Max Daly
@maxdaly.bsky.social
Drugs and organised crime journalist. Orwell Prize winner. Author, Narcomania. Former Global Drugs Editor, Vice. Subscribe to my new substack for free: maxdaly.substack.com
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Max Daly
@maxdaly.bsky.social
· Aug 17
How the mafia infiltrated Germany
unherd.com
I wrote an epic read about how the Italian mafia expanded in Germany via the pizza restaurant, and how this is linked to a global rise of organised crime.
unherd.com/2025/08/how-...
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Downside of electric cars is loads of different companies running the charging points, each with their own annoying system (a bit like parking charges). Should all be nationalised.
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Downside of electric cars is loads of different companies running the charging points, each with their own annoying system (a bit like parking charges). Should all be nationalised.
If I was a Ukrainian my response to Trump’s peace plan would be to bomb the White House. See how he likes it.
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
If I was a Ukrainian my response to Trump’s peace plan would be to bomb the White House. See how he likes it.
Israeli teams, like Russian ones, should have already been banned from Europe. That’s the error.
November 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Israeli teams, like Russian ones, should have already been banned from Europe. That’s the error.
'An alleged Palestine Action member attacked a police officer with a sledgehammer, fracturing her back during an organised break-in at an Israeli defence firm'
Guess this is why Palestine Action were deemed a terrorist group
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Guess this is why Palestine Action were deemed a terrorist group
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears
Six Elbit Systems protesters caused
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
'An alleged Palestine Action member attacked a police officer with a sledgehammer, fracturing her back during an organised break-in at an Israeli defence firm'
Guess this is why Palestine Action were deemed a terrorist group
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Guess this is why Palestine Action were deemed a terrorist group
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leave Jude Bellingham alone, all the best footballers are annoyed when they get taken off. That’s life.
November 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Leave Jude Bellingham alone, all the best footballers are annoyed when they get taken off. That’s life.
Policy as PR, politics of cowardice and opinion polls
Good thread this. I think people are much smarter than they are given credit for, and they intuit that the government’s actual view is “what can we say to make these people shut up about immigration?”
Which then takes you back into the familiar territory of pleasing nobody - winding up the left for a policy that potentially doesn’t make that much difference in practice
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Policy as PR, politics of cowardice and opinion polls
Maybe Benn and Eubank already agreed it would be one each so they could do a third.
November 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Maybe Benn and Eubank already agreed it would be one each so they could do a third.
Would it be journalistically ‘ethical’ for the BBC to use the license fee to pay for a hitman to take out Trump?
November 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Would it be journalistically ‘ethical’ for the BBC to use the license fee to pay for a hitman to take out Trump?
Turns out the accusations against the BBC were mostly a stitch up, trumpeted by a biased newspaper.
What gained traction was the Trump Panorama edit, which someone should have got fired for, that they didn't made the initial mistake worse.
theconversation.com/bbc-bias-the...
What gained traction was the Trump Panorama edit, which someone should have got fired for, that they didn't made the initial mistake worse.
theconversation.com/bbc-bias-the...
BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands
The Prescott memo contained no research questions or objectives, method, sample, time frame or, crucially, analytical framework for examining output.
theconversation.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Turns out the accusations against the BBC were mostly a stitch up, trumpeted by a biased newspaper.
What gained traction was the Trump Panorama edit, which someone should have got fired for, that they didn't made the initial mistake worse.
theconversation.com/bbc-bias-the...
What gained traction was the Trump Panorama edit, which someone should have got fired for, that they didn't made the initial mistake worse.
theconversation.com/bbc-bias-the...
Good news. Time to remove the Tory saboteurs from the BBC. Now the government needs to repair the damage caused to the BBC by the Tories - increase funding, hire top journalists to re-organise, hire more journalists to boost investigations.
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Good news. Time to remove the Tory saboteurs from the BBC. Now the government needs to repair the damage caused to the BBC by the Tories - increase funding, hire top journalists to re-organise, hire more journalists to boost investigations.
Good pub-based-mafia-fugitive-in-London tale
From the latest issue: James 'Jimmy (Dead Pubs) Mac' McIntosh, to give him all of his names, went in search of The Grogfather - a fugitive scion of the New Orleans mafia, who escaped to run a pub in Hampton Wick at the turn of the millennium.
www.the-fence.com/the-grogfath...
www.the-fence.com/the-grogfath...
The Grogfather
At The Stryker’s Railway.
www.the-fence.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Good pub-based-mafia-fugitive-in-London tale
Reposted by Max Daly
“Providing tech services to supercharge ICE operations while blocking tools that support accountability of ICE officers is entirely backwards." - @kateruane.bsky.social www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“Providing tech services to supercharge ICE operations while blocking tools that support accountability of ICE officers is entirely backwards." - @kateruane.bsky.social www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Zadie Smith via @billyreevesok.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Zadie Smith via @billyreevesok.bsky.social
Robbie Gibb is the Tory poison at the heart of the BBC. It needs extracting.
Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
How the government captured the BBC
A right-wing cabal, largely unaccountable, is waging war on the principles that made our public broadcaster great. It must not succeed
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Robbie Gibb is the Tory poison at the heart of the BBC. It needs extracting.
Well via great reporting from @robineveleigh.bsky.social, Vice did tell you about the UK’s illegal shop gangs all over the BBC now…back in January 2022
www.vice.com/en/article/c...
www.vice.com/en/article/c...
Criminal Gangs Are Making Billions Selling Illegal Tobacco From Derelict Shops
Middle Eastern gangs are using rundown shops in the UK as a front to sell illegal tobacco. The immigrants working for them are victims of modern slavery, investigators tell VICE World News.
www.vice.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Well via great reporting from @robineveleigh.bsky.social, Vice did tell you about the UK’s illegal shop gangs all over the BBC now…back in January 2022
www.vice.com/en/article/c...
www.vice.com/en/article/c...
Dubai's a gangster's paradise, but it's rare for gangland hits to be carried out there
www.ladbible.com/news/world-n...
www.ladbible.com/news/world-n...
Dismembered body of crypto millionaire and wife discovered in Dubai desert
Roman and Anna Novak were a couple who shared their rich lifestyle online
www.ladbible.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Dubai's a gangster's paradise, but it's rare for gangland hits to be carried out there
www.ladbible.com/news/world-n...
www.ladbible.com/news/world-n...
Journalists need to investigate the shit out of this story. The BBC cannot be surrendered to the political right, they just want to kill it off.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC resignations are result of internal ‘coup’, says former Sun editor
David Yelland says Tim Davie and Deborah Turness were undermined by people close to BBC board
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Journalists need to investigate the shit out of this story. The BBC cannot be surrendered to the political right, they just want to kill it off.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Reposted by Max Daly
it is very strange that BBC chair Samir Shah is hiding this morning. He should by rights be on the Today programme presenting himself as in charge and hands on the tiller. I wonder if he is frightened for his position
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
it is very strange that BBC chair Samir Shah is hiding this morning. He should by rights be on the Today programme presenting himself as in charge and hands on the tiller. I wonder if he is frightened for his position
Let’s hope the Telegraph gets bought out by someone who just shuts it down.
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Let’s hope the Telegraph gets bought out by someone who just shuts it down.
Truly sickening. Aided by right wing British traitors
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Truly sickening. Aided by right wing British traitors
Great piece here on the BBC. Seems like the dossier criticising the BBC was a right-wing stitch up, and odd how the corporation capitulated so easily.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson
The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Great piece here on the BBC. Seems like the dossier criticising the BBC was a right-wing stitch up, and odd how the corporation capitulated so easily.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...