Reference to our Lighthouse Reports investigation into desert dumps by Nicolas SCHMIT to Ursula von der Leyen in Commissioner debate: "This is not Europe, these are not European values ... don't tell us it's about fighting smugglers, it's about fighting refugees which are pushed in the desert"

Our cover story in L’Espresso explores the murky links between Big Ag, Italian politicians and an overmighty farmers union. Meanwhile, their Editor in Chief enrico bellavia was reportedly fired for opposing editorial meddling. L'Espresso journalists are striking.

Thousands of asylum seekers are being abandoned in the desert, the operation is observed and financed by the EU. Our joint investigation ⁦DER SPIEGEL⁩ ⁦Lighthouse Reports⁩ et al. Now out in English, free to read. spiegel.de/international/…

New doc from BBC News (World) uses key findings from investigation led by Lighthouse Reports 2yrs ago. Revealed drownings after people thrown in sea by Greek coastguard. Important doc which we trust will credit the original work here: lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

💥 In a letter to me late last week, the MoD has finally admitted that UK Special Forces were able to veto their Afghan counterparts coming by to the UK, where they could be called as witnesses in an inquiry into allegations of war crimes. This is an absolute scandal that the

The government has admitted lying to me about members of UK Special Forces having decision-making power over Afghan commando resettlement applications at a time when Afghan commandos were potential witnesses to a war crimes inquiry investigating the SAS. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Journalism is not a crime. Thanks to Shabnam Khan Dawranشبنم خان دوران 🇦🇫 for sharing her story: independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

We have viewed video of a woman activist being raped in a Taliban prison, which she says was then used as blackmail to prevent her from continuing her activism. With Chris McGreal Zahra Joya Tom Levitt Rukhshana Media theguardian.com/global-develop…

This was one of the bleakest pieces I've had to write 14 years of Conservative immigration policy theguardian.com/politics/ng-in…

The Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP Yvette Cooper has been appointed Secretary of State for the Home Department Home Office.

We have a Housing Secretary who has lived in social housing.

Watch this it’s fascinating - I asked James Timpson what he’d do about prisons and sentencing if he was in charge. He believes only a third of prisoners in jail should definitely be there. He’s now in charge of prisons (but not sentencing).

New Thinking for a New World Podcast Episode: Europe’s Shameful Dumping Europe funds countries to dump refugees in the Sahara. May Bulman tells us what she and a collaboration of journalists led by Lighthouse Reports uncovered about desert dumping. buff.ly/4bLAnuH

Make it make sense. Highly qualified elite Afghan soldiers blocked from joining stretched British Army for five years and forced instead to work as Deliveroo drivers. Exclusive from Larisa Brown feat. comments from Tom Tugendhat - thetimes.com/uk/defence/art…

While most of us are away for holidays. Thousands of women, children & men are experiencing death, torture, diseases & other serious health problems in Sfax & several regions around Tunisia without any remedy. Please donate if you can: Refugees in Tunisia gofund.me/715a9a19

Today there was another shipwreck in the Channel. 12 people are confirmed dead, including children, and others are still missing at sea. Our thoughts are with the families and friends whose loved one's have now been taken from them by the UK & France's deadly border politics.

We obtained rare footage from the war in Sudan showing fighters celebrating civilian murders. As 5 brothers lie bound & shot, militiamen chant "victory for the Arabs." @LHReports & partners investigate an atrocity in Darfur THREAD

The Suleiman brothers were students, tailors, cattle herders and retailers in Darfur, Sudan. One of them was just 14. In June 2023, they were murdered by gunmen linked to the Rapid Support Forces. Those same gunmen filmed themselves celebrating & shouting “Victory for the Arabs”