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Graham Snowdon
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Guardian Weekly editor | Perpetually recovering #lufc fan
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"Can Gemini help you with this?"
If you want to read Peter Mandelson's full pitch for a job to the billionaire CEO of Glencore, Ivan Glasenberg, it's here.

It'll make you feel better about all the cover letters you've written over the years for jobs you didn't get.
February 5, 2026 at 2:37 PM
This Chinese analysis of Starmer’s trip to Beijing seems … very fair
January 29, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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Imagine having to defend your fatally shot son from Stephen Miller's slurs that he was a "domestic terrorist" trying to "assassinate" ICE officers. This is what Trump and Trumpism has brought to the United States.
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 3:57 AM
A lovely story that pushes back against the narrative a lot of people want to push about the UK

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘It has been overwhelming’: Sudanese friends complete 900-mile UK walk
Giel Malual and John Kuei trekked from Dungeness to John o’Groats to raise funds for new schools in Sudan
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:32 AM
This seems to have been quite the misjudgment from Kemi Badenoch at a highly sensitive moment for UK-US relations

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
How Badenoch’s meeting with Mike Johnson led to Trump’s Chagos deal rant
A brief encounter set off a chain of events that culminated in a public rebuff to the US president from Keir Starmer
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:21 AM
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Trump has nothing to show for this. Proof he's a mad fool, and the people around him are nowhere near as clever as they think
January 21, 2026 at 9:27 PM
You don’t say
January 21, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Greenland, “The large, icy island” - New York Times
@secondmentions.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’: Mark Carney is emerging as the unflinching realist ready to tackle Trump
‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’: Mark Carney is emerging as the unflinching realist ready to tackle Trump
In a speech at Davos, written by Carney himself, the Canadian prime minister laid out his doctrine for a world of fractured international norms
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January 21, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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❤️‍🔥Tory sources confirm that Nadhim Zahawi made approaches to senior members of Kemi Badenoch's team about getting a peerage just weeks before defecting to Reform UK - but was turned down.
January 12, 2026 at 2:35 PM
I know many of us wish X/Twitter was still the platform it used to be, but it's hard to read this and not wonder why anyone would now want to be associated with it

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI tool Grok used to create child sexual abuse imagery, watchdog says
Internet Watch Foundation warns Elon Musk-owned AI risks bringing sexualised imagery of children into the mainstream
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January 8, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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They are desperate to frame a 37-year-old mother in a Honda Pilot as a well-trained “domestic terrorist.”
Noem: "People need to stop using their vehicles as weapons ... it's clear that it's being coordinated. People are being trained"
January 8, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Trump’s interest in Venezuela is is assumed to be about oil. What does that mean in practice? Informative piece by @callumj.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US oil giants silent on Trump claim they will spend billions on Venezuelan oil industry
US president says oil majors primed to invest in rebuilding infrastructure following Maduro ouster
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January 4, 2026 at 8:29 AM
The Hill I Will Die On has been a fun Guardian Opinion series over the holidays. I think this was my favourite, about the scourge of washing-up bowls

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The hill I will die on: Washing-up bowls are horrible and should be banned | Jason Hazeley
These unhygienic, offensive lumps of plastic do everything the sink does, and less. It’s time to get rid, says comedy writer Jason Hazeley
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December 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
As someone from that part of the world, it was great to see Bradford as UK city of culture in 2025. But can it now make the most of the legacy where others have struggled? Interesting read by @lanre-bakare.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘It was empowering’: Bradford considers the legacy of its city of culture year
Organisers hope its hyper-localised ‘levelling up’ agenda will translate into sustainable, long-term uplift
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
V much in hope rather than expectation, but if anyone has a ticket going spare for Sunday, please drop me a line #lufc
December 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Reposted by Graham Snowdon
A capa do The Guardian Weekly
December 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
It’s long been suggested that Farage’s big weaknesses are his short fuse and inability to take criticism (as well as, you know, the alleged racist stuff)

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage turns on broadcasters over racism allegations as number of claims hits 28
Reform leader suggests he would boycott BBC, saying he has had letter from Dulwich pupils defending him
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December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Chris Mason should have a read of this thread by his BBC Verify colleague Ben Chu
Did Rachel Reeves and the Government “mislead” people about the state of the public finances and the need for tax rises before the Budget?

I think this is a rather complex question & the answer is not black and white.

A thread…🧵1/12
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Teenage dreams are never practical. But where would we be without the people who chased theirs? | Adrian Chiles
Teenage dreams are never practical. But where would we be without the people who chased theirs? | Adrian Chiles
It can feel wrong to encourage young people to shoot for the stars – yet if no one did, our world would be empty of the artists, actors, athletes and visionaries who give it so much pleasure and meaning, writes Adrian Chiles
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November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM