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Ceri Thomas

Editor

Before joining The Observer, Ceri worked for many years at the BBC where he was the longest-serving editor of the Today programme and, later, editor of Panorama.

Photo of Ceri Thomas

Ceri Thomas

Editor

Before joining The Observer, 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
    Profiting in plain sight, Farage could earn a fortune by talking up bitcoin shares

    The Reform leader is emulating Trump by promoting a crypto firm in which he owns shares, and conflict of interest rules can’t stop him

    Sun, 19 Apr 2026

  • Ceri Thomas
    Jailed for 38 years, octogenarian prisoner is next to have his day in appeal court

    If found innocent, Clive Freeman would be the victim of the worst miscarriage of justice in British history

    Sat, 18 Apr 2026

  • Ceri Thomas
    No apology, no justice: how the court of appeal failed Peter Sullivan

    The victim of a 38-year-long miscarriage of justice should have been freed much earlier. But bureaucracy and the pedantic application of procedure kept him behind bars

    Sun, 12 Apr 2026

  • Ceri Thomas
    Who really killed Diane Sindall?

    The release of Peter Sullivan, victim of the UK’s worst miscarriage of justice, leaves Merseyside police searching for a vicious murderer nearly four decades later

    Sun, 12 Apr 2026

  • Ceri Thomas
    After the donor cap and crypto ban, what if we all chipped in to fund our political parties?

    Labour’s measures won’t stop Reform ‘throwing the kitchen sink’ at May’s elections. Perhaps it’s time to use another way to stop influence-peddling

    Sun, 29 Mar 2026

  • Ceri Thomas
    Bringing Iran to ‘Goldilocks’ point underpins the rationale behind this war

    Although the US and Israel have launched an opportunistic war, their targets reveal a strategy of divide and conquer

    Sun, 8 Mar 2026

  • Ceri Thomas
    Christopher Harborne has cemented Reform’s status as a money-making machine

    New political donation rules won’t stop him giving as much as he likes

    Fri, 6 Mar 2026

  • Ceri Thomas
    The invisible man whose millions are transforming British politics

    Christopher Harborne lives in Thailand, made a fortune in cryptocurrency and bankrolled the Brexit party before backing Reform. What does his money buy?

    Sun, 1 Mar 2026

  • Ceri Thomas
    Orphaned brothers will lose their youth waiting for Afghan inquiry

    Some critics say the secretive public inquiry isn’t public at all. Others call it ‘bonkers’. Afghans like Bilal and Imran just want to know what happened to those they love

    Fri, 6 Feb 2026

  • Ceri Thomas
    Prince Harry accuses Mail of trying to make him ‘paranoid’

    Duke’s testimony sets the tone in the first week of his privacy trial

    Sat, 24 Jan 2026

  • Ceri Thomas
    Harry takes on the Mail in high court battle royal

    As the Duke of Sussex continues his crusade against the British media this week, he will meet a dogged opponent in the Mail’s ex-editor Paul Dacre

    Mon, 19 Jan 2026

  • Ceri Thomas
    Emma Barnett ‘discussing next move’ after Amol Rajan’s Today departure

    The BBC is struggling to keep hold of big hitters at the very heart of BBC News

    Mon, 19 Jan 2026

  • Ceri Thomas
    A ‘straightforward’ life-or-death decision on hunger strikers

    The government seems unyielding, the prisoners unbending, but their dangerous method of protest may prove least compromising of all

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025

  • Ceri Thomas
    SAS leaders suppressed war crimes claims, Afghanistan inquiry hears

    A senior UK special forces officer testifies that he passed information about killings to superiors – but they hushed it up

    Wed, 3 Dec 2025

  • Ceri Thomas
    History is just one more battleground in culture war being fought over the BBC

    Samir Shah’s selection as chair and the role of Robbie Gibb on the board have prompted a rethink about political appointees at the BBC

    Sun, 30 Nov 2025

  • Ceri Thomas
    MPs prepare to quiz BBC board over competence and conflict of interest

    After the resignation from the governing body of ‘the guy who most took on’ Robbie Gibb, a select committee will on Monday seek clarity on the political appointee’s agenda

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025

  • Ceri Thomas
    The definition of ‘terrorist’ is subjective

    The BBC doesn’t use the word, while the government has been accused of applying it too broadly. What does it mean?

    Mon, 18 Aug 2025

  • Ceri Thomas
    Deny, delete and delay: the secrecy operation inside special forces

    After allegations emerged of unarmed men and boys being murdered in Afghanistan, the special forces closed ranks when the military police investigated

    Sun, 20 Jul 2025

  • Ceri Thomas
    Was MoD acting in the interests of Afghans on leaked list – or covering its own back?

    Keeping the most dangerous data leak in British history secret ensured General Sir Gwyn Jenkins was kept out of the firing line

    Wed, 16 Jul 2025

  • Ceri Thomas
    Triple jeopardy: the betrayal of Afghanistan’s finest

    Thousands of elite Afghan forces were blocked from settling in the UK. Some may have witnessed British war crimes. Veterans are asking if the two are connected

    Sun, 25 May 2025

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