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Senior features writer and editor @GuardianUS (formerly @vice @gdnsaturday) samdotwolfsonattheguardiandotcom
New York
Joined February 2009
Everyone assumed Gen Z were a solidly left-wing bloc, but in poll after poll young men say they're disaffected with the Democrats and enticed by Trump. Could they deliver him the election? I wrote about this at great length!
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The richest borough in the UK let 100 residents burn to death to save £5000. Michael Gove claimed £7000 in expenses to furnish his home.
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do you mean. acting?.
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s loved-up Oscars 2019 performance was ‘rehearsed’ and ‘faked’ claims body language expert
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How can Greg Wallace claim to be a culinary expert on Masterchef, yet on Inside The Factory play so dumb that he pretends not to know that quiches would be made with eggs? It’s an unsustainable dualism.
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tell you one lyric that's aged poorly, Tinie Tempah's "tell JK that I'm still rollin, tell Russell I'm a brand".
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An Etonian government have removed free travel from under 18s in London (the way of getting to school) while downgrading the a-levels of people that go to state schools. Surely the most brazen act of class and generational warfare committed by a British ruling elite in 100 years?.
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Hello. Just to say, I am a commissioning editor at Guardian Weekend magazine now so please do send me pitches if they are very very good.
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It’s so warm I just looked the wrong way crossing the road assuming I must be in continental Europe.
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Is the government hoping they can reduce net migration by only allowing people with a Samsung Galaxy settled status?.
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It has been very hard for James Corden who has barely been allowed on television at all
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My election anxiety is getting a bit intense I’ll just take a calming walk through central London.
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Wish I could see all your faces when you find out the friends reunion is an unscripted chat show made by James Corden's production company - so basically 45 mins of "do you remember your first day on set" and then a Carpool Karaoke where they sing Hootie and the Blowfish.
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for J Hus last night: coming out in a rotating fisherman's hat, four Mercedes on stage with synchronizing headlights, Dem Boy Paigon moshpits, Krept and Konan dance moves - can't think of a better Brixton gig I've seen.
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@gayIorswift13 @tarynnjanine Also, 8 minutes of ads in a 30 minute tv show is exactly why we all stopped watching tv on tv.
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Hey boy. Hey girl. Hope you like cliches.
Here we go.
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Hearing from people affected by this that it is in fact only some Android devices that work - none from before 2016 or after early 2018 🤷🏻♂️.
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Congrats on final show @grimmers - always good to have a breakfast show DJ who will pull a Jake Bugg song off half-way through with a simple "horrible" and move on.
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Some of you might have found it hard to stop snacking now you're working from your kitchen so here are a few tips I've learnt from years of homeworking:. Tip #1) Give up. The biscuits will overcome you. I had the body of a young Rafael Nadal before this.
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Just to say am now commissioning editor for features at Guardian US so that's nice.
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Trudging down the street with a Tesco plastic bag on your head to shelter from the rain. Welcome to Britain. http://t.co/h2GhWSrunJ.
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Your entire social life now basically depends on the strength of your bladder.
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Are everyone’s knuckles chaffed and bleeding from all the hand washing or do I just have the fairest little princeling softboy hands that have never had to do anything more strenuous than send mean tweets about Liam Payne?.
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just make it go past really fast so they can’t check it
As we get on with delivering our plans for 2018, here's a quick reminder of some of the things we did last year.
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IDEA TO SAVE THE MUSIC INDUSTRY: to make up for the dirth of new music Radio 1 offers each label one playlist spot for a song released in the last 5 years which they thought should have been huge but for whatever reason died on its arse.
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Nine doctors tell the Guardian that they have treated children who have sniper wounds. CT scans show single bullet wounds to the head
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The Southgate/Atomic Kitten chant isn't reaching its full potential. It should be: . Looking back on where we first met.Now we've got Kane and we've got Danny Welbeck.Southgate you're the one.We lost against Belgium.But football's coming home again.
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So they put the editorial director’s 16-year-old daughter on the cover for no reason?
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I was last night years old when I learnt that Meghan Markle appears briefly as a love interest for Mark Duplass in The League
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It's getting quite warm to work from home - do you think we'll all need to get air conditioners or will we be ok with onlyfans?.
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Write a story in the style of Sally Rooney about a woman trying to return a pair of trousers to Matches dot com
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Sometimes quite hard to tell if music is getting better or worse and then you look at the radio 1 A-list from April 2008 and realise this is a fucking golden age by comparison
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just put on Fox News and they're still running trails for Tucker Carlson's show tonight so this was definitely a very recent decision.
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Do you think Boris only backs vanity projects when there is an easy alliterative opportunity? Bridges, buses, bikes - it's probably the only reason he decided to support Brexit.
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Tories: no endorsement could damage our electoral chances more than Donald Trump. Labour: hold my beer
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Many of the most prominent proponents of antisemitic views are lining up to support Israel, while actual Jews who want peace are decried by the ADL as hate groups. I wrote about how the “antizionism is antisemitism” position is being exposed:
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"the Tom Cruise of Hare Krishna" @mcdermott spent the past year investigating the origin story of Jay Shetty - the wellness guru who has risen to the top of Holywood and officiated Ben and Jen's wedding
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Would vote for any political party who promised to do something about Zoella.
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Lewis Capaldi currently in the Live Lounge covering the Ed Sheeran penned Anne-Marie single 2002, a kind of nuremberg rally for beige-pop.
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Everyone saying Thick Of It but it's actually the exact same shtick and reaction shots of when Bobby Newport ran for city council on @parksandrec.
.@jonathanvswan: “Oh, you’re doing death as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of population. That’s where the U.S. is really bad. Much worse than South Korea, Germany, etc.”. @realdonaldtrump: “You can’t do that.”. Swan: “Why can’t I do that?”
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Houseparty challenge: send a screengrab of your unaccepted friend requests - the people that even in a global pandemic you can't face saying hi to.
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Some housekeeping: I'm leaving Vice and pivoting to freelance. It's been an extremely enjoyable five years working with some of the best writers and editors anywhere in the world. Also Alhan. Will still be doing some Vice-flavoured things as well as lots of other bits.
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Once again having the same name as Sam Wolfson the director of Netflix’s Tall Girl is causing trouble, just received this missive from a tall rights activist:
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Mazels to @gregjames for raising over £1 million. We had a chat about it in The Guardian today or online here:
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Fantastic and I'm sure difficult to write piece by @OwenJones84 - politics is always a compromise but what room is there for us in a labour party that doesn't care about people?
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every news channel currently discussing Tucker, except for Fox News which is discussing transgender athletes.
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it's so sad to see Aled fill Radio 1 with celebrity poshos like Jamie Laing and Mollie King - it's really not supposed to be about that.
📢📢📢. Jamie Laing will join Vick Hope to co-host Going Home on Radio 1 (15:30 – 18:00, Monday to Thursday), starting on Monday 4 March. Huge congratulations @JamieLaing_UK ✨
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Please enjoy the official Vice tote bag chart, counting down the tote bags you’ve been carrying this summer. New Yorker? Daunt? Click through to find out what’s number one.
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Piers Morgan seems to have discovered that it feels better to receive praise for good work than to spread fear and contempt and so, we must conclude, that he has finally watched Monsters Inc to the end.
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Hi we know our website is full of Nazis but we just wanted to quickly remind you that it's also corrupted your ability to take control of your life.
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Madame Tussauds should open their archives to the public, creating a much better attraction where you have to guess the names of waxworks deemed no longer relevant.
Madame Tussauds removes Cheryl’s waxwork 'because she is no longer relevant'
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Wrote about some truly bizarre goings-on at the Evening Standard:
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I support and believe Alice Glass. Ethan's statement says it all. He is disgusting. I also think that music press fetishised their deeply.
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Hello, here is a thing I wrote about how the most successful tech company in the world doesn't really work anymore:
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the way the adverts on the tube always reference that they are on the tube: next stop, pain relief.
Londoners, what are some of your icks about London?.
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I wrote about the Trump and Piers Morgan thing because it really really bleaked me out
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Can't believe a party with less followers than @joelgolby is about to form a government @duponline.
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If TFL are playing hardball to make Uber clean up their act that's great, but you're mad if you think London will be safer without uber.
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This is an extremely good piece by @Narcomania which goes some way to explaining why so many young people are murdering other young people in London
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NHS could have run test and trace with technology made readily available by Apple. It would have been ready in the summer, worked better, and cost little (this happened elsewhere). Instead we are going into second lockdown and we spent £10 billion on this
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Literally every front page now going with May-hem or Cor-Blimey.
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Pret being shit is the hill I will die on. Makes every London street identikit + depressing. No other city is so overrun with crap chains. So bored of the discourse that you're a ponce if you don't love the monoculture of exploitative mega-corporations.
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Tabloids look pathetic and powerless this morning. It was Kerrang wot won it?
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Most abuse I've received for this XXXTentacion piece, mostly from teenagers and blockchain bros. Quite concerning how uncritically and adoringly some fans engage with a damaged, violent artist. I felt this was a balanced piece anyway:
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For the first time in my adult life I would just like an election that doesn’t make me feel total despair - please vote Labour wherever it makes sense to
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This is to my mind the best lunch in east London: the inexplicably off-menu veggie broth with tofu at Hoi-an on Graham Road. Have eaten it 100 times and still can’t work out how they do it.
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got divorced two years ago but haven’t told their friends, still send out a christmas card
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Fantastic news for the wearing beanies at formal events community
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We should all be showing love and support for @billiejdporter, who deserves compassion and immediate action.
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Btw this comes from a very good Observer piece about the anxiety of EU citizens living in UK and how much it affects their day-to-day life
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@gregjames @fallingwalls_ Sorry that Harry’s stans don’t share his easy going attitude and gentle humour.
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I always say this is the best Oobah yet but to be fair this is actually the best Oobah yet
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Thank you to NME for giving me lots of opportunities, advice and avios. Like everyone who ever worked there I loved it growing up, couldn't believe I was allowed to write for them, and hated it by the time I stopped - the sign of a solid publication doing its job imo.
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me about once a year when the pub closes and I say we can all go back to mine
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tweeted a month ago nothing has changed.
its so batshit that the argument rn in western pundit discourse is “slogans we don’t like bc they make us uncomfortable, no we refuse to understand what anything means” while every single day we are shown the most horrific first person accounts of violence we have ever seen.
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A good time to re-read this interview with Piers where he admits he "creates firestorms because I'm bored" and says he doesn't actually care about Meghan beyond his perception that she wronged him
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Please enjoy the standfirst to this news story about Emma Bunton l wrote
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Even after the week she's had, Munroe Bergdof is powerfully on-point in this extremely good interview:
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Parliament dissolves on May 3rd, so that's two weeks to sort candidates, manifestos, voter registration and any potential debates?.
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Hello, I have been doing extremely important journalism about hats
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