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James Stewart

@itsjamesstewart.bsky.social
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Journalist writing for The Times/Sunday Times, FT and others. Freelance Writer of the Year 2024 & 2020, Travel Writer of the Year 2021. Saltwater for blood www.james-stewart.com

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
i really am not convinced the Telegraph isn’t a massive satirical art piece
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Thank you!
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Tbh it seems a fitting use for the piece once read. Easily beats the traditional cat litter tray
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Frankly I’m wary of anyone who thinks “an historian” is OK
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I mean, come on. What's not to like?
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Legendary superyachts last week, the World Town Crier Champs in Chester this. Funny old job, this
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
More, you say? Be happy to. Honestly, what a beauty
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fancy some Friday boatporn? Course you do. I've sailed for, ooh, 40 years: tallships, yachts, trad workboats, cargo deliveries. I'm not fussy. Atlantic has been a different level though - extraordinary boat, lovely crew. Helming her as we smoked along at 14 knots may be as good as my job gets
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This, my friends, has been a very good day. On board Atlantic in S France
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Some time ago in Botswana, I heard a hotel guest at breakfast moan that it was raining. “Yes, madam,” her guide replied. “It is a blessing.” Right now I’m sort of getting what he meant
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A while ago Icelandair thought it would be fun to stage an 11-hour musical on a London-NYC flight. It continued during the change at Reykjavik. That’s an emergency door job
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Todays's FT includes a new description of hell. Move over Dante
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Should add that I really couldn't give a toss about cars and speed records as I said to the editor who commissioned me
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Huge congratulations to Andy Green for the new land speed record. I interviewed him a decade or so ago - we got off on the wrong foot (long story), rescued things by talking about a shared love of sailing and ended up having a great chat james-stewart.com/bloodhound-a...
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Bloodhound Andy Green – JAMES STEWART
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
One of mine from the weekend – sailing, obviously, but really about the joy of simplicity; of stripping things back to basics. The images are beautiful if you have a sub to access the piece on digital www.ft.com/content/1871...
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How to holiday like it’s 1932: sailing the Norfolk Broads on a vintage yacht
James Stewart voyages back in time — at 2mph — to find tranquil waters, endless horizons and a surprisingly sociable escape from modernity
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
South coast. That was en route to glamorous Newhaven. Almost the French Riviera
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
There's no point in being freelance if you can't decide to sack off work on a Friday
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The 1930s Broads boat is laughable compared to some superyachts I've sailed on - equal parts Edwardian gentlemen's club and glorified tent. But I win today
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I don't post on here too often but Traena! Fucking hell!
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The destination dupes concept of travel journalism was always a bit mad but this list is a tumble down the rabbithole
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Things get weird when you translate the cookie preferences of foreign language websites. That or this is a niche Slovenian joke
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The photo is doing a lot of work to make that pool look decent too
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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Fascinated by the implication that £200/night for a family holiday is outrageous luxury living
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Keir Starmer jetted off for a four-day luxury family Easter break at a £200-a-night four-star boutique hotel in Valencia, complete with rooftop bar and pool.
While lounging in the sun and sipping café con leche in a public square, Trump was issuing ultimatums to "obliterate" Iran's power plants and warning Tehran they'd be "living in Hell."
Starmer stayed put despite the escalating crisis, five years after he slammed Boris Johnson for holidaying as Kabul fell, declaring: "You cannot coordinate an international response from the beach."
Macron spent the weekend on emergency calls with Trump and Iran's president. Starmer? Not so much.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Ouch. Jet fuel. www.ft.com/content/7181...
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Although if you're after a second thing to read here's my bit on the new Ibiza parador, a tale of perseverance, hope and an awful lot of history giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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A parador for the party isle of Ibiza
Two decades in the making, the new Parador de Ibiza crowns the historic citadel — and shows the island does culture as well as clubbing
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Death row lawyer Bryan Stevenson: ‘Hope is our superpower’: if you only read one thing today make it this by @edwardluce.bsky.social
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Death row lawyer Bryan Stevenson: ‘Hope is our superpower’
The attorney and activist on overturning capital convictions — and his fears that civil rights gains are being dismantled
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
First American politics, now crippling fuel prices - pity the travel PRs who had spent months planning for the centenary of Route 66 this year
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I cannot wait for the insights on this! He's going to: 1. Sample some local street food. 2. Ride a train. 3. Visit a temple. 4. Not mention the pogroms that the serving Prime Minister presided over. 5. Smile at some elephants. 6. Top up his kids' private school fees. 7. Say "India is changing".
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I was receiving intermittently but couldn't send – consistent 504 errors or things sat in the Outbox for hours
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Same. I've been RB for c.25 years. An hour or two at its worst but we're now approaching 24 hours with no timelines for resolution and no real communication with customers. This could be me and RB done tbh
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Almost 24 hours on and now there’s no service at all. Service status is red across the board. I now can’t even set up an autoreply to say “call me”. Do you timelines please?
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
“The Times has been told” by who? UAE government sources? UK opposition parties? Dave down the pub? Without some sort of source this is just meaningless. Six days into Iran it’s been relentless grift from right-wing media
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I'm trying both: webmail and via Mac Mail iPad and iPhone. Here's hoping for tomorrow
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Yes webmail. Can't send any emails and I'm on deadline. It's been like this for 5-6hours. Tried to file a ticket but guess what: "There has been an error"
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Still can't send anything: 504 errors
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
SMTP 465 - ie mail - is down
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
@runbox.bsky.social can you update re email provision, please? recurrent outages and 504 errors
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Cardiacs definitely more important. Hope all snowy in the pond
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Thoughts and prayers with every PR who has a major launch this week
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
You'll be telling me that George V didn't actually like Bognor next
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Exactly. "But I got spooked by the mRNA vaccine!" Oh well, that's ok then
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Plus there's the line: "It's all very well to scream at me that the medical establishment knows best… but I was also someone who got spooked by the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine". Just one nonsense explanation after another
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
If the government had only asked me I'd have saved them £109m and done nothing for £1m www.ft.com/content/186f...
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UK quietly shelves £110mn frictionless post-Brexit trade border project
Experts criticise halt to programme that had used Deloitte and IBM as contractors
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Mad that so many people complained it had lost it's soul cos Audrey started offering table service
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Thanks Simon! I was hugely fond of Cabane. It felt a privilege to hang out for a few days. Dinner conversations and interviews tested my French to its limits, mind
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
And while I’m putting up pieces here’s one from last week; a new Cornish stay to help you remember what matters www.thetimes.com/article/30de...
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Cornwall’s new hamlet of cool cottages — glorious even in winter
This estate near Looe has 11 stylish self-catering pads, a farmhouse, and shepherd’s hut saunas, making it the perfect base for year-round holidays by the sea
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
My bit from Verbier in today’s Times. The header pegs this on price but it’s actually a story about tradition and community; what one guide called “the spirit of the mountains” www.thetimes.com/article/f328...
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The surprisingly affordable mountain hotel in upscale Verbier
Skiers will love Cabane Mont Fort, elevated 2,457m above the Swiss resort’s busier centre with out-of-hours access to the slopes — plus what’s new nearby
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Frankly kudos to him for coaxing 70mph out of a VW bus www.thetimes.com/article/b4f7...
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Boy who drove campervan at 70mph given penalty points for future licence
The 13-year-old drove his parents’ VW van in the middle of the night on a dual carriageway. They tell a court he will be ‘washing cars for a year’ as punishment
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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Are the locals friendly? Do hotels perch? We need to know
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