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editor of a new magazine called DISPATCH | www.dispatch-media.com

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Dispatch @dispatchmedia.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Trailer parks aren’t just an American phenomenon — thousands of people live on them in Britain. New data obtained by Dispatch shows that in just one English county, fires break out almost every fortnight. @jacobfuredi.bsky.social tells the story of one of them: dispatch-media.com/the-burning-...
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Dispatch @dispatchmedia.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
"Politics is my work, for sure." A few weeks before Martin Parr died, he sat down with Dispatch to discuss his legacy. Read the interview below:
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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Trapped in Thatcherland
100 years of Maggie • Voices of miners, bombers, rioters • From Toxteth to Long Kesh
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Ahead of Thatcher's centenery, I travelled across the UK to speak to those still living in her Britain. I interviewed dozens of people — including an IRA bomber, a Toxteth rioter, and a Scottish miner who celebrated her death. You can read the result in @dispatchmedia.bsky.social.
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Dispatch @dispatchmedia.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
An IRA bomber, a Scottish miner, a Toxteth rioter, a Welsh 'lout'. How are they faring today? Ahead of her centenary, @jacobfuredi.bsky.social reports from the frontlines of Thatcher's Britain:
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Vividly remember reading this for the first time. A deeply unsettling experience. Well worth 10 minutes of your time.
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Read it here: dispatch-media.com/david-peace-...
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David Peace: 'The media has failed Britain'
A Yorkshireman in Tokyo • On Labour and Tommy Robinson • Plus a remedy for 'broken Britain'
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
David Peace covered a lot in this interview: — Being kicked out of Labour — Yorkshire's grooming gangs — His guilt about the Miners' Strike — How the 'Broken Britain' narrative can become a self-fulfilling prophecy — Why he won't write about it
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The king
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
With Trump touching down in the UK today, spare a thought for the Suffolk villagers forced to live next to an American airbase stuffed with nuclear weapons. Even better, make some time for this very classy long-read from Jonathan McAloon: dispatch-media.com/american-nuk...
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American nukes in an English village
A top-secret airbase • In sleepy Suffolk • Locals go to war
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Dispatch @dispatchmedia.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
"Will Dispatch ever serve up AI slop to its readers?" Listen to @jacobfuredi.bsky.social's response on Radio 4's The Media Show this week.
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Who is Margaux Blanchard? Margaux Blanchard net worth? How old is Margaux Blanchard? Is Margaux Blanchard married? Tbh, I don't know. But today I wrote about how @dispatchmedia.bsky.social exposed her — and why she matters: dispatch-media.com/margaux-blan...
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Margaux Blanchard, the journalist who didn't exist
Dispatch rumbles AI fraud • The power of reporting • Introducing the Blanchard offer
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Harry Rose @harryrose.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Bravo @jacobfuredi.bsky.social and @pressgazette.co.uk @charlottetobitt.bsky.social for rumbling this. Doesn't reflect brilliantly on the magazine industry, sadly. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...
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Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles
Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Very cool to see Dispatch publish its first Grammy winner. Somehow, Jon Cleary writes as arrestingly as he plays piano...
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
With journalists barred and misinformation rife, covering the war in Gaza can feel impossible. On Dispatch today, read Hasan Jber’s extraordinary diary of life in a refugee camp. It's as strong a tonic as any to your usual op-eds and armchair analysis.
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
To find out what was really going on, I travelled to Whitby — and tracked down the TikTokers monetising the town's trauma. Link here: dispatch-media.com/the-tiktok-g...
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The TikTok ghouls of Whitby
Four deaths in four days • A town mourns • Conspiracies go viral
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
On the other, it revealed the grim extent to which true-crime TikTokers depend on churning out sensationalist content for hits.
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
On the one hand, it's classic case of legacy media failing on sensitivity and accuracy. Reach recycled inaccurate headlines across its local outlets — and national outlets didn’t do much better.
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Two weeks ago, four people fell to their deaths from Whitby’s cliffs in four days. Within hours, wild serial-killer rumours went viral on TikTok — a grim example of how the “content” economy rewards ghoulish voyeurism. My report for @dispatchmedia.bsky.social is below:
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Spies, strip clubs and suspicious Grandmasters... A cracking read, in which Euan makes a compelling pitch for Dispatch's much-coveted 'Chess Correspondent' role.
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Obviously I'm biased — but this feels like important work by @petercarlyon.bsky.social on Britain's measles crisis. Uncovering the human stories behind a very important (and unreported) datapoint:
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Well this is exciting
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
This is a fascinating essay on Paul Ray, the founder of the EDL – a strange and troubled sounding bloke ‪@dispatchmedia.bsky.social‬ dispatch-media.com/the-forgotte...
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The forgotten founder of the EDL
Paul Ray lit the fuse • Then disappeared • From Luton to Ukraine
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Dispatch @dispatchmedia.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Tommy Robinson is widely considered the founder of the EDL — but he wasn’t. That dubious honour goes to Paul Ray, a “counter-Jihad” blogger from Luton who disappeared shortly after its launch. What happened to him? @jacobfuredi.bsky.social found him in Ukraine: dispatch-media.com/the-forgotte...
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Once the most divisive comedian in Britain, Roy 'Chubby' Brown is still performing at 80. But who’s showing up to watch him? I went to Blackpool to find out, for @dispatchmedia.bsky.social. dispatch-media.com/an-evening-w...
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An evening with Britain's most offensive comedian
Is Roy 'Chubby' Brown still alive? • Yes • Good evening, Blackpool
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Meet the Sovereign Project — a group of a fringe eccentrics who believe Britain's laws and taxes are a form of slavery. Earlier this month, Fred Sculthorp went to the pub with them. Read in @dispatchmedia.bsky.social: dispatch-media.com/inside-the-k...
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Inside the Kingdom of the Sovereigns
The Brits who don't pay tax • Meet the Sovereign Project • Pete has a plan
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
It's sports week at @dispatchmedia.bsky.social — and who better to kick things off than @roisinlanigan.bsky.social? On pigeon racing, the King and a retired builder called Terry. dispatch-media.com/the-men-who-...
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The men who race pigeons
A King's betrayal • Athletes of the sky • Don't tell PETA
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Next week, two men will go on trial at Newcastle Crown Court for... chopping down a tree. Some locals have accused them of "treason"; others have called for them to serve life sentences. Why? Jonnie McAloon reports from the Sycamore Gap: www.dispatch-media.com/the-trials-o...
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The trials of the Sycamore Gap
A tree has fallen • The North remembers • Pint?
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
So delighted I finally get to share this piece by Rachel Dec in @dispatchmedia.bsky.social. One beautiful paragraph after another. On San Fracnisco's 'utopia'. dispatch-media.com/slouching-to...
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Slouching towards San Francisco
Big Tech's party scene • An earthquake is coming • Champagne and McNuggets
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Dispatch @dispatchmedia.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"Blaiklock goes on to describe Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a 'Nazi'... But her real fury is reserved for Farage." Read Michael Crick on the forgotten woman who created Reform UK: dispatch-media.com/the-woman-wh...
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The woman who made Reform UK
Catherine Blaiklock wants revenge • She's called the police • A barefoot interview
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Cornwall is a strange place: both a middle-class playground and a region scarred by rural poverty. @natashacarthew.bsky.social knows all about the latter. Here she is on the allure of opioids — in @dispatchmedia.bsky.social today: dispatch-media.com/cornwalls-pe...
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Cornwall's perfect storm
Locals feel lost • Opioids arrive • The skies darken
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Delighted to see @dispatchmedia.bsky.social's opioid investigation featured on the cover of this week's Spectator and inside the New Statesman.
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Why? Read here: dispatch-media.com/britains-hid...
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Britain’s hidden opioid crisis
Nitazenes are deadlier than fentanyl • Birmingham worst-hit • An investigation
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
In short, nitazenes are everywhere, but one local authority has been hit particularly bad: Birmingham, England’s second city. There, over the summer of 2023, the city’s homeless hostels were ravaged by nitazenes. And yet, at first, the local authorities refused to go public.
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The UK has witnessed a disturbing rise in nitazene-related deaths in recent years — but the Government has been reluctant to say where it’s happening. After sending rounds of FoIs, Dispatch can reveal hotspots for the first time. (There's an interactive map in the link below.)
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍'𝐒 𝐇𝐈𝐃𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐎𝐏𝐈𝐎𝐈𝐃 𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐒 I'm kicking off @dispatchmedia.bsky.social today with a months-long investigation into the rise of nitazines — a new synthetic opioid 40 times stronger than fentanyl. Link and interactive map below:
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Róisín Lanigan @roisinlanigan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
if u would like to read 3,000 of my words about pigeon racing then u can do that by subscribing to this magazine (equally don't let that put u off)
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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 01/04/2025
A former UnHerd deputy editor has launched an online magazine, Dispatch, which says it will focus on American-style longform journalism. Founder @jacobfuredi.bsky.social said Dispatch, which is launching on Ghost, will initially be free before adding a paywall selling subscriptions at £7.50 a month.
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The worst time to launch a magazine
Dispatch is born • With frontier spirit • Not an April Fool's
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
In the meantime, please subscribe and follow @dispatchmedia.bsky.social I promise this isn't an April Fool's. dispatch-media.com
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Dispatch
A new magazine for curious readers. Subscribe to Dispatch today.
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Dispatch's first piece will go live next Tuesday. After that, we'll publish two features a week from across the globe. I'm open for pitches — here's what we're looking for:
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
At heart, Dispatch is a home for deeply reported features and good stories told by good storytellers. You can read more about its mission here: dispatch-media.com/worst-time-l...
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The worst time to launch a magazine
Dispatch is born • With frontier spirit • Not an April Fool's
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Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Some personal-professional news: ... Introducing Dispatch — a new magazine fuelled by frontier spirit. Link and more info below.
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