Sathnam Sanghera

Wolverhampton

Bestselling author of #EmpireWorld #EmpireLand #StolenHistory #MarriageMaterial #TheBoyWithTheTopknot. Join me on tour in 2025. Writer @thetimes, 🇬🇧 Sikh

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What getting married has taught me about male friendship

5 days ago | thetimes.com | Sathnam Sanghera
Workhouse luxury flats tell a tale of two cities

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Sathnam Sanghera
Proprietorial SUV owners are driving me doolally

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Sathnam Sanghera
It's the little things that make house sales so bad

2 months ago | thetimes.com | Sathnam Sanghera

Why do British people behave so badly when selling houses? It's a question I've been pondering in the light of survey results which found that almost a fifth of property sales are now subject to gazundering (the attempted lowering of the purchase price after a sale has been agreed).
The Hidden Globe by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Feb 13, 2025 | panmacmillan.com | Sathnam Sanghera |Pankaj Mishra |Daniel Immerwahr |Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

'This book did nothing less than make me re-see the world . . . Original, and very clever' - Sathnam Sanghera, author of EmpirelandBorders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist’s riveting account exposes a parallel universe exempt from the laws of the land, and how the wealthy and powerful benefit from it. The map of the globe shows the world we think we know: sovereign nations that grant and restrict their citizens’ rights.
Discretion by the NHS would save our blushes

Jan 26, 2025 | thetimes.com | Sathnam Sanghera
Dean Forbes: poverty to £1.7bn, the most influential black Briton

Dec 4, 2024 | thetimes.com | Sathnam Sanghera

If you’ve not heard of Dean Forbes, it’s probably because he’s in private equity, and private equity is, well, private. The executives involved in his sphere of the corporate world usually invest on behalf of institutions and individuals and don’t need to sell themselves to the public, like the CEOs of companies listed on stock markets.
Spotify Wrapped 2024: how will it judge our writers’ taste in music?

Dec 4, 2024 | thetimes.com | James Marriott |Caitlin Moran |Hilary Rose |Sathnam Sanghera

Spotify Wrapped — the personalised round-up given to every customer on their listening habits — is, above all, a genius marketing campaign. Despite all the reports about the breadcrumbs artists receive for their work from the streaming service and the subsequent squeezing out of musicians from the industry, every winter, the moment Wrapped drops has the joyous fever of Christmas Day.
Turning the tables on tech, with knobs on

Dec 1, 2024 | thetimes.com | Sathnam Sanghera

There’s not much in the way of good news around at the moment, but some comes via the North American division of Korean car manufacturer Hyundai: the button is making a comeback. Fighting the fashion to plaster every surface of every car dashboard with touch screens, the manufacturer has said it’s bringing back old-fashioned switches. Focus groups told them people get “stressed, annoyed and steamed when they want to control something in a pinch but are unable to do so”.
Lost phones prompt the kindness of strangers

Nov 3, 2024 | thetimes.com | Sathnam Sanghera

If you want sympathy in 2024, don’t fall ill or get fired, lose your mobile phone. I left mine on a seat on the London Underground the other day, having only just replaced one I’d broken, and was struck by how keen people were to help. A member of staff at Shepherd’s Bush station lent me their own phone to ring it, to see if anyone had picked it up. A security guy at Tiffany at Westfield, where I thought I’d tracked it down to, asked each member of staff if they’d seen it.