Ed Caesar
@edcaesar.bsky.social
Writer @newyorker. Author of "The Moth and the Mountain" and "Two Hours".
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Ed Caesar
@edcaesar.bsky.social
· Oct 20
The Cocaine Kingpin Living Large in Dubai
Daniel Kinahan, an Irish drug dealer, commands a billion-dollar empire from the U.A.E. Why isn’t he in prison?
www.newyorker.com
I wrote about Daniel Kinahan and his family for @newyorker.com. The story features boxers, assassins, Hezbollah, a billion-dollar cocaine empire, the Open University, and a debonair gangster in a prison in Rome who is singing like a canary...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Make it even more vulgar.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Make it even more vulgar.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Really interesting development, grateful to @harrystopes.bsky.social for highlighting it. Read the thread...
THREAD. The CCRC has referred the murder convictions of 3 men who were convicted in 2017 of the murder of Abdul Hafidah in Moss Side, Manchester to the Court of Appeal.
(Nathaniel Williams was also convicted of murder in the same case: his application on the same basis is still being considered.)
(Nathaniel Williams was also convicted of murder in the same case: his application on the same basis is still being considered.)
Murder convictions in Moss Side ‘joint enterprise’ case referred to court of appeal
CCRC says new evidence undermines narrative Durrell Goodall, Reano Walters and Trey Wilson were in a gang
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Really interesting development, grateful to @harrystopes.bsky.social for highlighting it. Read the thread...
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Beautiful piece by @TimAdamsWrites on the brilliant Observer journalist Rachel Cooke who could write wonderfully about anything, has died tragically young and will be hugely, hugely missed by so many people.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Beautiful piece by @TimAdamsWrites on the brilliant Observer journalist Rachel Cooke who could write wonderfully about anything, has died tragically young and will be hugely, hugely missed by so many people.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Was sent this bit of news overnight. "Irish mafia" arrested in Colombia, during Clan del Golfo raids. Eagle-eyed readers of @newyorker.com will note that Clan del Golfo has recently worked with the Kinahan group.
November 14, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Was sent this bit of news overnight. "Irish mafia" arrested in Colombia, during Clan del Golfo raids. Eagle-eyed readers of @newyorker.com will note that Clan del Golfo has recently worked with the Kinahan group.
Reposted by Ed Caesar
Woman in a purple hat, Manchester, 1985, photo by Shirley Baker (1932-2014).
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Woman in a purple hat, Manchester, 1985, photo by Shirley Baker (1932-2014).
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair...
Amazing piece about NEOM, The Line, and where fantasy meets reality in Saudi Arabia. Chapeau @financialtimes.com
Amazing piece about NEOM, The Line, and where fantasy meets reality in Saudi Arabia. Chapeau @financialtimes.com
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair...
Amazing piece about NEOM, The Line, and where fantasy meets reality in Saudi Arabia. Chapeau @financialtimes.com
Amazing piece about NEOM, The Line, and where fantasy meets reality in Saudi Arabia. Chapeau @financialtimes.com
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A rail worker credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing on a train has been named as Samir Zitouni.
The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic".
The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic".
Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A rail worker credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing on a train has been named as Samir Zitouni.
The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic".
The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic".
So fun to write this short tribute to a classic @newyorker.com story: Up and then Down, by Nick Paumgarten.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...
But don't read that read the original. It's about eight thousand words long and it will make your day better.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...
But don't read that read the original. It's about eight thousand words long and it will make your day better.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
Up And Then Down
Late on a Friday night, Nicholas White got stuck on an elevator in a nearly empty office building.
www.newyorker.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
So fun to write this short tribute to a classic @newyorker.com story: Up and then Down, by Nick Paumgarten.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...
But don't read that read the original. It's about eight thousand words long and it will make your day better.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...
But don't read that read the original. It's about eight thousand words long and it will make your day better.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
Honoured.
October 31, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Honoured.
No More Kings, by @willoyd.bsky.social -- an essay very much worth your time. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Abolish the monarchy
It’s more than Prince Andrew – the whole House of Windsor is rotten to the core
www.newstatesman.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
No More Kings, by @willoyd.bsky.social -- an essay very much worth your time. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Thank you to the Sunday Long Read... Kinahan and many other delicious treats in this week's buffet.
Start your week with the SLR, featuring @edcaesar.bsky.social, @nxthompson.bsky.social, @cnull.bsky.social & many more! mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...
The Sunday Long Read: Digital Remains, Why I Run, New Restaurant
The week's best journalism. Every Sunday.
mailchi.mp
October 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thank you to the Sunday Long Read... Kinahan and many other delicious treats in this week's buffet.
Heaney, by @fotoole.bsky.social : observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Seamus Heaney’s poems for a darkening age | The Observer
Collected in a landmark new edition, the late Irish writer’s work is attuned to wonder, replete with humanity and rooted in the tragedies of history
observer.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Heaney, by @fotoole.bsky.social : observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
Robin Lane Fox's rules for life, printed in the latest fabulous issue of @thefence.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Robin Lane Fox's rules for life, printed in the latest fabulous issue of @thefence.bsky.social
I wrote about Daniel Kinahan and his family for @newyorker.com. The story features boxers, assassins, Hezbollah, a billion-dollar cocaine empire, the Open University, and a debonair gangster in a prison in Rome who is singing like a canary...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Cocaine Kingpin Living Large in Dubai
Daniel Kinahan, an Irish drug dealer, commands a billion-dollar empire from the U.A.E. Why isn’t he in prison?
www.newyorker.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I wrote about Daniel Kinahan and his family for @newyorker.com. The story features boxers, assassins, Hezbollah, a billion-dollar cocaine empire, the Open University, and a debonair gangster in a prison in Rome who is singing like a canary...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Astonishing journalism and storytelling: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
A Year of Convulsions in New York’s Prisons
Jennifer Gonnerman reports on how two murders and a strike exposed a system at its breaking point.
www.newyorker.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Astonishing journalism and storytelling: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Thrilled that Bookbanks is expanding with the help of @thetimes.com . I love being a volunteer in Manchester, and see first hand the good it does. www.thetimes.com/article/de95...
The joy of Bookbanks, the charity bringing books to food banks
Founded in Hackney last year, Bookbanks is giving more than 1,000 books a month to those most in need. Now we want to take it nationwide
www.thetimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Thrilled that Bookbanks is expanding with the help of @thetimes.com . I love being a volunteer in Manchester, and see first hand the good it does. www.thetimes.com/article/de95...
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Curtice says that because of vote distribution, even with the Tories polling fractionally above the Lib Dems, if this was translated into an election, the Lib Dems would end up being the much bigger party in parliament.
October 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Curtice says that because of vote distribution, even with the Tories polling fractionally above the Lib Dems, if this was translated into an election, the Lib Dems would end up being the much bigger party in parliament.
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News organisation explainer: What do we know about the new Archbishop of Canterbury?
Sarah Mullally [1] is the new [citation needed]
(What you actually want to read is Tim Wyatt on her handling of various chaotic things: www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...)
Sarah Mullally [1] is the new [citation needed]
(What you actually want to read is Tim Wyatt on her handling of various chaotic things: www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...)
October 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
News organisation explainer: What do we know about the new Archbishop of Canterbury?
Sarah Mullally [1] is the new [citation needed]
(What you actually want to read is Tim Wyatt on her handling of various chaotic things: www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...)
Sarah Mullally [1] is the new [citation needed]
(What you actually want to read is Tim Wyatt on her handling of various chaotic things: www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...)
Can confirm: sensational book.
First review of my new book LONDON FALLING, from Kirkus. At a moment when every day feels like a month and every month feels like a year, April 7 is still a very long way off. But the book is available for pre-order now. 🙏
October 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Can confirm: sensational book.
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“Stop crying,” Rick Rescorla told his wife, on September 11, 2001. “I have to get these people out safely. If something should happen to me, I want you to know I’ve never been happier. You made my life.” #NewYorkerArchive
The Courageous Life and Death of Rick Rescorla, a 9/11 Hero
The Vietnam veteran helped save hundreds of lives on September 11th, before he was swallowed by the South Tower collapse. “For Rick Rescorla, this was a natural death,” his best friend said—a hero’s e...
www.newyorker.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“Stop crying,” Rick Rescorla told his wife, on September 11, 2001. “I have to get these people out safely. If something should happen to me, I want you to know I’ve never been happier. You made my life.” #NewYorkerArchive
At Old Trafford for the Test today. Reminded of the time in COVID when I came and watched the Test on my own, then attempted to explain the sport to Americans...
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
The Season of Cricket Returns to the U.K.
International cricket played in England without crowds was a sterile prospect, in more than one sense, but it was still cricket. A summer was possible.
www.newyorker.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
At Old Trafford for the Test today. Reminded of the time in COVID when I came and watched the Test on my own, then attempted to explain the sport to Americans...
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...