The Labour government faces questions over “cash for access” after a Times investigation found that businesses have been offered private meetings with “an influential Labour figure” as part of sponsorship packages costing almost £9,500. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Revealed: Labour group’s £9,500 ‘cash for access’ breakfasts

A Times investigation has found companies have been offered sponsorship deals involving private meetings with an ‘influential Labour figure’

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Very pleased to see energy firms starting to pay millions in compensation to at least 40,000 people after the undercover Times investigation into prepayment meters in 2023. Expecting more payments like these to be announced in the future www.thetimes.com/article/e2be...

Energy firms to pay £18.6m over force-fitting prepayment meters

Ofgem says eight energy suppliers will make pay-outs or write off debt for more than 40,000 customers after a review of practices

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Very happy to share that I’ve joined the investigations team at The Times, working under @paulmorganbentley.bsky.social. Please get in touch if there’s something we should be looking into - my new email is shanti.das@thetimes.co.uk

My latest (sort of) investigation for @thetimes.com featuring the wonderful Eddie, fake cavapoo but 100% genuine good boy www.thetimes.com/article/4d13...

My £2,500 cavapoo is a middle-class cliché. He’s also a fake

When Paul Morgan-Bentley found his family’s new puppy, Eddie, he carefully checked out the breeder and paperwork. But then his suspicions grew. Had he been duped?

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A real privilege to be with these brilliant reporters to pick up the Arts and Culture story of the year award for the Russell Brand investigation at the Foreign Press Association awards last night Congrats Ros Urwin @charlottewace.bsky.social @fpalondon.bsky.social 🍾🏆

Reform MP James McMurdock was jailed for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend. He had told the media he was jailed for "pushing" his former partner in 2006. Court records obtained by The Times say the sentence was given because of "the serious nature of the offence”. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Reform MP James McMurdock was jailed for repeatedly kicking girlfriend

The MP had told the media he had been jailed for ‘pushing’ former partner in 2006, when the court records say he repeatedly kicked her on a night out

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Dog vs Snowman

Starter pack for those working on misinfo, disinfo, information integrity, digital authoritarianism, propaganda etc. Definitely a work in progress, reply if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/V4Po9wB

I've created a little starter pack for UK folk working in the audiobook and podcast industries. Message me if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/N3zBtjG

🗞️ More and more Times and Sunday Times journalists and staff are joining BlueSky. We’ll be updating this starter kit as they do so, you should give them a follow 👇

Follow some of my excellent colleagues at @thetimes.com go.bsky.app/NqDPCtV

Because this place is much more joyful than the other one, here are some photos of my little brown poodle Eddie meeting his brother Albus a few weeks ago for the first time since they were littermates Was absolute chaos in the best possible way

Going to do a quick thread of my fellow @thetimes.com reporters who are on BlueSky and why you should follow them 👇

Hi to new followers here 👋 I'm head of investigations at The Times. My journalism in recent years has involved working undercover as a British Gas debt collector to expose the prepayment meter scandal, getting inside Bedford Prison and working on the Russell Brand allegations. More to follow!