Sam Wollaston

Feature Writer at The Guardian

Feature writer at the Guardian https://t.co/lKDtX8ZTIS

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‘He has a very rosy view of empire and colonialism’

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Sam Wollaston

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Dining across the divide: ‘He has a very rosy view of empire and colonialism’

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Sam Wollaston |Kitty Drake

Frankie, 28, LondonOccupation Aid workerVoting record Used to vote Labour but not a fan of Starmer (austerity, broken pledges etc) and now votes GreenAmuse bouche Once, watching the MP Ian Lavery on a mechanical bucking bronco at Labour party conference, Frankie noticed Hugh Grant standing next to her. “I asked, ‘Can I have a selfie?’ He was like, ‘Oh god, really?’”Nathan, 23, LondonOccupation Welder fabricatorVoting record Reform in the last election. “I wanted to break up the two-party system.
‘He has a very rosy view of empire and colonialism’

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Sam Wollaston

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Dining across the divide: ‘He couldn’t see that we were actually disagreeing’

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Sam Wollaston

Clive, 56, ManchesterOccupation Consultant engineerVoting record Mostly Lib Dem. “The last MP, a Tory, thought it was a good idea to send someone a picture of his knob, so I didn’t have much time for him”Amuse bouche Clive once competed in a 24-hour lawnmower race. “The engine blew up after five or six hours”Sheena, 54, ManchesterOccupation Author and university lecturerVoting record Born in Zambia of Indian heritage, she has voted in the UK since 2010 (Labour and Green).
my mother, the con artist

1 month ago | msn.com | Sam Wollaston

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‘Does she love me? No. Is she capable of love? No’: my mother, the con artist

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Sam Wollaston

In early 2020 life was sweet for Graham Hornigold. A pastry chef who has worked in Michelin-starred restaurants and been a judge on Junior Bake Off, he had recently launched his own small chain of high-end doughnut shops and cafes in London, along with his partner, New Zealander Heather Kaniuk, also a pastry chef. They had a baby on the way, too – a chance for Hornigold to create the happy family unit he hadn’t experienced in his own childhood.
‘I was expecting a staunch Tory, pro death-penalty, climate nihilist’

1 month ago | msn.com | Sam Wollaston

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Dining across the divide: ‘I was expecting a staunch Tory, pro death-penalty, climate nihilist’

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Sam Wollaston

David, 64, BristolOccupation Software project managerVoting record David, whose parents were staunch trade unionists, backed the Conservatives until 1997, when he voted for Blair.
At the bottom of the North Sea, out of air and with no hope of rescue, I said goodbye to all my dreams

1 month ago | msn.com | Sam Wollaston

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At the bottom of the North Sea, out of air and with no hope of rescue, I said goodbye to all my dreams

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Sam Wollaston

It was, says Chris Lemons, “very much a normal day at the office”. Until things went wrong. But when they went wrong, they went wrong very badly, very quickly. The “office” was actually the bottom of the North Sea, where Lemons was left without air for almost half an hour. Lemons was working as a saturation diver, living in a pressurised chamber onboard a specialised ship for stints of up to a month, and being lowered to the seabed in a diving bell to work on offshore structures.