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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Are UK pensions safe?
Today's Big Question Bank of England governor says its debt market support must end – but the multi-billion-pound scheme could be extended
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What would it take for Liz Truss to reverse tax cuts?
Today's Big Question PM defends controversial £45bn economic package as necessary to ‘get the economy moving’
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Why some people are offended by the Prince of Wales title
Talking Point Given to the heirs to the British throne, the title has a controversial history
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The problem with a UK-US trade deal
Talking Point Liz Truss reveals free trade deal now looks out of reach despite promise of Brexit
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Is this the end of Covid?
Talking Point WHO gives most upbeat assessment yet of the global battle against the virus
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What challenges will Liz Truss and King Charles’ relationship face?
In Depth The new monarch’s reign and Tory leader’s premiership are ‘inextricably’ linked
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Will Charles be the world’s first climate monarch?
Today's Big Question The King has long championed environmental issues but his new role is very different
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The five best anecdotes about the Queen
Under the Radar Monarch was known for her sense of humour as well as commitment to duty
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‘Equally wooden’: Starmer and Truss do battle in first PMQs
Talking Point First meeting between the pair seemed to herald a return to the old dividing lines between Conservative and Labour
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What does Liz Truss win mean for Labour?
Today's Big Question Keir Starmer has warned his party not to underestimate Truss’s political talents
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Rings of Power: will Jeff Bezos’s $1bn ‘bet’ on Tolkien pay off?
Talking Point Highly anticipated Amazon TV blockbuster is ‘the most expensive series ever created’
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How Britain’s inflation became the ‘worst in the G7’
Talking Point UK feels pain of double-digit price rises for the first time since 1982
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Quiz of The Week: 6 - 12 August
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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Is it time to nationalise energy companies?
Today's Big Question Gordon Brown calls for government to negotiate with energy providers for lower prices
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Has Liz Truss found an unlikely ally in Tony Blair?
Speed Read The Tory leadership hopeful and the former Labour PM are said to speak ‘fairly regularly’
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Will Boris Johnson step down as an MP?
Talking Point Critics of the prime minister have called for him to resign his Commons seat
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Energy bills: what to expect this winter
feature Gordon Brown calls for an emergency budget to tackle spiralling living costs
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Quiz of The Week: 30 July - 5 August
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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Could TV viewers still stomach the original Big Brother?
Talking Point Reality show is set to return after a five-year break
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Lisa Nandy tests Keir Starmer’s picket line order
Speed Read The Labour leader appears to have U-turned on an order banning frontbenchers from picket lines
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Can Rishi Sunak’s tax cuts help him beat Liz Truss?
Today's Big Question New polling suggests the gap between Truss and Sunak could be closer than previously believed
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Is Britain prepared for more wildfires?
Today's Big Question Tuesday was the busiest day for the London Fire Brigade since the Second World War, says Sadiq Khan
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Where the Tory leadership candidates stand on net zero
feature Conservative contenders are reluctant to be seen as the green candidate
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How Boris Johnson lost the support of his party
feature Pincher affair was final catalyst in already imploding premiership
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