Journalist. Founder @frontlineclub. Author of The Extraction Pattern (June 2026). https://nitter.gq/t.co/eEj9pSFzB1
London & Norfolk
Joined July 2007
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I was miserable to see the state of Julian Assange’s health yesterday at his hearing at Marylebone Magistrates Court. He is being kept in solitary confinement in Belmarsh prison for 22 hours a day. He is very thin and struggles even to speak properly.
He pleaded with the...
Shipowners in 1873 were drowning their own crews for the insurance. Sailors who refused to board were jailed for desertion. It took a failed coal merchant who had never been to sea to paint a line on the hull that stopped it.
We need to paint the line again.
Under the 2015 Iran deal, breakout time was twelve months.
By the time the bombs fell, breakout time was one week.
Most analysis blames Trump. My new piece shows the architecture.
trueregard.substack.com/p/th…
Hungary won the election. Now it has to win the state. What Poland's two years tell us about what Magyar faces next. trueregard.substack.com
I've been writing. The Extraction Pattern publishes in June – why institutions keep failing the people they were built to protect.
Weekly analysis, free: trueregard.substack.com
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Channel 4 is publicly owned, not publicly funded. It doesn't cost the tax payer a penny. It also, by charter, commissions content but doesn't make/own its own. It's one of the reasons we have such a thriving indy sector in places like Glasgow. This is the opposite of levelling up
Mantas Kvedaravičius, was killed in Mariupol, reported, a camera still in his hands. #Press #journalistsafety #reporter #ukraine #ukrainewar #camera #truth #WERemember #straightfromthefrontline #sftf #8 ‘Safeguard The Press, Defend Democracy’.
8 journalists now killed in Ukraine.
#StraightFromTheFrontline in Lviv, Ukraine.
With Paul and Yaroslav, here supporting freelancers and local journalists for the Frontline Club and The Frontline Freelance Register(FFR).
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David Davis MP, former Conservative Party chairman, says Assange judge ‘got the law wrong’ | #Assange @DavidDavisMP
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‘Shame on the whole damn lot.” Former Conservative MP Matthew Parris on Ministers colluding in something they don’t, in their hearts, believe - and which they know will damage the UK
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Thanks to @Lawyers4Assange & the growing number of World Leaders calling for an end of the persecution of #Assange & standing up for justice, rule of law & press freedom!
In a time of political & moral implosion & denial of reality, what we need is political courage & leadership!
167 politicians, including past & present heads of state, back our appeal to UK government to bring an end to Julian Assange's extradition proceedings & grant him his long overdue freedom:
lawyersforassange.org/en/end…
We @Lawyers4Assange say the politico-legal show must not go on.
