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Editor and reporter at Novara Media. Formerly Vice. Send stories and tips to simon@novaramedia.com for Novara or simonchildsjournalism@gmail.com for freelance. Nominated: Amnesty Media Awards 2025

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
As we see the end of the Starmer years, I am reflecting on my favourite things about him. Personally, it was when he told a newspaper that he didn’t dream or have any internal thoughts
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Interestingly the Support section the only part of the wesforleader.com website currently not behind a password and it lets you make a graphic showing your support
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Picked up by Politico London Playbook
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Story here: novaramedia.com/2026/05/13/r...
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Revealed: ‘WesForLeader’ Website Updated on Monday Night
The back-end of a website allegedly linked to Wes Streeting’s Labour leadership campaign was quietly updated on Monday night, as speculation about his next move intensified. Simon Childs reports.
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I've seen the metadata of that Wes Streeting For Leader website that his team keep saying is nothing to do with them ... get ready for WES
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
That's @tbij.bsky.social Go follow them!
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Read and my and Harriet Williamson's report, in collaboration with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism here: novaramedia.com/2026/03/12/m...
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Meet the AI Rapper Working for the Far-Right
An AI-generated rapper called Danny Bones with links to far-right Reform splinter party Advance UK repeatedly intervened in the Gorton and Denton by-election. Harriet Williamson and Simon Childs repor...
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
It's AI slop, but surprisingly realistic and annoyingly catchy… Now an investigation has revealed that Danny Bones is the creation of a shadowy agency linked to far-right party Advance UK …
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Some of his songs almost sound like an iconoclastic leftwing protest songs, but listen carefully and the implicit message that foreigners are ultimately to blame becomes clear. Opponents are trying to “rid you of your heritage”...
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Bones' world is one in freefall. Rubbish-strewn back streets, boarded-up shops, cars gutted by arson, graffiti and crap weather. But he’s not having it. In one music video he goes on a rampage through an Orwellian London with an assault rifle …
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Part pop star, part far-right action hero, Danny Bones has achieved success with his music that most could only dream of. He sings about immigration and broken Britain's gritty reality. But he's not real...
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A nice hat tip from Ian Hislop for my Very Funny Piece which you can read here novaramedia.com/2026/02/06/t...
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
"I do not recall him being quizzed about his time on pedo island." Why the Times hired Mandy when details of his links to Epstein had already begun to emerge in public: novaramedia.com/2026/02/06/t...
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The Times Hired Peter Mandelson ‘Despite Repeated Warnings’ Over Epstein
The Times ignored concerns about Peter Mandelson’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in order to give the Prince of Darkness a podcast spot in order to help court the Labour party. Simon Childs report...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
ANDING ROCK
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
The Office of Chairman Sitting Bear
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Fort Yates, ND 58538
CHAIRMAN SITTING BEAR'S STATEMENT REGARDING SRST PUBLIC SAFETY
JANUARY 9, 2026
I have been receiving reports and evidence of First Nations people being racially targeted, assaulted, and detained by the federal agency Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). We want to remind our members to be safe and proactive by carrying with you at a minimum your tribal identification cards or a copy of your degree of Indian Blood. Our tribal identification affirms our citizenship and political status.
Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands. Any federal activity within our boundaries must recognize and respect our tribal sovereignty, treaty obligations, and established jurisdictional boundaries. Any ICE presence or activity within our lands is not authorized, not welcome, and will be addressed. Unauthorized personnel will be escorted off our lands.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I think it's very important that Rupert Lowe's "Million Nonce March" gets widespread media coverage. Critical to amplify diverse voices.
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
A few weeks ago this Reform rising star went on LBC & said young people were being paid too much,citing his experience in hospitality. So we looked into his companies & found 3 tribunal judgments for failure to pay wages, holiday pay & provide contracts www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
UEFA's failures have been almost entirely overlooked in the tawdry controversy over the Maccabi Tel Aviv supporter ban. Great piece from @simonchilds.bsky.social novaramedia.com/2025/11/05/u...
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Uefa Promised to Investigate Maccabi Tel Aviv Over Amsterdam Racism. Then It Went Quiet | Novara Media
After Maccabi Tel Aviv fans rampaged through Amsterdam tearing down Palestine flags and chanting “fuck the Arabs”, Europe’s football authority pledged to investigate. A year later and days before anot...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.
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Craig Gent @vivaharehills.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Huge story with some absolutely shocking details. Big credit to @simonchilds.bsky.social and the workers who spoke to @novaramedia.com for this novaramedia.com/2025/10/15/u...
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Union Leader Accused of Harassment and Heading Up ‘Sexist Boys Club’ | Novara Media
Exclusive: Workers at a huge federation of trade unions fear a redundancy process is being used to ‘wipe’ the institutional memory of a misogynistic workplace culture where union money was spent on st...
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The ITF has admitted that the “pervasive misogyny and lack of accountability” that exists in the transport industry “will inevitably be reflected" its culture and governance. Read my investigation here: novaramedia.com/2025/10/15/u...
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Such was the atmosphere of casual sexism at the ITF that colleagues circulated memes calling Cotton "vagina man" and even joked that he was "the Harvey Weinstein of the Labour movement"...
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
ITF general secretary has been accused of two instances of harassment - barging into a woman's hotel room late at night and following a woman into the ladies' toilet. He denies both allegations...
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
A major coalition of trade unions turned into a "sexist, patriarchal boys' club" where union cards paid for strip clubs. Female colleagues were broken down and traumatised by the sexist culture...
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This is wild. People go through the mill taking on crappy employers in employment tribunals, win and then just... don't get the money. Really important investigation.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
On the same day in the Telegraph:
The Telegraph

Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement

Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty

Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence

[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]

Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent

29 August 2025 8:57am BSTThe Telegraph

Money > Property > Second homes

How to avoid tax on your second home

From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net

[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]

Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer

29 August 2025 1:21pm BST
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Police swooped on 5 members of Defend Our Juries this morning as they were about to announce that 1,000 people have signed up to defy the ban at their next protest novaramedia.com/2025/09/02/p...
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Police Arrest Key Members of Protest Group Defying Palestine Action Ban After Dawn Raids | Novara Media
Counter-terror police arrested five key spokespeople for Defend Our Juries just hours before the group announced its latest protest. Simon Childs reports.
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Rolex-Wearing Union Leader Faces Allegations of Union-Busting novaramedia.com/2025/08/06/r...
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Rolex-Wearing Union Leader Faces Allegations of Union-Busting | Novara Media
Staff at the International Transport Workers’ Federation stand up for the rights of millions of workers across the world. Now they’re being subjected to a ‘sham’ redundancy process. Simon Childs repor...
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Not every day you meet the iconic comedian behind the world's most famous joke
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Liam Shrivastava @liamshrivastava.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
🧵How @lewishamlabour.bsky.social suppress Palestine solidarity and crush dissent Report in @novaramedia.com lays out how Chief Whip Eva Stamirowski punished me for speaking out on Israel's genocide Also carried in @salamandernews.org 🦎 www.salamandernews.org/lewisham-cou...
REPORT By Simon Childs

Exposed: Labour Party Forced Councillors Into Silence on Gaza By Threatening Discipline

'Uncomradely' behaviour and formal warnings for being anti-genocide.
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
As Palestine Action faces being branded a terrorist group for throwing paint around, I took a look at the implications for the broader left novaramedia.com/2025/06/24/h...
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Here’s How the Palestine Action Ban Could Affect You | Novara Media
Meeting with even two other people and expressing support for the protest group could land you in prison for up to 14 years if Yvette Cooper's proscription of it goes into effect. Simon Childs on what...
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Folkies 1, Lockheed Martin 0 novaramedia.com/2025/06/19/a...
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A Group of Musicians Took on an Arms Company – And Won | Novara Media
London music venue Kings Place quietly cut a Lockheed Martin-sponsored event after performers began cancelling shows. Maybe there’s hope for this world after all, writes Simon Childs.
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I explained the UK government's fool-proof strategy to defeat the far-right by enacting all their policies while everyone on all sides of the political spectrum despise them for it, for the latest edition of Hell World c/o @lukeoneil47.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/the-next-tur...
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The next turn of the ratchet
The right will never be satisfied with diet bigotry
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Today @simonchilds.bsky.social writes on the increasing anti-immigrant sentiment and further shift to the right from Labour and Keir Starmer. www.welcometohellworld.com/the-next-tur...
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The next turn of the ratchet
The right will never be satisfied with diet bigotry
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The court has heard that F35s are described by their manufacturer as "the most lethal jets in the world" and the Israeli Air Force said it had logged 15,000 flight hours, as of march, while increasing the payload of the jets.
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
In the High Court where Palestinian NGO Al Haq is challenging the legality of the government's "carve out" to send parts of lethal F35 jets to Israel. The court is packed, I'm in the overspill room which is also packed...
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
A controversial British company, which burns wood for electricity and receives lots of taxpayer subsidies, says it has a “revolving door” with government - @simonchilds.bsky.social reports novaramedia.com/2025/03/27/g...
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Greenwashing Power Station Executive Admits ‘Revolving Door’ With Government | Novara Media
An executive for Drax said the greenwashing power plant has a ‘revolving door’ with the civil service, as its massive lobbying budget is revealed.
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Austerity under the coalition government in 2011 was met with the biggest public sector strikes in a generation. Now that we're getting austerity 2.0, similar strikes may be difficult because Labour is delaying getting rid of Tory anti-union laws. novaramedia.com/2025/03/27/l...
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Labour Delays Repeal of Anti-Trade Union Law Ahead of Austerity 2.0 | Novara Media
The government is backsliding over reforms to Tory anti-strike laws. Perhaps it has something to do with the fresh round of cuts they have planned. Polly Smythe reports.
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Meanwhile the repression continues. Here's my latest on the massive scale of an operation to stop a climate protest against Drax novaramedia.com/2025/03/18/r...
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Revealed: Police Spent £3m Shutting Down Climate Protest | Novara Media
Exclusive: Police spent over £3m and deployed over 1,000 officers from nearly every force in the country in order to arrest 24 climate activists protesting a greenwashing power station, Novara Media c...
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
We tried to take a nuanced and detailed look at the ways that the state has tried to repress the movement. You can listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: novaramedia.com/2024/10/03/t...
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This Is How the British State Is Trying to Crush the Palestine Movement | Novara Media
For the past year, the British state has been waging its own war on the Palestine solidarity movement, attempting to silence protest while colluding with the Israeli war machine. Novara FM investigate...
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Chuffed to have been nominated for an @amnestyuk.bsky.social Media Award for the podcast documentary we made about the state repression of the Palestine movement! 🍾🥂
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Sam Walton @samwalton.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
£125,000+ per arrest at Reclaim the Power camp at Drax in August. Ridiculous repression as @netpol.org says. novaramedia.com/2025/03/18/r... More great work from @simonchilds.bsky.social
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Revealed: Police Spent £3m Shutting Down Climate Protest | Novara Media
Exclusive: Police spent over £3m and deployed over 1,000 officers from nearly every force in the country in order to arrest 24 climate activists protesting a greenwashing power station, Novara Media c...
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Last August, when far-right racist riots gripped the country, the police swooped on climate protesters transporting compost toilets and wheelchair ramps to a protest camp, making 24 arrests. The massive cost and scale of the operation can now be revealed: novaramedia.com/2025/03/18/r...
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Revealed: Police Spent £3m Shutting Down Climate Protest | Novara Media
Exclusive: Police spent over £3m and deployed over 1,000 officers from nearly every force in the country in order to arrest 24 climate activists protesting a greenwashing power station, Novara Media c...
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Exclusive: Police spent over £3m, deploying over 1,000 officers from almost every constabulary to shut down a climate protest at Drax, the "renewable" power station that burns trees ...
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Lots of juicy gossip coming out of an employment tribunal involving everyone's favourite tree-burning renewable power station, Drax. Here's a write up from me: novaramedia.com/2025/03/17/u...
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UK’s Biggest ‘Renewable’ Power Station Sacked Employee Who Blew Whistle on Environmental Claims | Novara Media
The head of public affairs at Drax raised concerns about the company’s environmental credentials. It cost her her job, an employment tribunal has heard. Simon Childs reports.
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
"But we do need to fine or de-arrest as we will get a complaint off the back of this." - Police officer explains that it's not illegal to shout "who elected him?" about the King, but he's going to make a charge anyway novaramedia.com/2025/03/11/p...
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Police Officer Who Arrested Anti-Monarchy Protester ‘Was Aware’ No Offence Had Been Committed | Novara Media
A police officer said ‘We will get a complaint off the back of this’ before charging a man who shouted ‘Who elected him?’ at a royal event.
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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Read the article here and subscribe to get your fix of proper local journalism www.the-londoner.co.uk/cruise-contr...
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Cruise control: The battle for Hampstead Heath
Local posters promised to "take back West Heath" from gay men. But was this guerrilla marketing, a homophobic crusade or something else?
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