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Deputy editor of the Guardian www.theguardian.com

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03.01.2025 22:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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10 years of the long read: a selection of great stories From food to Freud to football, 10 lists for 10 years

10 years of the long read: a selection of 100 great stories

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31.12.2024 18:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But time after time, he has left the buildings empty. Why has he allowed his empire to moulder?

A masterful Guardian long read…

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20.12.2024 07:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jadon Sancho’s joy returns as his talent finds space to flourish at Chelsea Winger’s move to London looks a smart piece of business now, with Manchester United dropping the ball again A penny for Manchester United’s thoughts when a day that began with Dan Ashworth’s ignominious departure from Old Trafford ended with their…

Jadon Sancho’s joy returns as his talent finds space to flourish at Chelsea

14.12.2024 12:56 — 👍 44    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 2
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‘A whole new world opened up’: the radical project taking Israel-Palestine into schools Issues often deemed too controversial for the classroom are bread and butter for Parallel Histories, which teaches children to see hot-button topics from both sides * Donate to our charity appeal here It has dominated the news agenda for the past 14…

‘A whole new world opened up’: the radical project taking Israel-Palestine into schools

14.12.2024 13:14 — 👍 91    🔁 26    💬 9    📌 8
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Gotta lotta bottle: doing the rounds with Britain’s last milkmen – photo essay Their floats were once a regular sight, quietly whirring down the country’s streets, delivering daily pints. Photographer Maxine Beuret captures the vanishing world of electric milk floats (and their drivers) You often hear them before you see them: the…

Gotta lotta bottle: doing the rounds with Britain’s last milkmen – photo essay

14.12.2024 08:08 — 👍 194    🔁 39    💬 17    📌 14
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The Guardian and Observer charity telethon 2024: speak to our journalists and donate Marina Hyde, John Crace and Simon Hattenstone are among those ready to take your calls to raise money for War Child, Médecins Sans Frontières and Parallel Histories

The Guardian and Observer charity telethon 2024: speak to our journalists and donate

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14.12.2024 09:20 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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11.12.2024 18:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rupert Murdoch loses battle to control succession to his media empire Media mogul’s three adult children will retain control despite his bid to give his son Lachlan complete control Rupert Murdoch’s three adult children will retain control over their father’s media empire upon his death, despite Murdoch launching a…

Rupert Murdoch loses battle to control succession to his media empire

09.12.2024 20:39 — 👍 979    🔁 223    💬 91    📌 107
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A guide to the Guardian and Observer’s 2024 charity appeal partners Médecins Sans Frontières, War Child and Parallel Histories are partnering with us on this year’s theme: conflict

A guide to the Guardian and Observer’s 2024 charity appeal partners

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06.12.2024 17:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The 20 best songs of 2024 Here are the year’s most outstanding tracks – from Fontaines DC to Beyoncé via Kendrick Lamar – as voted for by 26 Guardian music writers

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06.12.2024 07:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘I’ve got my mojo back’: Emma Hayes reborn in USA and building new legacy Former Chelsea manager is back in London for friendly with Lionesses and targeting World Cup glory with USWNT Sitting in a makeshift press conference room on the dance floor of Camden’s Underworld music venue, beneath the World’s End pub, Emma Hayes…

‘I’ve got my mojo back’: Emma Hayes reborn in USA and building new legacy

25.11.2024 19:36 — 👍 60    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1
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Cop29 live: talks into overtime as Greta Thunberg says people in power ‘about to agree to death sentence’ The talks in Azerbaijan have seen nations at odds over how much money developed countries should provide to poorer ones

#cop29 - @GretaThunberg says the people in power 'about to agree to a death sentence'

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23.11.2024 07:31 — 👍 33    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 1
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Slapps used to silence whistleblowers should be outlawed, says group of MPs Cross-party group cites legal threats used to hide Post Office Horizon scandal and allegations against Mohamed Al Fayed

Slapps used to silence whistleblowers should be outlawed says group of MPs - some shocking cases in here www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

21.11.2024 21:12 — 👍 23    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 2
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RIP J. Saul Kane - a true trailblazer gone way too soon. Here's Bounty Killers by his Depth Charge project, taped off Snub TV in 1990. The full episode is at youtu.be/JpWXVNQKqXU

18.11.2024 21:31 — 👍 71    🔁 12    💬 5    📌 4
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Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be – Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world A population numbed, dazed, present-but-not-present – had it happened overnight it would be a sci-fi horror movie. And if you looked up from your phone for long enough, you might notice it’s started already… Nobody’s home. Not in the young woman with the…

Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be – Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world

16.11.2024 11:10 — 👍 62    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 7
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Would you like a crash course in understanding Wales?

Of course you do.

I think it is time for my first ever Bluesky thread!

These are series of maps to help you better understand the country of Cymru!

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14.11.2024 19:42 — 👍 655    🔁 169    💬 29    📌 28

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