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 retweeted
I hope this flies too. What I like here, 5 things that new British PM Burnham will have to solve in office. @_StephenCastle @nytimesworld @nytimes nytimes.com/2026/07/20/world…
Stephen Castle retweeted
I hope this flies too. What I like here, and Manchester knows, how their former mayor transformed the city in good ways, and set him on course for Britain's next prime minster. @_StephenCastle @nytimesworld @nytimes nytimes.com/2026/07/06/world…
Stephen Castle retweeted
“He’s just optimistic and happy and seems to enjoy being a politician.”
Confess I like politicians who are like that.
Quote from a very good profile of Andy Burnham, by @_StephenCastle that also wisely cites the great political scientist @robfordmancs.
nytimes.com/2026/06/18/world…
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Who Is Andy Burnham, the Man Who Could Be Britain’s Next Prime Minister? Excellent profile of the latest great white hope. by @_StephenCastle
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Stephen Castle retweeted
It was great being interviewed by @_StephenCastle (@nytimes) on Lucy Munro's exciting findings about Shakespeare's property. It confirms my suspicions (in my book, SHAKESPEARE'S BOOK) that the Bard was very active in London post 1613!! @ShakesInstitute share.google/XXM3jUnJLHciwx7…
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#epsteinfiles An email address linked to the former Prince Andrew exchanged notes with Ghislaine Maxwell seeking "inappropriate friends" and girls who could entertain him while representing the Crown in Peru. For @nytimes with @_StephenCastle nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/po…
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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/world…
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“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
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/world…
Stephen Castle retweeted
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/world…
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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/world… via @nytimes #MAiD
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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/world…
Stephen Castle retweeted
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/world…
Stephen Castle retweeted
A sobering independent report on the current status of @NHS in England
nytimes.com/2024/09/11/world…
by @_StephenCastle
Report: assets.publishing.service.go…
Summary by @Carnall_Farrar
When I was involved with the NHS review 2018-2019, it was in far better shape topol.hee.nhs.uk
Stephen Castle retweeted
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
Stephen Castle retweeted
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/world…
Stephen Castle retweeted
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/world…
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“If I didn’t know Jeremy, I would be in the mind-set of the country,” Craig Burke, a family friend of Britain's chancellor, tells @_StephenCastle. “To have a change.”
nytimes.com/2024/06/14/world…
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Meet the One Man Everyone Trusts on U.K. Election Nights. Nice profile of the invaluable John Curtice. by @_StephenCastle
nytimes.com/2024/06/04/world…
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How the inimitable Sir John Curtice became a TV legend, by @_StephenCastle.
“I try to speak in human. I am trying to speak in ways that the general public will understand”
nytimes.com/2024/06/04/world…
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British universities are so far taking a v. different approach to campus protests than their U.S. peers. @_StephenCastle visited the pro-Palestinian camps at Cambridge and Oxford & spoke to students, including @KendallGardner, about their aims (gift link)
nytimes.com/2024/05/11/world…
