Jack Leather

Tottenham, United Kingdom

Investigative Journalist and Film Producer at The Telegraph

Investigative journalist and film maker @telegraph | Recent projects: China’s Belt & Road, The Lockdown Files and Call Bethel | @JSchofieldTrust senior fellow

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Articles

Inside Ukraine’s front-line city of Kharkiv where Russia has abandoned its dead

Jan 14, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Dominic Nicholls |Jack Leather

As we enter 2025, there is a lot of discussion about the territory Ukraine may have to give up in any future peace negotiations with Russia. The Telegraph visited Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, in the far north east, to better understand how people live their lives under the very real threat of being overrun by Russian forces.
How I assassinated my boss with an AI drone

Nov 20, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Arthur Scott-Geddes |Jack Leather |Connor Ibbetson

With a single keystroke the rotor blades spin up, a video feed from an onboard camera flashes into life and the assassination attempt has begun. The tiny drone starts to manoeuvre itself around the room in a conference centre on the outskirts of Munich, hunting for its designated target. Its algorithms and gyroscopic stabilisers steer it around pillars and chairs. Using facial recognition, it moves from person to person.
‘Crocodile tears and genocide’: How the Gaza war is threatening Kamala Harris’s White House chances

Nov 2, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Tony Diver |Jack Leather |Louis Brady

As Kamala Harris was walking on stage to rapturous applause at the Democratic National Convention in August, outside, protesters in keffiyehs chanted “free Palestine!”They held up placards which called on her to “end genocide” and “free Palestine”. Some simply read: “Abandon Harris ‘24.”The war in Gaza has enraged swathes of progressive voters who could normally be relied upon to support a Democratic candidate.
How the Gaza war is threatening Kamala Harris’s White House chances

Nov 2, 2024 | msn.com | Tony Diver |Jack Leather |Louis Brady

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Why Kamala Harris is ignoring Ukraine on the campaign trail

Oct 9, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Tony Diver |Jack Leather |Louis Brady

For all the talk of the latest incursion into Russia, the fatigue of the Kremlin’s foot-soldiers and Vladimir Putin’s weapons deliveries from Iran, one other factor could single-handedly determine the fate of Ukraine next year. At next month’s election, American voters appear to have a choice of whether to install a president who would bolster Kyiv’s war effort, or one who might doom it.
Trump, JFK, Lincoln - How assassinations change the course of history | Defence in Depth

Jul 19, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Roland Oliphant |Josh Bourne |Jack Leather

Assassination – the deliberate killing of prominent political figures – is as old as history itself. Egyptian pharaohs, Greek kings and an alarming number of Roman emperors all fell to the assassin’s knife. In the American context, four presidents have been murdered since 1865. All of them were shot with a gun and on July 13 Donald Trump nearly joined them.
The footage you didn’t see

Jul 16, 2024 | msn.com | Gordon Rayner |Jack Leather

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The footage you didn’t see

Jul 16, 2024 | msn.com | Gordon Rayner |Jack Leather

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Donald Trump shooting: The footage you didn’t see – and what it reveals about security failures

Jul 16, 2024 | msn.com | Gordon Rayner |Jack Leather

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Trump shooting: The footage you didn’t see

Jul 16, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Gordon Rayner |Jack Leather

Second-by-second footage of the shooting of Donald Trump from new angles has shed fresh light on the security failings that allowed Thomas Matthew Crooks to unleash a volley of shots at the presidential candidate. The Telegraph has taken video filmed by members of the public and synchronised it with the “official” broadcast footage of the rally in Pennsylvania to show what was going on behind the scenes.