14m views - US coverage - White Men Can't Work!

Tim’s series on DEI, White Men Can’t Work!, has been generating serious media attention in the US - building on the widespread pick-up in the UK (BBC, Sunday Times, Guardian etc.)

A Fox post on X about the show has been viewed more than 14 million times.

White Men Can't Work! - new series

Tim has launched a new 5-part podcast and YouTube series - White Men Can’t Work!

He investigates what it’s like being a man in today’s workplaces - and tracks the origins and impact of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion).

It’s the story of how a radical, ideologically-driven form of DEI unwittingly managed to capture our biggest companies and institutions.

Costing billions, trampling over free speech, fairness and men’s mental health - all whilst turning out (Harvard data shows) to be counterproductive to the very people it was meant to help.

Tim explores what are better, evidence-based ways to genuinely address discrimination - that can meaningfully make that much-needed difference.

The show has been generating headlines:

Watch the show’s YouTube trailer - or listen on Apple/Spotify.

Reporting from Israel after October 7 attacks

Tim went to Israel right after the October 7 Hamas attacks to report from the front line for The Free Press, the new US media outfit.

He criss-crossed Israel and the West Bank to deliver powerful, original journalism not being covered elsewhere. His sensitive, first-hand reporting was reached audiences of millions - and was picked up by US and UK national media.

Tim was called to comment on the attack and their implications for other media - including The Times and Fox News.

BBC World Service: From Ukraine to Israel - documentary

Tim presents a BBC World Service radio documentary - From Ukraine to Israel: An exodus for our times

Thousands of Ukrainians are fleeing to Israel – joining a million-plus former Soviets who have already moved to this Middle Eastern nation, with profound consequences for both Israel and the region. Tim Samuels investigates this very modern ‘exodus’ of Jews, once again running from Eastern Europe, a journey so many of their ancestors made before.

He meets Ukrainian refugees in a Tel Aviv immigration hotel trying to start a new life for themselves after fleeing from the horrors of the conflict, but also finding themselves sharing the same facilities as Russians who have left their country too for Israel. The land they are moving to is already home to more than a million citizens from the former USSR– a wave that began in earnest in the 1990s, after decades of being denied the right to leave for Israel.

Samuels meets ‘refusenik’-turned-Israeli politician, Natan Sharansky, to talk about the impact this sudden wave of ex-Soviets had on their new homeland and Middle Eastern politics. And what will be in store for these latest migrants – in a country where ‘Russians’ can still be seen and treated as a distinct tribe. Not far from the hotel housing new arrivals lies the vast, unfinished residency of Roman Abramovich – one of a number of oligarchs with Israeli citizenship. It is unclear if the home will be ever be completed by Abramovich, if action will be taken against the oligarchs, or indeed whether Israel will carry on trying to mediate in the conflict.

It all speaks to the complex and unusual relationship between Ukraine, Russia and this Middle Eastern nation with so many citizens from the former Soviet Union.

Ukraine op-ed for Evening Standard

Why there’s a bit of all of us that wants to go and fight in Ukraine - opinion piece for the Evening Standard

I have to do my part, whatever that may be,” a 22-year-old lad from Hampshire declared, en route to Ukraine. Another Brit bound for Kyiv said, “it’s very black and white - someone has to stand up”.

Doing your part, standing up, explicitly being unsure – as both starkly are – about whether you’ll ever be coming back: it feels breathtakingly brave and insane in equal measure. The height of foolhardy fatalism.

And yet, there’s a part of me that not only admires what these guys are doing – but also wants to head out there with them. To join the fight.

This doesn’t come from suppressed militaristic fantasies. I’ve made enough documentaries about veterans to see the lingering horrors of war. When at Newsnight years ago, I politely declined being sent to Iraq – knowing I’d get PTSD before I even made it out of arrivals at Saddam International. I’m more yoga than UFC…. (continues)

US politics writing for Evening Standard

Tim has been writing a series of US politics pieces for the Evening Standard newspaper - a ‘Washington Insider’ analysing the end of the Trump administration and the new Biden presidency.

Mooch And The Mrs - and NY Post

Tim appeared on the Mooch and the Mrs podcast with Anthony and Deidre Scaramucci.

Listen at: https://omny.fm/shows/mooch-and-the-mrs-w-anthony-and-deidre-scaramucci/mooch-trump-is-dog-whistling-and-his-tweets-are-ra

Their discussion spawned an interesting article the day next in the New York Post!

Read at: https://pagesix.com/2019/07/16/the-mooch-and-his-pea-size-testicles-desperate-to-stay-on-wifes-good-side/