Graham Snowdon
@gsnowdon.bsky.social
Guardian Weekly editor | Perpetually recovering #lufc fan
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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
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
Chris Mason should have a read of this thread by his BBC Verify colleague Ben Chu
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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
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Teenage dreams are never practical. But where would we be without the people who chased theirs? | Adrian Chiles
Tangled Up in Blue
Safe From Harm
Like A Rolling Stone
Planet Telex
11.59
Safe From Harm
Like A Rolling Stone
Planet Telex
11.59
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Tangled Up in Blue
Safe From Harm
Like A Rolling Stone
Planet Telex
11.59
Safe From Harm
Like A Rolling Stone
Planet Telex
11.59
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You have to wonder what look they’re going for here www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Ryanair expects me to take the financial hit for helping others
As a doctor I stepped in to tend to an elderly passenger … but it won’t waive £100 transfer fee to rebook
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
You have to wonder what look they’re going for here www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
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💥 NEW: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
“He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers".
Read on for more...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
“He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers".
Read on for more...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘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 3:08 PM
💥 NEW: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
“He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers".
Read on for more...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
“He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers".
Read on for more...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
A reminder not to just throw out your old Powerful Christian Religious Guru, as someone else might want one
(From Freecycle)
(From Freecycle)
November 18, 2025 at 7:29 AM
A reminder not to just throw out your old Powerful Christian Religious Guru, as someone else might want one
(From Freecycle)
(From Freecycle)
The courage and resilience that Malak has shown in her Guardian reporting from Gaza really can’t be overstated. Hugely deserved recognition.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Guardian’s former Gaza correspondent named young journalist of the year in UK awards
Malak A Tantesh, 20, ‘showed immense talent and bravery’, said judges at Media Freedom awards in London
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The courage and resilience that Malak has shown in her Guardian reporting from Gaza really can’t be overstated. Hugely deserved recognition.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Wonderful and moving tribute by @timadamswrites.bsky.social to Rachel Cooke, the brilliant Observer journalist who also frequently lit up the pages of the Guardian Weekly, who has died at the age of 56.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Wonderful and moving tribute by @timadamswrites.bsky.social to Rachel Cooke, the brilliant Observer journalist who also frequently lit up the pages of the Guardian Weekly, who has died at the age of 56.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
🇺🇸 How Zohran Mamdani gave new hope to US progressives 🇺🇸
This week's Guardian Weekly magazine, out now
Words by @edpilkington.bsky.social
Amazing cover art by www.instagram.com/stevenwilson...
👇💸 Also amazing Black Friday 33% off annual subscription offer
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This week's Guardian Weekly magazine, out now
Words by @edpilkington.bsky.social
Amazing cover art by www.instagram.com/stevenwilson...
👇💸 Also amazing Black Friday 33% off annual subscription offer
support.theguardian.com/uk/subscribe...
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
🇺🇸 How Zohran Mamdani gave new hope to US progressives 🇺🇸
This week's Guardian Weekly magazine, out now
Words by @edpilkington.bsky.social
Amazing cover art by www.instagram.com/stevenwilson...
👇💸 Also amazing Black Friday 33% off annual subscription offer
support.theguardian.com/uk/subscribe...
This week's Guardian Weekly magazine, out now
Words by @edpilkington.bsky.social
Amazing cover art by www.instagram.com/stevenwilson...
👇💸 Also amazing Black Friday 33% off annual subscription offer
support.theguardian.com/uk/subscribe...
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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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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...
Liverpool can at least feel comforted by the thought of a game v Leeds coming up
November 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Liverpool can at least feel comforted by the thought of a game v Leeds coming up
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WTAF is this? I guess podcasters have to hustle, but you are Britain’s biggest politics podcast and you are doing sponcon for Google’s ‘efficiency tools’ in government !!
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
WTAF is this? I guess podcasters have to hustle, but you are Britain’s biggest politics podcast and you are doing sponcon for Google’s ‘efficiency tools’ in government !!
November 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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The Guardian is hiring for a graphics reporter and data reporter to cover how the US government is deleting and altering important datasets.
If you like the work we do, come join us!
Data: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
Graphics: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
If you like the work we do, come join us!
Data: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
Graphics: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
October 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The Guardian is hiring for a graphics reporter and data reporter to cover how the US government is deleting and altering important datasets.
If you like the work we do, come join us!
Data: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
Graphics: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
If you like the work we do, come join us!
Data: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
Graphics: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
Good piece
What would you do if democracy was being dismantled before your eyes? Whatever you’re doing right now | Andy Beckett
What would you do if democracy was being dismantled before your eyes? Whatever you’re doing right now | Andy Beckett
In California, daily life under Trump is marked by sporadic resistance and avoidance. Neither will defeat the autocrats, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Good piece
“In 30 years working in the favelas this is the greatest act of savagery, the biggest massacre I have seen”
Horrifying report from @tomphillips.bsky.social on Rio’s deadliest-ever police raid
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Horrifying report from @tomphillips.bsky.social on Rio’s deadliest-ever police raid
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘This was a slaughter, not an operation’: the favela reeling from Rio’s deadliest police raid
Residents of Vila Cruzeiro gather bodies after more than 130 were killed in pre-dawn assault
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
“In 30 years working in the favelas this is the greatest act of savagery, the biggest massacre I have seen”
Horrifying report from @tomphillips.bsky.social on Rio’s deadliest-ever police raid
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Horrifying report from @tomphillips.bsky.social on Rio’s deadliest-ever police raid
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
So many big Premier League goals coming from corners, long throws and long balls. Not great for fans or the PL brand, how did football get so reminiscent (in some ways) of the late 1980s all over again?
October 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
So many big Premier League goals coming from corners, long throws and long balls. Not great for fans or the PL brand, how did football get so reminiscent (in some ways) of the late 1980s all over again?
Beautiful piece by Ann Enright (and imo better read in the Guardian’s Saturday magazine), on a topic I can relate to all too well right now
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘Under the stuff I can’t throw out is the stuff my parents couldn’t throw out’: novelist Anne Enright on the agony of clearing her family home
Would saying goodbye to every last newspaper clipping, button and book her parents had saved over decades help her mourn?
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Beautiful piece by Ann Enright (and imo better read in the Guardian’s Saturday magazine), on a topic I can relate to all too well right now
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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Today Leeds followed our forebears who kicked Oswald Moseley and his Facists out of the city at the Battle of Holbeck Moor and stood up to racism, the far right and said loud and clear”Refugees are welcome here”. This is Leeds
October 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Today Leeds followed our forebears who kicked Oswald Moseley and his Facists out of the city at the Battle of Holbeck Moor and stood up to racism, the far right and said loud and clear”Refugees are welcome here”. This is Leeds
Why is it so hard to tax the super-rich?
From the Guardian's excellent It's Complicated video explainer series
youtu.be/vPZRDt1kcV8?...
From the Guardian's excellent It's Complicated video explainer series
youtu.be/vPZRDt1kcV8?...
Why it's so hard to tax the super-rich
YouTube video by It's Complicated
youtu.be
October 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Why is it so hard to tax the super-rich?
From the Guardian's excellent It's Complicated video explainer series
youtu.be/vPZRDt1kcV8?...
From the Guardian's excellent It's Complicated video explainer series
youtu.be/vPZRDt1kcV8?...
Er…
🧵/ Labour members would choose Andy Burnham over Keir Starmer, if given the chance, but tend to think Starmer should lead Labour into the next general election
Andy Burnham: 62%
Keir Starmer: 29%
Starmer should stay: 53%
Starmer should leave before next election: 37%
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Andy Burnham: 62%
Keir Starmer: 29%
Starmer should stay: 53%
Starmer should leave before next election: 37%
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
September 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Er…
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Giving a talk tonight on ‘Science and politics in the national archive’, at the Athenaeum (!)
It’s about how I do history and what I find out
It’s accessible and at times entertaining
Very happy to repeat it for a more public and broader audience. If anyone interested get in touch
It’s about how I do history and what I find out
It’s accessible and at times entertaining
Very happy to repeat it for a more public and broader audience. If anyone interested get in touch
September 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Giving a talk tonight on ‘Science and politics in the national archive’, at the Athenaeum (!)
It’s about how I do history and what I find out
It’s accessible and at times entertaining
Very happy to repeat it for a more public and broader audience. If anyone interested get in touch
It’s about how I do history and what I find out
It’s accessible and at times entertaining
Very happy to repeat it for a more public and broader audience. If anyone interested get in touch