Josie Ensor
@Josiensor
Chief US Reporter @TheTimes. Previous postings in Beirut, San Fran and London with @Telegraph. Recipient of Marie Colvin Award. Associate Fellow at @ICSR_Centre
I wrote a final goodbye. I sign out today after 5 years in Beirut with an impossibly heavy heart as Syria faces its greatest tragedy yet. It's hard thing for journalist to acknowledge, looking back on a body of work, to realise it has had so little impact telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2020/0…
After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…
My family continues to feed themselves thanks to your donations. Thank you to everyone who donates for my family. chuffed.org/project/129482…
"Some of us drink salt water just to remain standing while we work. Others chew dried herbs or wild leaves to quiet the screaming inside... the hunger scrambles everything—thought, memory, even language." cjr.org/news/journalis…
The clerks at the store where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.
This baby’s name is Muhammad Zakariya al-Matouq. He is one and a half years old and lives in a tent in Gaza City. He weighs 6kg. The photo was taken on Monday by Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-Arini. At least 10 people have died of starvation, and 34 seeking aid, in the last 24 hours.
What is happening in Gaza is a stain on our collective humanity that will never be erased
This baby’s name is Muhammad Zakariya al-Matouq. He is one and a half years old and lives in a tent in Gaza City. He weighs 6kg. The photo was taken on Monday by Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-Arini. At least 10 people have died of starvation, and 34 seeking aid, in the last 24 hours.
The Daily Express is a right wing British newspaper that spends most of its time bashing immigrants. That it has devoted its front page to the starvation of Gaza is a sign of how dire the situation has become and how impossible it is to ignore.
Grand jury testimony requires a court order to be unsealed and released. The vast majority of the Epstein files do not. If Trump can release the MLK files so quickly and easily, he can certainly release the rest of the Epstein files quickly and easily. What is Trump hiding?
Alex de Waal is one of the world's leading experts on famine and the humanitarian system. "There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" "The obligation to prevent has been activated"
How Brits ‘tricked Americans in $99m wine scam’. I spoke to industry insiders to figure out just how two British conmen pulled off one of the biggest and most ambitious alleged frauds ever to hit the wine world thetimes.com/us/news-today/…
You know Trump is desperate for a distraction when he agrees for his medical information to be released
Two people are confirmed to be dead after Israeli strikes on Holy Family Church, the only Catholic Parish in Gaza, this morning. Several people have been injured, included Fr. Gabriele Romanelli, whom Pope Francis used to call every night. The building has also been damaged.
BREAKING: Justice Department fires SDNY federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who played key role prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, per @eorden politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
BREAKING: This is an absolutely extraordinary story from @larisamlbrown The British military is responsible for a data leak that put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of death - and successive governments have spent years fighting to keep it secret using an unprecedented…
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Our defence editor, @larisamlbrown, recounts how she informed the government that she knew thousands of lives were at risk. Its response was to silence her thetimes.com/uk/defence/art…
Melania Trump I wasn’t familiar with your game
Trump on Putin: “I go home and I tell the First Lady, ‘you know I spoke to Putin today, we had a wonderful conversation,’ she says ‘oh really? Another [Ukrainian] city was just hit.’”
This post misses the point. Epstein was allowed to commit these crimes and got away with them because of failures in our criminal justice system. Unless we examine how this case was handled, we are doomed to repeat history. The public -- as well as our elected leaders -- should…
Meaghan Mobbs, daughter of General Kellogg, voted for Trump three times and ‘agrees with 95% of what he says’. But he risks embarrassing himself with Putin, she tells @thetimes thetimes.com/us/american-po…
I spoke to @TheTimes podcast about the story behind our Virginia Giuffre exclusive and what her diary tells us about the Epstein files podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wha…
My interview with Meaghan Mobbs - the daughter of Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg, who has emerged as one of the most vocal American advocates for Kyiv and one of the few who has the ear of those in a position to influence US policy thetimes.com/us/american-po…
