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Commissioning Editor and Reporter at @NovaraMedia . Formerly @ViceWorldNews . simon @novaramedia .com. Freelance: simonchildsjournalism @gmail .com #COYD

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@simonchilds13
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Tory Councillor Andy Weatherhead: ‘I completely agree that the optics of these pictures is poor.’ The pictures:
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I interviewed some people and wrote about how a generation got into (formal) politics for the first time with Jeremy Corbyn and got told to shut up and what happens with that now: for @RollingStoneUK
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2 years
Climate protesters have been removed from a Labour fringe event sponsored by Drax, the UK's biggest source of C02 emissions and hosted by the New Statesman
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2 years
I'm in Belgravia where some anarchists have squatted a building belonging to sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. "Putin go fuck yourself", they say, UK elites "fuck you too", they add.
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2 years
This is how many police show up when you squat an Oligarch's mansion mansion and say Putin go fuck yourself
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7 years
Stormzy (free): fish fingers are for everyone S Times columnist (£): women deserve to get paid less I mean look at the jews
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2 years
So I work for @novaramedia now as a commissioning editor and reporter. HWFG
@novaramedia
Novara Media
2 years
We’re delighted to announce that Simon Childs is joining Novara Media as a Commissioning Editor and Reporter. @simonchilds13 joins from Vice where he’s been an editor since 2013.
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7 years
If Corbyn really cared about jobs he wouldn't be so callous about centrist-labour columnist's careers?
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7 years
You, an idiot: Cows are herding animals UnHerd subscriber, discerning: Like a cow, I avoid herds and behave in unmissable ways as a result
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2 years
It happened to me: I took a full gulp from a beer can that someone had been using as an ashtray.
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2 years
The cunning plan was to give journalists who have nothing to lose and are probably ambitious for higher profile jobs a once in a life time shot at the Prime Minister
@TobyonTV
Toby Earle 🇺🇦 Threads tobyontv
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OH MY DAYS James Hanson, BBC Bristol, calls out Liz Truss’s scripted answers, refuses to accept this is all down to Putin, & asks if the Bank of England had to intervene because of him
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1 year
In Honor Oak, South London where a farcically small protest against a drag story time is taking place. Hundreds have turned out in opposition, with riot cops in the middle
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1 year
Correction: Calvin Robinson is here after all. People are chanting "you're not a real vicar" to the tune of "the referee's a wanker"
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2 years
Remember when 4 anarchists occupied a sanctioned Russian oligarch's mansion in west London wanting to open it to Ukrainian refugees? I found out how much £ it cost the police to kick them out. Guess, go on, I bet you can't guess.
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1 year
Four massive council housing blocks in Glasgow have been occupied in protest at their planned demolition by Scotland's biggest social landlord. Report:
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10 months
Wrote about the sad decline of Vice. Thanks to current and former staffers who spoke to me, who deserve better than the (ongoing) mismanagement they have been subjected to
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The government's "independent" advisor of political violence is open about the fact that his work as an arms-trade lobbyist has hardened his views against the right to protest. My profile of Lord Walney/John Woodcock:
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1 year
Great video showing the size of the Turning Point UK event compared to the counter protest
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desmostylian
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Turning Point UK protesting drag storytime at the Honor Oak vs. the counter-protesters. Poor showing for the far right, there’s maybe 30 of them at most
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2 years
More from the event. Greenpeace campaigner Megan Corton Scott suggests the panel is not a great look for the New Satesman, and asks Bill Esterson whether Drax fits with Labour's green vision. He says he is unaware of the issues...
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2 years
This is my last day at Vice after over 8 years on staff and a good while freelancing before that! Sad to leave my @VICEWorldNews team, who truly made this a very difficult decision, by being great.
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7 years
Let teh people decide
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7 years
Hello Europe! This is 1987 calling, our 12 points goes to...
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2 years
This is wild. Deliveroo's top PR guy used a sponsored event at Labour conference to say France is the "most progressive" example of the gig economy. In France, deliveroo's "lab for exploitation", the platform is appealing a massive fine for abusing workers rights.
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Deliveroo's head of communications said France is the "most progressive" example of gig economy regulation. A French trade unionist told us the country is "a laboratory for new forms of exploitation".
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2 years
Activists were trying to raise allegations of "environmental racism" made against Drax as revealed by @UE The event's Q+A used an online questions submission form. Questions about "environmental racism" were deleted and not answered by the all white panel
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@simonchilds13
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7 years
The very good @tristandross on why feeding children is on balance a good thing
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7 years
Does... does he... what?
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2 years
Ministers are relaxed about people going to fight Russia but this is what you get if you squat an oligarch's mansion
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2 years
Police have entered the property and there's a bit of stand off with the Squatters
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7 years
Response to the Uber ruling from a driver who was taking the company to an employment tribunal
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1 year
The anti drag protest is currently on a street corner hundreds of metres from the pub, and surrounded by counter protesters with rainbow flags chanting "fascist scum off our streets"
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2 years
🔥Amazon workers stage sit-in protest in Essex warehouse over 'kick in the teeth' pay offer. 🔥Managers told to piss off when they tried to speak to workers individually. 🔥Workers also walked out of a centre in Staffordshire. Read all about it:
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2 years
Radical publisher of left-wing books recognises its workers right to have a say in their workplace after a mere 17 months
@VersoUnionUK
Verso Books Union UK
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UPDATE: We are now officially recognised! 🎉 Thanks for all of your support, it’s been a long 17 months!
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7 years
I'm inside Kensington town hall. Police are holding an angry crowd back. Protesters who got inside 1st line turned back and asked for calm..
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2 years
Reach journalists are taking on bar work and were given a lecture on "How to Side Hustle", while their papers cover the cost of living crisis, so it's no wonder they're now on strike. Some great juice in this @mlothianmclean report
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2 years
Police are preparing to bust into the property
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1 year
More inspiration from the terraces: people are now chanting "your support is fucking shit". Calvin Robertson is making a speech but I can't hear it from here
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7 years
Sad Clegg is the new Sad Jordan
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7 years
Me an hour ago: looool sick Me now: ah, a messy constitutional mess, what fun
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9 years
I spoke to some people who have been shouting "scum" at Tories as they enter their conference http://t.co/31OKUCUZLg
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2 years
Both fascinating and heartbreaking to hear from Ukrainian trade unionists and left wingers about their experiences of Putin's war at a TWT panel today. Here @YPYurchenko explains how Russia is mainly conscripting the country's ethnic minorities
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1 year
Among the right wing protesters is grenadier Roy brinkley who is saying something about potholes as people jeer
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1 year
After his vehicle was targeted by spray paint, an urban SUV driver has some thoughts about how other people should stop climate change: “These people could do helpful tasks, such as volunteering”. Report via @ClareHymer
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7 years
Books are pure content without ads. Remarkable.
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2 years
Former @UVW legal head Franck Magennis said this shows the police “are not to mess with our picket lines because if they do we are going to defend ourselves. We don’t tolerate cops or bosses or anyone pushing us around.” Read more here:
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3 years
Strong signage at the XR protest at the G7 in St Ives
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2 years
After accepting an award from the Spectator magazine last night, I'm told Kier Starmer continued his rightwing media gladhanding tour this morning, showing up to the Telegraph offices to shake a few senior editors' hands and take some photos
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2 years
Hearing rumours the the TUC is about to sign a highly rated young striker from the Brentford academy on loan
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Trades Union Congress
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7 years
Giving readers all sides of story like when information was proscribed because we were at total war against Hitler
@unherd
UnHerd
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In WWII, Britain somehow got through the war with only 4x15min news bulletins and without round the clock punditry..
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1 year
No sign of GB News presenter Calvin Robinson, who was billed as a speaker at the Turning Pount UK event
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1 year
The protest was organised by Turning Point UK, an anti-"woke" culture war group. Led by Nick Tenconi holding the banner on the left there
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4 months
In the new media post mortem, let it not be forgotten that a lot of the executives were feckless chancers... my take on the death of Vice:
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7 years
So Tim Mongomerie has a new media venture and the editorial guidelines are completely baffling
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7 years
I wrote a thing about the Unmissable Cow website, some media-introspection about media-introspection
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7 years
I declare Britain's new PM as...this guy doing a sound check
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8 years
#iVoted Leave because as a new media journalist this would make for more interesting #content
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7 years
At Labour conference in Brighton. Are these the waves... of a political sea change? Stay tuned for more great content
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3 years
no choice but to stan britain's shoutiest trade unionist
@GMBGlasgowCC
Glasgow GMB
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Our message for @COSLA has been loud, clear and consistent. We’ve visited every waste depot in preparation for the strike, but this is for every council worker, underpaid, overworked, doing the job of 3 people with half the resource. Remember, remember the 1st of November!
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2 years
New: Tory Cllr Andy Weatherhead: My association with a fascist group “was brief and made in the spirit of education and curiosity” Also Weatherhead: “I’ve always been an admirer of fascism, Benito Mussolini and Sir Oswald Mosley."
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7 years
I wonder what Theresa May's leaving speech will be like
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5 months
NEW: Avanti execs had to eat quite a lot of shit after @pollysmythe revealed them laughing about the too-good-to-be-true "free money" they get from government subsidies, so they allegedly launched a "vendetta" against their staff who leaked it
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2 years
It's not just in the UK... Amazon workers have also been taking action on low pay and bad conditions all over the place
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3 years
Looking forward to Drunk January to get this Christmas period out of my system
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7 years
Michael Fallon saying an exit poll is not a result. You may remember Paddy Ashdon promising to eat his hat last time.
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8 years
So I came up with a concept: content blocker, which blocks all content and let's you enjoy the ads hassle free
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2 years
@steve_garelick @GMBLondonRegion @GMB_union Hi Steve, I'm a journalist from Novara Media. Can you follow me back so I can DM please?
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8 years
I hope people following #BlackLivesMatter have noticed, as I have, @WailQ 's strong neckwear gam
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7 years
Obviously the unherd voices are Times and Spectator joirnalists past and present
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1 year
Turning Point UK demo attendee appearing to do a nazi salute
@thediyora
Diyora Shadijanova
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Looks like someone at the Turning Point UK demo doing a nazi salute. Shows the kind of people they really are. #HonorOak
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2 years
I've been reporting on allegations of some pretty wild union busting at the Saint James Tavern in Brighton. The landlord apparently just went ahead and said this to the local MP @lloyd_rm (though now denies having said anything) ...
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5 months
Shadow transport secretary responding to our @pollysmythe scoop about Avanti taking the piss
@LouHaigh
Louise Haigh
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Ministers handed Avanti millions in bonuses despite soaring delays and cancellations. All the while they were taking passengers and taxpayers for fools. This is exactly why our railways should be run in the interests of passengers, not shareholders.
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9 months
Well done @rivkahbrown for clearly stating what GB News is: The channel is quite simply Conservative-MPs-and-Weird-Conspiracy-Theorists-TV-Live. It's very concerning indeed. People should be wary about legitimising it with their presence.
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7 years
Moving scenes at yarlswood rn as activists and detained migrants wave at each other through the fence
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My report on far-right party Homeland's plan to worm their racist views into society which includes taking over union branches, allotment societies, PTAs and, eventually, running for elections
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7 years
Calling Time on Corbynmania
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7 years
I yearn for someone to defend George Osborne's editorship of the Evening Standard
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3 years
Cycled along the Old Kent Rd today, big old wide thoroughfar, 2 lanes of traffic each way, wide pavement, central flower beds... not a single bit of cycling infrastructure, not a thingy dingy. What's going on there?
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8 years
Wrote about a #startup with great potential #innovation #entrepreneurship
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2 years
I'm sick to death of these restrictions
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9 years
Just had a chat about house style: pigfucker / pig fucker / pig-fucker
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2 years
I rang up the Met to ask *how* Sue Grey's report could prejudice the Met's investigation into the Downing Street Parties. Spokesperson said he didn't have anything to add to the statement.
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7 years
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Me enjoying my 4 new bank hols under the new Labour govt with 10,000 new police officers on the beat
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3 years
Something about the ticket costing like half a month's rent really gives almost missing a long distance train in the UK a certain je ne sais quoi
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7 years
Me a couple of weeks ago being extremely naughty 😈 😷😷😷😷
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9 years
How to solve the great "should I sit or stand at my office desk?" conundrum http://t.co/Bjo8Dqbgmi
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2 years
I have a new job lined up which I'm very excited about... But first, a little holiday 🤠
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7 years
I too am delighted that French nationalism has been defeated
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