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Sam Knight

@myprivateatlas.bsky.social
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Staff writer at the New Yorker, Letters from the U.K, "The Premonitions Bureau." Find me on Substack: myprivateatlas.substack.com

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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
here is my latest newsletter. enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/myprivat...
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pt3: Green means go
Organising colour and riding the wave
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 04/06/2026
Under Gianni Infantino’s absolute control, FIFA is dealing with the world’s richest governments directly and with no involvement from the rest of the organization’s membership. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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FairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"No one is saying to be humble, at any point. You go to tournament events in exotic locations. You’re flown business class. You stay in five-star hotels on Copacabana Beach." Sam Knight in the @newyorker.com on Gianni Infantino's FIFA www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The World Cup According to Gianni Infantino
FIFA’s powerful president is remaking global soccer in his own image. Can the sport survive him?
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Bonita Mersiades @bonitamersiades.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A worthwhile read from Sam Knight in the @newyorker.com on Gianni #Infantino. If you can't read it due to paywall, you can listen. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The World Cup According to Gianni Infantino
FIFA’s powerful president is remaking global soccer in his own image. Can the sport survive him?
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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Tailing1: The Smoking Invoice
Did Infantino orchestrate his rise to the FIFA presidency?
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Christoph Becker @chwb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"Infantino has moved FIFA into a new era of gigantism+top-down compliance, in which the game’s chief administrator is better known than many of the players whom he oversees. Unassailable, unloved, corrosive to the sport that he adores." - @myprivateatlas.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The World Cup According to Gianni Infantino
FIFA’s powerful president is remaking global soccer in his own image. Can the sport survive him?
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This profile of Infantino is as good as anything as a primer on how postliberal institutions are building a new world order. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The World Cup According to Gianni Infantino
FIFA’s powerful president is remaking global soccer in his own image. Can the sport survive him?
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 02/06/2026
FIFA’s powerful president is remaking global soccer in his own image. Can the sport survive him? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
newyorker.com
The World Cup According to Gianni Infantino
FIFA’s powerful president is remaking global soccer in his own image. Can the sport survive him?
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
An exciting day for me... I have a story in this week's @newyorker.com about Gianni Infantino, the President and Sun King of FIFA. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202.... I am also launching a new Substack, My Private Atlas, which I would love you to check out. myprivateatlas.substack.com
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The World Cup According to Gianni Infantino
FIFA’s powerful president is remaking global soccer in his own image. Can the sport survive him?
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I wrote about the mess www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Keir Starmer Won’t Survive This
After a disastrous set of election results, the British Prime Minister’s authority is in tatters.
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
"We must get ready to treat America like a foreign country." www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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What It’s Like to Be Trump’s Closest Ally Right Now
Britain still relies on the U.S. for so much. How long can it hold on?
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I wrote about the WhatsApp takeover and where it might be going... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation
The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike. What are we all doing there?
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
if one more email asks me how my fucking delivery was
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I wrote about the BBC, wondering when it is going to realise what it is up against. www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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The Mess at the BBC Will Never End
The public broadcaster desperately needs the public to believe in it. Between its own stumbles and ceaseless right-wing hostility, it is in danger of losing its way.
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This at least is good news www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/w...
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Egypt Pardons Most Prominent Political Prisoner
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I wrote about Britain’s political autumn www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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Britain Is Manifesting Nigel Farage as Its Next Prime Minister
Donald Trump’s state visit only added to the seeming inevitability of the right-wing Reform Party.
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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How a Billionaire Owner Brought Turmoil and Trouble to Sotheby’s
Patrick Drahi made a fortune through debt-fuelled telecommunications companies. Now he’s bringing his methods to the art market.
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is v useful and easy for turning off Google AI overview: www.androidauthority.com/how-to-turn-...
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Here's why I turned off AI Overviews and why you should consider it too
After being disappointed by Google's AI Overviews, I decided to figure out how to turn the feature off altogether.
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Worth your time www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
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Why I Left the Washington Post
Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I decided...
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I wrote about London's new newsletter scene www.newyorker.com/magazine/let...
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London Is a Local-News Desert. What Comes Next?
After the Evening Standard, the city’s last daily paper, went weekly, a hodgepodge of small news sources sprang up.
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Beavers! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Beaver releases into wild to be allowed in England for first time in centuries
Exclusive: Government to grant nature groups a licence for release of rodent species after earlier setbacks
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“The history books are far from being written. We’re in the midst of it all. Let us reckon with that second Trump term.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Britain’s Foreign Secretary Braces for the Second Trump Age
David Lammy used to be an arch-critic of Donald Trump. Can he deal with the new Administration and reset the U.K.’s relationship with the E.U. at the same time?
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I wrote about the Musk onslaught www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Elon Musk’s Latest Terrifying Foray Into British Politics
The world’s richest man has become fixated on child sexual exploitation in deindustrialized English towns—much of which took place more than a decade ago.
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
“The motives of memory are never pure.” www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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Why Is It So Hard to Build a Holocaust Memorial in London?
Plans for a striking national monument next to the Palace of Westminster have been mired in disagreement for years.
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
True story, I lost my airpods. They were in my ears. Happy holidays.
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
This is beautifully reported. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/u...
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Top-Gun Navy Pilots Fly at the Extremes. Their Brains May Suffer.
A confidential Navy program is studying whether intense fighter jet operations can cause devastating brain injuries in flight crews.
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I succumbed to this monster today.
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is excellent www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 17/11/2024
Are you a shipwreck exploration nerd? I've got a good longread for you!
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The Shipwreck Detective
Nigel Pickford has spent a lifetime searching for sunken treasure—without leaving dry land.
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
This was fun, too. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Jenny Kleeman and Sam Knight
Two journalists bring their favourite books to chat about with Harriett Gilbert.
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Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
In the spirit of the old days / new days of social media, I wrote a *completely-non-political-escapist-mainly-rooted-in-the-17th-century* story for the New Yorker last week. Enjoy! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Shipwreck Detective
Nigel Pickford has spent a lifetime searching for sunken treasure—without leaving dry land.
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