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Energy and environment journalist. Previously in the Middle East. Clowes, as in cows. @meghara’s Muay Thai sparring partner.
Jul 16, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
Danish Siddiqui, Reuters' chief photographer, won the Pulitzer prize in 2018 for this photo of a Rohingya woman who had crossed the Bay of Bengal to flee genocide.

Danish was killed by a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan today whilst embedded with troops.

reuters.com/world/asia-pac… He was an immensely talented photographer.

Just recently, he was on the front lines of India's fight against coronavirus, capturing some truly harrowing moments as the world watched on in horror.
Jul 26, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
New: The UK presented China's involvement in one of Europe's largest infrastructure projects as just a £6bn investment.

But we found a state-owned Chinese firm is taking a far bigger role in building the nuclear power plant than previously disclosed.

telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/… After our investigation this weekend, senior Conservative politicians are calling for a review into China's involvement in the UK's critical national infrastructure.

Read more: telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/…
Jun 13, 2020 26 tweets 8 min read
One key difference between today’s anti-BLM protest in London’s Parliament Square, and last week’s #BlackLivesMatter protest?

It looks more like a music festival with all this rubbish.

(And yes, that last photo is a river of piss) Update: Police forces have requested that Tesco stop selling alcohol to demonstrators.
Jun 5, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
An environmental catastrophe is unfolding right now in Russia, where 20,000 tons of oil has spilled in to the Arctic, turning rivers red and poisoning the land.

It is one of the worst spills in history.

"We've never seen anything like this in the Arctic."

Thread: Russia’s state fishing agency said the area would need decades to recover after the accident at a power station in the industrial city of Norilsk, already called the most polluted place on earth.

Greenpeace has likened the disaster to the Exxon Valdez spill.
May 5, 2020 5 tweets 1 min read
This is the dystopian moment that the largest news broadcaster in a democratic country of 106 million people was taken off the air.

Their crime? Holding the government in the Philippines to account. It really is hard to overstate what a massive blow to free speech and democracy this is.

Essentially like Trump revoking CNN’s license, or Johnson shutting down Sky News.
Mar 3, 2020 37 tweets 5 min read
Never seen this much security for a shareholder meeting.

Fair to say that emotions are running high ahead of a vote this morning to decide the fate of Sirius Minerals. Some background:

Sirius shareholders wobble ahead of crunch vote on Anglo American takeover telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/…
Jun 9, 2019 7 tweets 2 min read
New: Less than three months after Uber acquired Careem for $3.1 billion, their drivers in the UAE continue to work daily shifts as long as 20 hours.

This is the story of how companies shift the blame and drivers risk everything to build a life back home: bit.ly/2MshqGV Everyone who has lived in the UAE for long enough has seen their taxi driver fall asleep at the wheel.

Over the last few months, I've spoken to drivers, officials, legal experts, and road safety advocates to understand why this happens.
Mar 30, 2019 12 tweets 4 min read
@helennianias For those who can't quite make out the handwriting (sorry @helennianias !), I will try my best to type them up in a thread below. @helennianias 1) If you want to write - read.
Mar 21, 2019 15 tweets 7 min read
A quick preview of this weekend's rare watch auction at Christie's in Dubai.

Every year, this sale brings with it a trove of watches ordered by Arab rulers as gifts, all pieces of the region's history.

Here's a thread of some of my favourites this year: First up, one of the real highlights of this year's auction is this Rolex Daytona made for the Sultan of Oman in 1979, valued at $400,000.

Of all the Middle Eastern luxury royal watches, those with the Khanjar (Omani daggers) on their face are the most valuable.