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Over the past six months, I've been talking to Sir Ranulph Fiennes's closest friends & family about his situation for @Telegraph. They are deeply worried.
There is a lot more to this story & I hope it won't be last we hear about Ran. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09…
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Credit where it’s due: this is a superb bit of work that the Tel is very lucky to have in its pages
Over the past six months, I've been talking to Sir Ranulph Fiennes's closest friends & family about his situation for @Telegraph. They are deeply worried.
There is a lot more to this story & I hope it won't be last we hear about Ran. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09…
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This extraordinary and deeply reported piece about the unknown whereabouts of one of Britain's greatest explorers, by @AHABDiggins, is well worth a read: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09…
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⚠️ For 60,000 years, the tribes of the Andaman Islands have lived undisturbed – but now their way of life is under threat.
Our writer travelled there to investigate their fate 👇
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Earlier this year, I went to the Andaman islands for @Telegraph to investigate the fate of some of the world's last isolated tribes – what I found was shocking.
Thanks to @Survival & many others for their help.
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I wrote about my old school, Downside, and how to reckon with its legacy of abuse.
I'm so grateful to all the survivors who shared their stories with me.
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I profiled extreme surfer Garrett McNamara for @HBO's 100 Foot Wave -- the man knows how to make office life seem tame
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RT @cspencer1508: And episode 5 of The Rabbit Hole Detectives podcast - with @RevRichardColes @CatJarman and me - is out today, wherever yo…
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“a coming-out novel in the truest sense. [Don’s] loss of virginity … is described with muscular, slippery immediacy. Most giddying are the passages that evoke the slow-mo slide of [his] professional collapse.” TIEPOLO BLUE @TheCriticMag 🙏 @AHABDiggins thecritic.co.uk/issues/febru…
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For @TelegraphFilm, I wrote about the darkness of Hitchcock's favourite Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt (1943). telegraph.co.uk/films/0/why-…
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An exhausting conversation with Roger Waters. telegraph.co.uk/music/artist…
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Fancy a spot of ghost-hunting in Kensal Green Cemetery? 💀⚔️ #LockwoodandCo @netflixuk @FictionComplete bit.ly/3RajlxF
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The most fun I’ve had in a cemetery! 💀😃 #KensalGreen
I went graveyard strolling with @JonathanAStroud to chat about life, death and #lockwoodandco. It was a splendid Friday afternoon.
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I went graveyard strolling with @JonathanAStroud to chat about life, death and #lockwoodandco. It was a splendid Friday afternoon.
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Uncomfortable with blowing my own trumpet...but ta-ta-tat-ta-ta! 'Magnificent…no dry and prosaic history, but a work of imagination..deeply literary..an absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' 🙏 Harry Sidebottom @Telegraph
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I wrote about James Cameron, and the mad dream of reaching the deepest point in the world's oceans. Such a wonderful selection of characters -- with thanks @EYOSExpeditions, @VictorVescovo for their time.
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It was an especial pleasure to talk to Don Walsh -- aged 91, he's only surviving member of the Trieste expedition, the first sub to reach the bottom of the Challenger Deep. It was like chatting to Neil Armstrong.
Here he is greeting @VictorVescovo after his dive. What a dude.
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I thought Derren Brown's new show was pretty magic. Reckon you might too
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"I'm making a pledge. From January, we will review a new children's book every week." Absolutely blown away to see Ben Lawrence in @Telegraph committing to #CoverKidsBooks every week, citing @frankcottrell_b's @BBCr4today plea for coverage. THANK YOU!!!
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This piece about the extraordinary life of @jakeadelstein was probably one of my favourite things I've written this year. Pleasure to see it re-published now #TokyoVice is on iPlayer.
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