Tom Burgis
@tomburgis
@guardian investigations. Bestselling author of Kleptopia, Cuckooland, The Looting Machine. Bluesky: http://bsky.app/profile/tomburgis.bsky.social
Two activists started exposing what was going on inside Scottish salmon farms. Soon they were being followed by spies for hire. My new @guardian investigation into the surveillance industry. theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…
Essential reading from @peterbakernyt. “It’s hard to see how Trump would have acted any differently if he were a Russian asset than how he has acted in the first 100 days of his second term.”
If Putin drafted a shopping list of what he wanted from Washington, it would be hard to beat what he was offered in the first 100 days of Trump’s new term. Beyond a favorable peace plan, many of Trump's actions on other fronts also suit Moscow’s interests. nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/…
Our front page today. Powerful and moving journalism from the very brave Malak A Tantesh and @_EmmaGH
I met the late @MBuhari a few times. My favourite line of his came after @David_Cameron called Nigeria "fantastically corrupt". Which is true, as Buhari accepted. But with a kicker for western states: Can you give the loot back now please? ft.com/content/3532d2… @toluogunlesi
Killing machines: how Russia and Ukraine’s race to perfect deadly pilotless drones could harm us all theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…
Exposing wrongdoing has always taken bravery. As threats to journalism increase, so does the need to protect sources. Secure Messaging is an important new tool that makes it easier to share confidential information with journalists at the Guardian. theguardian.com/membership/202…
There’s a huge risk here that’s ignored. The resource curse. Economies dominated by oil and mining tend to be massively corrupt - because those industries concentrate power in the hands of those who control access to the resources. The fate Ukraine has been fighting to escape.
On behalf of the Government of Ukraine, I signed the Agreement on the Establishment of a United States–Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund. Together with the United States, we are creating the Fund that will attract global investment into our country.
Repeated beatings, electric shocks, suffocation, prisoners wrapped from head to toe in sticky tape and then “used as human furniture”… Inside one Russian torture facility (of many) where Ukrainian POWs and civilian detainees are held. A horror story: theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…
Hong Kong exiles in the UK are being targeted online as part of a larger coordinated effort to attack China's opponents. Graphika analysts were among the experts who reviewed social media posts for a new investigation by @guardian's @tomburgis and @MaeveMCC:…
Fear is dictatorship glue. You can't imprison everyone with a dissenting thought. Or inconvenient factual observation. But fear teaches self censorship. It's a scalable system of control. The autocrat's challenge is to keep the fear going. 1/
What’s it like to be hunted? A new @guardian investigation with @MaeveMCC into the campaign to incite far right violence against Hongkonger democracy activists in the UK @finnlau_cd @nathanlawkc others. With @ICIJorg @hopenothate theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…
SCOOP: Researchers from China are to be allowed access to half a million UK GP records despite western intelligence agencies’ fears about the authoritarian regime amassing health data. With @zekehuntergreen @dominickendrick and @olivialeejourno theguardian.com/technology/202…
It’s now clear that the @realDonaldTrump Administration computed reciprocal tariffs without using tariff data. This is to economics what creationism is to biology, astrology is to astronomy, or RFK thought is to vaccine science. The Trump tariff policy makes little sense EVEN if…
Covid five years on From the new Private Eye, out now.