Big day here in Belfast as Stormont gets back up & running today after a 2 year stalemate. Good primer here from my colleage Stephen Castle nytimes.com/2024/02/02/wor… and I’ll have news from the assembly later today, when Michelle O’Neill becomes Northern Ireland’s new first minister.

“One of the most successful election-winning forces in the history of democracy is yet again staring over the precipice and contemplating the abyss below,' says Guto Harri.
Mark Landler & Stephen Castle report on the Tories, divided: nytimes.com/2024/01/17/wor…

It was distilled in Wales from Welsh water and Welsh grain -- but it still wasn't Welsh enough. The growing pains of Wales's whisky revival nytimes.com/2024/01/14/wor…

A Welshman is considered one of the founding fathers of bourbon. Now, after more than a century, Welsh whisky is back. nytimes.com/2024/01/14/wor…

The exec producer of Mr Bates vs The Post Office told his team before broadcast not to be downhearted if ratings were modest, given the competition.
The next day he heard 3.5 million had watched Episode 1.
Love this anecdote from Stephen Castle's story: nytimes.com/2024/01/10/wor…

A great piece from ⁦Stephen Castle⁩ about why Britain’s post office scandal was suddenly cast back into the national spotlight, and its victims finally exonerated nytimes.com/2024/01/10/wor…

Writing for Encompass, Stephen Castle of the New York Times on what to expect this year in EU-UK relations encompass-europe.com/comment/2024-e…

Britain prides itself on its free health care. But with a backlog of 7.7 million procedures the choice for many is waiting in pain or paying to go private. nytimes.com/2023/12/09/wor…

What do Rishi Sunak and Kevin McCarthy have in common? Political parties that are divided, radicalized, and close to unmanageable. McCarthy got driven out; Sunak holds on. W/⁦Stephen Castle⁩ nytimes.com/2023/12/07/wor…

Most thought Brexit would cut immigration into Britain. But it keeps on rising nytimes.com/2023/11/23/wor…

'We want to show Palestinians that we see what's happening to them'
'I just want a cease fire'
'I'm here partly because of Suella Braverman'
Some of the attendees I spoke to at today's march: nytimes.com/2023/11/11/wor… w/ Megan Specia Stephen Castle

Wow. Must-read story. This is kind of mind-blowing. Great reporting (and completely balanced). Thank you. 'U.K. Home Secretary Stirs Political Storm After Writing Article Attacking the Police' Stephen Castle nytimes.com/2023/11/09/wor…

What is Suella Braverman MP up to? 'Almost all of this is positioning for future leadership battles,' Jill Rutter tells Stephen Castle nytimes.com/2023/11/09/wor… (gift link)

As home secretary, Suella Braverman oversees Britain's police. Now she's caused turmoil by publicly attacking their approach to a pro-Palestinian protest rally nytimes.com/2023/11/09/wor…

While he waited to become king, he spent decades promoting environmental causes. On Tuesday King Charles III's job was to show a poker face as he announced British government plans for more oil and gas drilling. nytimes.com/2023/11/07/wor…

King Charles and Rishi Sunak are far apart on climate. One of them will have to silence his true feelings today, as Stephen Castle reports: nytimes.com/2023/11/07/wor…

Britain sees a surge in shoplifting: “It’s like the Wild West out there at the moment.” nytimes.com/2023/10/25/wor…

'Post-Punk Legend Leads Fight for Clean Water as Britain’s rivers'.

Sewage dumping has gone global, even the The New York Times are now taking greed, regulatory failure and incompetence. Is that Jenny Jones I see in that photo? 😎SOS Whitstable

nytimes.com/2023/10/13/wor…

Post-Punk Legend Leads Fight for Clean Water as Britain’s ‘Sewage Czar’ (Stephen Castle - The New York Times) redef.com/item/65297655a…

Multiple business execs who had never been to a Labour conference were in Liverpool this week. They told Stephen Castle & Eshe Nelson what had changed: (gift link) nytimes.com/2023/10/13/wor…