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Simon Childs

London

Commissioning Editor and Reporter at Novara Media

Bluesky: @simonchilds.bsky.social Commissioning Editor and Reporter at @NovaraMedia [email protected]. Freelance: [email protected]

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  • 2 weeks ago | novaramedia.com | Simon Childs

    Paywalls? Never. We think quality reporting should be free for everyone – and our supporters make that possible. Chip in today and help build people-powered media that everyone can access. What’s happening in Gaza has been referred to as “the most documented genocide in history”. Amnesty International has called it a “live-streamed genocide”.

  • 2 weeks ago | novaramedia.com | Simon Childs

    It’s almost a year since Keir Starmer’s Labour party won an electoral landslide by promising very little in a bid to appear sensible to swing voters. Its uninspiring approach was apparently worth it to beat the Tories. Change can come later, but first you have to win. Except now there’s another battle to be waged.

  • 1 month ago | novaramedia.com | Simon Childs

    Ministers have been accused of misleading parliament over arms exports to Israel, as research shows the UK has sent the country bullets, tanks and rocket launchers since October 2023. Analysis of data from the Israel Tax Authority shows that UK exports to Israel include a shipment of 150,000 bullets in October 2023 and over 8,000 individual munitions since the government’s partial suspension of export licences in September 2024.

  • 1 month ago | novaramedia.com | Simon Childs

    At last year’s general election, Reform UK was repeatedly embarrassed by the controversial views of its parliamentary candidates. In its aftermath, Nigel Farage said his party had been let down by “amateurism” in its vetting process – only for Reform to then put Jack Aaron, who said Hitler was “brilliant” at inspiring people, in charge of future candidate selections. This Thursday there will be local elections across the country, and Reform looks set to win big.

  • 2 months ago | novaramedia.com | Simon Childs

    The huge sums of money greenwashing power plant Drax spends on buffing its image and cosying up to politicians have been revealed, as an executive let slip that the relationship between the company and civil service is a “revolving door”. A messy employment tribunal between Drax – a supposedly renewable power plant in north Yorkshire which burns trees processed in poor Black communities in the US – and its former head of public affairs and policy, Rowaa Ahmar, has come to an end.

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