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Simon Usborne @susborne

(Mainly at the other place now, same handle) Feature writer. Guardian, FT, Sunday Times, Telegraph etc

Joined May 2009
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Tom Wilson@thomas_m_wilson
2 Mar 2025
Reed Hastings is the only mogul in Utah’s Powder Mountain 😂 Great piece from @susborne in @ftweekend on.ft.com/3F2hIQN The Netflix tycoon, his private resort — and the future of skiing
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ExplorersWeb@ExplorersWeb
13 Jan 2025
You Can Now Climb Everest in a Week Using Xenon Doping: The Implications bit.ly/3PzVAis

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This May, four Brits, including a government minister, plan to climb Everest in a week, including flights, with the help of a controversial Austrian guide and canisters of a rare noble gas. A little exclusive of mine in today’s @FinancialTimes ft.com/content/0f0d1c49-61fa…

How to climb Everest in a week

An Austrian guide will soon lead trips up the world’s highest peak in less time than an average beach holiday. Is adventure travel going too high, too fast?

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Wrote about historical consultants in film, who are often paid to be ignored. I’m told Ridley Scott has now banned them from set theguardian.com/film/2024/no…

When historians and directors clash: ‘Ridley Scott was Napoleonic – there was no doubt who was in...

Film and TV have a slippery relationship with the truth when it comes to historical epics. So spare a thought for the historical experts whose advice often goes unheeded

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Immersed myself (several times on one very rough loch) in a growing niche: adventure standup paddleboarding. By way of a 60-mile SUP across Scotland. Here and in tomorrow's @ftweekend ft.com/content/af144671-0e8f… ft @PrinceBrendon @RedPaddleCo @CalMajor_ ft.com/content/af144671-0e8f…

How the SUP went from novelty beach toy to adventurers’ best friend

Taking part in a Scottish paddleboard marathon, Simon Usborne reflects on the sport’s unlikely evolution

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Hadn't clocked that this excellent doc is now on iPlayer (Storyville) m.youtube.com/watch?v=XYOqk0…

Bad Press | Official Trailer (2023)

An enthralling, edge-of-your-seat nail biter that unfurls with the ...

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Archie Bland@archiebland
31 Oct 2024
this is stunningly good, and stands as an exemplary "record of all that was lost".
Nesrine Malik@NesrineMalik
31 Oct 2024
My longread on ‘The Mountain’ - Palestinian journalist Wael Al Dahdouh, and the killings of Palestinian journalists and their families in Gaza. theguardian.com/world/2024/o…
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Tom Lamont@tomlamont
24 Oct 2024
I wrote a new longreAARRGGGHH! All about rollercoaAARRGGGHH! theguardian.com/travel/2024/… With thanks to the ride creators and obsessives who contributed, also @ClareLongrigg for the idea and the edit

The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK’s fastest thrill-ride

The long read: John Burton was just 27 when he was put in charge of creating Thorpe Park’s biggest-ever project. Once too scared to go on rides himself, how did he become the architect of so many...

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Simon Hattenstone@shattenstone
24 Oct 2024
Fantastic piece about about the phenomenal Rebecca Roberts – the ultimate survivor and thriver. By @KiraCochrane theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…

Neglect, rape and wrenching loss: can Rebecca Roberts survive it all to become the strongest woman...

She has battled all the odds to haul trucks, carry cars and hold up columns like an ancient god – and is currently the strongest woman in the UK, Europe and the world. Now she wants to take her...

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Michael Hutchinson@Doctor_Hutch
19 Oct 2024
Chis has always been the most inspiring of athletes, the most inspiring of men. Generous with his time, experience and knowledge in a way that is verging on the unique. This seems so deeply unfair.
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Harry Yorke@HarryYorke1
19 Oct 2024
An incredibly sad story on the front page of The Sunday Times tomorrow. Sir Chris Hoy, one of our greatest ever Olympians, reveals to @DeccaJourno that he has terminal cancer thetimes.com/article/09f3570…

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Janice Turner@VictoriaPeckham
17 Oct 2024
I’m no Swiftie but this is a nonsense story. My @thetimes notebook
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Treehouses are the current big trend in travel. I stayed in a posh one in the Cotswolds inspired, in part, by The Simpsons. ft.com/content/97c587ed-8d25…

The unstoppable rise of the treehouse hotel

Inspired by an episode of ‘The Simpsons’, Treedwellers in the Cotswolds is the latest place to offer comfort amid the canopy

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Thinking of getting dental veneers? Think twice! The dark side of the Love Island smile: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…

When veneers go very wrong: ‘I knew I’d made the biggest mistake of my life’

They have become as routine as Botox and lip filler. But what can people do when their dream of a perfect smile turns into a nightmare?

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Xan Brooks@XanBrooks
15 Oct 2024
My second novel, The Catchers, is out today. A dark tale for dark times that just happens to be set in 1920s America. Contains moonshine, mountain music, & human oddities. Step right up 🪕saltpublishing.com/products/…
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A drone shot of me descending an unnamed peak in Svalbard, as close to the North Pole as London is to Rome. I spent a week on a converted naval vessel, ski touring and trying to see - and avoid - polar bears. Story here, and in the next ⁦@FTMag⁩ ft.com/content/214ef666-19c9…
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In print, you can just about see that the guide is holding the drone remote, telling us to walk nicely in line, and probably not expecting a still to make a full mag spread
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From this video. He’s dougaltaverner on insta
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Amazing read
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I hope this also mentions the vast sums of money paid out by me on replacement paddling pools
Jim Waterson
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8 Oct 2024
Replying to @jimwaterson
A deep dive into our bins with London's foxes, which are costing the capital's councils vast sums of money by hitting household recycling rates. Click to read more: londoncentric.media/p/are-lo…
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