Carole Cadwalladr

London, United Kingdom

Reporter and Features Writer at The Guardian

Writer at The Observer

Writer at The Power

Late adopter. Late giver-upper. Guardian & Observer writer.

Articles

Introducing #InstaFacism

3 weeks ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

Thank you for this. There's no way we can understand how a fascist dictator takes control unless we look at Germany in the late 30's. Those who say it can't happen here need to wake up. It not only is happening, it has happened. Trump has cemented his power. The concrete is just curing. Soon it will be as strong as Hoover Dam. There have only been a few potholes in Trump's road to absolute control. There have been some court cases he lost, but the worst so far has been Signalgate.
Introducing #InstaFacism

3 weeks ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

This post has been sitting in my draft for three weeks now. I’m sorry for the radio silence and thank you for your patience. I’ll include some of what I wrote previously below but a bit of an explanation, first. I think I’ve been suffering a bit of news whiplash. The news in general, and my own corner of it.
Stalked: how a relentless campaign of online abuse came to derail one woman’s life

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Carole Cadwalladr

“Hi Hannah Mossman MooreStalking you has its benefits. Now watching your friend strip another blonde with perky tits. She’s not more than 22. I have seen your tits so many times in the recording. You are late 20s now? Declining youth and saggy boobs… There is so much to learn when one just follows you around. Have you left Sri Lanka or just hiding from me? Tell me please. I will come and get you. Ciao”Hannah was 23, not long out of university, and had just landed her dream job.
Community thread: The sane, informed, right-brain voices to follow now

1 month ago | sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson |Heather Richardson |Carole Cadwalladr

Too many journalists have gone right-wing rogue, captured by the broligarchical interests of their bosses; too many heterodox writers have lost their heart and been seduced by the algorithmic imperative to have “hot” takes at all costs.
I Cannot Help

1 month ago | podcasts.apple.com | Carole Cadwalladr

As this tale of spies and influence at the heart of Westminster draws to a close, Carole, Peter and Sergei reflect on the story they’ve fought to uncover for so long. Meanwhile, The Guardian’s international correspondent Luke Harding shares his analysis of what Russian diplomats were up to in London.
'The United States is Your Enemy'

1 month ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

We in Aotearoa-NZ stand with our Australian cousins but as colonial settler states like USA and Canada, we look within at he unfinished business of conciliation with peoples whose very language is part of the land. "The last shall be first" as that anti-imperialist born in Bethlehem a while ago was reported as teaching. We know that whatever lessons for "liberté, egalité and sobriety" define this (thanks Carol) post Mafia-cosplay moment, world view will be central.
'The United States is Your Enemy'

1 month ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

The world owes another debt of thanks to Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Not only has Ukraine been fighting to hold back Russia’s aggression on behalf of us all, the spectacle of Donald Trump and JD Vance acting like mafia mob bosses has done what previously seemed impossible. The seismic shockwaves that have been pulsing through the international order, felt but ignored by world leaders and nation states, have now finally caused the first real earthquake.
Sergei Cristo versus the Secur-Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring

1 month ago | podcasts.apple.com | Carole Cadwalladr |Peter Jukes

On reading the Russia Report finally published by the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament (ISC) in the Summer of 2020, Sergei realises the significance of his experience with the Russian diplomat and MI5 eight years previously. He writes to his old friend Dr Julian Lewis MP, who becomes the Chairman of the Committee. The advice comes back from Westminster, which sends Sergei round the circles of police and judicial authorities, which, in the end, yields nothing.
How to Survive the Broligarchy

1 month ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

Have listened to the new podcast, read everything you've posted here about it, and want to say a huge thanks to you, Carole, plus Claire Wardle, Mark Little, and Roger McNamee. Yes, the newness of what you are doing comes across, and I sense a feeling of liberation - almost euphoria as you dive straight into new, thrilling unknowns, with unending sets of possibilities. Scary, sure, but you get to do this your way.
How to Survive the Broligarchy

1 month ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

Just after Trump’s re-election in November 2024, I wrote a column headlined ‘How to Survive the Broligarchy’ (reproduced below) and in the three months since, pretty much everything it predicted how now come to pass. This is technoauthoritarianism. It’s tyranny + surveillance tools. It’s the merger of Silicon Valley companies with state power. It’s the ‘broligarchy’, a concept I coined in July last year though I’ve been contemplating it for a lot longer.