Drugs and organised crime journalist. Orwell Prize winner. Author, 'Narcomania'. Ex-Global Drugs Editor at Vice 🍉
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I wrote a long read for the Guardian about the evolution of the British trap house, focusing on the story of a friend of mine who was 'cuckooed' twice in London. The first time was grim, but the second cuckooing sparked a fascinating friendship.
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Amazing WSJ piece on cocaine smuggling into Europe. There are ten (10) Spanish police boats that can intercept smuggling vessels that travel at up to 70mph, across maybe 1,000km of coast, landing on which gives the smugglers free access to the entire EU. wsj.com/world/americas/cocai…
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Fans ‘will get all hammered’ and ‘throw beer everywhere’ - is exactly the discrimination Burnham is talking about.
Let people (who’ve paid huge prices) to see a game drink a pint in their own time rather than necking it in 15 mins
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I wrote a long read for the Guardian about the evolution of the British trap house, focusing on the story of a friend of mine who was 'cuckooed' twice in London. The first time was grim, but the second cuckooing sparked a fascinating friendship.
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If you read one thing today, make it this: fantastic - and fascinating - long form journalism on a subject that’s really misunderstood.
I wrote a long read for the Guardian about the evolution of the British trap house, focusing on the story of a friend of mine who was 'cuckooed' twice in London. The first time was grim, but the second cuckooing sparked a fascinating friendship.
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Great to see 3 of the big 6 landed gentry fat cats Chelsea, Spurs and Arsenal getting tonked by the brave usurpers, Brentford, Villa and Brighton
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It’s like pretending the street dealer is the drug boss. Are prosecutors doing this to appease the racists?
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🧝♂️Niche 1970s rock folk / fantasy literature question. Did Michael Moorcock name Stormbringer after the John Martyn song?
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Turkey might be nice to visit but it’s basically a dictatorship
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I only saw one threat in that show, and it was from the worst side of Little England culture
ENGLAND 'TIL I DIE - An unflinching, observational documentary from the frontline of Britain's fractious asylum system.
Tonight on @Channel4 tonight at 10pm.
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Why does America cow-tow to the Israeli American Council? Why have Americans lost their free speech?
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America needs to pull out of the Middle East, and in fact the world. It just makes everything worse for everyone.
nytimes.com/2026/09/15/us/po… via @NYTimes
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A massive risk taking illegal oxycodone in the US, like heroin, a lot of it is laced with fentanyl
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RT @hopenothate: 🧵 Peter Keeley, a former MI5 agent who spent 15 years undercover in the IRA, now works for Stephen Lennon.
He’s supplyi…
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“If I’m paying for your wedding, at some point, you’re going to owe me something”
"Kremlev’s previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr. represents an extraordinary development: a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family."
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This is a fantastic podcast series, based around the discovery that two of the original gangsters from London’s notorious Love of Money crew made a film about escaping gang life share.google/2uEJiAkuOoKy5l9…
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For background, I wrote a piece for @The_Fence_Mag a couple of years ago looking into Love of Money, mainly about ‘Fox’, the guy who took over LOM, and the context around Murder Mile
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