Jamie Timson, The Week UK
Jamie Timson is the UK news editor. Having been with the team from 2015 to 2019 holding roles including intern, editorial assistant and staff writer, he rejoined in September 2022. He was a founding panellist on The Week Unwrapped podcast, often discussing politics, foreign affairs and conspiracy theories, sometimes separately, sometimes all at once. Now he takes on the early shift with 6am starts curating the UK daily morning newsletter and commissioning stories for the website's daily news output.
Before rejoining The Week, Jamie worked in the Civil Service as a Senior Press Officer at the Department for Transport. Over three years, he developed a penchant for crisis communications working on Brexit, the fuel crisis, the response to Covid-19 and HS2. Despite enjoying the cut and thrust of Westminster politics, he always harboured a desire to return to the world of journalism where he had started out at The Edinburgh Journal in 2012 before moving on to work for the European Youth Press in 2014. Jamie was also a member of the Unesco Global Media Alliance On Media And Gender's International Steering Committee. He has a Social History degree from the University of Edinburgh and can be found on Twitter @JKTimson.
Latest articles by Jamie Timson, The Week UK
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The short history of TV debates and UK general electionsThe Explainer Keir Starmer has described them as 'part and parcel of the election cycle now' but their format has constantly changed
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Back to backlash: is Amy Winehouse biopic trashing her legacy?Talking Point Fans of the late singer-songwriter are unimpressed by previews of the upcoming film
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Private members' clubs: what's the point?Talking Point All-male establishments are under scrutiny as critics question the wider purpose of members' clubs in 21st century
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Three Chimneys restaurant and The House Over-By review: Skye's sumptuous rural hideawayThe Week Recommends The award-winning restaurant with rooms is well worth battling the elements to reach
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Is history repeating itself in Sudan?Today's Big Question ‘Forgotten’ war raises fears of genocide and ‘world’s largest hunger crisis’
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Coco Chanel and the NazisIn the Spotlight New TV show criticised for 'flat-out revisionist' treatment of fashion designer's links to Germans in occupied Paris
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Brianna Ghey: should killers have been named?Talking Point Teenagers Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe now face 'life of inescapable notoriety'
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Keir Starmer pledges to end voters' exhaustion with WestminsterSpeed Read Labour leader kickstarts election campaigning with promise of 'national renewal'
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Scottish court rules UK government veto of Holyrood gender reform bill was lawfulSpeed Read Constitutional ruling disappoints LGBTQ+ campaigners but offers a boost to Rishi Sunak
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Hamas to release Russian hostages as gesture of thanks to PutinSpeed Read Show of appreciation follows release of Israeli-Russian national Roni Krivoi on 26 November
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Out of touch: Daryl Hall obtains restraining order against bandmate John OatesSpeed Read Lawsuit reveals unharmonious relationship between most commercially successful duo in pop history
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Russia admits Ukrainian breakthrough into occupied Kherson but warns 'fiery hell' awaitsSpeed Read Crossing of Dnipro River could open up new line for Kyiv to attack Crimea
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'Major blow' for Rishi Sunak as Rwanda deportation policy ruled unlawfulSpeed Read Supreme Court rules substantial grounds for believing that asylum seekers sent to Rwanda would be at risk of persecution
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Corruption crisis engulfs Portugal as PM stands downSpeed Read António Costa implicated in corruption probe over award of contracts for two large-scale lithium-mining projects
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Hôtel Barrière Fouquet's New York review: Parisian panache in the Big AppleThe Week Recommends The Manhattan branch of the French Barrière chain is an incredible homage to its Parisian cousin
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Rishi Sunak's first year as PM: is he safe?In the Spotlight The Conservative Party has continued to trail behind Labour in the polls under Sunak's leadership
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'Seismic' Labour win in Scotland may ease Starmer's path to No.10Speed Read A 20% swing from SNP to Labour 'transforms the Scottish political weather'
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Seaham Hall review: serenity on the coast in County DurhamThe Week Recommends Former haunt of Lord Byron is pure poetry when it comes to spa options in the north-east
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Scientists a step closer to resurrecting extinct Tasmanian tigerSpeed Read New study marks the first time RNA has been recovered from an extinct species
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Sunak reshuffle: Grant Shapps to replace Ben Wallace as defence secretarySpeed Read Seen as a PM loyalist, the former energy security secretary is taking his fifth cabinet job in less than a year
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Sara Sharif ‘seen with injuries at school’ before her deathSpeed Read Ten-year-old had ‘cuts and bruises on her face and her neck’ before she was taken out of school
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Locals put up fake jellyfish signs to ward off tourists in MallorcaSpeed Read Protest group complain about ‘foreigners’ and ‘overcrowding’ on island favoured by British holidaymakers
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Manchester United and Mason Greenwood: duty of care or double standards?Talking Point The 21-year-old footballer’s possible return has provoked an outpouring of dismay from supporters
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Zelenskyy sacks Ukraine ambassador to UK after sarcasm rowSpeed Read Vadym Prystaiko accused his boss of an ‘unhealthy sarcasm’ in response to British defence secretary Ben Wallace
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