Will Coldwell

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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Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

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My most-loved kitchen object, nothing beats it

FT Edit@ftedit.ft.com

Italian industry is renowned for many things: specialist skill, technical expertise and design flair. International dominance is not one of them. Can coffee pot-maker Bialetti break the Italian mould and take its iconic Moka Express global? Today's Big Read is on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/fl4UouO

Will Coldwell
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V pleased to hear that the @princecharlescinema.com has agreed a new 25-year lease with Criterion Capital. If you're curious about the backstory, I wrote about some of the challenges it was having with Criterion and it's owner, Asif Aziz, last year. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

theguardian.com‘The city is being hollowed out’: the billionaire landlord locked in a David v Goliath battle for London’s West EndDubbed ‘Britain’s meanest landlord’, Asif Aziz is fighting it out with a tiny cinema that counts Christopher Nolan, Paul Mescal and other Hollywood heroes as fans. How did the capital’s cultural landm...
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Ali Albokhari is a seafarer facing 30 years in prison after cocaine was found on his cargo ship. Is it a grave miscarriage of justice? My latest for the Guardian Saturday magazine www.theguardian.com/business/202...

theguardian.comA cargo ship, 20 crew, and a huge stash of cocaine: the seafarer imprisoned for smuggling – on no evidenceAfter Turkish police found drugs on board the Phoenician M, the ship’s chief mate, Ali Albokhari, was sentenced to 30 years in prison. His wife is still fighting to free him

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Joel Chan
@kjoules.org

A heartbreaking story by @samirashackle.bsky.social of Luna Wong, a young Hongkonger whose parents hoped that by sending her to boarding school in the UK she could recover from her mental health problems. She took her own life less than a year later www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

theguardian.com‘They accepted the money but didn’t take care of my child’: what Luna Wong’s death reveals about the treatment of international students in the UKWhen her parents waved her off to study in England they hoped it would be a fresh start the 16-year-old needed after struggling with her mental health in Hong Kong. Instead, 10 months later, she was d...

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Will Jennings📉🗳️
@drjennings.bsky.social

There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point.

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

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Rob Davies
@byrobdavies.bsky.social

As a non-practising Jew, I find this line of questioning utterly abhorrent. I also fully support Miliband's position. Jews are not a homogeneous bloc and should not be treated as such, it's dehumanising.

Will Coldwell
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"That simple question — how do you feel? — guides most runners in the area....The simplicity is in some ways born out of circumstance. Most athletes here can’t afford the watches, carbon-plated super shoes or electrolyte gels that many privileged runners rely on." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/w...

nytimes.comAiming for My Fastest Marathon, I Turned to Distance Running’s MeccaA New York Times reporter’s quest to beat the personal best he set 14 years ago took him to a Kenyan village, where the biggest benefit he got was not what he expected.
Will Coldwell
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Happy to admit that I don't follow football, but I know a lot of you out there do (and apparently there's a big competition on at the moment!?) Anyway, I have a question: who benefits the most politically if England win the World Cup?

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Lizzie Dearden
@lizziedearden.bsky.social

The average terror suspect arrested in England and Wales is now a white woman in her 50s as a result of the Palestine Action ban Almost 2,800 arrests were made for supporting the group in 6 months - surpassing the number of terror suspects detained in the previous decade inews.co.uk/news/politic...

inews.co.ukPalestine Action terror ban remains in place after Home Office wins appealGovernment's decision to proscribe group 'struck a fair balance', Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr tells Court of Appeal

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Peter Beaumont
@petersbeaumont1.bsky.social

This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social

#BBCBreakfast: "... families had to be led to safety through the flames.. it wasn't just homes, cars were also torched by young masked men in these predominantly unionist streets, but the target here was immigrants.." This is what the likes of Reform are inciting.

Will Coldwell
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One good thing you can say about the UK is that we're spoilt for metaphors

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Lorry gets stuck in hole it was sent to fix in Somerset

theguardian.comLorry gets stuck in hole it was sent to fix in SomersetLorry left at near 45-degree angle after ground gave way on road near Walton A lorry became stuck in a sinkhole after being sent to fix it. Contractors from a company called Stabilised Pavements were sent to fix the sinkhole on Butleigh Drove, near Walton in Somerset, when the ground gave way, the Times reported. Continue reading...

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Dan Neidle
@danneidle.bsky.social

New idea. Next time we publish a report on a politician, I’ll keep the politician’s name blanked out for a week, and let everyone take positions before they find out who it is.

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Election Maps UK
@electionmaps.uk

Cliftonville (Kent) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 38.8% (+26.7) ➡️ RFM: 33.1% (-7.0) 🌳 CON: 15.2% (-4.5) 🌹 LAB: 10.4% (-11.6) 🙋 Ind: 1.3% (New) 🔶 LDM: 1.2% (-1.9) No Ind (-3.0) as previous. Green GAIN from Reform UK. Changes w/ 2025.

Will Coldwell
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Albert Douglas, a British businessman, was imprisoned in Dubai for five years over debts incurred by his son's company. Many others like him remain behind bars. My latest for the @theguardian.com Saturday Magazine www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

theguardian.com‘I was beaten and tortured’: how a British father and son made a fortune in Dubai then became wanted menAs the Middle East is drawn into war, expats and influencers are under pressure to only share the positive side of the UAE. In reality many are at risk of being put behind bars, and often find the UK ...
Will Coldwell
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Thrilled (and flattered) to be invited to this year's International Journalism Festival

International Journalism Festival@journalismfestival.com

📌 As audiences increasingly consume short-form content, this panel asks what space remains for longform journalism today. Editors from FT Magazine and Denmark's Politiken explain why they continue to invest in narrative reporting and why longform remains essential to tell deeply human stories.

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Joshi Herrmann
@joshih.bsky.social

Update on our libel case 🚨 - the businessman suing us didn’t turn up to the high court for the first hearing. Judge was unimpressed with his medical evidence. Fighting these threats to journalism in the UK is frustrating and expensive but we will win. www.the-londoner.co.uk/that-busines...

the-londoner.co.ukThat businessman who’s suing us for £250,000 didn’t turn up to courtTwo Italian doctor’s notes and ‘unsatisfactory’ conduct from Claudio Di Giovanni

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Dan Neidle
@danneidle.bsky.social

A tax barrister sued me personally for £8m for libel after we linked him to a tax avoidance scheme. Today the High Court struck out the claim, granted summary judgment, and ruled it was a SLAPP. The judgment is highly critical.

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London Review of Books
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‘The gift of Andy and Fergie, which comes at too high a price, has been to bring the antiseptic of daylight to the culture of royal privilege.’ Andrew O’Hagan on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, online early from the next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

lrb.co.ukAndrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s FavouriteThe late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

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Peter Ricketts
@lordrickettsp.bsky.social

Savour the irony here. For a year the Trump administration have browbeaten Zelensky as a loser with no cards. Now they turn to him for anti-drone defences. Perhaps they will now recognise that Ukraine is a valuable, battle-hardened ally.

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Josephine Moulds
@josephinemoulds.bsky.social

I keep hearing that the rise of the populist right is one of the biggest threats to the climate. Watching Trump’s second term it’s hard to disagree So @tbij.bsky.social looked at what councils controlled by Reform UK are doing on climate What we found was pretty shocking

thebureauinvestigates.comReform’s local councils are bringing climate denial into the…Top polling party’s moves to ‘undeclare’ the climate emergency and scrap net zero targets could be a sign of things to come