Andrew RC Marshall
@journotopia
Investigative reporter for Reuters • Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner • Author of "The Trouser People: Burma in the Shadow of the Empire" • Co-author of “Aum: The Cult at the End of the World” • Signal: AndrewMarshall.13 • thetrouserpeople.com
This is great. One of my early journalistic assignments was contacting very famous scientists to ask them to explain complex ideas in simple ways. I was surprised by how open and patient they were. Here’s Benoit Mandelbrot explaining fractals to me.
Just went to a supermarket in a small Scottish town where the steaks are encased in anti-theft boxes - something I haven’t seen even in London.
My phone often gave warning messages like this when I worked in Southeast Asia. This is a first for me in the UK.
My local pool in London is American-flag blue. How hard can it be?
Under the Trump crypto playbook, the family always wins - but investors don't. Read the whole investigation by my Reuters colleagues here: www.reuters.com/investigatio...
St Thomas’ Hospital, Waterloo. Among the plaques commemorating donations by long-dead soldiers and long-dead surgeons is one by a long-dead newspaper.
At the weekend I was cutting my garden hedge with a huge electric saw and so the chat with passing neighbors turned naturally to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and what it said about carnage and corruption in 1970s America. Fifty-two years later, the movie's tagline has a chilling resonance.
Vance visits Hungary. The Guardian's irony meter is almost at breaking point. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Home page of the U.S. Embassy in Egypt. Missiles, drones, security alerts . . . and "the Trump Declaration for Enduring Peace."
Despite U.N. insistence that she had diplomatic immunity, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on Francesca Albanese for “writing threatening letters” to U.S. companies and urging the ICC to investigate, Reuters found.
This is excellent . . . and terriying. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Here are the top 20 most common passwords in the UK, according to NordPass/NordStellar.
Powerful photo by my Reuters colleague Thomas Peter of a shopkeeper in Ukraine’s frontline city of Kramatorsk. Her face covered in dust from a drone blast, she stands at her counter, refusing to leave. Full story here: www.reuters.com/world/ukrain...
This is an important editorial by the editor of the Courier about the Dundee “knife incident” and how the law holds the traditional media to higher standards than social media. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/5...
It's worth reading these expert views compiled by the Science Media Centre ahead of reports that the Trump administration will link paracetamol to autism. www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...
A review of Dan Brown’s new book www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
Finally, the wheels are coming off Thailand's infamous "Temple of Doom," with its abbot's resignation and the overdue burial of AIDS victims who helped generate so many donations. It took the Thai authorities long enough. I wrote this expose in 2008. web.archive.org/web/20240418...
In "Deaf Republic," a soldier shoots a young deaf boy and his whole community protests by refusing to hear their oppressors. It opens with a poem that compels us to confront our complicity and impotence in the face of faraway atrocities.
Israeli fire kills 67 people seeking aid in Gaza, medics say, as hunger worsens - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
From Martin Wolf’s FT column, “A return to tariffs, Taco or not.”
Thrilled to see one of my (many) journals exhibited so creatively at Sarajevo’s WARM Festival 2025. It records a near-disastrous trip to a war-torn South Pacific island in 1997 that taught me a valuable journalistic lesson: if you’re going to do something stupid and dangerous, bring a friend.