Graham Snowdon
@gsnowdon.bsky.social
Guardian Weekly editor | Perpetually recovering #lufc fan
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Two great pieces on Cuba this weekend by Ruaridh Nicoll, our man in Havana. The first is this news feature on the spiralling crisis sparked by the Trump adminstration oil embargo ....
No fuel, no tourists, no cash – this was the week the Cuban crisis got real
Diplomats in Havana are preparing for an alternative Trump tactic: the country being starved until people take to the streets and the US can step in
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February 15, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Two great pieces on Cuba this weekend by Ruaridh Nicoll, our man in Havana. The first is this news feature on the spiralling crisis sparked by the Trump adminstration oil embargo ....
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I had the pleasure of a visit to the Kays curling stone factory in Ayrshire - this is what I learned...
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‘A great wee place’: the small Scottish factory crafting Olympic curling stones
All stones in Cortina are made from granite found on tiny island in Firth of Clyde and crafted in East Ayrshire
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February 13, 2026 at 9:07 AM
I had the pleasure of a visit to the Kays curling stone factory in Ayrshire - this is what I learned...
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Excellent piece of feature reporting that pieces together from different angles the previously untold story of Brazil's deadliest-ever police raid
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Rio’s bloodiest day: the untold story of Brazil’s most deadly police raid
In interviews with community leaders, lawyers, security specialists and bereaved relatives, the Guardian pieces together how an operation targeting a criminal gang left 122 people dead last October
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February 11, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Excellent piece of feature reporting that pieces together from different angles the previously untold story of Brazil's deadliest-ever police raid
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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In the light of the Washington Post cuts, here's why quality sports coverage matters – and why the Guardian will continue to invest in it
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Quality sports coverage matters – now more than ever
With human sporting dramas fighting for space amid the geopolitics, the Winter Olympics are a reminder that the essence of sport remains noble and valid
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February 11, 2026 at 3:37 PM
In the light of the Washington Post cuts, here's why quality sports coverage matters – and why the Guardian will continue to invest in it
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It is cope to believe this is all confected. My whole job is talking to MPs and ministers, I talk to a dozen different ones every day, I spend the week in Parliament in the same corridors, same coffee queues. Sometimes even I have been taken aback by the strength of feeling about the need for change
Getting really tired of "this is all a media concoction"...
Starmer has the lowest approval rating of any PM in history bar Truss. Senior ministers are openly and unsubtly positioning. His Chief of Staff, Director of Comms and Cab Sec have all resigned on the same day.
I mean come on...
Starmer has the lowest approval rating of any PM in history bar Truss. Senior ministers are openly and unsubtly positioning. His Chief of Staff, Director of Comms and Cab Sec have all resigned on the same day.
I mean come on...
February 10, 2026 at 9:49 AM
It is cope to believe this is all confected. My whole job is talking to MPs and ministers, I talk to a dozen different ones every day, I spend the week in Parliament in the same corridors, same coffee queues. Sometimes even I have been taken aback by the strength of feeling about the need for change
Love this! Close-up photographer of the year awards
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In your face: Close-up Photographer of the Year Awards 2026 – in pictures
Animals, insects, flora and fauna – the world photographed in close-up in the annual competition dedicated to micro and macro photography. Cupoty 7 was won by underwater photographer Ross Gudgeon, tri...
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February 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Love this! Close-up photographer of the year awards
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Enraged to hear via @londonermag.bsky.social that the brilliant newsagents in Brixton tube station has been forced to close due to a triple rent hike by @tflondon.bsky.social. Because what #Brixton so desperately needs is another coffee shop, right?
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How a TfL rent rise killed off Brixton tube's beloved newsagent's
Plus: UCKG gets rapped by regulators, Shoreditch planning chaos and London's first South Indian restaurant
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February 9, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Enraged to hear via @londonermag.bsky.social that the brilliant newsagents in Brixton tube station has been forced to close due to a triple rent hike by @tflondon.bsky.social. Because what #Brixton so desperately needs is another coffee shop, right?
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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.
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
"Can Gemini help you with this?"
This Chinese analysis of Starmer’s trip to Beijing seems … very fair
January 29, 2026 at 6:26 PM
This Chinese analysis of Starmer’s trip to Beijing seems … very fair
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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."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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.
A lovely story that pushes back against the narrative a lot of people want to push about the UK
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‘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
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January 23, 2026 at 7:32 AM
A lovely story that pushes back against the narrative a lot of people want to push about the UK
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This seems to have been quite the misjudgment from Kemi Badenoch at a highly sensitive moment for UK-US relations
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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
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January 22, 2026 at 10:21 AM
This seems to have been quite the misjudgment from Kemi Badenoch at a highly sensitive moment for UK-US relations
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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
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
Greenland, “The large, icy island” - New York Times
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January 21, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Greenland, “The large, icy island” - New York Times
@secondmentions.bsky.social
@secondmentions.bsky.social
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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
‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’: Mark Carney is emerging as the unflinching realist ready to tackle Trump
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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
❤️🔥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.
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Indonesia blocks Musk’s Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content
Indonesia blocks Musk’s Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content
Move comes after governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned the AI tool and some have opened inquiries into sexualised content
Indonesia temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot on Saturday due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool.
The move comes after governments, researchers and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned and some have opened inquiries into sexualised content on the app. Continue reading...
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January 10, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Indonesia blocks Musk’s Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content
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
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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
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
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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
They are desperate to frame a 37-year-old mother in a Honda Pilot as a well-trained “domestic terrorist.”
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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.
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“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.
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January 5, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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.
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“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.
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Trump’s interest in Venezuela is is assumed to be about oil. What does that mean in practice? Informative piece by @callumj.bsky.social
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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
Trump’s interest in Venezuela is is assumed to be about oil. What does that mean in practice? Informative piece by @callumj.bsky.social
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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
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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
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
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