This account of HTS officials asking Syrian state bureaucrats what their jobs are is just superb ft.com/content/7efc20…
Abbie Fielding-Smith
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Abbie Fielding-Smith
@AbbieFS
Deputy editor of @theeconomist’s features section, 1843. Previously international investigations at @tbij & Beirut for @ft. Mostly here for puns.
Joined June 2009
- Hate personal news tweets but am feeling strange compulsion to announce in manner of own press officer that on Monday I'm starting as a senior editor at The Economist's @1843mag, about which I'm EXTREMELY excited
- So just to recap this insane week: MISSING: The head of Interpol; Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, FOUND: 4 GRU agents trying to hack the OPCW in the Hague; a Chinese spy chip in the US motherboard supply chain. STATUS UNCLEAR: Kavanaugh confirmation, Festival of Brexit Britain
- The UK took 20,000 refugees from Vietnam after the fall of Saigon and that wasn’t even our war. America took a million. What are we going to do for the Afghans?
- Incredibly moving interview with a Mariupol theatre survivor by @olliecarroll “Self-preservation instincts could have kicked in, but no one ran, and people dived into the rubble. We tried to save people” economist.com/1843/2022/03/2…
- can’t stop thinking about this woman @LovedayM found trying to get IN to Mariupol because her husband and child are there (was away on a work trip when the war started) & she can’t reach them “‘It’s my right as a mother for us to die together,’ she said”
- This is an incredible story economist.com/1843/2022/05/1…
- We sent @NicolasPelham to Baghdad to investigate the biggest bank heist of all time - $2.5bn. He came back with a tale that is, as a colleague put it, like “Agatha Christie on acid”
- Last year someone stole an amount of money equivalent to Iraq’s entire healthcare budget from a state bank account. The money was driven through the streets in trucks in broad daylight. And no one said a word
- Damn. The Reuters journalist arrested whilst exposing a massacre in Myanmar showing some pretty humbling levels of professional courage and integrity here
- Noticed a flurry of good news stories about Saudi ahead of MBS's world tour? Our deep dive in to the multimillion dollar Saudi rebranding offensive and its relationship with the UK Foreign Office thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2018-0… (also in @thetimes with the great @scribblercat)
- Here's a strange tale that @cr0ft0n & I pieced together. It's about a major private security firm which vanished in to thin air after tragedy struck in Kabul, & what that tells us about the quietly metastasizing global private military industry theatlantic.com/international/…
- Can't stop re-reading the details of this story. They've never left the UK. By 13 they'd lost their mum, & social services failed to sort out their citizenship. Now they're being deported, 1 to Dominican Republic...because their dad was born in Dominica? theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/j…
