Marcus Leroux
Reporter at SourceMaterial (www.source-material.org), a small investigative journalism organisation that cannot be held accountable for anything I write here.
- The year before the EU referendum, the UK car industry was predicting record production of 2 million units a year by 2020. It's kind of mad how little political weather this makes. www.thetimes.com/business/com...
- Rosa is ridiculously talented and lovely to work with. Sign her up before it's too late.
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- I wonder has Boris Johnson ever seemed in need of assistance while boarding a flight. bsky.app/profile/flyi...
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- Amazon, the biggest data centre provider in the world, is actually *even bigger* than we thought. New investigation based on leaked documents by my colleague @lukewbarratt.bsky.social. www.source-material.org/amazon-data-...
- Coal-fired data centres at least sound a bit steampunk. Wood-fired data centres just sound deranged. finance.yahoo.com/news/drax-sh...
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- Francesco Mazzagatti is awaiting approval to buy a terminal that provides a fifth of Britain's gas. We took a close look at episodes in his career that experts say ought to be of interest to the regulator in charge of stewarding the UK's oil and gas. www.source-material.org/mazzagatti-v...
- "Transparency is a one-way door". A leaked Amazon document reveals its anxiety over disclosing how much water their data centres use.
- this is a dizzying yarn with a drunk Australian getting hit by a car in Paris at its centre and threads leading to the dictator of Congo-Brazzaville and a prominent Irish family via Monaco and Dubai. villagemagazine.ie/dubai-heir-c...
- I'd love to have attended the meeting where this came up.
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- William of Ockham: we're gonna need a bigger blade.
- Some heartwarming football content from earlier in the week. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- On the Kneecap website you can buy a £25 “RUC not welcome tee”, in reference to a police force that was reformed and renamed before Mo Chara was in primary school. marcusleroux.substack.com/p/the-real-t...
- A lie can be half way around the world before a preliminary crisis analysis has its trousers on.
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- I wonder if this cross-examination is building up to the 1976 Republican News column where Adams wrote, cryptically: "I'm an IRA volunteer". www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...
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- this is why I take AI results with a pinch of bitumen.
- When the White House and the Kremlin announced the Black Sea ceasefire deal, it was noted that the Kremlin statement had set specific conditions. Condition No.1: That Russia's state agricultural bank be removed from sanctions lists and reconnected to the global banking communication system. 🧵
- If eclectic cricketing yarns is what you need to get through present madness, then the latest edition of The Nightwatchman is, as ever, packed with fascinating stuff - and includes something by me on the surprisingly deep roots of cricket in Porto. www.thenightwatchman.net/wp-content/u...
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- Keir Starmer's unintentionally revealing choice of ecovillain. marcusleroux.substack.com/p/keir-starm...
- Compelling work by my tenacious colleague Costanza Gambarini with Poline Tchoubar and @asiaballuffier.bsky.social of @lemonde.fr (French with English subtitles available). www.dailymotion.com/video/x9ct360
- We’re looking for an investigative journalist to join us. Details below. www.cisionjobs.co.uk/job/111593/s...
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- Reminded of JK Galbraith's description of "private affluence, public squalor" in The Affluent Society. "The city of Los Angeles, in modern times, was the near-classic study in the problem of social balance." bsky.app/profile/pale...
- Successive posters on window at a closed Blackwell’s bookshop suggest Waterstones never quite won hearts and minds on the shopfloor.
- When I was last in Belfast I popped by the birthplace of Chaim Herzog, former president of Israel and father of current president Isaac Herzog. open.substack.com/pub/marcusle...
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- Last week the government announced that a landmark gas-power and carbon storage project in Teesside was getting the go-ahead. What it didn't announce was the £6bn bet against climate litigation that needed to get the deal over the line. www.source-material.org/bp-equinor-t...
- worth a follow in my slightly biased opinion 👇
- This is very good by @sjamcbride.bsky.social ky.social on how little Northern Ireland features in the UK media. It reminded me of a couple of moments when I was at The Times. When I joined as a trainee, the older reporters knew NI all too well. 1/3 email.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/H/2/v6000001...
- Troops in the pay of TotalEnergies were accused of killing, raping and beating neighbours of the company's huge gas project in Mozambique. Total knew – and continued paying them. www.source-material.org/mozambique-t...
