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Senior editor, ; affiliate, . Ex-. London➞Mexico City➞Moscow➞Jerusalem➞NYC. Physicist in a journalist's body. All opinions etc etc.

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Joined November 2008
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  2. May 4

    This is a really disturbing story all the way through.

    7:32 AM - 4 May 2016 · Details
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  3. May 1

    Searched for "How To Stop Worrying And Start Living". First result: the Quran.

    4 likes
  6. Apr 26

    But Varoufakis’s telling of this Schäuble anecdote seems to have evolved somewhat.

    5:50 PM - 26 Apr 2016 · Details
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  7. Apr 26

    Varoufakis: Wolfgang Schäuble said in Eurogroup meeting “elections should not be allowed to change the economic policies of any country“

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  8. Apr 26

    Varoufakis

    5:42 PM - 26 Apr 2016 · Details
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  9. Apr 26

    At for Chomsky-Varoufakis (thank you !) Wondering if it will be a lovefest or a dust-up.

    3 likes
  10. Apr 26

    If you have a spare ticket to Chomsky-Varoufakis tonight at please @ message me. You will earn undying gratitude and other things.

    1 like
  12. Apr 19

    Because of course New York City has one of these.

    5:31 PM - 19 Apr 2016 · Details
    2 retweets 8 likes
  13. Apr 19

    I second this. This is a winning disclaimer.

    11:43 AM - 19 Apr 2016 · Details
    6 likes
  14. Apr 19

    Is it odd that I pay NY taxes and have a NY driver's permit, yet doesn't know whether I'm a US citizen?

    5:33 AM - 19 Apr 2016 · Details
    8 likes
  16. Apr 18

    This.

    8:02 AM - 18 Apr 2016 · Details
    3 retweets 7 likes
  19. Apr 16

    The media in one chart

    Courtesy of .
  21. Apr 15

    . now live on how to avoid proposing with a blood diamond

    1 retweet 1 like
  22. Apr 14

    When life gives you Clemons, just sit back and relax!

    8:30 AM - 14 Apr 2016 · Details
    59 retweets 134 likes
  23. Apr 13

    Never seen this before. Google search brings up posts from live blog of debate in real time

    4:42 PM - 13 Apr 2016 · Details
    6 retweets 11 likes
  25. Apr 7

    Um, no.

    9:37 AM - 7 Apr 2016 · Details
    1 like
  27. Apr 4

    In the light of all this goings on with the Panama Papers, would people (particularly journos) be interested in an SF secure comms workshop?

    18 retweets 27 likes
  29. Apr 1

    Chartoji [TM] are the new new thing.

    9:59 AM - 1 Apr 2016 · Details
    2 retweets 1 like
  33. Mar 30

    Jack Dorsey, mid-century lumbersexual. (Images by Christopher Gregory).

    10:31 AM - 30 Mar 2016 · Details
  35. Mar 22

    Want to understand Trump’s advantage? Take a look at the most popular stories at the Washington Post.

    10:10 PM - 22 Mar 2016 · Details
    64 retweets 51 likes
  36. Mar 29

    TIL: my real name is Jerubaal.

    1 like
  37. Mar 29

    TL;DR: Solutions journalism is not the solution

    Today we're releasing a new report that finds that that there are benefits to newsrooms using solutions journalism
  38. Mar 29

    <Clicks in order to procrastinate>

    How to manage procrastination without it ruining your life
    7 likes
  39. Mar 29

    Arby's meeting: "So it's fish?" "Legally? No"

    8:24 AM - 29 Mar 2016 · Details
    7,397 retweets 9,114 likes
  40. Mar 28

    My Twitter network is having a weird conversation with itself

    11:47 AM - 28 Mar 2016 · Details
    2 likes
  43. Mar 22

    Did nobody think to argue that a university shouldn’t censor what is mainstream political speech in the country?

    Ye gods this reads like satire. How did we emotionally cripple a huge chunk of a generation this badly?
    1 like
  44. Mar 20

    So to cap it all, Garland is part of the well-known Semitic anti-Protestant conspiracy.

    2:01 PM - 20 Mar 2016 · Details
    1 retweet 1 like
  45. Mar 19

    This is what makes Britain great: knowing what not to take too seriously

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    6 retweets 6 likes
  46. Mar 18

    In Brazil, even civil unrest is sexier than elsewhere

    7:40 AM - 18 Mar 2016 · Details
    1 retweet 6 likes
  47. Mar 17

    And also congrats to for being winners and finalists

    3 likes
  48. Mar 17

    Very proud to work at the place that has won SABEW’s general excellence award THIRD YEAR RUNNING.

    5 retweets 5 likes
  49. Mar 16

    Ah OK so Twitter doesn't embed gifs. Trying again. YASSSSS (H/T )

    2:17 PM - 16 Mar 2016 · Details
    8 retweets 17 likes

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