Ceri worked for many years at the BBC where he was the longest-serving editor of the Today programme and, later, editor of Panorama.
Ceri Thomas
Editor and partner
“Tortoise gives me the space to tell stories, and stories change the world.”
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Tuesday 27 April 2021
13:00-14:00 BST
Open News
Add your voice to the Tortoise editors’ weekly news conference. Bring story ideas and perspectives. Have your say.
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Tuesday 26 January 2021
08:00-09:00 BST
Are big investment platforms making fools of small investors?
Are small investors losing too much of their savings to big platforms?
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Wednesday 13 January 2021
18:30-19:30 BST
Finding Covid’s lost children: how do we bring them back?
We ask experts what happened to the lost of children of Covid, and what we can do about it.
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Tuesday 27 October 2020
07:55-09:00 BST
Covid-19 winners and losers: the food business
What next for the food business in the UK?
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Monday 23 November 2020
18:25-19:30 BST
Is covid cover for corruption?
Is corruption rife in the government? Are our leaders allowing ‘chumocracy’ to flourish and using the pandemic as cover?
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Monday 28 September 2020
18:25-19:30 BST
Can Boris survive?
Boris Johnson’s 80 seat majority should have given him a bulletproof five-year term in office but Covid-19 had other ideas.
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Wednesday 16 September 2020
18:20-19:20 BST
Is everything we know about food wrong? With Professor Tim Spector
One of the world’s leading scientists reveals why so much of the current advice on food and nutrition is dangerously inaccurate.
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Thursday 29 April 2021
10 minute readRethinking Harvey Proctor
What just happened
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Monday 29 March 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Access to finance
What just happened
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Monday 2 November 2020
Trans Rights
JK Rowling and the Unfinished Business
The Tortoise Slow Newscast pieces together the story of the Harry Potter author’s very political, very personal interventions on gender and identity
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Saturday 27 July 2019
How do we begin to fix the mental health crisis?
This was the question we investigated at a pair of recent ThinkIns. Here are the key points of the discussion, as well our thoughts on where we’ll head next
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Monday 12 July 2021
Genesis: The mystery of where Covid began
The truth of an origin story has never mattered more: did Covid cross to humans from an animal, or did it escape from a laboratory? The arguments between science, politics and, now, the intelligence services have only grown fiercer. And in the fog of war, the World Health Organisation lost its way
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Thursday 29 April 2021
Mixing and merging
It seems important for all of us to understand the meaning of what’s happened to Harvey Proctor. What was it which liberated the media and the police to behave as they did; to create or fuel the two scandals which wrecked his life?
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Wednesday 28 April 2021
The high wire
For the second time in his life, Harvey Proctor was being battered by a storm of dreadful allegations. His lawyers advised a safety-first approach. He had other ideas
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Tuesday 27 April 2021
Incredible
To suffer one shattering public scandal in a lifetime is hard enough. Harvey Proctor has endured two. In the second episode of Pariah, one of the highest profile police investigations of the past decade – Operation Midland – comes knocking on his door
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Monday 26 April 2021
Intolerance
Harvey Proctor’s political star burned brightly in the 1980s. He was the anti-immigrant heir-apparent to Enoch Powell, until a tabloid sting exposed him as a gay man who paid for sex
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Monday 2 November 2020
JK Rowling and the Unfinished Business
Why did a famous author wade into the debate over trans rights?