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Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 5, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word.
IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.
Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.
Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
January 26, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word.
IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.
Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.
Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
Brilliant piece
“In the next few days a pall fell over the country. The quiet was chilling. We all knew that a bloodbath had taken place, though we didn’t know its true magnitude and perhaps never will.” A report from inside Iran by the novelist Salar Abdoh: www.equator.org/articles/the...
February 2, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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I am super proud of this 3 part series about digital politics by the brilliant Robert Topinka that I commissioned and edited.
First piece here about how liberals misread the rise of the right content platforms.The illos by Antoine Cossé are so good www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
First piece here about how liberals misread the rise of the right content platforms.The illos by Antoine Cossé are so good www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How liberals lost the internet | Robert Topinka
In the first part of our series on digital politics, we look at how centrists have lost ground fighting disinformation – when the real battle is over emotion and attention, says digital media academic...
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:12 PM
I am super proud of this 3 part series about digital politics by the brilliant Robert Topinka that I commissioned and edited.
First piece here about how liberals misread the rise of the right content platforms.The illos by Antoine Cossé are so good www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
First piece here about how liberals misread the rise of the right content platforms.The illos by Antoine Cossé are so good www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This image is strikingly similar to the famous photo of a young Dilma Rousseff in front of a Brazilian military court also too cowardly to show their faces.
January 28, 2026 at 9:27 PM
This image is strikingly similar to the famous photo of a young Dilma Rousseff in front of a Brazilian military court also too cowardly to show their faces.
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Thanks to the Guardian for publishing this extract from my new book. It's about one of the many very bleak aspects of the global anti-money laundering system.
Access denied: why Muslims worldwide are being ‘debanked’ | Oliver Bullough
Access denied: why Muslims worldwide are being ‘debanked’ | Oliver Bullough
The long read: Innocent people are being frozen out of basic banking services – and it all traces back to reforms rushed through after 9/11
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Thanks to the Guardian for publishing this extract from my new book. It's about one of the many very bleak aspects of the global anti-money laundering system.
"Schumer was going, like, do you know this guy? T-O-O-Z-E?”
Today's Guardian long read by @robertpbaird.com
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Today's Guardian long read by @robertpbaird.com
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age
The long read: Whether it’s the financial crash, the climate emergency or the breakdown of the international order, historian Adam Tooze has become the go-to guide to the radical new world we’ve enter...
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:50 AM
"Schumer was going, like, do you know this guy? T-O-O-Z-E?”
Today's Guardian long read by @robertpbaird.com
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Today's Guardian long read by @robertpbaird.com
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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At a time when genuine antisemitism is rising to truly frightening levels, especially among the young, probably not great that the self-described Jewish State is giving people easy ammunition to dismiss all allegations of antisemitism as simply politically-motivated attacks.
January 2, 2026 at 4:21 PM
At a time when genuine antisemitism is rising to truly frightening levels, especially among the young, probably not great that the self-described Jewish State is giving people easy ammunition to dismiss all allegations of antisemitism as simply politically-motivated attacks.
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My piece on why Keir Starmer isn't turning out to be the human rights hero he talked himself up as is in the Long Read's best of 2025 - and in great company... www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
The best of the long read in 2025
The long read: Our 20 favourite pieces of in-depth reporting, essays and profiles from the year
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
My piece on why Keir Starmer isn't turning out to be the human rights hero he talked himself up as is in the Long Read's best of 2025 - and in great company... www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
The best of the Guardian long read in 2025. Enjoy! www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
The best of the long read in 2025
The long read: Our 20 favourite pieces of in-depth reporting, essays and profiles from the year
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The best of the Guardian long read in 2025. Enjoy! www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
“This will not be business as usual, but rather business unusual, business unconventional,” said the BVI premier at the start of his tenure. But no one knew quite how unusual it would turn out to be.
Today's Guardian long read by @edsiddons.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Today's Guardian long read by @edsiddons.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Walking into disaster: the narcotrafficking scandal that blew up the BVI
The long read: When the new premier of the British Virgin Islands said he needed an armed security detail, his chief of police knew trouble was on its way
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“This will not be business as usual, but rather business unusual, business unconventional,” said the BVI premier at the start of his tenure. But no one knew quite how unusual it would turn out to be.
Today's Guardian long read by @edsiddons.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Today's Guardian long read by @edsiddons.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
If you missed it first time round, now's your chance to catch up with one of the maddest stories of 2025
Anyway it's an honour the Guardian has licensed a version of a London Centric piece as today's Long Read. The pics are amazing. The fee will pay for me to hire a freelancer for a week. But mainly it means I'm freed from the alpaca... which is replaced by a snail.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
The snail farm don: is this the most brazen tax avoidance scheme of all time?
The long read: Terry Ball – renowned shoe salesman, friend to former mafiosi – has resolved to spend his last years finding ways to cheat authorities he feels have cheated him. His greatest ruse? A ta...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:56 AM
If you missed it first time round, now's your chance to catch up with one of the maddest stories of 2025
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I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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THE ASSET CLASS, my first book, will be published by @wnbooks.bsky.social on 9 April 2026. It’s a narrative investigation of private equity, a secretive and relentlessly destructive wing of finance that penetrates almost every aspect of our lives - and it’s available to pre-order now!
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
THE ASSET CLASS, my first book, will be published by @wnbooks.bsky.social on 9 April 2026. It’s a narrative investigation of private equity, a secretive and relentlessly destructive wing of finance that penetrates almost every aspect of our lives - and it’s available to pre-order now!
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Exclusive: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
w/ Dan Boffey and @drblacklock.bsky.social
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
w/ Dan Boffey and @drblacklock.bsky.social
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Exclusive: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
w/ Dan Boffey and @drblacklock.bsky.social
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
w/ Dan Boffey and @drblacklock.bsky.social
Come see Chris Clarke, Clare Longrigg and I talk about the long read! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magculture...
magCulture Meets The Guardian Long Read
The team behind The Guardian Long Read join us to introduce this new magazine
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November 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Come see Chris Clarke, Clare Longrigg and I talk about the long read! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magculture...
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This is by some distance the best thing out there on this subject
New: for @equatormag.bsky.social I spent months talking to BBC journalists, from front-line reporters to the former head of the World Service, about how the corporation came unstuck over Gaza. But as I was working on the story, it collided with something... bigger... www.equator.org/articles/ins...
Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • Articles • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
www.equator.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is by some distance the best thing out there on this subject
Excited to say that the beautiful Guardian Long Read Magazine is out now, ft. work by @mrkocnnll.bsky.social, @imogenwk.bsky.social, @jackgoulder.bsky.social, @tessairini.bsky.social, @hettieobrien.bsky.social + many other brilliant writers. Order your copy here guardianbookshop.com/long-read-50...
The Guardian Long Read
A better place to buy your books. Support independent journalism with everything you buy. Free UK P&P on online orders over £25
guardianbookshop.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Excited to say that the beautiful Guardian Long Read Magazine is out now, ft. work by @mrkocnnll.bsky.social, @imogenwk.bsky.social, @jackgoulder.bsky.social, @tessairini.bsky.social, @hettieobrien.bsky.social + many other brilliant writers. Order your copy here guardianbookshop.com/long-read-50...
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Equator is live today. Read about our mission and our first pieces, which include works of reportage, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from around the world: www.equator.org
EQUATOR
Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
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There are so many interesting threads in this piece - the explosion in fraud over the last decade, the rise of private policing, the former CPS lawyers and police officers spotting the business opportunities that austerity presented. Plus a con artist brought down by his furious ex-girlfriends.
My latest Guardian Long Read is about a shadowy area of criminal law that has exploded since austerity, and what “two tier justice” really means in Britain: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘The police weren’t interested’: what’s driving the rise in private prosecutions?
The long read: As the police and courts continue to struggle with the legacy of austerity, many people are seeking alternative routes to justice – but it could be making matters worse
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
There are so many interesting threads in this piece - the explosion in fraud over the last decade, the rise of private policing, the former CPS lawyers and police officers spotting the business opportunities that austerity presented. Plus a con artist brought down by his furious ex-girlfriends.
Today’s long read by Lauren Hilgers is about a Chinese journalist watching the US unravel www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
October 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Today’s long read by Lauren Hilgers is about a Chinese journalist watching the US unravel www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
“Act cool and everything will be fine,” wrote one of the thieves. “No one is following you, it’s just your inner fear.“
Another "special operation" or a Marx Brothers-style farce in which competing thieves tried to outwit one another? I wrote a long read about the curious disappearance of rare Russian books from European libraries www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist
The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
“Act cool and everything will be fine,” wrote one of the thieves. “No one is following you, it’s just your inner fear.“