Investigations editor @LInvestigates. Ex- @openDemocracy, @BigIssue, @HuffPostUK, @hackneygazette. Mentor @JSchofieldTrust
East London via Wolverhampton
Joined August 2011
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Sam Gelder retweeted
Gutted that @onlinehyphen's parent company is to consult on laying off our entire newsroom. It's been a privilege to work with the talented team on high-impact stories. Editors, if you're hiring, myself and 17 other first-rate journos will likely soon be entering the job market.
Sam Gelder retweeted
🔴 Sad to say that Hyphen’s parent company is consulting on shutting the website and laying off all of its staff, including me.
It’s obviously devastating news for a superb team whose journalism has had real impact this week alone. I’m so proud to have worked alongside them. 🧵
Sam Gelder retweeted
This may seem a good idea for the sanitised Premier League but as a football fan, I can't see this being a positive change at all if it happens.
theguardian.com/football/202…
Sam Gelder retweeted
🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement
Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates.
democracyforsale.substack.co…
Sam Gelder retweeted
🔴 SCOOP: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement
Comes after Sadiq Khan blocked £50m Palantir deal
New by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates
democracyforsale.substack.co…
Sam Gelder retweeted
🔴 We fought the Home Office for nine months to see the outcome of an internal investigation into the death of Mehrab Omrani, who lay dead in asylum housing for up to four months, still wearing an ankle tag.
They initially said we couldn't have it as it contained personal data.
ALT Email exchanges between us and the Home Office showing us requesting the outcome of the investigation, them saying it was exempt under 'health and safety', 'personal data' and 'information provided in confidence', then eventually 9 months later: 'The Home Office has not conducted a separate internal investigation.'
Sam Gelder retweeted
.@Lauratobin1: "People from the fire brigade said in the future we'll have to pick which fires to put out, which streets to save, which houses to save, because there won't be enough resources"
The Fire & Rescue Service needs investment & more resources, not more cuts
Sam Gelder retweeted
NEW from @anitamureithii: Raza Mustafa Aslam put his life at risk during the Huntingdon train stabbings last year to protect others.
He's been left partially paralysed, unable to work and is still waiting desperately for long-promised mental health support.
Sam Gelder retweeted
📢 Have your say on AI, surveillance & policing.
We’re looking for participants for paid online focus groups as part of BLAM UK’s AI Accountability Research Project.
💷 £25 thank you payment
📧 [email protected]
#AI #FacialRecognition #DigitalRights #Policing #BlackBritain
Sam Gelder retweeted
🚨 NEW: As UK police embrace the AI revolution, our investigation with @WIRED reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics 🧵 wired.com/story/british-poli…
Sam Gelder retweeted
For more than a decade, police in Bristol, England, have developed at least 23 separate predictive models to score people’s likelihood of becoming perpetrators or victims of crime. Most of the population knows nothing about it. wired.com/story/british-poli…
Sam Gelder retweeted
🚨 NEW: A wildfire has broken out in Glossop, Derbyshire amid the extreme UK heatwave
Sam Gelder retweeted
Sending reporters to do heatwave stories to camera at the beach is a such a lazy bit of consent manufacturing. 35C does not equal the beach. Do the report on a building site where people are on the verge of passing out. Do it from a hospital ward.
Sam Gelder retweeted
Still time to apply!
@LInvestigates is looking for an ambitious investigative journalist on a 12-month fixed-term contract.
• Full time, 35 hours per week
• Hybrid, 2 days per week in our Westminster office
• Deadline to apply: 9am, Mon 6 July
libertyhumanrights.org.uk/wo…
NEW: Police are exploring new ways of using facial recognition, including:
🤳 Facial recognition apps on officers' phones
👮 Real-time searches using bodycam footage
🚁 Facial recognition drones at protests
thetimes.com/uk/technology-u…
It comes as watchdogs warn the technology is not as effective as claimed and that oversight is lagging, as revealed by the Guardian on Sunday theguardian.com/technology/n…
Sam Gelder retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: UK police are exploring radical new ways of using facial recognition:
🤳 Facial recognition apps on officers' phones
👮 Real-time searches using bodycam footage
🚁 Facial recognition drones at protests
Sam Gelder retweeted
NEW: 12 British universities have paid a private firm run by former military intelligence officials to “spy” on student protesters and academics, including those expressing solidarity with Palestine, it can be revealed.
Our latest exposé w/@AJEnglish👇
aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/20…
Sam Gelder retweeted
AJ Exclusive: Twelve UK universities paid a private firm run by former military intelligence officials to 'spy' on student protesters and academics, including those who have expressed solidarity with Palestine, it can be revealed aje.news/30ic1p
