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Lynsey Chutel

@lynseychutel.bsky.social
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Journalist • Author • African • Bibliophile Reporter for NY Times in London. Co-Author of Coloured: How Classification Became Culture

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
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Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first 

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
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Lynsey Chutel @lynseychutel.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
3 Killed in Antigovernment Protests in Morocco The latest wave in youth-driven protests has reached North Africa. The #GenZ212 demonstrators vented their anger against heavy spending on preparations for the 2030 soccer World Cup instead of on public services. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...
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Lynsey Chutel @lynseychutel.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Finnish Court Dismisses Case Against Crew Accused of Cutting Undersea Cables Finland seized the Eagle S tanker last year, saying that its anchor had been dragged on the seabed for more than 50 miles and cut five submarine cables in what they believed was sabotage. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/w...
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Finnish Court Dismisses Case Against Crew Accused of Cutting Undersea Cables
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/08/2025
“Give your kids an extra hug and kiss today.” Jesse Merkel spoke at a news conference outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where his 8-year-old son, Fletcher, was one of two children fatally shot at a back-to-school Mass on Wednesday. Read more: nyti.ms/45HBSKN
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Lynsey Chutel @lynseychutel.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Also, love the comments section and the debate about air-conditioning that morphed into a bigger argument about socio-economic differences between the US and the UK, with Australians and South Africans chiming in.
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Lynsey Chutel @lynseychutel.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
British Summers Are Getting Hotter. So Are Houses. Had lots of fun reporting this story. In my first UK summer, I was struck by why the buildings seemed hotter than it was outside. Turns out there's a reason for that, and it won't be solved by air-conditioning. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/w...
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British Summers Are Getting Hotter. So Are Houses.
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Lynsey Chutel @lynseychutel.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
“Atoms for Peace”- How the United States Helped Create Iran’s Nuclear Program Now, the Trump admin is in negotiations, begun under Biden, for the potential transfer nuclear tech to Saudi Arabia — a new Mid-East ally ruled by a strongman with grand ambitions. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...
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How the United States Helped Create Iran’s Nuclear Program
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Climate Adaptation and Restoration Team @clubadaptation.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
A Heat Wave Leaves Britons Looking for Ways to Stay Cool—As the United States sweats through its own run of high heat, temperatures in Britain have been above the seasonal average for days. The country was forecast… www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/w... @lynseychutel.bsky.social @nytimes.com
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A Heat Wave Leaves Britons Looking for Ways to Stay Cool
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
An Eighth-Generation Oyster Farmer Sees Hope in Britain’s Trade Deal: Brexit had complicated many of Britain’s food exports to Europe. A new trade deal between the U.K. and the E.U. could make them easier, including for shellfish farmers. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/b...
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An Eighth-Generation Oyster Farmer Sees Hope in Britain’s Trade Deal
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Lynsey Chutel @lynseychutel.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It. The budget cuts threaten global progress on everything from heart disease to H.I.V. — and could affect American drug companies, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/h...
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South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It.
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Lynsey Chutel @lynseychutel.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The starvation of Gaza can be measured in the jutting ribs of a 6-year-old girl. In the 2 tomatoes, 2 green chili peppers and 1 cucumber a destitute child can buy to feed his family that day. Devastating story about the hunger in Gaza by Saher Algeria & Vivian Yee www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/w...
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In Emaciated Children, Gaza’s Hunger Is Laid Bare
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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This also happened in South Africa during apartheid, which took inspiration from US segregation. Many Coloured people looked down on Black people as they fought for the slightly better benefits the regime gave them. For more, read Coloured by @lynseychutel.bsky.social & @tessadooms.bsky.social
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Coloured: How Classification Became Culture
'This is a book for Coloured people, by Coloured people…
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Lynsey Chutel @lynseychutel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Paul Simon, trying to resurrect his solo career, defied a cultural boycott on apartheid South Africa in search of new music. He recorded a classic album and created a political minefield. The artists I spoke to saw it as their big break, but what did it help the struggle as a whole? Listen & LMK:
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Lynsey Chutel @lynseychutel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Was Paul Simon’s Graceland Appropriation or Appreciation? Four decades later this album is still the first encounter most international audiences had with South African music. But can you divorce the sound from the politics? My first radio outing on BBC Radio 4 is live www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, Paul Simon's Political Storm
The legacy of one the most popular and controversial album releases ever - Graceland.
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Lynsey Chutel @lynseychutel.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
At 13, Charlotte Brontë collected her poems in a tiny self-published anthology that already hinted at her ambition. For the first time Brontë’s teen poetry has been published. I got to read them, and those poems and they are lovely. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/b...
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At 13, Charlotte Brontë Already Knew How Good a Writer She Would Be (Gift Article)
An anthology of her teenage poetry, published for the first time, shows ambition, even if the verse isn’t perfect.
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Lynsey Chutel @lynseychutel.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
The children died one after the other. In Sudan, ravaged by civil war where more than half the population is acutely hungry, my colleague @declanwalsh.bsky.social reported on the harrowing consequences Trump’s aid cuts. The photos by Ivor Prickett heart wrenching. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/w...
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As Famine Rages in Sudan, U.S. Aid Remains Scarce (Gift Article)
The stark consequences of the rollback are evident in few places as clearly as in Sudan, where a brutal civil war has combined with a staggering humanitarian catastrophe.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/04/2025
Treasury bonds are traditionally seen as a safe haven in times of economic turmoil, because they offer investors a guaranteed payment backed by the U.S. government. Instead, investors are selling the assets. Here's what to know.
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Another Rocky Day in Markets: Stocks and Bonds Sink
With the S&P 500 near a bear market, shares in Europe and Asia fell as China and other major U.S. trading partners confronted significantly higher tariffs. Investors also sold U.S. bonds.
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Lynsey Chutel @lynseychutel.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Lesotho built its textile industry in part thanks to AGOA, a US-trade agreement. Some of your favourite denim brands were made in Lesotho and exported to the US. Now, Trump’s new 50% tariffs threaten to decimate that industry and shed thousands of jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...
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Lesotho Has Few Options to Counter 50% U.S. Tariffs (Gift Article)
In Lesotho, which makes denim that goes into U.S.-branded jeans, both the private sector and the government were weighing their next moves.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Two German tourists were chained, detained for weeks and eventually deported amid a crackdown by Trump's border agencies even though Europeans are entitled to visa-free travel to the US. @lynseychutel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/w...
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German Tourists Detained for Weeks, Then Deported From U.S.
Amid President Trump’s border crackdown, German news media have closely followed the treatment of two tourists who say they tried to enter the United States legally.
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Lynsey Chutel @lynseychutel.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
After the Spellow Library in Liverpool was targeted during England’s unrest last summer, more than 10,000 people donated to its restoration. The restored library has become a moment of hope in an otherwise grim chapter. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/w...
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Anti-Migrant Rioters Set a U.K. Library on Fire. The Community Rallied.
After the Spellow Library in Liverpool was targeted during England’s unrest last summer, more than 10,000 people donated to its restoration.
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Lynsey Chutel @lynseychutel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Unbelievable: After more than a decade the M23 rebels have are back, seizing Goma, a major city in the eastern DRC. Backed by Rwanda, M23 plans to occupy the mineral-region for the long term. Rwanda denies those accusations. Reporting by @ruthmaclean & Caleb Kabanda www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/w...
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Rebels Backed by Rwanda Announce Capture of Key City in Eastern Congo (Gift Article)
The M23 militia, funded and directed by Rwanda, said it had seized the city of Goma, terrifying its people, many of whom sought shelter there after fleeing the rebel advance.
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Lynsey Chutel @lynseychutel.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Profiling Thandiswa Mazwia was so intimidating. She’s been the voice that sang South Africa’s post apartheid hopes and disappointments. Despite a gruelling tour schedule and a long day of rehearsals, she was open and funny and indulged me. Here’s our conversation. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/w...
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The Voice of South Africa’s First Post-Apartheid Generation (Gift Article)
Thandiswa Mazwai has sung of South Africa’s highs and lows since the country became a multiracial democracy 30 years ago. “My calling is to sing the people’s joy, to sing the people’s sadness.”
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Stephanie Nolen @stephanienolen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
For your daily respite, thinking about something other than apocalypse, can I highly recommend this lovely profile of the fabulous South African musician Thandiswa Mazwai (whose music I'm playing in the office today 🎶🇿🇦), by the excellent @lynseychutel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/w...
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Thandiswa Mazwai Is the Voice of South Africa’s First Post-Apartheid Generation
Thandiswa Mazwai has sung of South Africa’s highs and lows since the country became a multiracial democracy 30 years ago. “My calling is to sing the people’s joy, to sing the people’s sadness.”
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Lynsey Chutel @lynseychutel.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
After six months in Britain, I’m re-examining all the Brit pop culture I was fed in the former colony, starting with the Spice Girls. I’m going to need someone to break down the race, class and geographical dynamics among them. Explain it to me like a high school student who’s just discovered Marx.
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