Robin Ackroyd

Writer

[Robin Ackroyd @RobinAckroyd]

I have given over a quarter of a century to fighting to protect journalistic sources. I have remained stoical. I now need to draw a line, in so far as I can, under this.

[Robin Ackroyd @RobinAckroyd]

After more than 26 years, I have asked the source of a newspaper story I wrote about Moors Murderer Ian Brady to come forward.
The article, in the Daily Mirror in December 1999, quoted from a log of events on Brady’s ward at Ashworth Hospital, Merseyside. 1/7

[Robin Ackroyd @RobinAckroyd]

My source, whose name is no secret to the authorities, offered to come forward more than 20 years ago, however I took it upon myself to shoulder the issue.

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'The worst of human nature': UK staycationers' trail of destruction https://t.co/LvXCPtXnCN

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'They just pull up everything!' Chinese fleet raises fears for Galápagos sea life https://t.co/lX9DXaJ8nU

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Teenage boy dies of plague in Mongolia after eating marmot https://t.co/UF92cO5XI9

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Climate crisis: alarm at record-breaking heatwave in Siberia https://t.co/YXgzVjnbj5

[Robin Ackroyd @RobinAckroyd]

USA now has more than 100,000 dead due to Covid-19. Total dead: 100,064 (up 259). Cases: 1,713,654 (up 7,428).

[James Ker-Lindsay @JamesKerLindsay]

Sorry, but I feel I have to do this.

A thread on the #DominicCummings scandal and why, like many millions across the #UK, I am so angry about this. And why, like so many people from across the political spectrum, I cannot and will not just let it pass.

[Helena Wilkinson @BBCHelena]

Tuesday’s Metro: STAY ELITE #tomorrowspaperstoday

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

To be clear - I was genuinely interested in how prescient he had been on coronaviruses, and expected to be impressed.

Perhaps that writing is elsewhere... I’d be interested in reading it and happy to link to it, if anyone can show it me.

But...

[Robin Ackroyd @RobinAckroyd]

Around the world from your sofa: British Library to put rare globes online https://t.co/dkHK83LcB9

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I’m an epidemiologist. When I heard about Britain’s ‘herd immunity’ coronavirus plan, I thought it was satire | William Hanage https://t.co/gju8S3zvOG

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Board-game piece from period of first Viking raid found on Lindisfarne https://t.co/F2h4FkDaD3

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Trump opens protected Alaskan Arctic refuge to oil drillers https://t.co/v4J4PrSohc