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shattenstone.bsky.social
Guardian interviewer/features writer, with a thing for prison and miscarriages of justice (well not a thing for them as such, a thing for writing about them). Proud Mancunian/Salfordian. City fan of some vintage
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What a loss. Duncan was a hero to so many of us. A great journalist and a great man. Bullshit free, loved by all, supremely fair, incredibly wise and so effortlessly cool. A unique combo. God, he'll be missed. ❤️❤️❤️ www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

This is great, by @estheraddley.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

Very sad to learn that Virginia Giuffre has died by suicide. She was just 41. Virginia was perhaps the most well-known survivor of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s predation. I’ve had four other Epstein survivors tell me they would not have come forward if not for Virginia’s courage.

#RIPVirginiaGiuffre Awful news www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Another tragic loss in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Jeremy Bamber has spent 40 years in jail for murdering five members of his family. Was he wrongfully convicted? I look back over two decades of correspondence with him, our former prisons correspondent Eric Allison and me. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

Trump’s tariffs may be perilous for small, heavily indebted countries in global south by @guardianheather.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...

It's impossible to put into words how vile this is. Murdering paramedics in cold blood. And then the lies. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This is why I set up the race and health observatory @stevemcqueen.bsky.social story is powerful and its not just the story of Prostate cancer its the story of the black experience of healthcare..

As a black man with a father who had died of prostate cancer, Steve McQueen had a greater than one in two chance of getting it. And sure enough he did. The great film director/artist talks to me (with his specialist and surgeon) about his mission to save lives. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Well worth a timely revisit to this @shattenstone.bsky.social interview with Kevin De Bruyne before the last World Cup …

Love this, by our confused would-be class warrior Danny Lavelle www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Rachel Reeves: "I will always put working people first." How leaden footed and tin-eared can she be, saying that as she strips benefits from disabled people who can't work. I think she thinks she's just repeating an empty Labour platitude, but she's actually telling a terrible truth.

#Notmylabour * Slashes £5bn from benefits, possibly breaching equality law * Considers scrapping £800m digital services tax that would benefit many of world's wealthiest, including Elon Musk

Top interviewer @stephensackur.bsky.social talks to me about the BBC's decision to end HARDtalk, journalism v 'churnalism' and leaving the BBC www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

'I considered going on hunger strike' @dianewriter.bsky.social interviews 78-year-old Just Stop Oil protester Gaie Delap who was returned to prison because the MoJ couldn't find a wrist tag to fit her. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Powerful column by @pollytoynbee.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Imagine finding out who your mum is in the 40s .... and then discovering she's a taking all your money and destroying your life. @samwollaston.bsky.social meets Chef Graham Hornigold www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The new book by @amandaknox.com is called Free. But 10 years after her conviction for the murder of Meredith Kercher was overturned, in many ways she's still not free. I talked to her about the miscarriage of justice and why she befriended her prosecutor dashboard.ophan.co.uk/info?from=20...

What was it like having George Orwell as your dad? Richard Blair talks to me about their adventures on Jura, politics, womanising (Orwell, not him) smoking as a three-year-old (him, not Orwell) and his father's literary legacy www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Horrific www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Top exclusive by @diane-writer10.bsky.social in today's Observer. For me, what makes a great story (particularly a Guardian/Obs story) is when an important political issue is reflected by a really strong individual case as here. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Such a good interview with Heston Blumenthal by Alex Moshakis in today's Observer www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ma...

I've interviewed the ridiculously talented Daniel Blumberg, who walked away from mainstream music success as a young man, and has only gone and got himself an Oscar for his soundtrack to The Brutalist. Listen to his music (included here) – it's great! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

Joe Black was a gifted musician and composer. His specialism was bass guitar. He died whilst living at an award-winning homelessness hostel in London. His mother Jude spoke to @shattenstone.bsky.social about who Joe was, his life, & how he died at a place where he was meant to be safe & cared for.

I have a top lunch with Lorraine Kelly (three Caramels and a a Penguin, seeing you asked) and discuss life as a novelist, why she's so disappointed by the Labour government, whether she's doing enough Lorraines and, of course, her granddaughter Billie www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Holmes Road Studios was a flagship homelessness hostel that prided itself on its counselling and zero-tolerance drugs policy. So why did gifted musician Joe Black die of an overdose in one of its prized cottages? By me. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This is my interview with the remarkable Esther Ghey, mother of Brianna who was murdered two years ago. If you're feeling pissed off/terrified at the state of the world, I think Esther will give you some hope in humanity www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...