Journalist at SourceMaterial (@source_mat) We work with mainstream media on public interest investigations. Banner: detail of a ceramic work by Olive Leroux
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Andy Burnham said, perhaps a wee bit clumsily, that a border poll was "off the table". Harold Wilson, by contrast, had a plan to deliver a United Ireland by some time around 1986. marcusleroux.substack.com/p/…
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I’m very proud of my extraordinarily talented other half, whose debut novel is published today. "A superior example of dark academia and an impressive debut”, according to The Times.
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Closer magazine said it *couldn’t turn the pages fast enough*! Because it was really good and not because of some weird manufacturing defect.
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"A superior example of dark academia and an impressive debut". Rosa Silverman's The House on Otley Road is one of @thetimes five of the best crime novels in June. Out 18th June. @HQstories @HarperCollinsUK
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I had the pleasure of reading a very early advance of this. It's a pulsating and intelligent thriller packed with wry social observation and spine-tingling drama. I can't recommended it highly enough to those of you not married to the author. hive.co.uk/Product/Rosa-Silv…
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"A key document, a bank statement purportedly showing sufficient funds in an account of the sheikh’s private office, contained numerous errors — not least, that at the time, the private office didn’t exist."
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In the next few weeks Francesco Mazzagatti will learn whether he is to become one of Britain's most important businessmen.
The 39-year-old Italian is waiting for a green light from the government to buy the Bacton Gas Terminal -- source of a fifth of Britain's gas.
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Can't recommend today's SourceMaterial offering enough, by @marcusleroux.
It's the story of the son of a lorry driver from Calabria who has often struggled to distance himself from the Italian mafia and is now poised to buy 11 North Sea gasfields
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This is Francesco Mazzagatti. The 39-year-old has built a big presence in North Sea oil and gas. Now he is waiting to take over a gas terminal which supplies 20% of the UK's gas.
A year before his arrival in the UK, Italian investigators had dipped into his police records...
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What they found would cause him trouble in his native Italy... Mazzagatti has repeatedly been given the green light to own North Sea licences by UK regulators. Now he awaits clearance to buy 11 gasfields and the Bacton terminal from Shell.
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NEW: We've seen a leaked internal strategy document from Amazon Web Services.
It shows the company strategising about keeping the true water usage of its data centres secret from the public.
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And since we're talking awards... SourceMaterial has been on a roll recently! 🏆
On Tuesday, we won the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism for another investigation into Russia's shadow fleet, together with over 40 collaborators from all corners of Europe.
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We're very proud to be shortlisted in the British Journalism Awards alongside many other excellent journalists.
Here's a quick 🧵 of the stories included in our submission:
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NEW: Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its data centres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.
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We're delighted to have won in the 'Conflict & Climate Change' category at this year's Covering Climate Now awards with a project in partnership with Le Monde 🏆
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I've always enjoyed the eclectic nature of @NightwatchmanXI.
The latest edition is no exception and includes something by me on the surprisingly deep roots of cricket in Porto.
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Today @AFP and @Source_Mat are publishing an investigation that reveals how the burgeoning plastic credit sector relies heavily on the polluting cement industry to burn plastic waste [1/4]
ALT An aerial photo shows a general view of the Chip Mong Insee cement factory in Cambodia's Kampot province, on January 9, 2025
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If I were able to clone myself I would apply for this so that I could have two jobs at SourceMaterial. cisionjobs.co.uk/job/111593/…
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