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Stephen Castle @_StephenCastle

Correspondent in London bureau of New York Times, formerly IHT bureau chief in Brussels, ex-political editor Independent on Sunday Joined July 2011
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Stephen Castle @_StephenCastle

2 months ago

A third big policy reversal by Keir Starmer - this time on welfare - weakens his authority over his party nytimes.com/2025/06/27/wor… via @nytimes

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Stephen Castle @_StephenCastle

3 months ago

Lawmakers have approved plans for assisted dying in England and Wales for the second time - making them almost certain to become law nytimes.com/2025/06/20/wor…

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

4 months ago

Harvard Law School bought a copy of the Magna Carta in 1946 for $27.50. Except it turns out it wasn't a copy after all, but an original from 1300. @_StephenCastle nytimes.com/2025/05/15/wor…

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4 months ago

“The manuscript’s value is hard to estimate, although it is fair to say that its price tag of under $30 (about $500 today) must make it one of the bargains of the last century. A 710-year-old version of Magna Carta was sold in 2007 for $21.3 million.” @_StephenCastle

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

4 months ago

“The manuscript’s value is hard to estimate, although it is fair to say that its price tag of under $30 (about $500 today) must make it one of the bargains of the last century. A 710-year-old version of Magna Carta was sold in 2007 for $21.3 million.” @_StephenCastle

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Stephen Castle @_StephenCastle

6 months ago

Ahead of his visit to Washington, Britain's Keir Starmer promises to raise military spending to 2.5 percent of gross domestic value w/@MarkLandler nytimes.com/2025/02/25/wor…

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Stephen Castle @_StephenCastle

7 months ago

In Wales, a victory for Nigel Farage's Reform UK Party sends a warning to Keir Starmer's Labour nytimes.com/2025/02/14/wor…

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Esther Bintliff @estherbintliff

8 months ago

Britain faces a new and dangerous form of extremism, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday, warning that loners and misfits were being radicalized by “a tidal wave of violence freely available online.” @_StephenCastle reports: nytimes.com/2025/01/21/wor…

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André Picard @picardonhealth

9 months ago

Britain’s Emotional Debate Over Assisted Dying. As lawmakers prepare to vote on legalizing medically assisted death for the terminally ill in England and Wales, an intense public discussion has unfolded, by @_StephenCastle nytimes.com/2024/11/27/wor… via @nytimes #MAiD

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Esther Bintliff @estherbintliff

10 months ago

TIL from @_StephenCastle that Norman Lamont got in hot water after unwittingly renting out his apartment while he was chancellor to a self-described sex therapist called Miss Whiplash. nytimes.com/2024/11/07/wor…

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Stephen Castle @_StephenCastle

10 months ago

As a child raised in Nigeria, Kemi Badenoch fetched water in rusty buckets when the faucets ran dry. Now she leads Britain's oldest conservative political party nytimes.com/2024/11/05/wor…

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Stephen Castle @_StephenCastle

10 months ago

In Britain, Tommy Robinson, a far-right agitator, is sentenced to 18 months in jail after admitting contempt of court nytimes.com/2024/10/28/wor…

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Stephen Castle @_StephenCastle

10 months ago

In Pluckley, known as England's most haunted village, at least a dozen otherworldly spirits are supposed to inhabit the church, its graveyard and at least three pubs. So, villagers are braced for an invasion of ghost hunters at Halloween nytimes.com/2024/10/28/wor…

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Stephen Castle @_StephenCastle

11 months ago

The British cabinet is one of the most working class in history. It hasn't made them popular. nytimes.com/2024/10/04/wor…

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Sam Friedman @SamFriedmanSoc

11 months ago

Nice piece in ⁦@nytimes⁩ by @_StephenCastle drawing on our new book Born to Rule The U.K. Has a More Working Class Cabinet. It’s Still Seen as Out of Touch. - The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/10/04/wor…

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Stephen Castle @_StephenCastle

12 months ago

Nigel Farage, anti-immigration campaigner and ally of Donald Trump, wants to build his upstart party into a serious political force. But does he have the patience for that task? nytimes.com/2024/09/20/wor…

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Eric Topol @EricTopol

12 months ago

A sobering independent report on the current status of @NHS in England nytimes.com/2024/09/11/wor… by @_StephenCastle Report: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66e1b49e… Summary by @Carnall_Farrar When I was involved with the NHS review 2018-2019, it was in far better shape topol.hee.nhs.uk

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Katarina O'Nils Franke @onilsfranke

a year ago

Jag har just modererat Axess lunchseminarium med ⁦@_StephenCastle⁩, Londonkorrespondent från ⁦@nytimes⁩! Han har lärt oss mer om aktuell brittisk politik och premiärminister Keir Starmer. Vad vill Labour egentligen? 🇬🇧 ⁦@axesspublishing⁩

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Esther Bintliff @estherbintliff

a year ago

Keir Starmer will likely reverse the previous UK government's objections to ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu. That's part of a broader shift on Israel-Gaza in which Britain's new govt is diverging from the US. Story by @MarkLandler & @_StephenCastle 👇nytimes.com/2024/07/25/wor…

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Mark Landler @MarkLandler

a year ago

Britain and the US used to one-up each other in political craziness. No longer: here's our profile of Keir Starmer, the low-key lawyer likely to be the next prime minister. W/⁦@_StephenCastle⁩ nytimes.com/2024/07/02/wor…

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Stephen Castle @_StephenCastle

a year ago

“I think Farage coming here has inflamed a level of tension,” and used "dog whistle stuff" - says Labour's candidate in Clacton, where the Reform UK leader is running nytimes.com/2024/06/26/wor…

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