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Bluesky: @simonchilds.bsky.social Commissioning Editor and Reporter at @NovaraMedia [email protected]. Freelance: [email protected]
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Chuffed to have been nominated for an @AmnestyUK Media Award for the podcast documentary @richardhwrites and @chalravens an I made about the state repression of the Palestine movement! 🍾🥂
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"A lot of the racists now are saying, hang on, we're Britain first. Why are you supporting Israel?" A local activist from Birmingham spoke to Novara Media's @simonchilds13 after a tense confrontation between Aston Villa fans and pro-Palestine demonstrators outside the game
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Funny old world when Conservative MPs are producing much more sensationalised and divisive news reports than journalists
I went to watch my boyhood club Aston Villa last night. Over 700 police officers deployed. The mob outside the ground were calling for the death of Jews - and the Government let it happen.
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My weird night out speaking to English Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Birmingham https://t.co/Qg0fLnnSQN
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Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine protesters descended on Birmingham as Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were banned from visiting Aston Villa. Simon Childs reports from Birmingham.
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A pro-Zionist demonstration against the ban on fans of Israel’s most racist football club was dwarfed by a pro-Palestine protest outside Villa Park in Birmingham on Thursday night, reports @SimonChilds13. Aston Villa played Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Europa League on 6 November, in
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After Maccabi Tel Aviv fans rampaged through Amsterdam, Uefa pledged to investigate. A year on, it's nowhere to be found, writes @simonchilds13.
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After Maccabi Tel Aviv fans rampaged through Amsterdam tearing down Palestine flags and chanting “fuck the Arabs”, Europe’s football authority pledged to investigate. A year later and days before...
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Trade unions are calling for the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) to suspend its general secretary Steve Cotton and investigate serious allegations of misconduct, after a Novara Media investigation. In a letter seen by Novara Media sent to ITF president Paddy
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Absolutely insane story on the head of global trade union federation, the ITF. Thorough investigation by my colleague @simonchilds13 for @novaramedia
https://t.co/UgOLrMnRvD
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Proud of @simonchilds13 for this brilliant investigation into harassment allegations against union leader Steve Cotton - and how workers fear a redundancy process is being used to wipe the institutional memory of a workplace culture which ‘broke’ women. https://t.co/edp1HP1TP6
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Exclusive: Workers at a huge federation of trade unions fear a redundancy process is being used to ‘wipe’ the institutional memory of a misogynistic workplace culture where union money was spent on...
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The head of a major trade union federation has been accused of multiple counts of harassment and leading "a sexist boys club". @simonchilds13 reports.
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Exclusive: Workers at a huge federation of trade unions fear a redundancy process is being used to ‘wipe’ the institutional memory of a misogynistic workplace culture where union money was spent on...
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The ITF has admitted that the “pervasive misogyny and lack of accountability” that exists in the transport industry “will inevitably be reflected" its culture and governance. Read my investigation here:
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Exclusive: Workers at a huge federation of trade unions fear a redundancy process is being used to ‘wipe’ the institutional memory of a misogynistic workplace culture where union money was spent on...
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Such was the atmosphere of casual sexism at the ITF that colleagues circulated memes calling Cotton "vagina man" and even joked that he was "the Harvey Weinstein of the Labour movement"...
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ITF general secretary has been accused of two instances of harassment - barging into a woman's hotel room late at night and following a woman into the ladies' toilet. He denies both allegations...
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A major coalition of trade unions turned into a "sexist, patriarchal boys' club" where union cards paid for strip clubs. Female colleagues were broken down and traumatised by the sexist culture...
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In an exclusive investigation for Novara Media, @simonchilds13 reports on the serious allegations of sexual harassment against the General Secretary of the International Transport Workers' Federation.
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Keir Starmer's big-ticket deal with the French government to 'stop the boats' made headlines on both sides of the Channel. But what's really going on, behind the newsprint, on the Calais shoreline? @novaramedia sent @simonchilds13 to find out.
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"These are just desperate people who are in a situation that has made them desperate." The mainstream media coverage of the "Stop the Boats" hysteria often only tells one side of the story. But it hasn't stopped the UK government sending millions in taxpayers money to France so
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... While I'm terribly sad she's leaving, I'm genuinely excited to see what she manages to dig up for @London_Centric . Corrupt and unscrupulous dickheads of London: Time to die.
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Career news: It absolutely sucks that I don't get to work with @pollysmythe anymore. Polly threw herself into reporting the "hot strike summer", gave cerebral analysis of trade unions, uncovered corporate corruption and landed the hottest scoop has Novara has got so far...
🚨Personal news: I’m leaving Novara Media and joining @London_Centric as a reporter! For the past 3 years, I’ve been covering trade unions. I’m incredibly grateful to all the workers and organisers who spoke to me for stories, as well as my colleagues, who taught me so much.
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There are still at least six UK nationals in Israeli detention, maybe seven. I've been reporting on this for days now and have spoken to several of their families. I'm becoming increasingly concerned for their safety. Conditions inside are really, really bad. The water is
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sorting through old stuff and came across a 1995 article by a 24yo me railing against ID cards. contains this corker of an argument:
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