Graham Snowdon

Graham Snowdon

@gsnowdon.bsky.social

Guardian Weekly editor | Perpetually recovering #lufc fan 🌐 Get the Guardian's international news magazine here (or gift a subscription!) 👉 https://support.theguardian.com/uk/subscribe/weekly

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Jessica Elgot
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The Tory Bayeux Tapestry is very funny and a great skewering of most of the main characters, apart from Angela Rayner who looks absolutely iconic in every image

Graham Snowdon
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Tom Clark@tom-clark.bsky.social

The BBC has decided that this constitutes news… A man who left for Monaco several years ago declaring he’s ’lost confidence’ in the UK His qualification for making the headlines? Owning £15bn Broadcasting like democracy already died! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukBillionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UKIneos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
Graham Snowdon
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That was quick

Kiran Stacey@kiranstacey.bsky.social

He's had the honeymoon period, now get ready for Andy Burnham's Autumn Of Pain™️. Listen to me and @peterwalker99.bsky.social discuss: 💶 Which taxes might rise? ❓ Where is Nigel Farage? 🟢 What is best policy being debated at Green conference? www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...

theguardian.comAndy Burnham’s autumn of pain– podcastKiran Stacey and Peter Walker look at the unpopular choices facing Andy Burnham
Graham Snowdon
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Someone I met from a red state earlier this year told me Vance is not popular with Maga and to watch out for Rubio’s long game

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Even Maga is falling out of love with JD Vance. If only his rivals weren’t even worse … | Arwa Mahdawi

theguardian.comEven Maga is falling out of love with JD Vance. If only his rivals weren’t even worse … | Arwa MahdawiThe US vice-president is facing a barrage of allegations and complaints from inside and outside the Republican ranks. Good news for Marco Rubio – but not for the rest of the world, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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Leo Hickman
@leohickman.carbonbrief.org

++BREAKING++ The Daily Telegraph has... *rubs eyes* ...published something sensible about climate change: "I’m coming to the view that the Online Right is going wrong, eschewing compassion or charm, talking itself into corners of angry irrelevance. Take climate change."

Graham Snowdon
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For *ahem * alternative coverage of this mystifying phenomenon www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...

theguardian.comWhat the blazes? Inside the 24 July Guardian WeeklyThe age of global wildfires. Plus Burnham in a hurry
Graham Snowdon@gsnowdon.bsky.social

Long article with not a single mention of why it might be happening. Just bizarre ‘Apocalyptic’ wildfires force tourists to flee French peninsula by boat www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9710f04...

telegraph.co.uk‘Apocalyptic’ wildfires force tourists to flee French peninsula by boatMore than 110,000 people forced to evacuate as flames threaten to cut off Cap Ferret, in country’s south-west
Graham Snowdon
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Even ex Fifa boss Sepp Blatter thinks the overturning of Balogun's red card was corrupt. And really that's all you need to know about where we are with this now www.espn.co.uk/football/sto...

espn.co.ukSepp Blatter on Folarin Balogun ban reversal: 'Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls'FIFA has been accused of overturning United States striker Folarin Balogun's red card based on "political phone calls" by its former president Sepp Blatter.
Graham Snowdon
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Now Burnham has everyone's attention, I wonder if he'll also take another look at the £16-40bn refurb of parliament. And whether it isn't just time to .. build a new one more fit for purpose somewhere else?

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Jonathan Portes
@jdportes.bsky.social

Excellent. About bloody time. What excuse is there for any other Department -and the PM?

Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social

NEW: The attorney general, Richard Hermer, has told his office to no longer post on X, making it the first UK government department to stop using the Elon Musk-owned platform amid increasing worries about its use to incite violence and racism. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.comUK attorney general tells staff to stop using X amid disinformation concernsExclusive: Richard Hermer’s department understood to be first in government to restrict use after recent riots
Graham Snowdon
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What I like most about this is that in the second picture, the people in the background have moved - but Farage still hasn’t drunk any more of his beer

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social

Really not beating those 'gone into hiding' rumours

Graham Snowdon
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Further reading on “very scared woman” Claudia Sheinbaum in this week’s Guardian Weekly magazine www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...

theguardian.comThe rise of Claudia Sheinbaum: inside the 19 June editionMexico’s trailblazing, technocratic president. Plus The global cost of the war on Iran
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump, breathing heavily, threatens Mexico: "Now we're gonna go and focus on the land. They [drugs] come through Mexico. Mexico has lost control of their country. The cartels run Mexico. The president is a very scared woman."

Graham Snowdon
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Went to see this short film over the weekend: the Seacroft Canto, an amazing project reimagining Dante's Divine Comedy through the lens of Seacroft, east Leeds. Not sure where/when it's on again but look out for it if you can. Part of @leedslitfest.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/leeds...

tickettailor.comSelect tickets – World Premiere Screening of The Seacroft Canto: A Documentary at Leeds Literature Festival – Chapel FM Arts Centre, Old Seacroft Chapel, York Rd, Seacroft, LeedsWorld Premiere Screening of The Seacroft Canto: A Documentary at Leeds Literature Festival – Chapel FM Arts Centre, Old Seacroft Chapel, York Rd, Seacroft, Leeds, Sun 14 Jun 2026 - Taking inspiration ...
Graham Snowdon
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I’m in favour of the social media ban (interestingly both my kids, who are older than 16, are too). But it’s so obvious older people need just as much help with it too