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Francisco Garcia @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Went to Devon for the first time the other day. What a lovely part of the world. First place I’ve ever seen a goth wearing Stone Island

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Francisco Garcia @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Thirty years after the end of the Bosnian War, I spent a week travelling across Bosnia charting the work being done to locate the thousands of people still missing observer.co.uk/style/featur...

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The search for the missing victims of the Bosnian war

Of the 35,000 people who disappeared during the country’s three-year conflict, 9,000 are still unaccounted for. One institution is tasked with finding them

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Francisco Garcia @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Managed to lock myself out of here for months. Back in, so thought I'd share some new work. Here's my new investigation into three British men who, for diverse and often baffling reasons, have joined the Russian armed forces over the past three years. Listen here: observer.co.uk/listen/the-s...

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Rogue Brits: Fighting for Putin | The Observer

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Francisco Garcia @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Here’s a new piece from me about the violence enveloping Woolwich, & the young lives it has claimed. It’s also about the mothers who did everything to keep their children safe, only for their efforts to prove unequal to the forces set against them observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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When love is not enough: the mothers left grieving by Bri...

The number of teenage boys killed on our streets has more than doubled in a decade. We spoke to some of the bereaved parents trying to make sense of it all

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Francisco Garcia @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Some cool news. Am now senior writer at The Observer!

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Don McRae @donmcrae.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Thanks to @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social for his really generous review of The Last Bell, and my boxing writing over the years, in the New Statesman. It meant a lot to read it....which can be done by just registering www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

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The glory and grime of boxing

In The Last Bell: Life, Death and Boxing, Donald McRae deftly captures the sport’s ugliness and exhilaration.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 18/03/2025

‘100,000 people took to Slavija Square in Belgrade in the largest demonstration in Serbia for at least two decades. In January, students initiated a 24-hour blockade of the capital.’ Francisco Garcia on Belgrade’s Novi Sad disaster, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

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Francisco Garcia | In Belgrade

On 1 November 2024, a concrete canopy collapsed at the renovated railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia’s second city,...

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Francisco Garcia @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Experiencing the sort of feverish deadline mania where I'm beginning to curse the fact I was ever taught to read and write

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Gavin Thomson @gavinthomson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

"During my reporting, the phrase neocolonial was never far from conversation." Great long read tracing the opposition to a huge lithium mine in Serbia. www.newstatesman.com/internationa.... | @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social

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The battle for the soul of Serbia

The need for lithium is driving a global race for resources – and plans for a mine 120 miles from Belgrade have triggered social and political turmoil.

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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The need for lithium is driving a global race for resources – and plans for a mine 120 miles from Belgrade have triggered social and political turmoil. Read Francisco Garcia on the battle for the soul of Serbia:

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The battle for the soul of Serbia

The need for lithium is driving a global race for resources – and plans for a mine 120 miles from Belgrade have triggered social and political turmoil.

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Good piece by @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social on geopolitics of lithium mining in Serbia. Resonates with Irish context. Ireland also been identified as a 'hot spot' for critical minerals, which has everything to do with its peripheral position within the EU. www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

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The battle for the soul of Serbia

The need for lithium is driving a global race for resources – and plans for a mine 120 miles from Belgrade have triggered social and political turmoil.

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Francisco Garcia @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

For the past six months, I’ve been reporting on the highly controversial plan to open ‘Europe’s largest lithium mine’ in Serbia. You can read the resulting long read here if you’d like www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

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The battle for the soul of Serbia

The need for lithium is driving a global race for resources – and plans for a mine 120 miles from Belgrade have triggered social and political turmoil.

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Glaswegians made up 12% of the Scottish volunteers who died in Spain. In our weekend read, Francisco Garcia battles November slush to unpick the heroic and complicated legacies of four men who differed in temperament but were bonded by political belief - and imprisonment.

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What happened to the Scots who went to fight in the Spanish Civil War?

Documenting Scotland's doomed fighters

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Francisco Garcia @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Very happy to have written this piece on a remarkable book coauthored by four very remarkable people

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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

In third place, @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social spent months speaking to the declining band of residents in Soho. www.the-fence.com/last-days-of...

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Last Days of Soho

A dispatch from the naughty rhombus just below Oxford Street.

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Francisco Garcia @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Been a very productive and interesting year of work. Slowly finishing up for 2024, though excited to share some new projects and long form pieces in the NY. Cheers!

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Francisco Garcia @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hello! Getting set up here and thought I'd share a few substantial pieces from this year. Here's my October 5th @financialtimes.com cover on the 'Blake Escape' and why it took 25 years for the British state to catch up with those responsible www.ft.com/content/2c9e...

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Why it took 25 years to solve the greatest prison break in British history

The unlikely story of the trio behind Soviet agent George Blake’s infamous bolt from Wormwood Scrubs

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