Gemma Newby
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One of the brilliant things about working at the Economist is that we have correspondents EVERYWHERE. So when we wanted to find out what Wagner is up to in the Central African Republic, we asked our Africa Correspondent Tom Gardner to go find out https://t.co/pBxooFNhWU
economist.com
A dispatch from Prighozin’s African playground
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We think "the world the war ignores" needs more attention so this week we're publishing our Sudan episode in front of the paywall. Please listen and share. Thanks to @TomGardner18 @heidipett Claire Read @karlapatella Imogen Serwotka https://t.co/hBLiYF0rqR
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Just over 3 weeks ago the Weekend Intelligence team started working on a story about Sudan and the war the world ignores. We published to subscribers yesterday. We'll make it free for everyone at the end of the week. Please listen
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My special report out today in @lawsocgazette is published with @TBIJ. I interview a mother who alleges the evidence of a court-appointed psychologist was used by her ex-partner to bolster his harassment of her after she was accused of parental alienation. https://t.co/k8ijEZZ44f
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My @tortoise story today on private companies providing children’s social care - just *one* co’s accounts show £136 million of taxpayers’ money funnelled to private equity lenders instead of into caring for children. Thanks to @MartinBarrow for alert.
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At the @killedwomen protest at parliament, where “grave markers” have been erected.
Based on a national survey of bereaved relatives of women killed by male violence, we’ve published a report that reveals a litany of failures for families and their killed loved ones. Be a voice for Killed Women. Go to https://t.co/okpXusQn02 to share it with your MP.
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What is so wrong about this @bbcquestiontime is: Geneva Conventions + UN Security Resolution 2286 clear on this, UN health agencies are screaming out for this to stop, & you have no Palestinian health experts on the panel. Another example of health attacks as clickbait
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In the latest episode of our new podcast “The Weekend Intelligence” @liz_cookman tells the story of Oleh, the man who escaped a war zone and now lives in the forest. Told to the brilliant @djasonpalmer and produced by the brilliant @s3amw
economist.com
In our latest episode, how do you rebuild a life when you can’t go back home?
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How do you put a price on the loss of freedom? Can you inherit guilt? Should descendants of slave-owners have to pay reparations? If so, how much? @charlie_mccann grapples with these questions in “The Weekend Intelligence” podcast: https://t.co/mDpLv77wiq 🎧
economist.com
1843 reporter Charlie McCann follows the Gladstone family to Guyana to apologise for their ancestor’s role in slavery
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In June, @charlie_mccann and I traveled to Guyana for @TheEconomist We joined the Gladstone family as they apologised for their ancestor’s role in enslaving thousands of people, 200 years ago Our podcast addresses legacy, slavery, and reparations 🎧 https://t.co/YblXkjq0a3
economist.com
1843 reporter Charlie McCann follows the Gladstone family to Guyana to apologise for their ancestor’s role in slavery
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Proud to announce the latest ep of our new pod, “The Weekend Intelligence” – “The Apology”. The brilliant @charlie_mccann and @Roryjgalloway travel to Guyana with the Gladstone family to find out how you apologise for the sins of your ancestors
economist.com
1843 reporter Charlie McCann follows the Gladstone family to Guyana to apologise for their ancestor’s role in slavery
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Today on “The Weekend Intelligence”: the hope and heartbreak of IVF. This is a story about the pain, the hope and the despair that is paid for a life to be created. Listen here: https://t.co/iSzkjyNCzS 👇
economist.com
A personal story from two Economist correspondents, over five years, whose lives followed parallel tracks in their quest for a baby
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Myself and the brilliant team at The Economist have launched “The Weekend Intelligence”: a podcast which aims to expand horizons. Today, two of our correspondents explore the hope and the heartbreak of IVF. It’s in front of the paywall so please share:
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In the first episode of “The Weekend Intelligence” @jessicacaguirre asks what it would look like to live on the Moon—and why you would want to. Listen to our new podcast, exclusively for subscribers: https://t.co/tMzg3ZPfoA 👇
economist.com
In our first episode, what it would look like to live on the Moon—and why you might want to
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I got chucked out of class for reading my mum's copy of Flowers in the Attic, age 11. Sophie's World at 14 turned me into a vegetarian. The Handmaid's Tale at 16 was my first taste of feminism. Having to censor books is heartbreaking https://t.co/oUqENm8LYH
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There are no winners in the game of censorship.
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Be a lady they said. Your skirt is too short, your skirt is too long… delivery Cynthia Nixon. By Camille Rainville. Powerful.
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Excellent article by @JudithMoritz who covered the #lucyletby trial in full. That must have been a tough one. I doubt we’ll ever know why Lucy did it. I doubt even Lucy does. “What I learned about Lucy Letby after 10 months in court”
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The nurse was questioned for nearly 60 hours - the BBC's Judith Moritz watched it all.
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Popping this here as I go off to IPSA and then my first proper holiday since December. Tempted to not come back. 86 days of pay deductions.
86 days of deductions. In case anyone still had any doubt whether these deductions were punitive and disproportionate: 86 days of deductions, in some cases for a couple of hours’ work.
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For the last few months I've been researching and producing a Podcast for @spyscape on Lee Harvey Oswald and the CIA. Today, Ep.1 goes live to subscribers and to everyone else on 18th. It's hosted/narrated by the amazing Daisy Ridley and LHO is voiced by Ed Norton.
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