Isobel Cockerell

Journalist @CodaStory: covering tech, climate, migration. 🎥 💻 🎙 Also @Guardian @TheEconomist @NoemaMag @Wired @Audible_com @ColumbiaJourn

[Isobel Cockerell @isocockerell]

My latest story got into the corners of my soul. Set high in the Arctic, it’s about man-made earthquakes, dimming the midnight sun, and a bitter fight for Earth's future. While I was reporting it, I was regularly astonished it wasn’t science fiction. https://t.co/emRwejZLwU

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

Well done to @PeterKGeoghegan and Khadija Sharife for winning the @PrivateEyeNews Paul Foot Award — and revealing a conspiracy which for some time succeeded in suppressing scrutiny and defaming not just Sunday Times reporters, but those without the same resources to defend themselves including, above all, Paul Holden @StarmertheFraud.

He was trashed for supplying us with bulletproof documents which posed a question which years later has still never been answered: why did the entity which made Keir Starmer leader fail to declare hundreds upon thousands of pounds when it had been told it needed to?

The alacrity with which Labour ministers and MPs rightly scrutinise, for instance, Farage’s finances strangely still eludes them on this. Still some grumble about the supposed factual identity of Starmer’s adversaries — and in so doing, either inadvertently or otherwise give oxygen to many of the report’s lurid claims.

Which is why fearless journalism was the only remedy. Peter and Khadija recognised that and the whole fourth estate is fortunate they did.

And a final word: only a few of us know the sacrifices some people have made to bring this information into the public domain. Thank you to them — and let’s all remember that, according to Hansard, at least one source is being hounded by Apco, the appalling firm behind the report.

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

When Zac Brettler died in mysterious circumstances, Akbar Shamji rushed to the scene, lied about it and left Britain. Today we explain where he’s been.

Shamji and Karnuts responded to our allegations, claiming that they are all false.

Tap the link in the thread to read the full investigation by @Gabriel_Pogrund, @venetiamenzies, @manumidolo and @JohnMooneyIRL

[Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser]

Silicon Valley, Epstein, and eugenics. There are abundant ties! https://t.co/rX4B0Zfi5Z

[Ben Smith @semaforben]

https://t.co/r8NYxNmvnZ

[Margaret Sullivan @Sulliview]

Great to see @jkbjournalist recognized (at last and justly) by @PulitzerPrizes! Congratulations, Julie!

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

Exhibit one million of when we tell you about people in the TESCREAL bundle and you attack us, one by one they've been shown to be worse than whatever we said.

“According to my understanding, the girls you were involved with were old enough to know what they were doing, so society really has no ‘moral right’ to lock you up,” Goertzel wrote to Epstein..t.he fault is really w/ the human brain architecture, which is precisely what I’m aiming to supercede in my AGI work.”

https://t.co/mtWx4xaDVj

[Isobel Cockerell @isocockerell]

When asked to comment on these emails (in particular the implication that Epstein’s problems might be solved if his accusers’ brains were one day re-engineered) Goertzel told me:

“This was a general observation that the messed-up nature of our society generally is rooted in the way our brains have evolved… and that advanced tech will let us modify our brains to make ourselves and thus our society better. There was no implication intended (nor stated) that women’s brains are any more or less messed up or in need of improvement than men’s.”

[Paul Caruana Galizia @pcaruanagalizia]

Really good piece on Epstein and eugenics – started with a search across his emails for "blue eyes"

[Isobel Cockerell @isocockerell]

Did a deep-dive into Jeffrey Epstein, eugenics, his pronatalist project at Zorro Ranch, designer babies, blue eyes and engineering the human race https://t.co/hfne9mJuJG

[Isobel Cockerell @isocockerell]

I spent months looking into how the legacy of the Chernobyl disaster haunts Italy’s energy fortunes.

It was published as Italy started rationing jet fuel, and as the Strait of Hormuz crisis exposes how fragile Europe’s energy system really is. @codastory https://t.co/PmOl9jDsob

[Isobel Cockerell @isocockerell]

@alemannoEU I just wrote about the history Italy's nuclear rollback in the context of this crisis, you might find it interesting! https://t.co/PmOl9jDsob

[Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel]

As someone who worked in the natural gas industry before moving into journalism, we're in the deep shit right now just so you know

[Paul Caruana Galizia @pcaruanagalizia]

NEW: A private jet, a tweet, and newly revealed government emails.

Sanctioned over his best-friendship with Roman Abramovich, Eugene Shvidler’s case shows how the UK’s Russia sanctions regime really works. https://t.co/PoczUIjKSG

[Paul Caruana Galizia @pcaruanagalizia]

Shops across London are repeatedly having their windows smashed — yet nothing is stolen. @claudcockerell investigates and discovers a more worrying pattern...

https://t.co/jske9bRinZ

[Coda Story @CodaStory]

“Can I do one more Lebedev?”

@pcaruanagalizia, Ed Caesar & @OliverBullough trade anecdotes on Lord of Siberia Evgeny Lebedev: his diets, hobbies, bugbears. Stories of oligarchy must reach a wide audience, says @pcaruanagalizia. To draw people in, start with the absurd. #ZEG2025

[ZEG Storytelling Festival @zegfest]

“We think we know right from wrong,” but “we’re still digesting that fruit from the tree of knowledge.”

In the age of AI, the illusion of certainty is stronger. Bishop Rusudan Gotsiridze at #ZEG2025 reminded us to embrace humility and imperfection in our search for truth.

[Coda Story @CodaStory]

1/ How can we think about the world in ways that don't put humanity at the center of it? Would the Earth be better off run by AI? Adam Kirsch speaks to @isocockerell about what a post-human future looks like.https://t.co/wnjMn7TnVs

[Inge Snip @lingelien]

'Captured' is the kind of journalism we need right now: sharp, human, unafraid to sit with complexity. Huge respect to @isocockerell & the @CodaStory team led by @antelava, for telling this story the way it needed to be told.

My review + 1 small critique:
https://t.co/plqKKCFCF3

[Coda Story @CodaStory]

AI has evolved beyond technology into a new kind of faith system—complete with prophets, salvation narratives, and promises of transcendence. Our new investigative series, CAPTURED, uncovers Silicon Valley's mission to reshape humanity. Listen now: https://t.co/Knxq06jd3r

[Isobel Cockerell @isocockerell]

What happens when you trade in Mormonism and the pursuit of Godlike perfection for tech-world optimization and Bryan Johnson's Don't Die movement?
J. Paul Neeley went on a nightmare journey taking the Blueprint Protocol: https://t.co/oWNKnBY9hO