Gareth clapping the crowd there just to wake them up and tell them it’s time to go home

Okay, come on, who turned down Elle Hunt's mad idea for a deep-dive on life-size celeb cut-out culture? Because I'm injecting that shit into my veins the-fence.com/cooking-in-pri…

"And beyond"

Ooops - forgot to post this on Sunday. Spoke to Josh Hartnett for the The Observer Magazine - about stalkers, pigmy goats, mortality, the usual ... theguardian.com/film/article/2…

Josh Hartnett fled Hollywood, set up a home in England, and is now appearing in the most interesting films of his career. Stuart McGurk trib.al/YviQM0k

Oops forgot the link! Here is is 💝 nytimes.com/2024/10/22/wor…

Deeply topical since the fall of Hama an hour ago, my long read investigation for British GQ about Hama and Qashoush, the Songbird of Syria: gq-magazine.co.uk/article/syria-…

A fantastic piece from Stuart McGurk 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

Just a sensational feature, with remarkable access - Stuart McGurk on the battle to make the year's best Christmas ad. ft.com/content/5cbd49…

While everyone else was waiting for this year's Christmas ads, I've been waiting for this magisterial Stuart McGurk longread on the Christmas ad industry. It is merry, it is bright, it deserves a breathy Ellie Goulding cover ft.com/content/5cbd49…

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

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

New #longread! Great to make my Prospect debut with this deep dive about aircraft carriers: have we built yesterday's ships for tomorrow's war?

As the UK raises its defence spending Stuart McGurk investigates the £6bn splashed on two aircraft carriers. It's a monumental piece of reporting prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/polic…

The man’s output is increasingly sinister and antisemitic as well as deranged. He is a GB News host and I have yet to hear his colleagues condemn this stuff or see them extend the duty of care.

Some personal-professional news: ... Introducing Dispatch — a new magazine fuelled by frontier spirit. Link and more info below.

"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" -

A howlingly funny David Whitehouse masterpiece