Clark Ainsworth

Award-winning digital journalist. @fcchk. Ex-SCMP and BBC News Online. Keen traveller, photographer, music fan & struggling marathon runner.

[Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 @DefenceHQ]

Strap in: Follow one of our paratroopers from @16AirAssltBCT jumping in to Tristan da Cunha – one of the world’s most remote communities – to deliver vital medical support 🪂

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

John Major speaks so much sense in this Newsnight interview. He had huge difficulties in his six and a half years as PM, but almost thirty years on from leaving office he's become the wisest of our nine living prime ministers.

[Kanis Leung @kanis_leung]

For the first time since Hong Kong’s deadly fire, Keung Mak will step into his home again Monday.
The ceiling of the apartment where he and his wife lived for over 40 years was burned so badly that steel rebar was visible.
“My heart is heavy,“ he said.
https://t.co/irbGViueQq

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

"I've never seen an American president, not just in our lifetime, in the last two centuries of American history, be that critical of a British prime minister." @RNicholasBurns tells me "a fundamental mistake is: disparage your allies, make life difficult for them at home, you really can't expect them to be with you in a fight that they didn't start

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

It really is John Cleese out of Fawlty Towers: “don’t mention the war. I did, but I think I got away with it….”

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

Magnificent article & investigation by Alan Rusbridger on how the utterly useless Ofcom allowed one of its regulated TV channels, GBNews, to be taken over by a political party.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

In @nytopinion

“President Trump went to war against Iran without explaining his strategy to the American people or the world. It now appears that he may not have had much of a strategy at all,” writes the editorial board. https://t.co/r0vA0LVEgY

[Joel Willans @VFinnishProbs]

“We don’t need people that join wars late.”

USA: 1917, 1941.

[Nation.Cymru @NationCymru]

Having one’s front door smashed in at 6.20am is not the best way to start any day - nor is the arrival of an eight-strong team from the counter-terrorism division of the Metropolitan Police as part of an investigation into spying for China✍️@ShiptonMartin https://t.co/FfaE9bhnbG

[Nick Bryant @NickBryantNY]

Struggling to think of a US military mission where the rationale was so poorly explained, incoherent and inconsistent, where planning for the next day was so shambolic, and where the ultimate aim was so ill-thought out. Shows failings of US diplomacy.
https://t.co/VEIEsANsMc

[Robert McCartney @McCartneyWP]

Great timing, Bezos: Reminder that WashPost sacked all of its Middle East staff correspondents less than a month ago.

[Clark Ainsworth @clarkyboy2002]

Rest in power! https://t.co/xbFKC1Mq73

[Clark Ainsworth @clarkyboy2002]

People mark the start of Year of the Horse by praying for good fortune and making paper offerings at the Man Mo temple in #HongKong’s Sheung Wan district shortly after midnight. #CNY2026

[Danny Wallace @dannywallace]

Please be careful in London. I have spent 25 years there, but I have never heard a story as frightening as this one from today in which nothing at all happened.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Manchester United prides itself on being an inclusive and welcoming club.

We will continue to represent our people, our city and our fans with purpose and pride.

[Peter Allen @peterallenparis]

Sir Jim Ratcliffe: “I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020, now it's 70 million. That's 12 million people."

UK population 2020: 67.1 million
UK population 2024: 69.3 million

Source: UK Office for National Statistics (ONS)

[Lulu NYT @LuluGNavarro]

Every single word of this fantastic column by @Peggynoonannyc
‘I fear sometimes that few people really care about journalism, but we are dead without it. Someday something bad will happen, something terrible on a national scale, and the thing we’ll need most, literally to survive, is information. Reliable information—a way to get it, and then to get it to the public. That is what journalism is, getting the information. ‘

https://t.co/gHH5IGBcEo

[Clark Ainsworth @clarkyboy2002]

@suddiraval Where is that??

[Clark Ainsworth @clarkyboy2002]

Absolutely gutted!! Such an amazing bassist and real top bloke. Spent a good while chatting to him after The Stone Roses gig in Tokyo and said hello at the football more recently. #RIPMani

https://t.co/RsqbTOmJM4