Stephen Castle

Wales now has a new First Minister, Rhun as Iorwerth. He says he has a "love affair" with America (where his parents once taught) -- but not with it's current president nytimes.com/2026/05/09/wor…

It was great being interviewed by @_StephenCastle (@nytimes) on Lucy Munro's exciting findings about Shakespeare's property. It confirms my suspicions (in my book, SHAKESPEARE'S BOOK) that the Bard was very active in London post 1613!! @ShakesInstitute share.google/XXM3jUnJLHciwx…

Was Shakespeare planning a final act to his illustrious dramatic career? New information about a London real estate purchase in 1613, just three years before he died, suggests the Bard may not have been thinking about retirement . nytimes.com/2026/04/15/wor…

#epsteinfiles An email address linked to the former Prince Andrew exchanged notes with Ghislaine Maxwell seeking "inappropriate friends" and girls who could entertain him while representing the Crown in Peru. For @nytimes with @_StephenCastle nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/…

Fancy a Snickers flavored with Russian ice cream? British convenience stores are selling bars of the confectionery made in Russia. nytimes.com/2025/12/23/wor…

After Brexit, Britain quit a Europe-wide student exchange program credited with creating a million babies whose parents met each other that way. Now Britain is rejoining. nytimes.com/2025/12/17/wor…

As the political backlash against immigration gathers pace in Britain, some parts of Scotland face big labor shortages nytimes.com/2025/11/04/wor…

A third big policy reversal by Keir Starmer - this time on welfare - weakens his authority over his party nytimes.com/2025/06/27/wor… via @NYTimes

Lawmakers have approved plans for assisted dying in England and Wales for the second time - making them almost certain to become law nytimes.com/2025/06/20/wor…

Harvard Law School bought a copy of the Magna Carta in 1946 for $27.50. Except it turns out it wasn't a copy after all, but an original from 1300. @_StephenCastle nytimes.com/2025/05/15/wor…

“The manuscript’s value is hard to estimate, although it is fair to say that its price tag of under $30 (about $500 today) must make it one of the bargains of the last century. A 710-year-old version of Magna Carta was sold in 2007 for $21.3 million.” @_StephenCastle

Ahead of his visit to Washington, Britain's Keir Starmer promises to raise military spending to 2.5 percent of gross domestic value w/@MarkLandler nytimes.com/2025/02/25/wor…

In Wales, a victory for Nigel Farage's Reform UK Party sends a warning to Keir Starmer's Labour nytimes.com/2025/02/14/wor…

Britain faces a new and dangerous form of extremism, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday, warning that loners and misfits were being radicalized by “a tidal wave of violence freely available online.” @_StephenCastle reports: nytimes.com/2025/01/21/wor…

Britain’s Emotional Debate Over Assisted Dying. As lawmakers prepare to vote on legalizing medically assisted death for the terminally ill in England and Wales, an intense public discussion has unfolded, by @_StephenCastle nytimes.com/2024/11/27/wor… via @nytimes #MAiD

TIL from @_StephenCastle that Norman Lamont got in hot water after unwittingly renting out his apartment while he was chancellor to a self-described sex therapist called Miss Whiplash. nytimes.com/2024/11/07/wor…

As a child raised in Nigeria, Kemi Badenoch fetched water in rusty buckets when the faucets ran dry. Now she leads Britain's oldest conservative political party nytimes.com/2024/11/05/wor…

In Britain, Tommy Robinson, a far-right agitator, is sentenced to 18 months in jail after admitting contempt of court nytimes.com/2024/10/28/wor…

In Pluckley, known as England's most haunted village, at least a dozen otherworldly spirits are supposed to inhabit the church, its graveyard and at least three pubs. So, villagers are braced for an invasion of ghost hunters at Halloween nytimes.com/2024/10/28/wor…

The British cabinet is one of the most working class in history. It hasn't made them popular. nytimes.com/2024/10/04/wor…