Zoë Grünewald
@zoegrunewald.bsky.social
Political journalist & broadcaster |
Westminster Editor at the Lead UK |
Presenter on Fubar Radio |
Chatting on Oh God What Now |
Find my work and commission me here: https://www.zoegrunewald.com/
Westminster Editor at the Lead UK |
Presenter on Fubar Radio |
Chatting on Oh God What Now |
Find my work and commission me here: https://www.zoegrunewald.com/
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Zoë Grünewald
@zoegrunewald.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Zoë Grünewald
www.zoegrunewald.com
Taking full advantage of the power of Bluesky to promote the fact that I am a freelance journalist and suggest someone might like to commission me!
I do lots of writing, talking head stuff, I present a radio show and I do commercial work. So lots to choose from. Get in touch
www.zoegrunewald.com
I do lots of writing, talking head stuff, I present a radio show and I do commercial work. So lots to choose from. Get in touch
www.zoegrunewald.com
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
Labour’s controversial asylum plans have sparked fury and it’s not clear they’ll even work. @zoegrunewald.bsky.social, @mattgreencomedy.com, @jasonhazeley.bsky.social and @rostaylor.bsky.social discuss the fallout in our latest episode ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
Labour’s controversial asylum plans have sparked fury and it’s not clear they’ll even work. @zoegrunewald.bsky.social, @mattgreencomedy.com, @jasonhazeley.bsky.social and @rostaylor.bsky.social discuss the fallout in our latest episode ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
November 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
Labour’s controversial asylum plans have sparked fury and it’s not clear they’ll even work. @zoegrunewald.bsky.social, @mattgreencomedy.com, @jasonhazeley.bsky.social and @rostaylor.bsky.social discuss the fallout in our latest episode ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
Labour’s controversial asylum plans have sparked fury and it’s not clear they’ll even work. @zoegrunewald.bsky.social, @mattgreencomedy.com, @jasonhazeley.bsky.social and @rostaylor.bsky.social discuss the fallout in our latest episode ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
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Just to review, in the last week the President of the United States:
- Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party
- Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children
- Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats
Those are just factual statements.
- Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party
- Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children
- Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats
Those are just factual statements.
November 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Just to review, in the last week the President of the United States:
- Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party
- Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children
- Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats
Those are just factual statements.
- Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party
- Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children
- Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats
Those are just factual statements.
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BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Work-related anxiety so bad I dreamt my name appeared in the Epstein files last night and had to find some way to talk about it without drawing attention to it on the Sky news press preview
November 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Work-related anxiety so bad I dreamt my name appeared in the Epstein files last night and had to find some way to talk about it without drawing attention to it on the Sky news press preview
Writing about the government’s latest policy announcement and, as usual, torn between three angles: morally awful, politically foolish, and probably unworkable. Something for everyone there
November 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Writing about the government’s latest policy announcement and, as usual, torn between three angles: morally awful, politically foolish, and probably unworkable. Something for everyone there
Loved reviewing this great book!
✨Some of the great reviews for ‘Incel- The Weaponisation of Misogyny’, out now from most bookshops! ✨
November 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Loved reviewing this great book!
Wild how GB News can spend years screaming about grooming gangs and demanding total transparency on child sexual abuse…but the moment Trump sits down with them, its all smiles
It doesn't count when it's rich white men, have I got that right?
www.gbnews.com/politics/us/...
It doesn't count when it's rich white men, have I got that right?
www.gbnews.com/politics/us/...
READ IN FULL: The full transcript from Bev Turner's interview with Donald Trump
The President sat down with Bev for GB News's US programme The Late Show Live
www.gbnews.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Wild how GB News can spend years screaming about grooming gangs and demanding total transparency on child sexual abuse…but the moment Trump sits down with them, its all smiles
It doesn't count when it's rich white men, have I got that right?
www.gbnews.com/politics/us/...
It doesn't count when it's rich white men, have I got that right?
www.gbnews.com/politics/us/...
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Was great to speak with @zoegrunewald.bsky.social last week about the Keep Britain Working review, and what employers and government can be doing to support people with health conditions to thrive in work.
What can employers do to keep people with health conditions in work? And what actions can government take to enable this?
@swjatwell.bsky.social reflects on the Mayfield Review with @zoegrunewald.bsky.social ⬇️
@swjatwell.bsky.social reflects on the Mayfield Review with @zoegrunewald.bsky.social ⬇️
How to heal the UK's unwell workplace and economy with the Health Foundation | FUBAR Radio
Last week a report revealed that 800,000 more people are out of work sick now than in 2019. What can be done to heal the UK's sickly economy? Sam Atwell from...
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Was great to speak with @zoegrunewald.bsky.social last week about the Keep Britain Working review, and what employers and government can be doing to support people with health conditions to thrive in work.
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What can employers do to keep people with health conditions in work? And what actions can government take to enable this?
@swjatwell.bsky.social reflects on the Mayfield Review with @zoegrunewald.bsky.social ⬇️
@swjatwell.bsky.social reflects on the Mayfield Review with @zoegrunewald.bsky.social ⬇️
How to heal the UK's unwell workplace and economy with the Health Foundation | FUBAR Radio
Last week a report revealed that 800,000 more people are out of work sick now than in 2019. What can be done to heal the UK's sickly economy? Sam Atwell from...
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
What can employers do to keep people with health conditions in work? And what actions can government take to enable this?
@swjatwell.bsky.social reflects on the Mayfield Review with @zoegrunewald.bsky.social ⬇️
@swjatwell.bsky.social reflects on the Mayfield Review with @zoegrunewald.bsky.social ⬇️
I *know* this is not The Big Takeaway from the Epstein emails.
But how many powerful men are barely able to string a sentence together over email will never fail to fill me with irrational fury
But how many powerful men are barely able to string a sentence together over email will never fail to fill me with irrational fury
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I *know* this is not The Big Takeaway from the Epstein emails.
But how many powerful men are barely able to string a sentence together over email will never fail to fill me with irrational fury
But how many powerful men are barely able to string a sentence together over email will never fail to fill me with irrational fury
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The incel crisis – Is there a way to solve it? Today on The Bunker, @zoegrunewald.bsky.social sits down with @kdenkwrites.com, author of INCEL The Weaponization of Misogyny, to ask, how do we solve the incel problem? 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#incelcrisis #podcast #episode
#incelcrisis #podcast #episode
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The incel crisis – Is there a way to solve it? Today on The Bunker, @zoegrunewald.bsky.social sits down with @kdenkwrites.com, author of INCEL The Weaponization of Misogyny, to ask, how do we solve the incel problem? 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#incelcrisis #podcast #episode
#incelcrisis #podcast #episode
Good morning everyone. A random man added me -- a freelance political journalist -- as a connection on Linkedin, just to tell me to stop posting my work on the platform as it was "too political"
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Good morning everyone. A random man added me -- a freelance political journalist -- as a connection on Linkedin, just to tell me to stop posting my work on the platform as it was "too political"
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Here's Why Donald Trump's Bid To Sue The BBC For $1 Billion May Already Be Doomed
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/heres-...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/heres-...
Here's Why Donald Trump's Bid To Sue The BBC For $1 Billion May Already Be Doomed
The US president has given the corporation until Friday night to respond to his legal threat.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Here's Why Donald Trump's Bid To Sue The BBC For $1 Billion May Already Be Doomed
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/heres-...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/heres-...
My diary for the rest of Nov/Dec is looking pretty empty… so I’m open to new projects!
I do political journalism & broadcasting, plus:
-Hosting & moderating events
-Ghost-writing
-Custom media-training etc
Examples & contact info here: www.zoegrunewald.com
I do political journalism & broadcasting, plus:
-Hosting & moderating events
-Ghost-writing
-Custom media-training etc
Examples & contact info here: www.zoegrunewald.com
Zoë Grünewald
www.zoegrunewald.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
My diary for the rest of Nov/Dec is looking pretty empty… so I’m open to new projects!
I do political journalism & broadcasting, plus:
-Hosting & moderating events
-Ghost-writing
-Custom media-training etc
Examples & contact info here: www.zoegrunewald.com
I do political journalism & broadcasting, plus:
-Hosting & moderating events
-Ghost-writing
-Custom media-training etc
Examples & contact info here: www.zoegrunewald.com
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The mayoralty of New York proves the left can win when it focuses on delivering for people.
New from @zoegrunewald.bsky.social on the rise of Zohran Mamdani and the lessons for us here.
New from @zoegrunewald.bsky.social on the rise of Zohran Mamdani and the lessons for us here.
Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves it: progressive politics can still triumph
The mayoralty of New York proves the left can win when it focuses on delivering for people.
national.thelead.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The mayoralty of New York proves the left can win when it focuses on delivering for people.
New from @zoegrunewald.bsky.social on the rise of Zohran Mamdani and the lessons for us here.
New from @zoegrunewald.bsky.social on the rise of Zohran Mamdani and the lessons for us here.
I wrote this for the I Paper after Mamdani won the Dem primary.
"Mamdani’s win proves the left doesn’t need to dilute its values to succeed; instead, it needs to focus."
inews.co.uk/opinion/new-...
"Mamdani’s win proves the left doesn’t need to dilute its values to succeed; instead, it needs to focus."
inews.co.uk/opinion/new-...
New York has a lesson for the Labour left
The era of mild, indecisive centrism is over
inews.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I wrote this for the I Paper after Mamdani won the Dem primary.
"Mamdani’s win proves the left doesn’t need to dilute its values to succeed; instead, it needs to focus."
inews.co.uk/opinion/new-...
"Mamdani’s win proves the left doesn’t need to dilute its values to succeed; instead, it needs to focus."
inews.co.uk/opinion/new-...
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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
Beware of false prophets who come to you in tweed suits but inwardly want tax cuts and donor dinners. Now is the perfect moment for one to appear.
At @theleaduk.bsky.social we will keep exposing Farage for who he truly is 👇
national.thelead.uk/p/nigel-fara...
At @theleaduk.bsky.social we will keep exposing Farage for who he truly is 👇
national.thelead.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage’s big tent is full of holes, we deconstruct the Reform leader's latest speech
Reform UK wants you to believe it’s on the side of working people. In reality, it serves one master.
national.thelead.uk
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Beware of false prophets who come to you in tweed suits but inwardly want tax cuts and donor dinners. Now is the perfect moment for one to appear.
At @theleaduk.bsky.social we will keep exposing Farage for who he truly is 👇
national.thelead.uk/p/nigel-fara...
At @theleaduk.bsky.social we will keep exposing Farage for who he truly is 👇
national.thelead.uk/p/nigel-fara...
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Nigel Farage’s big tent is full of holes: We deconstruct the Reform leader's latest speech
Nigel Farage’s big tent is full of holes, we deconstruct the Reform leader's latest speech
Reform UK wants you to believe it’s on the side of working people. In reality, it serves one master.
national.thelead.uk
November 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Nigel Farage’s big tent is full of holes: We deconstruct the Reform leader's latest speech
This didn't work too well the first time they tried it, so you've got to give it to them for doing it a second time around
This Rachel Reeves speech is basically her saying everyone should be worried then refusing to elaborate
November 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This didn't work too well the first time they tried it, so you've got to give it to them for doing it a second time around
Farage, who was paid £189,000 in January to promote gold bullion in his spare time, is currently wanging on about how out of touch the Labour frontbench is. Ok
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Farage, who was paid £189,000 in January to promote gold bullion in his spare time, is currently wanging on about how out of touch the Labour frontbench is. Ok
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Out today - my chat with @zoegrunewald.bsky.social of @theleaduk.bsky.social where we discuss my upcoming book, the social-political aspects of Incel culture and what we can do to protect our children. national.thelead.uk/p/conversati...
The Lead in conversation: Inside the Incel movement and what it tells us about modern Britain
Journalist and mental health worker Katherine Denkinson speaks to Zoe Grunewald about how inceldom grows out of loneliness, lost community and political failure – and what it will take to stop it.
national.thelead.uk
November 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Out today - my chat with @zoegrunewald.bsky.social of @theleaduk.bsky.social where we discuss my upcoming book, the social-political aspects of Incel culture and what we can do to protect our children. national.thelead.uk/p/conversati...
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Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. Colonel Mark Cancian of @csis.org on the US build-up off Venezuela, @zoegrunewald.bsky.social and Justin Quirk on that and the day's other stuff, and former Chief Whip Simon Hart on his memoir/diary "Ungovernable". monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Is the US readying for war in the Caribbean? The case of Venezuela - Monocle
Colonel Mark Cancian on why the US has moved a carrier strike group into the Caribbean. Then: Justin Quirk and...
monocle.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. Colonel Mark Cancian of @csis.org on the US build-up off Venezuela, @zoegrunewald.bsky.social and Justin Quirk on that and the day's other stuff, and former Chief Whip Simon Hart on his memoir/diary "Ungovernable". monocle.com/radio/shows/...
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Wooooah!
So the China spy case witness statement initially described China as the 'enemy'.
But that word was removed before submition, because it was NOT government policy at the time.
The government when this happened were the Tories.
So arguably the Tories are the reason the case collapsed!
So the China spy case witness statement initially described China as the 'enemy'.
But that word was removed before submition, because it was NOT government policy at the time.
The government when this happened were the Tories.
So arguably the Tories are the reason the case collapsed!
Key China spy case witness removed 'enemy' from evidence under Tories
Security adviser Matthew Collins says the term
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Wooooah!
So the China spy case witness statement initially described China as the 'enemy'.
But that word was removed before submition, because it was NOT government policy at the time.
The government when this happened were the Tories.
So arguably the Tories are the reason the case collapsed!
So the China spy case witness statement initially described China as the 'enemy'.
But that word was removed before submition, because it was NOT government policy at the time.
The government when this happened were the Tories.
So arguably the Tories are the reason the case collapsed!