Will Coldwell
@willcoldwell.bsky.social
Freelance journalist. Words in The Guardian, GQ, FT Mag, Wired, 1843 Magazine, Prospect, The Observer and beyond
Get in touch: w.coldwell@gmail.com
willcoldwell.com
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"if it’s a Fitzcarraldo, I’m more likely to match regardless of whether I’ve read it or not.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
‘His favourite book was by Jordan Peterson, which was a massive ick’: how books perform on dating apps
Mentions of reading in Tinder bios are up 29% in the last year. But is searching for a fellow fan of one’s favourite author really a shortcut to compatibility?
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:31 PM
"if it’s a Fitzcarraldo, I’m more likely to match regardless of whether I’ve read it or not.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
Willing to bet that by next year this will be the plot of a Netflix romcom called "Off piste"
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
Norwegian biathlete wins Winter Olympics bronze and then tells TV interview of affair
Sturla Holm Lægreid broke down in tears after winning bronze in the men’s 20km biathlon and apologised for having an affair
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Willing to bet that by next year this will be the plot of a Netflix romcom called "Off piste"
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
February 7, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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EXCLUSIVE:
Peter Mandelson sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein on setting up his advisory firm, Global Counsel, including how to target potential new clients such as the Chinese government.
www.ft.com/content/13d2...
Peter Mandelson sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein on setting up his advisory firm, Global Counsel, including how to target potential new clients such as the Chinese government.
www.ft.com/content/13d2...
Peter Mandelson sought help from Jeffrey Epstein on setting up advisory firm
Emails from 2010 show former UK minister asking child sex offender how to win political and corporate clients
www.ft.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:53 PM
EXCLUSIVE:
Peter Mandelson sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein on setting up his advisory firm, Global Counsel, including how to target potential new clients such as the Chinese government.
www.ft.com/content/13d2...
Peter Mandelson sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein on setting up his advisory firm, Global Counsel, including how to target potential new clients such as the Chinese government.
www.ft.com/content/13d2...
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As real journalists from The Washington Post, the AP and elsewhere are getting laid off, pink-slime news sites are stepping in to fill the void.
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February 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM
As real journalists from The Washington Post, the AP and elsewhere are getting laid off, pink-slime news sites are stepping in to fill the void.
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Watched the Netflix Lucy Letby doc and kinda speechless at what appeas to be the use of AI to "digitally anonymise" interviewees
February 5, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Watched the Netflix Lucy Letby doc and kinda speechless at what appeas to be the use of AI to "digitally anonymise" interviewees
"osteopath course"
Can’t mandelson afford £10k for his partner’s osteopath course
February 1, 2026 at 1:49 PM
"osteopath course"
Great reporting by @tomfaber91.bsky.social on this tragic case, badly fumbled by the Met
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
‘She was a bitch in the best possible way’: the life and mysterious death of drag queen Heklina
The performer was found dead in ‘unexpected’ circumstances in her London flat in 2023. Why are her loved ones still waiting for an explanation?
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Great reporting by @tomfaber91.bsky.social on this tragic case, badly fumbled by the Met
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 29, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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I’m really quite surprised at the BBC website today. ‘Here is a video, some people say it does not show what it very obviously shows’ is not how you report this.
January 25, 2026 at 9:52 AM
I’m really quite surprised at the BBC website today. ‘Here is a video, some people say it does not show what it very obviously shows’ is not how you report this.
“I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me, and I don’t feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don’t know what the agents will do when they find me.”
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Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony
Pair testify that Pretti did not hold weapon and was trying to help woman federal agents had shoved to the ground
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:26 AM
“I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me, and I don’t feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don’t know what the agents will do when they find me.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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There's too many primary school places in London for not enough kids. So schools are competing to stay alive, copying private school marketing tactics with Instagram ad campaigns — and in one case offering a £50 Amazon voucher referral scheme for parents. www.londoncentric.media/i/184437718/...
Amazon vouchers to fill school places
Plus: How engineers installed phone signal on the London Underground, how many freemasons can you fit in a police force, and the house with a swimming pool in the middle of the living room.
www.londoncentric.media
January 15, 2026 at 9:19 AM
There's too many primary school places in London for not enough kids. So schools are competing to stay alive, copying private school marketing tactics with Instagram ad campaigns — and in one case offering a £50 Amazon voucher referral scheme for parents. www.londoncentric.media/i/184437718/...
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Excellent reporting by @emilylawford.bsky.social on the movement changing the anti-immigration agenda from an argument about "state capacity and fairness to the threat of violence to women":
The march of the Pink Ladies
Groups of pink-clad women protesting outside asylum hotels say they are standing against sexual violence by asylum seekers
www.newstatesman.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Excellent reporting by @emilylawford.bsky.social on the movement changing the anti-immigration agenda from an argument about "state capacity and fairness to the threat of violence to women":
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We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate
January 18, 2026 at 2:08 PM
We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate
Where should I eat in Paris?
January 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Where should I eat in Paris?
“I’ve made the statement very strongly that if they start killing people like they have in the past, we will get involved..."
Meanwhile, in Minneapolis...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/u...
Meanwhile, in Minneapolis...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/u...
Trump Is Briefed on Options for Striking Iran as Protests Continue
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:13 PM
“I’ve made the statement very strongly that if they start killing people like they have in the past, we will get involved..."
Meanwhile, in Minneapolis...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/u...
Meanwhile, in Minneapolis...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/u...
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For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
January 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
Heartbreaking and disturbing beyond belief
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
January 8, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Heartbreaking and disturbing beyond belief
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Smugglers often force people to pilot boats, using threats against them or their families. Prosecuting an Afghan 18 year old seeking asylum for this is twisted and shows how Labour is more interested in playing to Reform than ensuring people are provided with safety.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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First person charged under new small boat Channel crossing law - BBC News
Aman Naseri, 18, denies endangering 46 people during a boat crossing to the UK on 5 January.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Smugglers often force people to pilot boats, using threats against them or their families. Prosecuting an Afghan 18 year old seeking asylum for this is twisted and shows how Labour is more interested in playing to Reform than ensuring people are provided with safety.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Obsessed with this show, even moreso after this illuminating profile of Noah Wyle
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/m...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/m...
On ‘The Pitt,’ E.R. Doctors Try to Fix This Broken World
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Obsessed with this show, even moreso after this illuminating profile of Noah Wyle
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/m...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/m...
“They actually released thousands of bees on me, imagine that! I’m not joking, those are real bees. That would not fly today.”
Wtaf
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Wtaf
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Jamie Lee Curtis asked My Girl studio to put trigger warning on poster over Macaulay Culkin bee sting
Actor told Columbia’s head of marketing that the film’s scene showing the death of Culkin, then 10, was going to freak out every child in the US
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“They actually released thousands of bees on me, imagine that! I’m not joking, those are real bees. That would not fly today.”
Wtaf
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Wtaf
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
A brilliant, much needed investigation into the free birth movement - absolutely heartbreaking stories
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
A brilliant, much needed investigation into the free birth movement - absolutely heartbreaking stories
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...