David Wolf
@davidedgarwolf
Editor @gdnlongread
Joint statement on Gaza from @AFP, @AP, @BBCWorld and @Reuters
The go-between: how Qatar became the global capital of diplomacy theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
Would enthusiastically read a deep dive on how Qatar became a center of global diplomacy
"Qatar is a rich country with a poor man’s mindset, a powerful country with a weak one’s vigilance."
The go-between. My long read on how Qatar has become the diplomatic capital of the world, and the power it has accumulated in the process. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
The definitive account of the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon by @SophieElmhirst for @gdnlongread theguardian.com/news/2025/jul/…
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Emmanuel Carrère on Emmanuel Macron 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 theguardian.com/news/2025/jul/…
"US commitment to undermining the court runs deep. In 2002, Congress passed the 'Hague Invasion Act', giving the president the power to use 'all means necessary' to release a US govt official detained by the ICC." Today's @gdnlongread by @lindakinstler theguardian.com/law/2025/jun/2…
RIP Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. One of the greats, astonishingly captured at the end of his life in this profile by Carey Baraka theguardian.com/books/2023/jun…
RIP Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. One of the greats, astonishingly captured at the end of his life in this profile by Carey Baraka theguardian.com/books/2023/jun…
The Silvers Foundation is proud to have supported this extraordinary work from @scottsayare, who excavates a generational debate in paleoanthropology over who we are and where we come from.
New piece of mine for @gdnlongread on the most ancient possibly hominin fossils ever discovered; the two-decade fight over the bones and their meaning; and what we know—and what we don't, and maybe won't—of the deep origins of humanity. theguardian.com/science/2025/m…
RIP Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. One of the greats, astonishingly captured at the end of his life in this profile by Carey Baraka theguardian.com/books/2023/jun…
Wholly agree with Prof. Hawks here. This is one of the best pieces of science writing I've read in some time. Fine work by @scottsayare .
Remarkable long read on the controversial history of Sahelanthropus—to me, one of the most iconic and sad episodes of hidden fossils and bad science in human origins studies. theguardian.com/science/2025/m…
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Extremely well put @NesrineMalik
No one ever got Yentob – the good, the bad, the ridiculous, the admirable – like @samknightwrites did with this piece theguardian.com/media/2016/dec…
RIP Alasdair MacIntyre. A few years ago, we asked whether we could profile him for @gdnlongread. This was his very gracious reply.
"Stick to Football is weirder still: the venue is somewhere between a hotel breakfast buffet and the dream room from Twin Peaks, where every Premier League legend is inexplicably hanging out and making small talk with one another, over croissants and bottles of Huel."
In time for the parade this weekend, here's 7000 words on Jamie Carragher, the face of modern punditry. My latest for the @gdnlongread. theguardian.com/football/ng-in…
“He said, don’t worry, we’re your pals. And there’s always a small bit of you that hopes your gut feeling is wrong.” Today's stunning @gdnlongread by @hettieveronica theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m…
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“Yippee ki-yay…” We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.
Ahead of my book on the history of Russia's Illegals programme coming out next week, here's a taste in Guardian Longread form. ‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/…