Head of Features @telegraph Ex-Comment and obits editor; foreign corr France, Balkans, Mid-East; Special correspondent. In the media, but not very social.
NEW: Food prices are the new frontline in the cost of living crisis - this summer they’ll overtake energy prices as the biggest hit to family finances https://t.co/9Lb27CzD0Q
UK cost of living is 🚀 up. I’m not badly paid at all but myself and middle class friends have no disposable income now. My energy bill is 3x what it was in 2021, mortgage is up by £400 a month and a quick shop in Tesco is £60 when it used to be £30. How are you all managing it?
@soundboy - hello, I am writing a piece about possible future AI scenarios. Might I grab a few minutes of your time? DM me if you can to arrange. Many thanks in advance.
This move is inexcusable 😠
Shaped by our ancestors over centuries, our paths are a national treasure, telling the stories of our history & our heritage 🥾✊
We cannot sit back & let these hard-fought access rights be eroded for the generations to come 🧵https://t.co/TDtfv4fpok
Last year, @yolafawehinmi, a journalist at @Telegraph, came to us and said she wanted to make a podcast for black writers.
We developed the idea with her, provided one-to-one presenter training sessions, composed the theme music, then helped her bring the idea to life...
No sign of a recovery of productivity growth in latest UK figures.
This 15 yr long stagnation underlies all the UK's difficulties, stagnant wages, difficulty funding public services.
Why would we expect this to change, if we don't start doing things differently?
@davidmolloyuk@Telegraph It's NOT an opinion piece. It's a reported piece. THAT TAGLINE IS TOTALLY MISLEADING. I have already asked for it to be changed.
@MrMarkHastings@Telegraph Yep - i think it's important to say, correcting that tagline, that I DID NOT WRITE THAT as my view, I quoted someone saying that. I am a reporter.
Hello @RichardvReeves - might you be able to spare me a little time for a piece I'm writing on the theme of your new book? Hope so. Tight deadline of course! DM me and I can explain fully. Many thanks in advance.
The bivalent booster in people age 65+ compared with those who did not receive it, among >622,000 participants
81% reduction of hospitalizations (Figure)
86% reduction of deaths
https://t.co/gbQFLgtx21
@ClalitHealth@ArbelRonen
Another one of those @resfoundation charts that always gets me. In the last 20 years pensioner poverty has been slashed (good) but child poverty is barely down at all. And this is absolute poverty not relative.
The moment the mother of Iranian protestor Mohsen Shekari, age 23, learns he’s been hanged for “waging war against God”. The regime told her to stay silent to win his release. This execution was meant to deter further dissent, but likely does the opposite. https://t.co/FdX9uWIcKw
On this meme, I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure that Arabs, in general, are not offended by light-hearted references to the Crusades. As someone pointed out, they won. A significant proportion of my Uber rides in the ME start "Hello Qalb al-Assad" (Arabic for "Lionheart").
Higher net migration underpins OBR growth forecast. =Without these workers, Britain would face even bigger tax rises and deeper spending cuts.
=Having accepted this economic reality, ministers must speak honestly to voters about economic benefits of immigration.