Felix Pope
@felixpope_
Freelance reporter @NewStatesman @UnHerd @Haaretzcom @Telegraph @Prospect_uk [email protected]
Apart from anything else, watching a large number of children in ski masks riot because they want migrants deported makes me think votes for 16 year olds might not work out the way Labour expects
In Epping, demonstrators gathered to protest a hotel housing asylum seekers have just attacked and chased off several police vans
In Epping, demonstrators gathered to protest a hotel housing asylum seekers have just attacked and chased off several police vans
I went to a cattle market to speak to some farmers. Like so many others in this country, they’re pissed off and planning to vote for Reform newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…
Israeli soldiers tell @haaretzcom they were ordered to shoot at Gazans gathered at aid-distribution sites: "It's a killing field, live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars... our form of communication is gunfire." haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
‘The consensus view among U.S. intelligence agencies is that Iran hasn’t made a decision to move forward on building a bomb’ wsj.com/world/middle-e…
Broken Britain
In opposition, Starmer said he wanted to be judged by a simple test: in 5 years time, could he look in the eyes of voters in towns such as Burnley and tell them that Labour had made a difference to their lives? So far, his government seems to be failing: newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…
In opposition, Starmer said he wanted to be judged by a simple test: in 5 years time, could he look in the eyes of voters in towns such as Burnley and tell them that Labour had made a difference to their lives? So far, his government seems to be failing: newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…
Here is the cover of this week’s @NYTmag. If you haven’t read my story, I hope you’ll make time for it. (Gift link) nytimes.com/2025/05/20/mag…
“the invisible woman took note of everything that Europeans thought was of no importance. Now, people saw that these things were indeed important” telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/…
I can’t wait to watch this at full volume on the bus later
The 3rd most viewed video on all of YouTube this week is an AI generated short of a pug that saves a baby from a plane crash and then they try surviving on an island...
'We Cannot Turn a Blind Eye': Dozens of Members of British Jewish Establishment Publicly Decry War in Gaza haaretz.com/jewish/2025-04…
Adolescence is accurate in so far that kids from stable homes are now carrying knives, in part thanks to social media. But you might want to blame your local crack dealer before Andrew Tate
I went to Bristol to try and understand why children are being drawn into a "death cult" of knife crime and extreme violence unherd.com/2025/04/postco…
I went to Bristol to try and understand why children are being drawn into a "death cult" of knife crime and extreme violence unherd.com/2025/04/postco…
