Sorcha Bradley, The Week UK
Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on The Week Unwrapped podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half after joining in 2019 and then took up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media, where she covered topics ranging from artificial intelligence to the inner workings of tech giants such as Amazon. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications.
She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism. For her undergraduate degree, she read English literature and classical studies at the University of Bristol. She caught the journalism bug while studying at Bristol, where she was news editor for the university paper, Epigram. Find her on Twitter @sorchabradley.
Latest articles by Sorcha Bradley, The Week UK
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Quiz of The Week 13 - 20 May
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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Peanut allergies: skin patch for toddlers shows promise in trials
Speed Read A small patch placed between the shoulders could reduce reactions in toddlers with moderate peanut allergies
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Quiz of The Week 6 -13th May
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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Anti-Midas: the careers derailed by working with Boris Johnson
Under the Radar Former PM has left a trail of political victims over the course of his controversial career in Westminster
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Brexit bonfire U-turn: how long will EU laws remain in UK?
Today's Big Question The government climbdown has angered Brexiteer Conservative MPs who may cause trouble for Rishi Sunak
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Rise of the Nimby party: the Tory house-building dilemma
Talking Point Building more housing is unpopular in many Conservative strongholds but is becoming a key political issue
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Quiz of The Week: 29 April - 5 May
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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Jordan Neely: killing of homeless man provokes anger in New York
Speed Read Neely, who died after fellow subway passenger put him in a chokehold, was known in New York as a Michael Jackson impersonator
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‘Homage of the People’: should public pledge allegiance to King?
Talking Point Call for millions of citizens to take coronation-day oath to newly crowned monarch Charles
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King’s coronation: does Prince Harry’s return signal end of royal rift?
Today's Big Question Duke of Sussex will not be accompanied by Meghan Markle when he attends coronation of King Charles III
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Lose-loos situation: the demise of public toilets in the UK
feature According to estimates, the UK has lost 50% of its public toilets in the past decade
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Junior doctors’ strike: what are the risks?
Today's Big Question Up to 350,000 appointments and operations could be cancelled during four days of industrial action
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Three years of Starmer: is there a clear vision for power?
Talking Point Almost half of Britons say Starmer has struggled to articulate his mission for Labour
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Why Twitter changed its logo to the dogecoin dog
Speed Read Some have speculated the logo change is a late April Fool’s prank
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The Dalai Lama, reincarnation and China’s mounting Tibet problem
feature Mongolian-American boy unveiled as the third most important spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism
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Mark Garnier’s ‘laughing’ gaffe: when politics and Twitter don’t mix
feature Tory MP made an embarrassing typo while tweeting in support of a new government policy
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King Charles’s France visit postponed after pensions protests
Speed Read The monarch will now head to Germany next week, which was due to be the second leg of his European trip
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Quiz of The Week: 18 -24 March
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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Three years since lockdown began: how Britain changed
feature The economy, education and the NHS are yet to fully recover from the effects of UK lockdowns
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New theory on Leonardo da Vinci’s mother divides experts
Speed Read Scholar says Renaissance pioneer may have been born to female slave from the Northern Caucasus
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Nord Stream mystery: who blew up the pipelines?
Today's Big Question A pro-Ukrainian group may have been behind the blasts, according to reports
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Junior doctors’ strike: can bitter row be solved?
Talking Point Longest period of NHS industrial action begins with doctors demanding a 35% pay rise
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Why is Bakhmut so important to Russia and Ukraine?
In Depth Both sides are suffering heavy losses in the attritional battle for the eastern Ukrainian city
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Rachel Reeves: Starmer’s new ‘de-facto’ deputy
In the Spotlight Child chess prodigy could be the UK’s first woman chancellor if Labour wins the next general election
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In the Spotlight