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Alison Killing

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Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 28/09/2026
Lovely and deep visual op-ed by Giorgia Lupi: "A.I. is a different kind of technology, because it can deliver an end result before creative thinking has happened at all" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | A.I. Shortcuts Are Ruining How We Think (Gift Article)
Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW: AI has made warfare faster and more lethal, but hasn't made it easier to win. Our deep dive on how AI is being integrated into the battlefield, with @johnthornhill.bsky.social @digitalcampbell.ft.com @fabricedeprez.bsky.social and Charles Clover as.ft.com/r/948d5342-a...
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The era of AI warfare has arrived
Autonomous systems are being rapidly integrated on the battlefield, as models advance in ways even their creators cannot fully predict
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Threats intensify against Israeli directors of Gaza documentary NAZA www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Threats intensify against Israeli directors of Gaza documentary NAZA
Human rights organisations express support for directors of Guardian-produced film facing threats from Israeli ministers and far-right activists
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Omg, finally.
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Amy Borrett @amyborrett.ft.com · 08/09/2026
Britain’s state-owned electricity system operator has awarded Palantir a £21mn contract without inviting rival bids, arguing critical processes are too reliant on its tech to run a competitive procurement process Latest for @financialtimes.com: as.ft.com/r/7fe6c0b7-2...
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Britain’s grid operator gave Palantir contract without inviting rival bids
Neso cited a legal exemption that removes the requirement to consider other suppliers if dependencies leave no alternative
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.
Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"It is hard not to draw the conclusion that the police and Home Office seem to be incapable of an appropriate response to the threat of far-right activity and violence."
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Did Kent Police ignore a 999 call?
Contrary to their public statement, HOPE not hate can exclusively reveal that Kent Police were tipped off about the Patriot Platform mobilisation – and seemingly did not act on the information.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Can’t quite get over the fact a party that waxes lyrical about how they are patriots and represent the views of the common Brit have admitted on camera they can’t get any British donors 😭 What a time to be alive
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 01/09/2026
Remarkable how many asylum seekers Glasgow hosts (chart by @sdbernard.bsky.social) www.ft.com/content/7608...
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“It’s impossible that Jason Arday could have got his post without DEI,” say people about an industry which can find 200 academics willing to sign a letter in support of David Miller and another 200 academics willing to support Nathan Cofnas.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is going down as well as you might expect www.ft.com/content/93dc...
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Do you want to hazard a guess at what this “jaw-dropping” list of freebies included? What luxuries asylum seekers might be being given “for free” in Thetford? Xboxes? Plasma TVs? iPhones? Ferraris? Let's take a look👀 🧵 1/22
Express headline: The jaw-dropping list of everything asylum seekers in Thetford were 'given for free'.
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is wildly irresponsible of Google - allowing people to create AI generated satellite images. Satellite imagery has always been such a useful and reliable source because it came from reliable sources, but now Google is messing with it at source. www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...
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How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Woken at 4am by wildfire smoke filling the house. Southeast Wales, one of the UK's wettest regions, is shrouded in smoke today. You can feel it in your lungs. The climate crisis is now.
A map of the UK from firemap.live shows out-of-control fires burning in Northwest and Southeast Wales.
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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A security researcher using Claude Opus 4.7 found the AI tool could independently code an exploit to hack into Front Gate Tickets, the ticketing platform for almost every major US music festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo. He could then issue any tickets at will. www.wired.com/story/claude...
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Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival
A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose.
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This is an incredible throw, not just for the distance, but also the accuracy
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
And the 'regeneration' money doesn't even touch the sides when you compare it to what was cut from councils under austerity.
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I am going to log off because I am so disappointed that a number of Americans who I thought would know better are so instent that we lack air conditioning in Europe because of a sense of moral superiority. We cannot consume our way out of this *currently*. There are legal and structural reasons.
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Steven Rich @datab.ae · 12/06/2026
i think people forget how quickly Elon Musk got to this point. in 2020, he wasn't even valued at $25 billion. still an astronomical number but nowhere near a trillion dollars.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12/06/2026
Hundreds of strangers in Belfast working together. Doing shopping, providing accommodation, driving kids to school, people to hospital appointments. Have just been told of a woman close to us who hasn't left her house since Monday so we'll be sorting her out today and getting her anything she needs
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Alongside the ongoing oppression of Muslim and indigenous groups in Xinjiang and Tibet, China has been investing heavily in the economy - building massive energy and transport infrastructure, high tech factories and tourism. Part 2 of our Western China series: as.ft.com/r/cd1f62af-4...
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Xi’s last frontier: China’s plan to transform its west
A vast development drive aims to tap the region’s economic potential and extend Beijing’s control
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
If you're looking for a long read this weekend, we've just published an investigation into the detention network in Xinjiang, which we discovered has the largest detention capacity in the world relative to its population.
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
UK Members of Parliament Ian Duncan Smith and Alex Sobel put out this statement in response to our Xinjiang story, describing the extensive prison network in the region and campaign of forced assimilation that is taking place there.
Quote from @MPIainDS and @alexsobel:

"Despite increasing global awareness, our own Parliament's declaration of genocide, and the findings of the Uyghur Tribunal, global efforts to hold Beijing accountable have fallen woefully short. The sheer scale of this infrastructure, now holding the highest detention capacity in the world, demonstrates an evolved and calculated campaign of mass imprisonment and cultural erasure.

Together with our cross-party parliamentary colleagues, we have written to the Foreign Secretary and the UK Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief, urging the UK Government to leverage its international platform and take immediate action, including targeted sanctions and stricter supply chain controls to block forced labour."
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
NEW: Xinjiang has the highest detention capacity in the world, according to FT analysis - enough space for almost 1 in 40 people in the region - more than five years after the Chinese govt announced the camps had closed.
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
NEW: China's campaign of oppression in Xinjiang has entered a pernicious new phase - and FT analysis shows that the region still has the highest detention capacity in the world, relative to its population. as.ft.com/r/a4b72955-5...
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How China is breaking apart a people and its culture
The campaign of repression against the Uyghurs has entered a new phase
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
NEW: Xinjiang has the highest detention capacity in the world, according to FT analysis - enough space for almost 1 in 40 people in the region - more than five years after the Chinese govt announced the camps had closed.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Well as @polphilpod.bsky.social laid out, this is clearly not actually the view or the policy of the Labour Party. The entire UK establishment seems to have agreed that trans people should be excluded from society, as should anyone who supports their rights. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...
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The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse
It's never just one minority.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
That these racist thugs have morphed into "far right influencers" is central. Being a bigot used to be a hobby. It is now a profession. We don't have to treat the monetisation of hate as an inevitable phenomenon. We can regulate platforms - not to supress speech, but to remove financial incentives.
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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Thread on Farage/Reform antisemitism (actually this is just SOME of the counts against them — it would break Bluesky to actually list it all) bsky.app/profile/sund...
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Important to note that the rally organisers didn’t invite the one Jewish leader of a political party that has been growing in support, but did invite Farage because Reform “is a serious party”
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William Lane @williamjtlane.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The Newcastle Results!!! Absolute madness, a three way split between Lib Dems, Green and Reform. Labour have utterly cratered, they've lost 32 seats. new.newcastle.gov.uk/election/new...
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
French police are forcibly separating asylum seeking families as they try to board small boats. On Saturday, this resulted in a 3-year-old crossing the Channel alone, his mother left behind. Full thread and story below: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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French police separate migrant children from their mothers on Dunkirk beach
Chaos on Malo-les-Bain as officers split families trying to climb into dinghies bound for England
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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Forgot to post this on Fri, in case anyone wants some Sunday reading as.ft.com/r/9d1a0148-f...
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Reform UK ran a council for a year. Things went badly
In Staffordshire, Nigel Farage’s party has been hit by resignations, racism allegations and the need to put up taxes
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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 03/05/2026
‘I’m fighting two wars. One against the Russians. And one inside myself.’ Ukraine is reshaping warfare through its use of drones. Yet human operators remain at the controls. For @ftweekend.com, I profiled one Ukrainian FPV drone pilot to examine the personal costs. www.ft.com/content/95f5...
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Great profile of Chinese dissident Teacher Li @whyyoutouzhele who chronicles the hidden parts of daily life in China, having Lunch with the FT at McDonalds in Tokyo www.ft.com/content/2574...
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Chinese dissident Li Ying: ‘Our work is about being ready for the tipping point’
The activist known as Teacher Li on the dangerous work of cataloguing everyday life in China — and why he wants to change the CCP, not destroy it
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WIRED @wired.com · 01/05/2026
Access Now, the group that organizes RightsCon, says Zambian officials asked it to exclude Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned. www.wired.com/story/the-ch...
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The Chinese Government Just Got the World’s Largest Digital Rights Conference Canceled
Access Now, the group that organizes RightsCon, says Zambian officials asked it to exclude Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I had assumed that RightsCon had been cancelled because of critiques of *Zambia* but it looks like Chinese interference was key? www.rightscon.org/rc26-stateme...
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A statement to our community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
Our official statement to the digital rights community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
May post a little more about this later today, but this is the FT source article, and an animation of the March 13 overhead pass of KSA that probably did the imaging for Iran's March 14 strike on the base www.ft.com/content/1fdd...
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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Don't like folks importing the culture of not posting source links from X. You're not the original source, make it easy for people to find to verify your claims!
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
SCOOP: Iran is using a Chinese satellite to obtain high resolution imagery of targets in the Middle East, from US bases, to civilian infrastructure such as power plants and desalination facilities www.ft.com/content/1fdd...
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Iran used Chinese spy satellite to target US bases
Leaked documents show IRGC secretly acquired system and used it to guide strikes during war in March
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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Breaking news: Another very rich and once powerful man discovered that he can't bully the FT
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Crispin Odey abandons £79mn libel case against the FT over sexual misconduct claims
The FT had said 15 women were willing to testify in court against former hedge fund boss
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 05/04/2026
👀 The US used MQ-9 Reaper drones to protect the missing F-15E crew member by "striking Iranian military-aged males believed to be a threat who got within three kilometres of the Airman."
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