John Simpson

Journalist. Home Affairs @ObserverUK
Ex crime corr @TheTimes.
Not THE John Simpson
Podcast: Who Killed CJ Davis 🔗 ⬇️

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

Grenfell handprints wrecked despite government promise to families, @thejohnsimpson uncovers

Campaigners’ hopes that stairwell wall had been saved for memorial are dashed after news that it has been destroyed
https://t.co/itOIpubEWZ

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

Tears for a clown – but Philippe Gaulier leaves the stage in good humour

At an unconventional wake in Paris, ex-pupils tell tales of the entertainer who taught them with brutal and hilarious wit – and bought their secrets with champagne, @thejohnsimpson
https://t.co/h5n0xiRM5a

[John Simpson @thejohnsimpson]

@RepSuhas could you follow me so I can message you please? Keen to speak to you for a story we're running tomorrow

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

‘There are specific things that I wish had gone differently, of course, but I will always want to do what is right’

@thejohnsimpson met with Palestine Action protester Zoe Rogers - who has no regrets after spending 18 months on remand in jail before being freed last week.

If you want to hear more from Zoe, watch her full interview on our YouTube channel:
https://t.co/nayQdBiDgG

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

‘What I have experienced pales in comparison with what Palestinian prisoners go through’

Palestine Action protester Zoe Rogers has no regrets after spending 18 months on remand in jail before being freed last week, writes @thejohnsimpson
https://t.co/og5jRAF2p3

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

The relatives of those killed fighting alongside US troops in Afghanistan have reacted with fury to the US president‘s claim that British soldiers stayed ‘off the frontlines’.

✍️ @thejohnsimpson and @itsjamestapper
https://t.co/GIMhe9a9ql

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@KAndersen_68 Cameras aren't allowed in prisons in the UK and media access is strictly limited

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Qesser Zuhrah has now stopped her hunger strike, lawyers for the prisoners have confirmed

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

"You're starving your body to a point that it should never go, where the body starts eating itself"

🔗 @thejohnsimpson reports on 20-year-old Qesser Zuhrah, now into her 50th day of hunger strike

https://t.co/L6YYvhO11K

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

This Brazilian soccer player invites the stadium cleaners to celebrate with him after winning the Copa do Brasil

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

'London may be safer than at any time in the past half century, comfortably beating other major cities'

✍️ Read @thejohnsimpson and Becky Pinnington's analysis of "lawless London"

https://t.co/dmboPT873p

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

More than 400 demonstrators were arrested in London on Saturday, while tensions ran high at a Manchester vigil for the victims of Thursday’s attack, read more as @thejohnsimpson reports:
https://t.co/dzSu8sQPVz

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

'I would rather take some risk to do a good job than have to live with the thought of not doing it because I’ve done that before and it’s not great'

@thejohnsimpson meets firefighter Tom Ludley, who responded to the synagogue terror attack eight years after failures at Manchester arena

https://t.co/MUqpvt4Emv

[Joshua Baker @joshbakerstory]

International Journalists must be let into Gaza to work alongside Palestinian reporters. A few weeks ago, I was asked to lead this project for the BBC. It was a complex undertaking. There is no justification for shutting the Press out or killing journalists inside.

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

‘Bitcoin is the free speech of money’: fears grow over far right’s embrace of crypto

Hard-to trace digital transactions could lead to hostile states or criminal organisations secretly making political donations and threatening democracy.

@CatNeilan | @thejohnsimpson

https://t.co/QEEkrgPqOA

[John Simpson @thejohnsimpson]

@FOMODaily Hello I'm writing about your founder and I need to put the details of the story to him. Please follow back and send me an email address,

Many thanks,

John

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@ashleywardscams Hey please can you follow me back asap? Thanks

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@ashleywardscams can you follow me back please?

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🇬🇧 Musk Marches On London

▫Prepare for revolution now, Elon Musk tells London rally as police come under attack
▫@thejohnsimpson @itsjamestapper
▫https://t.co/xFssezN0ak

#frontpagestoday #UK @ObserverUK 🇬🇧

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK far right

Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage that blocked the street.

✍️ @thejohnsimpson

https://t.co/QwYYU8CBon

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@MariaMariamusic Hey Maria, could you follow me back so we can message please? Many thanks