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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Can China beat US in new space race to colonise the Moon?
Talking Point Beijing has announced plans to land astronauts on the lunar surface by the end of the decade
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The Week’s big New Year’s Day quiz
Puzzles and Quizzes Kick off 2023 by testing your memory and attention to detail
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Have under-30s ‘lost the plot’ when it comes to Botox?
Talking Point Young people are proud of being ‘overly injected’ says leading cosmetic doctor
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Avatar: The Way of Water divides the critics
The Week Recommends James Cameron sequel both slated as ‘Wet Smurfahontas stodgeathon’ and welcomed as awe-inspiring ‘gift’
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Quiz of The Week: 10 - 16 December
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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What is inflation and why is it so high?
feature Smaller petrol price increases mean inflation has dipped slightly – but it remains in double digits
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How does UK’s ‘Christmas of discontent’ compare with the rest of Europe?
Today's Big Question A wave of strikes has hit the Continent this winter as eurozone inflation remains around 10%
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Iran’s morality police and the hijab law
Talking Point Reports that Iran’s morality police may be abolished denounced by Iranian activists as a “PR stunt”
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Elon Musk, ‘naked’ Hunter Biden and the Twitter files
Talking Point Release of internal documents by Twitter over claims of collusion with Democrats is dismissed as ‘a dud’
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Five things you may not know about Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie
Under the Radar The singer-songwriter, who penned some of the stand-out tracks on the classic album Rumours, has died aged 79
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Ghislaine Maxwell: from high society to decades behind bars
In the Spotlight British socialite has already spent more than two years in prison accused of enabling Jeffrey Epstein
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David Miliband talking about return to frontline politics
Speed Read The former Labour foreign secretary says he is ‘enthusiastic’ about Keir Starmer's leadership
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China’s stringent crackdown on zero-Covid dissent
feature Beijing battles surging coronavirus cases and growing unrest as millions remain under severe lockdown restrictions
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Brits to be told how to save energy
Speed Read Have showers not baths, turn down radiators and lower boiler temperatures, the government will advise
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Qatar’s white elephant World Cup
Talking Point Tournament host facing ‘buyer’s remorse’ over ‘giant waste of money’
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Quiz of The Week: 12 - 19 November
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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G20 summit: five high-stakes issues facing world leaders
feature Pandemic recovery, global recession, US-China relations and war in Ukraine on Indonesian agenda
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Manston asylum centre: what’s meant to happen and what’s gone wrong?
feature Migrants are being held in overcrowded and squalid conditions at a processing centre in Kent
By Sorcha Bradley Published
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The ethics of watching the Qatar World Cup
Talking Point Run-up to the greatest show on earth has been mired in controversy over country’s poor record on LGBTQ+ and human rights
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Boris Johnson’s controversial honours list revealed
Speed Read Four Tory MPs reportedly among ‘close friends, political allies and failed candidates’ picked for peerages by former prime minister
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The rise of fast furniture – and the environmental cost
feature Homeware sales boomed during the pandemic but as with fast fashion, our planet pays a price
By Sorcha Bradley Published
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Quiz of The Week: 22 - 28 October
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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‘Dirty bomb provocation’: what is Russia planning?
In Depth Western powers reject Moscow’s claims Kyiv could use a dirty bomb on its own territory
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Quiz of The Week: 15 - 21 October
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
By Sorcha Bradley Published
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