Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My local library in Tooting, South London, has a life-size cut-out of Dolly Parton. 030
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 16/07/2026This is great. One of my early journalistic assignments was contacting very famous scientists to ask them to explain complex ideas in simple ways. I was surprised by how open and patient they were. Here’s Benoit Mandelbrot explaining fractals to me. 1112
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Just went to a supermarket in a small Scottish town where the steaks are encased in anti-theft boxes - something I haven’t seen even in London. 110
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 24/06/2026My phone often gave warning messages like this when I worked in Southeast Asia. This is a first for me in the UK. 011
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 22/06/2026My local pool in London is American-flag blue. How hard can it be? 183
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Under the Trump crypto playbook, the family always wins - but investors don't. Read the whole investigation by my Reuters colleagues here: www.reuters.com/investigatio... 051
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 21/05/2026St Thomas’ Hospital, Waterloo. Among the plaques commemorating donations by long-dead soldiers and long-dead surgeons is one by a long-dead newspaper. 000
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 20/04/2026At the weekend I was cutting my garden hedge with a huge electric saw and so the chat with passing neighbors turned naturally to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and what it said about carnage and corruption in 1970s America. Fifty-two years later, the movie's tagline has a chilling resonance. 010
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Vance visits Hungary. The Guardian's irony meter is almost at breaking point. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2... 010
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 21/03/2026The $1.3-Million-a-Minute War www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/o... 011
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Home page of the U.S. Embassy in Egypt. Missiles, drones, security alerts . . . and "the Trump Declaration for Enduring Peace." 100
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Despite U.N. insistence that she had diplomatic immunity, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on Francesca Albanese for “writing threatening letters” to U.S. companies and urging the ICC to investigate, Reuters found. 122
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 19/01/2026This is excellent . . . and terriying. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... 010
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Here are the top 20 most common passwords in the UK, according to NordPass/NordStellar. 030
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 06/11/2025A zeitgeisty poem spotted today on the London Underground. 010
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Powerful photo by my Reuters colleague Thomas Peter of a shopkeeper in Ukraine’s frontline city of Kramatorsk. Her face covered in dust from a drone blast, she stands at her counter, refusing to leave. Full story here: www.reuters.com/world/ukrain... 010
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 30/09/2025This is an important editorial by the editor of the Courier about the Dundee “knife incident” and how the law holds the traditional media to higher standards than social media. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/5... 000
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 22/09/2025It's worth reading these expert views compiled by the Science Media Centre ahead of reports that the Trump administration will link paracetamol to autism. www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react... 020
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 09/09/2025A review of Dan Brown’s new book www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s... 110
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Finally, the wheels are coming off Thailand's infamous "Temple of Doom," with its abbot's resignation and the overdue burial of AIDS victims who helped generate so many donations. It took the Thai authorities long enough. I wrote this expose in 2008. web.archive.org/web/20240418... 110
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 07/08/2025In "Deaf Republic," a soldier shoots a young deaf boy and his whole community protests by refusing to hear their oppressors. It opens with a poem that compels us to confront our complicity and impotence in the face of faraway atrocities. 110
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Israeli fire kills 67 people seeking aid in Gaza, medics say, as hunger worsens - www.reuters.com/world/middle... 000
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 15/07/2025From Martin Wolf’s FT column, “A return to tariffs, Taco or not.” 000
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Thrilled to see one of my (many) journals exhibited so creatively at Sarajevo’s WARM Festival 2025. It records a near-disastrous trip to a war-torn South Pacific island in 1997 that taught me a valuable journalistic lesson: if you’re going to do something stupid and dangerous, bring a friend. 100
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 04/07/2025on.ft.com/3IdMfg8 Meta’s AI climate tool raised false hope of CO₂ removal, scientists say 120
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Trump's call for 100% tariffs on foreign films reminded me of this recent scene outside Reuters office in London's Canary Wharf district, which - with a few well-placed cars and fake steam vents - was transformed into a New York City block for a movie. 241
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 09/03/2025A zeitgeisty gift idea at a shop here in South London. 020
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social · 05/03/2025I took this video three years ago today outside Lviv station, then thronging with exhausted refugees fleeing war in eastern Ukraine. The accomplished pianist is @olya_olyusia, and her rendition of “What a Wonderful World” was unforgettable. 130