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Richard Preston
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Night editor at @theguardian.com. NUJ rep. Politics, the Simpsons and LFC get my blood pumping. Learning 🇪🇸. Views are mine, especially the good ones
bit harsh on Kate
January 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Attention all journalists reporting on the ‘sale’ of the Observer to Tortoise. This ‘signed’ deal is a non-binding agreement in principle not an executed contract.
December 18, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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Another two days on the picket line tomorrow & Friday with fellow Guardian & Observer journalists to protest shocking decision to give away the Observer to loss-making startup Tortoise. Please join us from 9am – 90 York Way, London N1 9GU. Cake, songs, anger & surprise guests
December 11, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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We'd love to see you to join us on t next Wednesday and Thursday (Dec 4 and 5) , any time of day, outside the Guardian (90 York Way, London N1 9GU) for chats, songs, speeches and, of course that striking essential ... cake.
November 28, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists.
If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.
November 25, 2024 at 10:30 PM
What's going on with the bookshelves, Tone?
November 21, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Ahhh, an astonishingly good pub. And another that proves that all the best pubs are on the corners in residential areas.

Sigh.
One of the best pubs in London struggling for survival because planning is stacked in favour of some powerful NIMBYs. Everything that’s wrong with Britain.
November 21, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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There’s nobody in journalism whose integrity and judgment I value more than that of Paul Webster, who retired last week as editor of the Observer. If you’ve valued Observer journalism in recent years please read his X thread about the Scott Trust’s potential sale of the Observer.
November 21, 2024 at 5:27 PM
This makes for some sobering reading

on.ft.com/40Xn9JK
How Britain squandered the best hand in the world
Having had three friends in high places — the US, the EU and China — the UK contemplates life with none
on.ft.com
November 20, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Time to join a new, apparently utopian social media platform
November 19, 2024 at 5:36 PM