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Sam Wollaston

Sam Wollaston is Guardian feature writer. Twitter at @samwollaston

August 2024

  • A young woman wearing a green bob wig, shot against a pale pink wall

    ‘People came just to see how awful it was’: from Wonkaland to Fyre, the inside story of festivals so bad they went viral

    The sad Oompa-Loompa at Wonkaland, an elf at a low-rent British Lapland, the DJ who tried to save Blobbyland, and a fixer at the ill-fated Fyre festival reveal what happened next
  • Kyme and Martin

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘Sometimes to be more environmentally friendly you have to sacrifice green land’

    They agreed it’s important to build communities and houses people want to live in, but what happened when they discussed renting v buying?
  • Stephen and Dan

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘There’s a trend of: work is a pain, and I’ll just fit it in around the rest of my life’

    They disagree on the merits of a four-day week, but could a shared love of Victorian engineering unite them?

July 2024

  • A brown and white spotty dog with its head on one side, against a purple background

    ‘He chose the dog over me’: the pets that ruined relationships – from pups interrupting sex to aggressive pigs

  • Terry and Diogo

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘Brexit hasn’t been as bad as I feared’

June 2024

  • Matt (left) and Ian

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘He agreed that Conservative election policies are a bit desperate and Labour is playing too safe’

    With differing views on striking junior doctors and Brexit, could a lunch and ‘proper conversation’ lead to common ground?
  • Jae (left) and Kayte

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘It felt as if I was fighting for us to have something in common – she was living in a different world’

    One worries that immigrants who don’t assimilate are a threat to British culture. The other thinks we can learn a lot from newcomers. Was there anything they could agree on?

    • Life with long Covid
      ‘A 30-second walk would exhaust me beyond reason’: Natacha’s life with long Covid

    • Life with long Covid
      Childhood, interrupted: 12-year-old Toby’s life with long Covid

    • Life with long Covid
      ‘I could bench-press 100kg. Now, I can’t walk’: Lucy’s life with long Covid

May 2024

  • Jeremy (left) and Tom

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘I thought we’d have a couple of Peronis – he launched into the Grey Goose’

  • Clive and Jayne

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘Soon there won’t be any leftwingers in Labour, just Keir Starmer clones’

April 2024

  • Anna and Phil

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘I couldn’t get on board with her equating the Taliban and the democratic government of Ukraine’

    They both vote Labour and listen to The Rest Is Politics, but will they agree on the royal family or arming Ukraine?

March 2024

  • Dominic (left) and David

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘I think sport is overrated as a force for good’

  • Electric cars parked in a row next to a lake surrounded by steep mountains in Eidfjord, Norway

    Euro visions
    How did Norway become the electric car superpower? Oil money, civil disobedience – and Morten from a-ha

February 2024

  • woman holding a tiny trophy above her head

    ‘Justice is served!’: scoring tiny wins over big companies, one disgruntled email at a time

  • Giles and Rupam at Ga Ga Kitchen

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘It seemed he was on the verge of being a communist. Communism hasn’t worked anywhere’

January 2024

  • Sam Wollaston standing by an interactive whiteboards in a classroom with young children sitting on the floor in front of him with their hands up

    ‘Teaching – how hard can it be?’: three writers put their relationships on the line and try their partners’ jobs

    Have you ever secretly thought how easy it would be to do your partner’s job? Three journalists find out if they can hack it as a teacher, an eBay trader and a creative director
  • SATURDAY MAGAZINE DATD Stuart and Jérôme The location: Hithe and Seek

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘He came with a list, papers, diagrams. I think he’s confused’

    One believes illegal immigrants and prisoners should be deported. The other favours free movement. Will they make it through the meal?
  • Viral and Paul at Cucina Rustica in Birmingham

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘Some of his colleagues have huge pensions. I wondered if he was just jealous’

    One is an old-school socialist, the other is disillusioned with politics but used to vote Lib Dem. Would they concur on the right to a state pension?
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