Simon Murphy
@simon-murphy.bsky.social
Senior news reporter, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People [email protected]
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Simon Murphy
@simon-murphy.bsky.social
· Jun 26
Thrilled to have won the Orwell Prize for reporting homelessness among such an impressive group of finalists. Thank you to the judges, @orwellprize.bsky.social, my brilliant @mirror.co.uk colleagues & editors, charities who helped with our coverage & to those who trusted us to tell their stories.
A vulnerable woman with no food in the house. A suicidal man on a bridge. And a 78-year-old lady apparently surviving without heating.
These are just some of the heartbreaking calls dealt with by workers at mental health charity Mind's call centre. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
These are just some of the heartbreaking calls dealt with by workers at mental health charity Mind's call centre. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Heartbreaking calls of woman with no food and suicidal man on bridge
During a visit, staff taking calls for Mind gave the Mirror a harrowing insight into the frontline of helping to tackle the country’s mental health problems
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December 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A vulnerable woman with no food in the house. A suicidal man on a bridge. And a 78-year-old lady apparently surviving without heating.
These are just some of the heartbreaking calls dealt with by workers at mental health charity Mind's call centre. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
These are just some of the heartbreaking calls dealt with by workers at mental health charity Mind's call centre. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Day 2 of Mirror's mental health series — 'Always reach out. Never suffer alone. Because you're not alone.' Mum speaks out after surviving postnatal depression. www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...
‘I didn’t want to live but got help — now I aid other mums with mental health’
Helped by a mental health support service for mums run by the charity Mind, Bethanie Powell managed to climb out of the darkness, and is now helping others in a similar position
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December 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Day 2 of Mirror's mental health series — 'Always reach out. Never suffer alone. Because you're not alone.' Mum speaks out after surviving postnatal depression. www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...
EXC: Stephen Fry today issues a powerful plea to tackle the men’s mental health “national emergency” – warning lives are at stake. The star kicks off a three-part Mirror series on mental health with a hard-hitting piece. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Stephen Fry warns lives at stake as he makes powerful ‘national emergency’ plea
Writing for the Mirror, The Celebrity Traitors star – who has shared his own battle with bipolar disorder – calls for action on men's mental health
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December 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
EXC: Stephen Fry today issues a powerful plea to tackle the men’s mental health “national emergency” – warning lives are at stake. The star kicks off a three-part Mirror series on mental health with a hard-hitting piece. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Exc: Mansion tax critic Nigel Farage’s own wealthy Reform UK colleagues face being hit by the new duty, we can reveal. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Mansion tax critic Nigel Farage’s Reform MPs face being hit by the property duty
The Mirror can disclose how some of the Reform UK leader’s colleagues owning multi-million pound properties might have to fork out for the charge
www.mirror.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Exc: Mansion tax critic Nigel Farage’s own wealthy Reform UK colleagues face being hit by the new duty, we can reveal. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Exc: Succession star Brian Cox’s powerful U-turn call on adopted kids therapy fund cuts. "All children have the right to feel safe, thrive and reach their potential," the actor says. www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...
Succession star Brian Cox’s U-turn call on adopted kids therapy fund cuts
The acclaimed actor, whose sisters rallied to care for him as a child, is campaigning against cuts to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
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November 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Exc: Succession star Brian Cox’s powerful U-turn call on adopted kids therapy fund cuts. "All children have the right to feel safe, thrive and reach their potential," the actor says. www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...
Exc: Sacked US ambassador Peter Mandelson has been stripped of a prestigious honorary Design Museum role in the wake of controversy over his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Peter Mandelson stripped of honorary role in the wake of Epstein controversy
We can reveal how Lord Mandelson has lost his honorary role at the publicly-funded Design Museum, in London, which he used to chair, as the Jeffrey Epstein scandal rumbles on
www.mirror.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Exc: Sacked US ambassador Peter Mandelson has been stripped of a prestigious honorary Design Museum role in the wake of controversy over his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Exc: YouTube is cashing in on Joey Barton spouting vile views – after being convicted of grossly offensive posts targeting female TV pundits. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
YouTube cashes in on Joey Barton’s vile views after ‘offensive’ posts conviction
We can reveal the tech giant has been running adverts on Barton’s videos – including one in which he claimed TV pundit Eni Aluko ‘shouldn’t be talking about the men’s game’
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November 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Exc: YouTube is cashing in on Joey Barton spouting vile views – after being convicted of grossly offensive posts targeting female TV pundits. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Exc: Motherland's Anna Maxwell Martin is urging the government to reverse “cruel” cuts to a vital therapy fund for adopted children. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Motherland’s Anna Maxwell Martin makes U-turn plea on adoption therapy fund cuts
The Line of Duty actor is backing campaign urging a reversal of ‘cruel’ government cuts to a scheme paying for therapy for adopted and kinship kids
www.mirror.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Exc: Motherland's Anna Maxwell Martin is urging the government to reverse “cruel” cuts to a vital therapy fund for adopted children. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
EXC: Moment BMW driver parked in disabled bay caught using 85-year-old's stolen blue badge. We joined the Blue Badge Fraud Investigation agency on patrol: www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Moment driver parked in disabled bay caught using badge stolen from 85-year-old
The incident unfolded as we joined the Blue Badge Fraud Investigation (BBFI) agency on patrol near Westfield shopping centre, west London
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October 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
EXC: Moment BMW driver parked in disabled bay caught using 85-year-old's stolen blue badge. We joined the Blue Badge Fraud Investigation agency on patrol: www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Children with gunshot wounds. Emaciated patients. An exhausted surgeon collapsing at the operating table. British medic shares harrowing Gaza diary: www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
Brit medic's harrowing Gaza video diary – screaming kids and surgeon collapsing
Operating department practitioner Jay Matthews, who spent six weeks working Gaza for charity UK-Med, kept a sobering record of events
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October 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Children with gunshot wounds. Emaciated patients. An exhausted surgeon collapsing at the operating table. British medic shares harrowing Gaza diary: www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
One has hopes of being a globe-trotting famous writer. Another wants to be a doctor. A third longs for pizza and ice cream. Children in war-torn Gaza reveal dreams in heartbreaking drawings: www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
Children in Gaza share dreams in heartbreaking drawings ahead of ceasefire
As Israel and Hamas agree ‘first phase’ of US peace plan, the Mirror publishes poignant series of pictures drawn by kids in the war-torn enclave sharing their hopes and dreams
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October 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
One has hopes of being a globe-trotting famous writer. Another wants to be a doctor. A third longs for pizza and ice cream. Children in war-torn Gaza reveal dreams in heartbreaking drawings: www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
We stand united — tomorrow’s Sunday Mirror splash.
October 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
We stand united — tomorrow’s Sunday Mirror splash.
Exc: Terror survivors' powerful message after Manchester synagogue attack
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Terror survivors and victim families' powerful message after synagogue attack
Members of Survivors Against Terror have penned a thought-provoking open letter calling for support for grief-stricken families in the wake of Thursday's synagogue attack
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October 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Exc: Terror survivors' powerful message after Manchester synagogue attack
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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EXC: Rogue fake disabled badge seller caught red-handed on camera by Mirror undercover probe. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Rogue fake disabled badge seller caught red-handed on camera by undercover probe
Posing as a buyer, a Mirror reporter secretly filmed a callous salesman flogging knock-off blue badges on Facebook for £150
www.mirror.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
EXC: Rogue fake disabled badge seller caught red-handed on camera by Mirror undercover probe. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Exc: A millionaire donor of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK can today be exposed as a fan of far-right hero Enoch Powell. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Millionaire Reform UK donor praised far-right hero Enoch Powell's 'vision'
We can reveal how businessman Gary Dutton told how he admired Enoch Powell, who predicted a race war in his infamous 'Rivers of blood' speech, 'for his vision'
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September 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Exc: A millionaire donor of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK can today be exposed as a fan of far-right hero Enoch Powell. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Exc: Moving moment orphaned girl, 9, walks with new artificial leg in stricken Gaza. www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
Powerful moment orphaned girl, 9, walks with new artificial leg in stricken Gaza
Malak, who lives in a tent, suffered severe injuries and underwent an above-the-knee amputation earlier this year… but is back on her feet after charity’s help
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September 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Exc: Moving moment orphaned girl, 9, walks with new artificial leg in stricken Gaza. www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
Exc: A hereditary peer who owns a castle failed to pay an employee the minimum wage, we can reveal. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Castle-owning peer who got £361-a-day to attend Lords failed to pay minimum wage
The 19th Earl of Devon, whose Powderham Estate in Devon has been in his family for hundreds of years, was named and shamed for not paying a worker nearly £10,000
www.mirror.co.uk
August 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Exc: A hereditary peer who owns a castle failed to pay an employee the minimum wage, we can reveal. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Exc: Nigel Farage branded dealing with the Taliban “a huge mistake” before his party’s unveiling of plans to pay the tyrannical regime to take back migrants.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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'Con-man' Farage red-faced as previous Taliban comment contradicts migrant plan
Reform UK’s mass deportation proposal involves handing cash to countries such as Afghanistan – but we can reveal Nigel Farage once hit out at idea of dealing with the Taliban
www.mirror.co.uk
August 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Exc: Nigel Farage branded dealing with the Taliban “a huge mistake” before his party’s unveiling of plans to pay the tyrannical regime to take back migrants.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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EXC: A top Reform UK donor sleazily rambled about women’s breasts – including being drawn “like magnets” to a mum’s “enormous bosom” as she fed her baby.
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Top Reform donor gawped at woman's 'enormous bosom' as she breastfed baby
We unearthed Andrew Perloff’s remarks in reports – with the property tycoon asking our reporter: "At a business meeting, you wouldn’t pull your trousers down, would you?"
www.mirror.co.uk
August 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
EXC: A top Reform UK donor sleazily rambled about women’s breasts – including being drawn “like magnets” to a mum’s “enormous bosom” as she fed her baby.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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British medic's heartbreaking words to dead child, 9, while zipping up their body bag in Gaza. www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
British medic's heartbreaking two words to child while zipping up Gaza body bag
NHS paramedic Sam Sears recently returned from a three-week stint in the stricken Gaza enclave working at a charity’s field hospitals, and now shares his harrowing tale
www.mirror.co.uk
August 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
British medic's heartbreaking words to dead child, 9, while zipping up their body bag in Gaza. www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
Exc: A doctor linked to a top British university can be unmasked as the boss of a controversial bot-booking driving test website.
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Top doctor behind bot that ‘skips’ UK driving test queue for eye-watering price
The Mirror's probe comes after the practical test backlog topped 600,000 for the first time earlier this year – with the average wait time now a staggering 22 weeks
www.mirror.co.uk
July 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Exc: A doctor linked to a top British university can be unmasked as the boss of a controversial bot-booking driving test website.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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Exc: Kemi Badenoch’s Tory shadow ministers were off to the races enjoying Royal Ascot freebies – on the eve of an historic assisted dying vote. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Tories enjoy Ascot Ladies Day freebies on eve of historic assisted dying vote
Kemi Badenoch’s shadow ministers Stuart Andrew, Greg Smith and Louie French were off to the races last month – on the same day Parliament sat miles away in Westminster
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July 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Exc: Kemi Badenoch’s Tory shadow ministers were off to the races enjoying Royal Ascot freebies – on the eve of an historic assisted dying vote. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Thrilled to have won the Orwell Prize for reporting homelessness among such an impressive group of finalists. Thank you to the judges, @orwellprize.bsky.social, my brilliant @mirror.co.uk colleagues & editors, charities who helped with our coverage & to those who trusted us to tell their stories.
June 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Thrilled to have won the Orwell Prize for reporting homelessness among such an impressive group of finalists. Thank you to the judges, @orwellprize.bsky.social, my brilliant @mirror.co.uk colleagues & editors, charities who helped with our coverage & to those who trusted us to tell their stories.
Reposted by Simon Murphy
Nearly twice as many women are sleeping rough as official stats show.
@simon-murphy.bsky.social’s Mirror investigation into hidden homelessness is shortlisted for the 2025 Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness.
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@simon-murphy.bsky.social’s Mirror investigation into hidden homelessness is shortlisted for the 2025 Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness.
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Hidden homeless scandal as nearly double the number of women sleep rough than official stats
This article by Simon Murphy, Senior News Reporter at the Mirror and has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness, was part of a special investigation on homelessness.
www.homelessnessimpact.org
June 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Nearly twice as many women are sleeping rough as official stats show.
@simon-murphy.bsky.social’s Mirror investigation into hidden homelessness is shortlisted for the 2025 Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness.
🔗 www.homelessnessimpact.org/news/simon-m...
@homelessnessimpact.bsky.social
@simon-murphy.bsky.social’s Mirror investigation into hidden homelessness is shortlisted for the 2025 Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness.
🔗 www.homelessnessimpact.org/news/simon-m...
@homelessnessimpact.bsky.social
Exc: How flash Tory donor cashed in on disposable vape boom before government ban
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Flash Tory donor cashed in on disposable vape boom before ban on sales
The Mirror can reveal shareholders at Sandy Chadha’s Supreme firm enjoyed a multi-million pound dividend bonanza just months before the sale of single-use e-cigs was outlawed
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June 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Exc: How flash Tory donor cashed in on disposable vape boom before government ban
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