Why Russia Stole Potemkin’s Bones From Ukraine nytimes.com/2022/10/27/wor…

Zelensky presents 10-step peace plan and tells G20: “If Russia says that it supposedly wants to end this war, let it prove it with actions. Obviously it’s impossible to trust Russia’s words, and there will be no Minsk-3, which Russia would violate immediately after signing.”

Evening Standard goes to print earlier than I thought!

The Women in Journalism mentoring scheme is open for applications for 2023. I’ll be a mentor again and have loved mentoring Beatrice Guzzardi! There’s a junior scheme and a senior scheme.

UK’s first new coalmine for 30 years gets go-ahead in Cumbria theguardian.com/environment/20…

After years of reading spy fiction and wondering where all the women were, I asked MI6 if I could speak to their top female spies about the realities of being a women in espionage. I met Kathy, Ada and Rebecca, and here is their story: ft.com/content/741772…

via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyr…

What was Nancy Pelosi reading on the House floor today during the Speaker vote? A remarkable capture by AP Images.

An old article, but a brilliant one and something I heartily agree with! (Would love to know who wrote it): Flashman, the foreign correspondent’s role model economist.com/christmas-spec…

This is truly amazing

This is some pretty depressing drone footage showing the utter ruin of Bakhmut after months of bitter fighting businessinsider.com/drone-footage-…

This is beautiful and heart-wrenching. Please read if you have the chance: 'My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon' nytimes.com/2023/04/18/opi…

So long, blue check, it was nice knowing ya

Credit where credit's due – great work here POLITICO

30 years after covering Moldova’s short & bloody war I return to interview its president Maia Sandu She has a nightmarish challenge to steer her country into the EU - but a steely core. "I am stubborn" she says as she drives off in her lone Skoda. ft.com/content/2a8278…

Meet the government robot tracking Romanians’ concerns ft.com/content/4b54c7… Stephen McGrath John Thornhill

Hats off to Graeme Wood for my favorite kicker in weeks: "Crow looked ruffled. Even weirder than having Nazi memorabilia in your house is having it in your house but somehow losing track of it." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The Unyielding City: How Ukraine lost Bakhmut and Russia won a hollow victory businessinsider.com/bakhmut-how-uk…

I picked up an old copy of Misha Glenny's 1990 book on Eastern Europe from a charity shop this morning, and inside I found a newspaper clipping about Romania from circa 1990/91 (likely used as a bookmark by the previous owner)! Lovely sense of history

I’m beyond thrilled that Ida Reihani, Kit Gillet, and I are finalists for the 2024 British Journalism Awards in the Social Affairs, Diversity & Inclusion Journalism category. A huge honour, but this wouldn't have been possible without the bravery of our sources in Iran!