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Farewell Duncan Campbell, brilliant crime reporter, loyal friend of the CIJ and the profession's perfect gentleman. We, and all those who support the cause of investigative journalism, will miss him badly: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

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Farewell Duncan Campbell, a great journalist whose writing in Time Out and City Limits was incredible. His work literally saved my skin when I encountered a van load of officers from Dalston Police Station on the darkest and scariest night of my life.

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Like Alan and so many others in our profession, I greatly grieve the loss of crime reporter Duncan Campbell, and for Julie. We were great friends for fifty years - as well as namesakes. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

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What an awful week for British journalism - we've lost two greats in Duncan Campbell and Andrew Norfolk. What unites them is a rare combination - championing neglected causes to great effect, and with no ego. They will both be greatly missed.

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The Guardian, and British journalism, has lost a great one. I'm so sad to report the death of Duncan Campbell, our former colleague and brilliant crime correspondent. He reported the beat in a unique way - and was loved across the newsroom. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

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Sad news of a great Guardian reporter: Duncan Campbell, a colleague who exposed police corruption, knew all the best criminals, and wrote with so much wit (and charisma) has died

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What a loss. Duncan was a hero to so many of us. A great journalist and a great man. Bullshit free, loved by all, supremely fair, incredibly wise and so effortlessly cool. A unique combo. God, he'll be missed. ❤️❤️❤️ www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

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This is great, by @estheraddley.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

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Very sad to learn that Virginia Giuffre has died by suicide. She was just 41. Virginia was perhaps the most well-known survivor of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s predation. I’ve had four other Epstein survivors tell me they would not have come forward if not for Virginia’s courage.

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#RIPVirginiaGiuffre Awful news www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Another tragic loss in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Jeremy Bamber has spent 40 years in jail for murdering five members of his family. Was he wrongfully convicted? I look back over two decades of correspondence with him, our former prisons correspondent Eric Allison and me. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

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Trump’s tariffs may be perilous for small, heavily indebted countries in global south by @guardianheather.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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It's impossible to put into words how vile this is. Murdering paramedics in cold blood. And then the lies. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

submitted 42 days ago • 5 comments

This is why I set up the race and health observatory @stevemcqueen.bsky.social story is powerful and its not just the story of Prostate cancer its the story of the black experience of healthcare..

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As a black man with a father who had died of prostate cancer, Steve McQueen had a greater than one in two chance of getting it. And sure enough he did. The great film director/artist talks to me (with his specialist and surgeon) about his mission to save lives. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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Well worth a timely revisit to this @shattenstone.bsky.social interview with Kevin De Bruyne before the last World Cup …

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Love this, by our confused would-be class warrior Danny Lavelle www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

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Rachel Reeves: "I will always put working people first." How leaden footed and tin-eared can she be, saying that as she strips benefits from disabled people who can't work. I think she thinks she's just repeating an empty Labour platitude, but she's actually telling a terrible truth.

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#Notmylabour * Slashes £5bn from benefits, possibly breaching equality law * Considers scrapping £800m digital services tax that would benefit many of world's wealthiest, including Elon Musk

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Top interviewer @stephensackur.bsky.social talks to me about the BBC's decision to end HARDtalk, journalism v 'churnalism' and leaving the BBC www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

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'I considered going on hunger strike' @dianewriter.bsky.social interviews 78-year-old Just Stop Oil protester Gaie Delap who was returned to prison because the MoJ couldn't find a wrist tag to fit her. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Powerful column by @pollytoynbee.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Imagine finding out who your mum is in the 40s .... and then discovering she's a taking all your money and destroying your life. @samwollaston.bsky.social meets Chef Graham Hornigold www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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The new book by @amandaknox.com is called Free. But 10 years after her conviction for the murder of Meredith Kercher was overturned, in many ways she's still not free. I talked to her about the miscarriage of justice and why she befriended her prosecutor dashboard.ophan.co.uk/info?from=20...

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What was it like having George Orwell as your dad? Richard Blair talks to me about their adventures on Jura, politics, womanising (Orwell, not him) smoking as a three-year-old (him, not Orwell) and his father's literary legacy www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

submitted 59 days ago • 4 comments

Horrific www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Top exclusive by @diane-writer10.bsky.social in today's Observer. For me, what makes a great story (particularly a Guardian/Obs story) is when an important political issue is reflected by a really strong individual case as here. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Such a good interview with Heston Blumenthal by Alex Moshakis in today's Observer www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ma...

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I've interviewed the ridiculously talented Daniel Blumberg, who walked away from mainstream music success as a young man, and has only gone and got himself an Oscar for his soundtrack to The Brutalist. Listen to his music (included here) – it's great! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

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Joe Black was a gifted musician and composer. His specialism was bass guitar. He died whilst living at an award-winning homelessness hostel in London. His mother Jude spoke to @shattenstone.bsky.social about who Joe was, his life, & how he died at a place where he was meant to be safe & cared for.

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I have a top lunch with Lorraine Kelly (three Caramels and a a Penguin, seeing you asked) and discuss life as a novelist, why she's so disappointed by the Labour government, whether she's doing enough Lorraines and, of course, her granddaughter Billie www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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