David Leigh
@davidleighx.bsky.social
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Journalist. Author of "Investigative Journalism: a survival guide" ( Palgrave) http://bit.ly/2lLQhSy. Was Guardian Investigations Editor; ex-IMPRESS. Posts are news not endorsements.
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davidleighx.bsky.social
Go, Pope!
maddow.msnbc.com
“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
apnews.com
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prospectmagazine.co.uk
Starmer’s real enemy isn’t Farage, it’s economic stagnation, tax rises, botched Brexit, our overwhelmed NHS... Virtually none of which has been reversed since Labour took office last year, writes Andrew Adonis.
Why is Starmer focusing so much on Farage?
The prime minister’s real enemy isn’t Reform—it’s the state of the country
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
davidleighx.bsky.social
He will bomb Norway
washingtonpost.com
As the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, some Norwegians worried how President Trump would react to the decision and if there would be any potential repercussions to the country.
Norwegians worry about backlash as Trump misses out on Nobel Prize
After the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, the White House said the committee had placed “politics over peace.”
www.washingtonpost.com
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washingtonpost.com
As the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, some Norwegians worried how President Trump would react to the decision and if there would be any potential repercussions to the country.
Norwegians worry about backlash as Trump misses out on Nobel Prize
After the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, the White House said the committee had placed “politics over peace.”
www.washingtonpost.com
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rosieisaholt.bsky.social
MP defends government plans to restrict repeated protests.
davidleighx.bsky.social
Mission creep. Flimsy reasoning by judges, casually expanding the notion of helping the "enemy" to cover helping any "unfriendly power". This is how the Official Secrets Act always threatens journalism.
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adambienkov.bsky.social
Call me crazy but I've got a sneaking feeling that putting the country in charge of a politician who likes to encourage people to publicly burn religious texts won't work out too well
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maks23.bsky.social
🇺🇸🇻🇪 Trump posted this about María Corina Machado back in January 2025.
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gabrielmilland.bsky.social
I don't think Robert Jenrick realises that the people clapping along to him when he talks about Handsworth would clap along if he said the same about Stamford Hill. I'd hope that would give him pause for thought.
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robinlustig.bsky.social
SOME PERSONAL NEWS: I've signed a book deal. Can't say more just yet, but watch this space. Publication date May/June next year.
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zefrog.eu
"We can't have particular communities where there's a heavy preponderance of one group or another. That's the kind of country I want my kids to be growing up in," says Jenrick, who lives in Herefordshire where 96.9% of the population identified as white in 2021
bestforbritain.org
Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA