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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Prince Harry and Meghan: ‘near catastrophic car chase’ in the spotlight
Talking Point Brush with US paparazzi has echoes of Princess Diana but some have questioned the timing
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Melbourne bouncy castle king jailed over arson attacks on rivals
Speed Read An Australian court heard how James Balcombe was motivated by an ‘obsessive desire to outdo his competitors’
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‘Red Rishi’ no more: is Sunak shifting rightwards?
Today's Big Question In bowing to demands from the right-wing of his party some commentators say PM is showing his true colours
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Ukrainian hackers’ hoax unmasks Russian pilots accused of Mariupol theatre bombing
Speed Read Military wives and girlfriends duped into posing for photoshoot in ‘virtual false-flag operation’
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Experts call for AI pause over risk to humanity
Speed Read Open letter says powerful new systems should only be developed once it is known they are safe
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Facial recognition technology and policing: an unholy alliance?
Talking Point Grey area for AI leads to claims that everyone is being put into ‘a perpetual police line-up’
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Humza Yousaf: the ‘Irn-Bru-swigging’ new SNP leader
In the Spotlight ‘Continuity candidate’ narrowly defeats Kate Forbes in vote to succeed Nicola Sturgeon
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Major incident declared after oil leak in Poole
Speed Read Swimmers in Dorset beauty spot warned not to enter Europe’s largest natural harbour
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Balmoral Arms review: a hotel fit for a king
The Week Recommends This Highlands hideaway provides the warmest of welcomes for weary travellers
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Nigerian politician guilty of organ-harvesting plot in landmark UK case
Speed Read Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife and a medical middleman were convicted under Modern Slavery Act
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#PropertyTok: the surprising rise of the landlord influencer
Talking Point New subgenre of social media content promises financial freedom but at what cost?
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The Premier League’s short-haul flights crisis
Talking Point Top teams choose to fly despite it being between 25 and 30 times worse for the environment
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How Gary Lineker furore could spark BBC social media revolution
Speed Read New review announced by corporation intends to rewrite guidelines over social media use by top stars
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Budget 2023 predictions: what will Jeremy Hunt announce?
In Depth Businesses braced for downbeat affair as chancellor urges caution
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Quiz of The Week: 5 - 11 March
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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Money can actually make you happier, says top economist
Speed Read Daniel Kahneman changes his mind after once claiming six-figure salaries don’t increase happiness
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Thousands protest in Georgia over contentious ‘foreign agent law’
In Pictures Police use tear gas and stun grenades to disperse those demonstrating against ‘Kremlin-inspired’ crackdown
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Wild Isles: TV producers feared avian flu would kill David Attenborough
Speed Read The 96-year-old broadcaster was kept away from shearwater chicks following virus warning
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Selective Outrage: what Chris Rock says about Will Smith and the Oscars in new Netflix special
Speed Read Comedian accuses Jada Pinkett Smith of hurting her husband ‘way more than he hurt me’
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Quiz of The Week: 26 February - 4 March
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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Modi’s operandi: what will Indian PM do with G20 presidency?
Today's Big Question India’s tricky balancing act over Ukraine dominates foreign ministers’ summit
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Rewriting Roald Dahl: ‘absurd censorship’ or a sign of the times?
Talking Point References to weight, mental health, gender and race have been changed having been deemed offensive to modern readers
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If at first you don’t secede: the rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
In the Spotlight Scotland’s first female and longest serving first minister announces resignation, saying ‘it’s not right to carry on’
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Ballet director suspended after dog poo attack on critic
Speed Read Marco Goecke accused of assaulting reviewer who said his work would make audiences ‘die from boredom’
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