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Simon Hattenstone

Simon Hattenstone is a features writer for the Guardian

June 2024

  • Former Olympic rower James Cracknell in a boathouse.

    Tories are a ‘shower of shit’, says Conservative candidate James Cracknell

    Former Olympian standing in Colchester adds: ‘If one of my teammates got caught for cheating they’d be dead to me’
  • Former Olympic rower James Cracknell in front of racks of rowing boats at Crabtree Boat Club in west London

    Fascinating Olympians
    ‘The man who used to be James Cracknell’: the Olympic rower on catastrophe, comas and comebacks

    With two Olympic golds under his belt, Cracknell was building a second career as an endurance athlete when disaster struck. He discusses relentlessness, running for the Tories – and his disgust at Partygate

    • Fascinating Olympians
      ‘I went a bit crazy’: Mo Farah on rebellion, love, ruthlessness – and being forced to live a lie

    • The IPP scandal
      Sixteen years for stealing a flower pot: the film about the IPP jail sentence ‘designed to bury you alive’

    • UK system for wrongful conviction payouts is lawful, European court rules

May 2024

  • Kravitz looking gorgeous

    ‘I did a 90-minute workout at 2am!’: Lenny Kravitz on sex, spliffs and staying gorgeous at 60

  • Tracey Emin, June 2023, South of France Studio, taken by TE creative director Harry Weller.

    The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’

  • Patti LaBelle at home in Philadelphia

    ‘I thought I was going to drown Otis Redding!’ Patti LaBelle at 80 on soul, sex, survival and superstardom

  • An illustration of Marc Conway, who is serving an IPP sentence on licence

    The IPP scandal
    Marc Conway risked his life to stop the London Bridge terror attack. Why did he fear being sent to prison for it?

  • Today in Focus
    The London Bridge ‘hero’ who could go to prison for 99 years

  • Goodbye to all that
    ‘I’ve had massive highs and deep lows’: Edward Timpson on winning for the Tories and being sacked by Liz Truss

  • ‘When I became a meme it was humiliating and hurtful’: Dua Lipa on pop, psychedelics and proving her haters wrong

  • ‘It meant so much to him’: Shane MacGowan’s wife on the hunt for his missing Easter Rising rifle

  • A nation desperate for integrity in public life has found it in Ronnie O’Sullivan and snooker. Who knew?

    Simon Hattenstone

  • The IPP scandal
    Martin Myers tried and failed to steal a cigarette. Why has he spent 18 years in prison for it?

April 2024

  • David Blunkett

    The IPP scandal
    David Blunkett says devising 99-year prison sentences is his ‘biggest regret’

  • Man looking at paperwork

    UK tax: ‘HMRC harassed me for money I had paid weeks earlier’

  • Illustrated portrait of Tommy Nicol.

    The IPP scandal
    Tommy Nicol was kind and friendly – a beloved brother. Why did he die in prison on a ‘99-year’ sentence?

  • Michael Palin in London on 28/3/24

    The G2 interview
    Michael Palin on the loss of his wife of 57 years: ‘I’d love Helen to still be here, telling me off’

March 2024

  • Nick Cave

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

    In the past nine years, the musician and artist has lost two sons – an experience he explores in a shocking, deeply personal new ceramics project. He discusses mercy, forgiveness, making and meaning
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