweeping long term damage of #Tory #austerity . Recall the deranged rule of Cameron & Osborne, who simply did not care who died as long as it was nobody they knew. The Conservatives broke #Britain by destroying the state, then finished it off with #Brexit

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW:

Britain’s grim winter of strikes, falling incomes and a worsening NHS crisis is not some unfortunate series of events

It’s the inevitable result of a decade of Tory austerity that steadily weakened the state’s capacity to respond to shocks

https://t.co/xJcNiCJk2b

Thread:

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

#Bellingcat journalist @christogrozev was put on the wanted list of #Russia.

[Christo Komarnitski @Christo_Komar]

Сбогом на пресата!
Вляво е последният брой 6818 на вестник СЕГА.
Вдясно - карикатурата ми за НУЛЕВИЯ брой на вестника от октомври 1997-а.