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Simon Hattenstone

Simon Hattenstone is a features writer for the Guardian

March 2024

  • Nick Cave

    Nick Cave on love, art and the loss of his sons: ‘It’s against nature to bury your children’

  • School of rock? … (L-R) Little Richard, Joanna Newsom and Metallica.

    Pop! goes the curriculum: songs to inspire primary school children

  • As G2 production editor, Julie Reid was ever ready with the perfect pun for a headline, or an amused eye-roll for one that fell flat

    Other lives
    Julie Reid obituary

  • A brown and white springer spaniel dog lying on the grass

    The pet I'll never forget
    The pet I’ll never forget: Mickey the spaniel, scourge of park-keepers

February 2024

  • Kevin Young, who was abused while in the Medomsley detention centre

    Fresh investigation launched into one of UK’s biggest abuse scandals

  • Glynn Simmons, who served 48 years in a US prison for a murder he didn’t commit

    I spent 48 years in prison for a murder I didn’t commit. Here’s how I fought my way to freedom

  • The Libertines' Pete Doherty and Carl Barât, sitting on the floor, the former with his arms around the latter, against a turquoise background

    ‘Am I surprised Pete Doherty is still alive? No, he’s too smart to die’: the Libertines on feuds, friendship – and their unlikely sober reunion

  • The Libertines: Pete Doherty and Carl Bârat.

    Weekend
    The Libertines’ tortured reunion, Marina Hyde on celebrity-dictator bromances, and the simple trick to enjoying life more – podcast

  • The G2 interview
    ‘For 11 years I’ve kept it quiet’: Rylan on his breakdown, comeback – and the hidden story of The X Factor

  • Joint enterprise law: MP’s bill seeks to stop innocent bystanders being jailed

January 2024

  • Derek Ridgewell

    ‘I just went bent’: how Britain’s most corrupt cop ruined countless lives

  • Michael and Charlie Chaplin at home in Switzerland, circa 1957.

    The G2 interview
    ‘His success was rammed down my throat’: Charlie Chaplin’s son Michael on fame, failure and finding peace

December 2023

  • MANCHESTER, 13 May 2022 - Guardian writer Simon Hattenstone with his mother, Marj, at her home in Manchester. Christopher Thomond for The Guardian.

    Moments of hope
    My mum fought for the underdog all her life – and I was one of her biggest missions

    Simon Hattenstone
  • Black and white portrait of the late writer and actor Caroline Aherne

    ‘She was sharp as a tack but daft as a brush’: friends and colleagues remember the genius of the Royle Family’s Caroline Aherne

  • Benjamin Zephaniah.

    ‘A hero to millions’: Benjamin Zephaniah remembered by Michael Rosen, Kae Tempest and more

  • Shane MacGowan pictured in 2022.

    Whether in song or in silence, Shane MacGowan exuded the very essence of life

    Simon Hattenstone

November 2023

  • Head and shoulders shot of David Holmes, who was Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double on the Harry Potter films until an accident paralysed him, against a background of autumn trees

    Harry Potter’s stunt double: ‘Breaking my neck made a man of me’

  • Saturday Guardian<br>David Holmes - New documentary called 'The Boy Who Lived' about his Harry Potter stunt double which left him paralysed after an on-set accident. photographed at his home in Essex.

    Weekend
    Harry Potter’s stunt double on life after breaking his neck on set, and Marina Hyde on Nadine Dorries’s new book – podcast

  • Flares being fired by Israeli troops over the Gaza Strip.

    Israel to start ‘pauses’ in fighting – as it happened

  • B'atSheva Yahalomi, Hadas Kalderon and Renana Jacob

    The mothers whose children are held hostage by Hamas: ‘I heard him crying, begging them not to take him’

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