Ahead of Thatcher's centenery, I travelled across the UK to speak to those still living in her Britain. I interviewed dozens of people — including an IRA bomber, a Toxteth rioter, and a Scottish miner who celebrated her death. You can read the result in @dispatchmedia.bsky.social.

An IRA bomber, a Scottish miner, a Toxteth rioter, a Welsh 'lout'. How are they faring today? Ahead of her centenary, @jacobfuredi.bsky.social reports from the frontlines of Thatcher's Britain:

Vividly remember reading this for the first time. A deeply unsettling experience. Well worth 10 minutes of your time.

The king

With Trump touching down in the UK today, spare a thought for the Suffolk villagers forced to live next to an American airbase stuffed with nuclear weapons. Even better, make some time for this very classy long-read from Jonathan McAloon: dispatch-media.com/american-nuk...

"Will Dispatch ever serve up AI slop to its readers?" Listen to @jacobfuredi.bsky.social's response on Radio 4's The Media Show this week.

Who is Margaux Blanchard? Margaux Blanchard net worth? How old is Margaux Blanchard? Is Margaux Blanchard married? Tbh, I don't know. But today I wrote about how @dispatchmedia.bsky.social exposed her — and why she matters: dispatch-media.com/margaux-blan...

Bravo @jacobfuredi.bsky.social and @pressgazette.co.uk @charlottetobitt.bsky.social for rumbling this. Doesn't reflect brilliantly on the magazine industry, sadly. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Very cool to see Dispatch publish its first Grammy winner. Somehow, Jon Cleary writes as arrestingly as he plays piano...

With journalists barred and misinformation rife, covering the war in Gaza can feel impossible. On Dispatch today, read Hasan Jber’s extraordinary diary of life in a refugee camp. It's as strong a tonic as any to your usual op-eds and armchair analysis.

Two weeks ago, four people fell to their deaths from Whitby’s cliffs in four days. Within hours, wild serial-killer rumours went viral on TikTok — a grim example of how the “content” economy rewards ghoulish voyeurism. My report for @dispatchmedia.bsky.social is below:

Spies, strip clubs and suspicious Grandmasters... A cracking read, in which Euan makes a compelling pitch for Dispatch's much-coveted 'Chess Correspondent' role.

Obviously I'm biased — but this feels like important work by @petercarlyon.bsky.social on Britain's measles crisis. Uncovering the human stories behind a very important (and unreported) datapoint:

Well this is exciting

This is a fascinating essay on Paul Ray, the founder of the EDL – a strange and troubled sounding bloke ‪@dispatchmedia.bsky.social‬ dispatch-media.com/the-forgotte...

Tommy Robinson is widely considered the founder of the EDL — but he wasn’t. That dubious honour goes to Paul Ray, a “counter-Jihad” blogger from Luton who disappeared shortly after its launch. What happened to him? @jacobfuredi.bsky.social found him in Ukraine: dispatch-media.com/the-forgotte...

Once the most divisive comedian in Britain, Roy 'Chubby' Brown is still performing at 80. But who’s showing up to watch him? I went to Blackpool to find out, for @dispatchmedia.bsky.social. dispatch-media.com/an-evening-w...

Meet the Sovereign Project — a group of a fringe eccentrics who believe Britain's laws and taxes are a form of slavery. Earlier this month, Fred Sculthorp went to the pub with them. Read in @dispatchmedia.bsky.social: dispatch-media.com/inside-the-k...

It's sports week at @dispatchmedia.bsky.social — and who better to kick things off than @roisinlanigan.bsky.social? On pigeon racing, the King and a retired builder called Terry. dispatch-media.com/the-men-who-...

Next week, two men will go on trial at Newcastle Crown Court for... chopping down a tree. Some locals have accused them of "treason"; others have called for them to serve life sentences. Why? Jonnie McAloon reports from the Sycamore Gap: www.dispatch-media.com/the-trials-o...

So delighted I finally get to share this piece by Rachel Dec in @dispatchmedia.bsky.social. One beautiful paragraph after another. On San Fracnisco's 'utopia'. dispatch-media.com/slouching-to...

"Blaiklock goes on to describe Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a 'Nazi'... But her real fury is reserved for Farage." Read Michael Crick on the forgotten woman who created Reform UK: dispatch-media.com/the-woman-wh...

Cornwall is a strange place: both a middle-class playground and a region scarred by rural poverty. @natashacarthew.bsky.social knows all about the latter. Here she is on the allure of opioids — in @dispatchmedia.bsky.social today: dispatch-media.com/cornwalls-pe...

Delighted to see @dispatchmedia.bsky.social's opioid investigation featured on the cover of this week's Spectator and inside the New Statesman.

𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍'𝐒 𝐇𝐈𝐃𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐎𝐏𝐈𝐎𝐈𝐃 𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐒 I'm kicking off @dispatchmedia.bsky.social today with a months-long investigation into the rise of nitazines — a new synthetic opioid 40 times stronger than fentanyl. Link and interactive map below:

if u would like to read 3,000 of my words about pigeon racing then u can do that by subscribing to this magazine (equally don't let that put u off)

A former UnHerd deputy editor has launched an online magazine, Dispatch, which says it will focus on American-style longform journalism. Founder @jacobfuredi.bsky.social said Dispatch, which is launching on Ghost, will initially be free before adding a paywall selling subscriptions at £7.50 a month.

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