Revealed: Home Office not only secretly lobbied for facial recognition spy firm but 'threatened' the independent regulator theguardian.com/technology/202…

Mark Townsend An interactive graphic in the version of the story on our website allows you to explore the movements of search and rescue units in the English Channel relation to these downgraded reports of 'migrant vessels'. libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/chann…

Revealed: UK coastguard downgraded 999 calls from refugees in small boats just days before mass drowning. Latest with Liberty Investigates theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n…

Himmler ordered mass execution of prisoners in Britain’s only Nazi camp, newly disclosed documents reveal theguardian.com/world/2023/nov…

Braverman provokes despair within Tories after describing homelessness as a ‘lifestyle choice’ theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

New government definition of extremism drawn includes ‘undermining’ UK values - huge threat to freedom of expression. Great work by Jon Ungoed-Thomas theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n…

Half of UK teenagers have witnessed or been victims of violence, government advisors on knife crime say. theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n…

‘They’re demonised, labelled as criminals’ - life on a violent London estate. theguardian.com/society/2023/n…

Amid quite a lot of misleading both-sidesy commentary and coverage of the Armistice Day disorder, today’s First Edition with Mark Townsend goes through what we know about who was responsible. (By an overwhelming and unambiguous margin, the far right.) theguardian.com/world/2023/nov…

Middle East thrust into ‘apocalyptic’ humanitarian crisis. Powerful reporting by Mark Townsend for The Guardian on how war in the region, particularly in #Gaza, is putting unprecedented pressures on aid agencies to reach those in need of assistance. theguardian.com/global-develop…

Phone messages reveal detained British mothers who have been abandoned by UK gov fear death in Syrian camp theguardian.com/global-develop…

‘Here, there is no future’: world turns its back as ethnic cleansing and fresh atrocities drive exodus of thousands from Darfur theguardian.com/global-develop…

Sudan’s exodus, my report inside this week’s Guardian Weekly. theguardian.com/news/2024/mar/…

NEW EPISODE! The latest conflict has plunged Sudan into "one of the worst humanitarian nightmares in recent history". We speak to Mark Townsend, a senior global development reporter at the The Guardian on what he's seen. We also speak to the Co-Directors at Waging Peace 🧡

So grateful to Sonja J Miley & Maddy Crowther at Waging Peace 🧡 for speaking to us about the conflict & their work with refugees & to Mark Townsend for sharing his insight into his recent trip to Chad. Read his article here: google.com/amp/s/amp.theg… #Sudan open.spotify.com/episode/54LgE0…

Questions to be answered. theguardian.com/global-develop…

A must read: Rwandan troops ‘dying in large numbers in DRC’, despite official denials of role. An investigation by michelawrong & Mark Townsend theguardian.com/global-develop…

“It's inspiring to see so many reporters using clear, brave writing to expose injustices.” – Dr Matt Walsh, Chair of Judges Congratulations to the finalists for the Orwell Prize for Journalism 2025. Explore their work: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-pri… #OrwellPrize2025

And the winner of the #AmnestyMediaAwards 2025 ✨ WRITTEN INVESTIGATIONS ✨ award is... 🏆 The Guardian with 'The Brutal Truth Behind Italy's Migrant Reduction' 🏆 Read it here: theguardian.com/global-develop… 👏 Mark Townsend 👏