Holden Frith, The Week UK
Holden Frith is The Week’s digital director, a role in which he is responsible for digital strategy, product development and editorial direction. He also makes regular appearances on The Week Unwrapped podcast, speaking about subjects as diverse as vaccine development and bionic bomb-sniffing locusts. He joined The Week in 2013, spending five years editing the magazine’s website before moving into his current role. Before that, he was deputy digital editor at The Sunday Times, where he was part of the team that launched the newspaper’s digital subscription service – and was responsible for day-to-day production on the app and website. He has also been TheTimes.co.uk’s technology editor and the launch editor of Wired magazine’s UK website.
Holden has worked in journalism for nearly two decades, having started his professional career while completing an English literature degree at Cambridge University. He followed that with a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago. A keen photographer, he also writes travel features whenever he gets the chance.
Latest articles by Holden Frith, The Week UK
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How cash-strapped councils are struggling to cope with Covid
Speed Read The pandemic has cut local authority income while increasing demand for services
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How the new £5 Covid tests work - and how they might end lockdown
Speed Read Swab kits that give results in 15 minutes could pave the way for ‘daily freedom passes’
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Mary Wollstonecraft sculpture condemned as ‘naked silver Barbie’
Speed Read Maggi Hambling’s statue is intended to represent the feminist icon’s imagination
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Coronavirus: GCHQ launches war against Russian anti-vaccine propaganda
Speed Read State-sponsored disinformation campaigns are being blocked and agents locked out of their accounts
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Emmanuel Macron calls for EU to rethink free movement
Speed Read French president says reform is needed to tackle international terrorism
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Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine ‘may be rolled out within weeks’ - but UK faces jab shortages
Speed Read Mass production difficulties will limit early supplies
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Why Donald Trump declared victory when he has not won the US election
Speed Read US president seeks to cast doubt on postal ballots that may hand Joe Biden victory
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Everything we know so far about the Vienna terror attack
Speed Read Austrian officials say gun rampage that left five people dead was inspired by Islamic State
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Jewish family fighting to reclaim £18m painting accuse officials of bias
Speed Read Kandinsky masterpiece last changed hands soon after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands
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Spanish coronavirus mutation blamed for Europe’s second wave
Speed Read Holidaymakers spread the new Covid-19 variant across the continent
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US election: why the price of soybeans could swing the Senate for the Democrats
Speed Read An agricultural faux pas could hand control of the chamber to Joe Biden’s party
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US election: Texas calls in National Guard amid ‘voting day violence’ row
Speed Read Democrats accuse Republican governor of seeking to deter voters by calling up troops
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Coronavirus: how Arctic Canada kept Covid-19 at bay
Speed Read The province of Nunavuk has recorded no community transmission of coronavirus
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US election: will the Republicans or Democrats win the Senate?
Speed Read Donald Trump’s unpopularity threatens to loosen the Republicans’ tight grip on the upper house
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Coronavirus: does cold weather have an impact on Covid-19?
Speed Read Experts says wintry conditions can affect both the spread of the virus and our ability to recover if infected
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Coronavirus: what are the odds of catching Covid-19 on a plane?
Speed Read Studies suggest air travel is safe despite concerns about air quality
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One in four Britons believe in QAnon-linked conspiracy theories, study finds
Speed Read Influence of the far-fetched theory has spread alongside the coronavirus pandemic
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Schools do not spread Covid-19, multiple studies find
Speed Read Reports from Germany, Norway and the WHO conclude schoolchildren are not vector of infection
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Inside the village split by a river into two lockdown tiers
Speed Read A little-noticed boundary between two local authorities is dividing neighbours as England battles Covid-19
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Russians spreading fake news about Oxford vaccine
Speed Read Online disinformation campaign targets countries where Russia’s immunisation jab is being marketed
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Who in Labour is backing a second lockdown - and who is not?
Speed Read Many of the party’s northern mayors have spoken out against new coronavirus rules
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Two coronavirus trials paused over safety concerns
Speed Read Setback for global efforts to counter Covid as human testing of antibody treatment and vaccine put on hold
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How an ‘experimental arthritis drug’ could help treat Covid-19
Speed Read Otilimab given to Manchester man as UK clinical trial kicks off
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Care homes brace for new influx of coronavirus patients
Speed Read Clinicians say care home bosses are facing increasing pressure to admit people with Covid despite lack of legal obligation
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