Guardian features writer/interviewer. Ambassador. @encephalitis & proud Manc/Salfordian 🐝 Also @shattenstone.bsky.social
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I adored Hockney. Best fish and chips I've ever shared ❤️
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Insightful interview, as always thank you @shattenstone
#DavidHockney RIP
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It's SEREEEEEEEEENA o'clock.
OH YES!!!!!!
Welcome home Queen
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I did once get into trouble for admitting on Channel 4 News to keeping a man in custody on remand, even though charges had been dropped against him until we could get him a hospital bed.
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#newsround: Mental Health Act ‘may fail to get prisoners transferred to hospitals within 28 days’ insidetime.org/newsround/men…
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Anybody interested in the Jeremy Bamber case should watch this doc on C5 tonight.
Trailer for Monday’s documentary! Please share, watch and comment!
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“She was appointed head of HMP Liverpool’s IMB in January 2021, allowing her unsupervised access to the category B prison and her own set of keys”
Appointed by whom? I think we should be told
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High profile miscarriages of justice in the UK have been shown to be best overturned not by the dysfunctional CCRC but through media coverage
@shattenstone has been banned from communicating with Jeremy Bamber. Wonder why?
@EmpowerInnocent @NewYorker
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Further delays to justice for the post office scandal victims: New York Times reports criminal charges may be delayed because of funding. Commander Stephen Clayman told NYT he needed 99 extra staff and ‘that present funding ‘goes nowhere near that.’ thejusticegap.com/further-de…
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Delighted to be invited on to Ken McDonald and Tim Owen's podcast Double Jeopardy with John Podmore to discuss the obscene and probably unlawful ban on Jeremy Bamber communicating with the media. If you fancy sharing this, that would be great
Why should Jeremy Bamber be allowed to communicate with the media?
@KenMacdonaldKC and @TimOwenKC discuss this and other UK Law and Politics issues on this week’s episode of Double Jeopardy.
Listen here: link.podtrac.com/ggr882ok
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My interview with the fab Rupert Everett, who's had a bit of a life
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I joined Ken Macdonald, Tim Owen and John Podmore on @doubjeopardypod to discuss the outrageous ban on Jeremy Bamber talking to the press.
Silenced? The Media Ban on Jeremy Bamber
@KenMacdonaldKC and @TimOwenKC discuss this and other UK Law and Politics issues on this week’s episode of Double Jeopardy.
Listen here: link.podtrac.com/ggr882ok
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This is my tribute to the great Bernardo (Silva)
(Running down the wing.)
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I thought I was going to interview Derek Jacobi. And I ended up interviewing Derek and his husband Richard Clifford. Bloody wonderful they are. Properly life affirming, funny and full of soul
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May 19
@mediaconfpod The banning of @shattenstone from communicating with Jeremy Bamber seems worthy of coverage on the podcast
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I'm so chuffed to win this award. And so glad the piece cited was about Joe Black who was let down horrifically by the hostel he lived in, and whose mum Jude has campaigned heroically in his memory♥️
May 21
Congratulations to Simon Hattenstone for being awarded winner of Broadsheet Feature Writer of the Year at the Press Awards 2026 @guardian
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Press ban on Bamber: ‘ridiculous’, ‘disingenuous’ and illegal. 'Outrageous somebody proclaiming innocence is banned from talking to press. Even more so when it’s somebody who’s been proclaiming their innocence for 41 years,' @shattenstone thejusticegap.com/press-ban-…
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'Starmer's managed to get both the left and the right to fucking hate his guts. I just want someone to speak and you believe them, and we haven’t had that in so long I’ve forgotten what it’s like.'
Danny Dyer plays the diplomat with me. (For a bit.)
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The badger staggered his way around the London Marathon (slowly, 5:14) but what a wonderful experience – the positivity and kindness of the crowds was amazing! Pure joy; a privilege to take part. Thank you everyone for your support for Norfolk Wildlife Trust and the badger!
ALT Patrick Barkham in a badger onesie and badger face-mask standing on the Mall biting his medal at the colourful finish-line of the 2026 London Marathon.
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I spoke tocomedian/podcaster John Robins about his book, Thirst. He's brilliant on alcoholism and is a lovely man (though he tells me I might not have said so a few years ago)
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