In today's The Times and The Sunday Times, the Home Office has blocked a three-year old Afghan toddler from joining his parents in the UK even though his father worked as a British army interpreter. His story is told in The Gardener of Lashkar Gah, out today thetimes.co.uk/article/0a7b2a…

A big promotion for Michael Green.

“ In one email, Ms Sandbach appears to threaten legal action, accusing the university of failing to protect her right to privacy.” this story is wild: an MP trying to muzzle a PhD student, whose research shows how her family enslaved his family.

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Saudi man with 8 followers on Twitter sentenced to death for retweeting posts critical of Mohamed bin Salman. hrw.org/news/2023/08/2…

Fire services stopped using ‘fireman’ 35 years ago when I was a junior newspaper reporter, because of the simple fact that not all firefighters were men any more.

Extraordinary Panorama investigation into how so many doctors' warnings about Lucy Letby were ignored as hospital bosses seemingly put reputation above growing concerns about the welfare of its babies. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-661209…

Hollywood movies aren’t released in Russia anymore thanks to the war in Ukraine – but an entire industry of pirate screenings has taken their place, prompting Barbie parties as far away as Siberia. ⁦Courtney Weaver⁩ reports on.ft.com/3YI1guQ

Manchester United’s statement this afternoon, widely shared with media at the time we intended to publish, is a direct response to an investigation by The Athletic | Football into the club’s planning for Mason Greenwood’s return. Here is our journalism on it.

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“Mass death has long been normalized on Europe’s borders,” writes Sally Hayden. “This is what a crisis of human rights, ethics and, above all, global inequality looks like.” nyti.ms/3QFYxjx

The 'Russian spy' had 007 as his email address trib.al/BLHAfZr

IT'S ALL OVER! 💪

The #Lionesses are through to their very FIRST #FIFAWWC final! 🤩

Nigel Farage’s Coutts fiasco highlighted debanking. Yet Muslim communities have complained of bank account closures for years, and barriers to banking mean one in 10 Muslims in Britain don’t have a current account. Read my story here: bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Bloomberg

honestly have no idea why londoners would want to spend more of their lives on the tube ?

Three years after Andy Malkinson was wrongly convicted of rape, DNA evidence was found linking the crime to another man.

It turns out all key authorities, inc the police, CCRC and the CPS, knew but dismissed it.

Andy spent another 15 years in prison.
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I live for responses like this.

“The petition alleges that the Tuohys used their power as conservators to strike a deal that paid them and their two birth children millions of dollars in royalties from an Oscar-winning film that earned more than $300 million, while Oher got nothing.”

The US has sanctioned the Alfa Group oligarchs – Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, German Khan, and Alexei Kuzmichev.

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Rest in peace Sugarman. youtu.be/lJyawB1E78M

The Guardian has got someone on the record who says he met up with 'Martin Branning' after responding to an advert for male models -- and he realised it was actually Dan Wootton when the journalist followed him on Twitter afterwards. And there are emails. theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a…