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Simon Murphy @murphy_simon
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Simon Murphy @murphy_simon
26 Jun 2025
Thrilled to have won the Orwell Prize for reporting homelessness among such an impressive group of finalists. Thank you to the judges, Orwell Foundation, brilliant Mirror colleagues & editors, charities who helped w coverage, & those who trusted us to tell their stories.
The Orwell Prize @TheOrwellPrize
25 Jun 2025
The winner of the 2025 Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness is Simon Murphy, for his work in @DailyMirror, including a front page report on the "hidden scandal of homeless women". Congratulations, @murphy_simon, and thank you to all our judges and to sponsors @homelessimpact.
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EXC: One of Nigel Farage’s Reform MPs accepted £6,000 from a waste firm boss who did jail time over an employee’s death. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/s…

Farage’s Reform MP bankrolled by waste boss who did jail time over worker death

Exclusive: Sarah Pochin funded by repeat offender Jonathan Gaskell, who also served behind bars after illegally paying to have driving licence points wiped

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Exc: Nigel Farage enjoyed Brexit anniversary celebration at French eatery – as MPs debated defence spending. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/f…

Farage’s Brexit anniversary bash at French eatery – as MPs debate defence budget

Exclusive: Reform UK’s leader, Nigel Farage, is believed to have spent hours at Saint Jacques, a fancy restaurant in St James’s, central London, where diners can order snails and foie gras

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EXC: Nigel Farage revamped his grade II-listed woodland home – after pocketing a crypto billionaire’s £5million. mirror.co.uk/news/nigel-fara…
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Today's Sunday Mirror splash – Nothing to sea here? mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ni…
Simon Murphy @murphy_simon
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EXC: Nigel Farage is planning a luxury beach pad makeover costing an estimated £700,000 – after pocketing £5million from his crypto billionaire pal. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ni…
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EXC: Nigel Farage is planning a luxury beach pad makeover costing an estimated £700,000 – after pocketing £5million from his crypto billionaire pal. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ni…
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Exc: Mirror tracks down Nigel Farage's crypto backer Christopher Harborne's firm at anonymous Thai tower mirror.co.uk/news/politics/m…

Mirror tracks down Farage's crypto backer's firm at anonymous Thai tower

Reform bankroller Christopher Harborne, estimated to be worth a staggering £18billion, uses Bangkok building for company – ‘messengers’ are said to pick up mail

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Exc: Inside luxury world of Nigel Farage's 'useful cash machine' and crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne mirror.co.uk/news/politics/n…

Inside world of Nigel Farage's 'useful cash machine' and crypto billionaire

The Mirror visits Reform UK's donor Christopher Harborne’s Thai island ‘transformation sanctuary’, boasting a monk’s cave – and where guests can even enjoy a 75-minute fire ceremony, costing £172

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New Reform councillor quits after being exposed in joint Mirror and @hopenothate investigation: mirror.co.uk/news/politics/r…

Reform councillor expelled by party following Mirror probe into racism

Stuart Prior was one of 53 Reform members elected to Essex County Council and earned a majority on the authority for Nigel Farage's party.

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Simon Murphy @murphy_simon
May 8
A Reform candidate exposed for spreading racist bile has swept to a double victory in Nigel Farage’s backyard. Stuart Prior has won Essex county council and Rochford District Council seats. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/r…
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EXC: One of Nigel Farage’s new Reform councillors claimed not to remember if he TWICE stood for BNP. We’ve been probing claim David Laing ran for the BNP, in joint investigation with @hopenothate: mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fa… << by @jeremyatmirror & me
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A Reform candidate exposed for spreading racist bile has swept to a double victory in Nigel Farage’s backyard. Stuart Prior has won Essex county council and Rochford District Council seats. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/r…

Reform candidate exposed over sick 'master race' bile sweeps to double victory

Stuart Prior, who apparently celebrated Punjabi and Sikh women being raped, has won a spot on Essex county council as well as Rochford District Council despite his racist comments

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EXC: One of Nigel Farage’s Reform candidates has spread racist bile – even declaring white people “the master race”. Joint investigation with @hopenothate exposes Stuart Prior for a slew of hateful comments. Reform said it was “looking into” posts. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/re…
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EXC: A wannabe Reform councillor standing in a key battleground despite initially failing vetting over racist posts claims he was a victim of Nigerian scammers. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/r…
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EXC: One of Nigel Farage’s Reform candidates has spread racist bile – even declaring white people “the master race”. Joint investigation with @hopenothate exposes Stuart Prior for a slew of hateful comments. Reform said it was “looking into” posts. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/re…
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EXC: An investigation can today expose how Reform candidates are on a leaked British National Party list. Joint probe with @hopenothate: mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hu… < by @DailyMirrorDan and me
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Exc: A Reform candidate who has met Nigel Farage is an Oswald Mosley fan. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/r…
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Exc: A Reform candidate who met King Charles can today be exposed for a series of “stomach-churning” anti-Muslim comments. Daniel Devaney’s posts were uncovered by @hopenothate. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/re…

Reform candidate who met King exposed over vile anti-Muslim rants

Daniel Devaney, standing in the local elections for Nigel Farage’s party in Bradford, posted on Facebook about ‘blasting’ followers of Islam off the face of the Earth

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Exc: One of Nigel Farage’s Reform candidates peddled a Covid conspiracy theory – and even branded the late Queen a “fraud” who should be overthrown. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/re…

Reform candidate shared Covid conspiracy and called late Queen ‘fraud’

Nigel Farage once spoke of his admiration for Queen Elizabeth II but Emma Clatworthy laid into Queen Elizabeth II as well as falsely claiming ‘you can’t catch virus’

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Exc: A Reform local elections campaigner whose tanning salon was visited by Nigel Farage praised Adolf Hitler, we can reveal. We confronted Aaron Taylor with dossier of evidence compiled by @hopenothate. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/r…

Reform activist visited by Farage wrote vile Hitler posts - so we confronted him

The Mirror exposes Aaron Taylor’s sickening social media posts and this is what he had to say for himself

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Today's Daily Mirror splash – Anything to declare, Mr Jenrick? mirror.co.uk/news/politics/r…
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Riding a horse against a snowy backdrop, Maksym Ostroushko looks a picture of freedom amid nature. But the Ukrainian military veteran wasn’t always so fortunate… he was once a prisoner of war. Dispatch from Kyiv oblast, with pictures by Andy Stenning. mirror.co.uk/news/world-news…
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In the shadow of death, a proud Ukrainian woman tells me about life. Standing by a poignant Kyiv memorial honouring the fallen, Olha Guyazdovska says she is tired of war. But it is far from over. mirror.co.uk/news/world-news… (report from Kyiv, pictures by Andy Stenning)
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