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Tom Parry @parrytom.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

My recollections of being at the table with Peter Mandelson, the day after Labour’s 2010 election campaign fell apart. Watching the Prince of Darkness holding court while - unbeknown to us - also setting up a gilded future with #Epstein #EpsteinFiles tomparrywriter.substack.com/p/memory-of-...

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Off the battle bus: a brief encounter with Peter Mandelson

On the 2010 General Election campaign trail

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Tom Parry @parrytom.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

New dispatch for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social with @simontownsley.bsky.social from Guyana, the country with the fastest growing economy in the world after offshore oil wells started production. Yet the gulf in wealth between those benefiting the boom and the 48% still living in poverty remains stark

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Tom Parry @parrytom.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Dispatch from Honduras for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social where I saw the distressing impact of New World screwworm on vulnerable people. This parasite had been eradicated from Central America but is once again prospering, with illegal cattle ranching being blamed www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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‘Man-eating’ screw worm turns hospital into horror show

A long-forgotten parasite has made a comeback and is reasserting its dominance in Honduras

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Tom Parry @parrytom.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Dispatch for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social from Dhaka where ragpickers sift mountains of trash for plastic scraps. Children work in sweatshop plastic recycling factories thick with an acrid burning stench. This is what happens to plastic waste in most of the world. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Life in the shadow of a toxic mountain of plastic waste

In Bangladesh, a booming black market for scraps of plastic has sprung up in vast rubbish tips – many of the workers are children

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

(1/4) Life in the shadow of a toxic mountain of plastic waste. In Bangladesh, a booming black market for scraps of plastic has sprung up in vast rubbish tips – many of the workers are children. Dispatch by @parrytom.bsky.social and @simontownsley.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Life in the shadow of a toxic mountain of plastic waste

In Bangladesh, a booming black market for scraps of plastic has sprung up in vast rubbish tips – many of the workers are children

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

(1/6) An invisible threat lurking in the water is slowly destroying these women’s lives. Increased levels of a simple chemical is having disastrous health effects for those living in Bangladesh’s sprawling river deltas. Read more below ⬇️ www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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An invisible threat lurking in the water is slowly destroying these women’s lives

Increased levels of a simple chemical is having disastrous health effects for those living in Bangladesh’s sprawling river deltas

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Tom Parry @parrytom.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Dispatch for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social I visited a school on the silt island of Bhola which is part of a Bangladeshi programme to keep children in education to prevent child marriage. 60% of families practice child marriage, according to recent research www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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‘They marry off girls because they are a burden’: The battle to save Bangladesh’s child brides

As researchers find that more than 60 per cent of Bangladeshi families practise child marriage, campaigners fight to keep girls in education

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Sarah Newey @sneweyy.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

"Invisible in the gently rippling water is the soluble salt stealthily destroying women’s lives." Great dispatch by @parrytom.bsky.social & @simontownsley.bsky.social in Bangladesh, looking at the consequences of heightened salinity, driven by climate change: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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An invisible threat lurking in the water is slowly destroying these women’s lives

Increased levels of a simple chemical is having disastrous health effects for those living in Bangladesh’s sprawling river deltas

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Tom Parry @parrytom.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

A recent journey around the foothills of Mount Elgon, western Kenya, where heavy rainfall made unsurfaced tracks on sticky clay soil virtually impassable. Motorcycles and all-terrain 4WD vehicles were sliding around and unable to gain traction. This leaves many communities isolated.

A challenging journey on tracks made impassable by heavy rainfall and sticky clay soil on the edge of Mount National Park, during a recent trip to Kenya.

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Tom Parry @parrytom.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Thinking today of the many Syrian exiles I met in Jordan, Lebanon and across Europe, fleeing Assad's barrel bombs and persecution. People like Ahmed, a court clerk, in Zaatari refugee camp, and surgeon brothers Hassan and Mohammed, in South Wales, forced to keep tortured prisoners alive in Damascus.

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Tom Parry @parrytom.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Dispatch for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social from northern Kenya, where I saw how disappearance of traditional pastures is having unexpected effects: girls forced further from homes are being raped and communities are locked in violent feuds over grazing territory www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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‘My screams went unheard’: Women and girls suffer in Kenya’s worst drought in 40 years

Climate change isn’t only normalising acute malnutrition – it is exposing drought migrants to increased sexual violence and child marriage

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