Alex Perry
PoliticoAlex Perry has written for The New Yorker, National Geographic, The Economist, Politico, Outside, The Guardian, TIME, Newsweek, The Sunday Times magazine and others. His latest book, Blood Will Flow: The Murderous Business of Oil and Gas, is based on five years of investigation into a hidden massacre — the second bloodiest terror attack of all time — outside a giant gas plant in Mozambique.
His shortlisted pieces were:
- Patrick Pouyanné’s Deadly Gamble
- TotalEnergies accused of complicity in war crimes over Mozambique container massacre
- Dutch report confirms massacre at TotalEnergies Mozambique gas project
Alex Perry’s investigation into TotalEnergies being named as being complicit in war crimes that occurred in Mozambique is a work of exceptional courage and consequence. Combining painstaking evidence with an acute sense of human suffering, Perry exposes the entanglement of corporate power, state violence and impunity. The reporting is both morally urgent and scrupulously controlled: it restores names, facts and accountability to lives that might otherwise have been buried. It speaks directly to the Orwell Prize’s central purpose: political writing of force, lucidity and art.
– Greg Williams, Chair of Judges, The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2026
