Patrick Strudwick
@patrickstrudwick.bsky.social
Journalist. Podcast and documentary producer (‘Spacey Unmasked’, ‘White Smoke: America’s Chemsex Killer’ and more). Occasional host/presenter.
Very much still in the closet. [email protected]
Very much still in the closet. [email protected]
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Back in the 1960s, my parents struggled to find a flat. No one wanted to rent to my Indian father. And they sure as hell didn’t want to rent to an interracial couple. It wasn’t unusual for them to be spat on. How great that times have changed, I used to think. How very, very wrong I was.
I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
September 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Back in the 1960s, my parents struggled to find a flat. No one wanted to rent to my Indian father. And they sure as hell didn’t want to rent to an interracial couple. It wasn’t unusual for them to be spat on. How great that times have changed, I used to think. How very, very wrong I was.
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Happy publication day to the Two Roberts! Welcome back to the world, which loved you then almost forgot you and is now turning towards you again. My novel is a celebration of them and their bravery and brilliance, as artists, lovers, outsiders.
🖼️ 🌈 🏴 🧑🎨 🧑🎨 📕
buythebook.online/the-two-robe...
🖼️ 🌈 🏴 🧑🎨 🧑🎨 📕
buythebook.online/the-two-robe...
The Two Roberts by Damian Barr | Buy the Book
A BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2025 FOR THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, HERALD AND BBC
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September 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Happy publication day to the Two Roberts! Welcome back to the world, which loved you then almost forgot you and is now turning towards you again. My novel is a celebration of them and their bravery and brilliance, as artists, lovers, outsiders.
🖼️ 🌈 🏴 🧑🎨 🧑🎨 📕
buythebook.online/the-two-robe...
🖼️ 🌈 🏴 🧑🎨 🧑🎨 📕
buythebook.online/the-two-robe...
EXCL: Scammers stole the identity of a real doctor in Gaza to make money - exploiting public sympathy by crowdfunding + promoting it on social media.
I tracked down the real doctor who reported it to Instagram - but it wasn't taken down.
Now a warning to the public:
inews.co.uk/news/how-onl...
I tracked down the real doctor who reported it to Instagram - but it wasn't taken down.
Now a warning to the public:
inews.co.uk/news/how-onl...
Scammers steal identity of real Gaza doctor to trick people out of online donations
Thousands of followers. Money streaming in. But an investigation by The i Paper reveals 'Dr Nabil Qudsi' as a fake
inews.co.uk
August 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
EXCL: Scammers stole the identity of a real doctor in Gaza to make money - exploiting public sympathy by crowdfunding + promoting it on social media.
I tracked down the real doctor who reported it to Instagram - but it wasn't taken down.
Now a warning to the public:
inews.co.uk/news/how-onl...
I tracked down the real doctor who reported it to Instagram - but it wasn't taken down.
Now a warning to the public:
inews.co.uk/news/how-onl...
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Russian anti-Putin protester found dead in London after asylum bid was rejected trib.al/nmOQEYX
Russian anti-Putin protester found dead in London after asylum bid was rejected
Friends of Alexander Frolov say long delays to his refugee claim and fears of jail back home led to depression
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August 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Russian anti-Putin protester found dead in London after asylum bid was rejected trib.al/nmOQEYX
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great story from @robynvinter.bsky.social and @benquinn75.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Protester arrested over ‘Plasticine Action’ T-shirt: ‘How ridiculous is this?’
Miles Pickering says crowd at protest over Palestine Action ban was laughing at ‘silliness’ of scene as he was detained
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
great story from @robynvinter.bsky.social and @benquinn75.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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"[We need] to tell more powerful stories about how migration benefits this country, and why the elites, the multimillionaires and billionaires, are the problem, and not blame some of the poorest.”
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on great form
✍️ @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social on great form
✍️ @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social
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The left's outsider taking on Farage and Reform
The Green Party's Zack Polanski reveals how the homophobic bullying he suffered as a child shaped his politics, and how he plans to beat Nigel Farage on immigration
inews.co.uk
August 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"[We need] to tell more powerful stories about how migration benefits this country, and why the elites, the multimillionaires and billionaires, are the problem, and not blame some of the poorest.”
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on great form
✍️ @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social on great form
✍️ @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social
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Love this!
"An intriguing mix of confidence and humility...
But like the Reform leader, once the tape starts rolling, he certainly knows how to punch (verbally)."
My conversation with @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social on why I'm running to be leader of the Green Party.
inews.co.uk/news/bullied...
"An intriguing mix of confidence and humility...
But like the Reform leader, once the tape starts rolling, he certainly knows how to punch (verbally)."
My conversation with @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social on why I'm running to be leader of the Green Party.
inews.co.uk/news/bullied...
The left's outsider taking on Farage and Reform
The Green Party's Zack Polanski reveals how the homophobic bullying he suffered as a child shaped his politics, and how he plans to beat Nigel Farage on immigration
inews.co.uk
August 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Love this!
"An intriguing mix of confidence and humility...
But like the Reform leader, once the tape starts rolling, he certainly knows how to punch (verbally)."
My conversation with @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social on why I'm running to be leader of the Green Party.
inews.co.uk/news/bullied...
"An intriguing mix of confidence and humility...
But like the Reform leader, once the tape starts rolling, he certainly knows how to punch (verbally)."
My conversation with @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social on why I'm running to be leader of the Green Party.
inews.co.uk/news/bullied...
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This is a fascinating interview:
I interviewed Zack Polanski, running to be Green Party leader. He reveals the violent homophobic bullying he endured, losing his friend in the Manchester Arena attack and how he thinks we would welcome migrants. Oh and he’s never drunk alcohol. His vice? Vegan chocolate.
inews.co.uk/news/bullied...
inews.co.uk/news/bullied...
The left's outsider taking on Farage and Reform
The Green Party's Zack Polanski reveals how the homophobic bullying he suffered as a child shaped his politics, and how he plans to beat Nigel Farage on immigration
inews.co.uk
August 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This is a fascinating interview:
I interviewed Zack Polanski, running to be Green Party leader. He reveals the violent homophobic bullying he endured, losing his friend in the Manchester Arena attack and how he thinks we would welcome migrants. Oh and he’s never drunk alcohol. His vice? Vegan chocolate.
inews.co.uk/news/bullied...
inews.co.uk/news/bullied...
The left's outsider taking on Farage and Reform
The Green Party's Zack Polanski reveals how the homophobic bullying he suffered as a child shaped his politics, and how he plans to beat Nigel Farage on immigration
inews.co.uk
August 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I interviewed Zack Polanski, running to be Green Party leader. He reveals the violent homophobic bullying he endured, losing his friend in the Manchester Arena attack and how he thinks we would welcome migrants. Oh and he’s never drunk alcohol. His vice? Vegan chocolate.
inews.co.uk/news/bullied...
inews.co.uk/news/bullied...
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What's the point of a state watchdog if it simply serves as a government poodle? And why continue with an equalities quango if it ignores marginalised groups while driving open toxic divisions? My @theipaper.com column on the floundering Equality & Human Rights Commission inews.co.uk/opinion/an-a...
An academic, an arrogant minister and a fight for equality that has gone horribly wrong
Mary-Ann Stephenson has been appointed – with “utmost confidence” – as chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission
inews.co.uk
August 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
What's the point of a state watchdog if it simply serves as a government poodle? And why continue with an equalities quango if it ignores marginalised groups while driving open toxic divisions? My @theipaper.com column on the floundering Equality & Human Rights Commission inews.co.uk/opinion/an-a...
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NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.”
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The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files
The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....
www.bloomberg.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Extremely worrying story from @sanyaburgess.bsky.social
In the 12 months since then, the number of “increasingly mainstream” abusive online comments against UK migrants has skyrocketed
Read more: https://trib.al/ErrBvAX
Read more: https://trib.al/ErrBvAX
July 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Extremely worrying story from @sanyaburgess.bsky.social
Point of order: think not thing.
If House Republicans think they can just shut down floor votes and adjourn for 6 weeks and America will just stop talking about the Epstein cover up during that time, they have another thing coming.
July 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Point of order: think not thing.
The government has just introduced a new Section 28 that will harm a generation of gender-nonconforming kids. New column by me (below).
I grew up under Section 28. I know the damage it caused. This will be a new darkness, with more silence and fear. Another blackout.
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I grew up under Section 28. I know the damage it caused. This will be a new darkness, with more silence and fear. Another blackout.
inews.co.uk/opinion/new-...
A new Section 28 is here – and it will harm gender-nonconforming children
This is idiocy and cruelty
inews.co.uk
July 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The government has just introduced a new Section 28 that will harm a generation of gender-nonconforming kids. New column by me (below).
I grew up under Section 28. I know the damage it caused. This will be a new darkness, with more silence and fear. Another blackout.
inews.co.uk/opinion/new-...
I grew up under Section 28. I know the damage it caused. This will be a new darkness, with more silence and fear. Another blackout.
inews.co.uk/opinion/new-...
EXCL: A Masterchef winner, a top university, and several experts have cut ties with Gregg Wallace’s health brand following the allegations about his conduct:
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MasterChef winner and top university cut ties with Gregg Wallace's health brand
Dr Saliha Mahmood Ahmed, a gastroenterologist and MasterChef winner in 2017, is among experts to have demanded they are removed from Wallace's health site
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July 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
EXCL: A Masterchef winner, a top university, and several experts have cut ties with Gregg Wallace’s health brand following the allegations about his conduct:
inews.co.uk/news/masterc...
inews.co.uk/news/masterc...
Excl: LGBT Afghans are at a higher risk of torture and murder following the data breach: inews.co.uk/news/lgbt-af...
LGBT Afghans 'at higher risk of torture and murder' due to UK data breach
Members of the LGBT community in Afghanistan were identified as being at particular risk by the UK government
inews.co.uk
July 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Excl: LGBT Afghans are at a higher risk of torture and murder following the data breach: inews.co.uk/news/lgbt-af...
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"Being neurodiverse is not a free pass to behave badly or humiliate women. His comments are dangerous," writes @jessiehewitson.bsky.social
Read more: https://trib.al/DSUtbWC
Read more: https://trib.al/DSUtbWC
July 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"Being neurodiverse is not a free pass to behave badly or humiliate women. His comments are dangerous," writes @jessiehewitson.bsky.social
Read more: https://trib.al/DSUtbWC
Read more: https://trib.al/DSUtbWC
After the Salt Path scandal, here’s the memoir I’d read: white, straight, middle-class person in late middle age goes on epic odyssey of self-discovery only to realise that they are in fact hollow and soulless. And only miserable because they haven’t had enough trauma in their life to appreciate it.
July 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
After the Salt Path scandal, here’s the memoir I’d read: white, straight, middle-class person in late middle age goes on epic odyssey of self-discovery only to realise that they are in fact hollow and soulless. And only miserable because they haven’t had enough trauma in their life to appreciate it.
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Ready to March in Pride In London parade for the whole LGBTQ+ community.
The liberation of all LGBTQ+ people, including our trans and intersex siblings, as well as migrants and asylum claimants, is central to the fight against HIV.
The liberation of all LGBTQ+ people, including our trans and intersex siblings, as well as migrants and asylum claimants, is central to the fight against HIV.
July 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Ready to March in Pride In London parade for the whole LGBTQ+ community.
The liberation of all LGBTQ+ people, including our trans and intersex siblings, as well as migrants and asylum claimants, is central to the fight against HIV.
The liberation of all LGBTQ+ people, including our trans and intersex siblings, as well as migrants and asylum claimants, is central to the fight against HIV.
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Exclusive | @jasonreiduk.bsky.social was turned away from an earwax removal after telling a member of staff he had HIV during a routine questionnaire
🔴 @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social reports
Read more: https://trib.al/79c3GhS
🔴 @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social reports
Read more: https://trib.al/79c3GhS
June 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Exclusive | @jasonreiduk.bsky.social was turned away from an earwax removal after telling a member of staff he had HIV during a routine questionnaire
🔴 @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social reports
Read more: https://trib.al/79c3GhS
🔴 @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social reports
Read more: https://trib.al/79c3GhS
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A modern media story:
Telegraph removed a story about a family who cancelled holidays due to VAT on private schools. The story was denounced as a media AI fail (the dad was "Al").
In fact, a real journalist had been deceived during a real interview. Old school.
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...
Telegraph removed a story about a family who cancelled holidays due to VAT on private schools. The story was denounced as a media AI fail (the dad was "Al").
In fact, a real journalist had been deceived during a real interview. Old school.
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...
Telegraph withdraws banker school fees story after being deceived by source
Fake Telegraph article about rich banker struggling to afford school fees was result of deception by a source.
pressgazette.co.uk
June 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
A modern media story:
Telegraph removed a story about a family who cancelled holidays due to VAT on private schools. The story was denounced as a media AI fail (the dad was "Al").
In fact, a real journalist had been deceived during a real interview. Old school.
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...
Telegraph removed a story about a family who cancelled holidays due to VAT on private schools. The story was denounced as a media AI fail (the dad was "Al").
In fact, a real journalist had been deceived during a real interview. Old school.
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...
Not nearly enough is being said about how incredible What It Feels Like For A Girl is. The writing, the performances. Best BBC drama in years + so many experiences that LGBTQ people have faced for decades with almost no recognition.
The scene where little Byron goes to the doctor almost broke me.
The scene where little Byron goes to the doctor almost broke me.
June 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Not nearly enough is being said about how incredible What It Feels Like For A Girl is. The writing, the performances. Best BBC drama in years + so many experiences that LGBTQ people have faced for decades with almost no recognition.
The scene where little Byron goes to the doctor almost broke me.
The scene where little Byron goes to the doctor almost broke me.
Who among us hasn’t screamed into the abyss wearing glittery tights? #eurovision
May 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Who among us hasn’t screamed into the abyss wearing glittery tights? #eurovision