Journalist. Ex-GQ. PPA & BSME Magazine Writer of the Year & Foreign Press Awards winner. Rep’d by Emma Paterson @AitkenAlexander. Lurking.
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‘I’ve been looking for this all my life’: @DavidHarewood
Finally, aged 60, the actor is portraying a man in full, in Channel 4’s new legal drama Pierre. Is his the slowest overnight success story in the business?
✍️ Stuart McGurk, @helenseamons
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For Issue 28, @stuartmcgurk learned how to talk dirty.
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Beep beep! V lovely of the Guardian to big up my cargo crime longread as one of their best of the year so far. Have a listen in audio! theguardian.com/news/audio/2…
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This is the Sunday Times Insight team investigation which Nigel Farage cited in his resignation/by-election statement and which, he said, had led to a new inquiry by the parliamentary standards commissioner.
We stand by our reporting into his undisclosed financial support from George Cottrell, which both Cottrell and Reform have already repeatedly confirmed.
EXCLUSIVE
Nigel Farage failed to declare that a criminal and crypto gambler paid for his staff, security, drivers, social media output in year before election
Reform leader has also received free accommodation in Westminster from George Cottrell as MP
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Kit-Kat heists! Baby formula theft! Trucks full of sex toys stolen! Excited to make my @gdnlongread debut with this piece about the cargo crime crisis, and the sole detective tracking it down theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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You want the NATO allies to join you in a war you started without ever consulting these allies about the war or explaining your war aims. We’re meant just to meekly fall in line.
You recently supported a US invasion of a NATO ally (Denmark/Greenland) but now you want these same allies to join your war.
Your president disparaged and misrepresented the role of NATO allies in Afghanistan. But now you want them to join with you again in a war of your making.
You went to war with Iran without a thought of how to keep the Strait of Hormuz open and without involving your allies in the matter. But now you want the NATO allies to bail you out, even though there’s still no plan for Hormuz.
You want the NATO allies to join you in a war in which you still cannot articulate the endgame. Or what victory would look like.
You went to war thinking the Iranian regime would quickly topple, that Tehran would not attack the Gulf States or close Hormuz. Why would we align with such Epic Stupidity?
You and other know-nothing blowhards started this war all on your own. You can finish it on your own. If you’re able to …
Just spoke to @POTUS about our European allies’ unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger given what’s at stake.
The arrogance of our allies to suggest that Iran with a nuclear weapon is of little concern and that military action to stop the ayatollah from acquiring a nuclear bomb is our problem not theirs is beyond offensive. The European approach to containing the ayatollah’s nuclear ambitions have proven to be a miserable failure.
The repercussions of providing little assistance to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning are going to be wide and deep for Europe and America.
I consider myself very forward-leaning on supporting alliances, however at a time of real testing like this, it makes me second guess the value of these alliances. I am certain I am not the only senator who feels this way.
A howlingly funny @d_whitehouse masterpiece
What were you doing on 9/11? @d_whitehouse was sexting hundreds of strangers from an office in King's Cross.
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"The ones [media outlets] that have failed have abandoned what made them great as a print model, they've chased clicks or they've chased just pure traffic. The ones that I think have done well you've kept hold of what made you great, the quality, reporting and the trust" - @TomMcTague, Editor-in-Chief of the @NewStatesman, tells #SirHarrySummit
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Some personal-professional news:
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Link and more info below.
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The man’s output is increasingly sinister and antisemitic as well as deranged. He is a @GBNEWS host and I have yet to hear his colleagues condemn this stuff or see them extend the duty of care.
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As the UK raises its defence spending @stuartmcgurk investigates the £6bn splashed on two aircraft carriers. It's a monumental piece of reporting prospectmagazine.co.uk/polit…
New #longread! Great to make my @prospect_uk debut with this deep dive about aircraft carriers: have we built yesterday's ships for tomorrow's war?
The Royal Navy’s £6bn carriers have been ridiculed as symbols of British decline and delusion. But they may yet have a role to play, writes @stuartmcgurk.
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Book blurbing! I am going to be writing something about this. If you are an author or a publishing professional with something you would like to get off your chest, positive or negative, in strictest secrecy, about the practice of book blurbing: please DM me. You can be anonymous
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And so we move into the next phase of reality’s Squid Game: the end of fact-checking. From now on, what happened, what you think happened, what you wanted to have happened, and what other people said happened, are all of equal value. Other than people getting killed, what could possibly go wrong?
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While everyone else was waiting for this year's Christmas ads, I've been waiting for this magisterial @stuartmcgurk longread on the Christmas ad industry. It is merry, it is bright, it deserves a breathy Ellie Goulding cover ft.com/content/5cbd497d-f4c7…
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Just a sensational feature, with remarkable access - @stuartmcgurk on the battle to make the year's best Christmas ad.
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A fantastic piece from @stuartmcgurk who went inside Sainsbury's Christmas ad campaign to tell the story of the ad execs that spend the whole year working out how to make the nation cry. Its ... joyful? on.ft.com/3ZTX79h via @financialtimes
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Deeply topical since the fall of Hama an hour ago, my long read investigation for @BritishGQ about Hama and Qashoush, the Songbird of Syria: gq-magazine.co.uk/article/sy…
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Oops forgot the link! Here is is 💝 nytimes.com/2024/10/22/world…
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Josh Hartnett fled Hollywood, set up a home in England, and is now appearing in the most interesting films of his career. @stuartmcgurk trib.al/YviQM0k
