The Latest Breaking News from Luke Turner

Reform donor Ben Delo loaned £350k to academic later found to have engaged in online bullying

Judge said Nina Power and her friend’s social media posts had ‘the whiff of threat and antisemitism’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 18

Concerns raised about Jonathan Morgan prior to Maddy Cusack’s death, inquest told

Nina Wilson has told an inquest that she had tried to escalate concerns about the manager Jonathan Morgan prior to her teammate Maddy Cusack’s death

The Guardian - UK · Jul 3

Our 2026 listening resolutions: from Radiohead to Kendrick Lamar, critics try to get into music they’ve never liked

Streaming’s algorithms make it easy to avoid whole discographies – so in the interest of deeper listening, our writers dedicate time to the ones who might have got away

The Guardian - UK · Jan 1

Let’s commemorate D-day – but not how Nigel Farage wants us to

The second world war is not fodder for the culture wars. We owe it to those who fought to keep it that way, says author Luke Turner

The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2024

Poor tea pickers pay the price for a British cuppa

Letter: Sabita Banerji highlights the pitiful pay and conditions of tea plantation workers in response to an article about the high price of the brew

The Guardian - UK · Nov 9, 2023

Why I’m campaigning for the £1 cuppa to be available all around Britain

I’ve done a tea-and-biscuit survey of the country’s cultural institutions and high-street chains – and I’m afraid we’re being taken for mugs, says the author Luke Turner

The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2023

‘Too Partridge’? No such thing! How I came to embrace my inner Alan

As a queer lefty, I should have little in common with Steve Coogan’s comic creation. And yet over the years, we have become one, says author and journalist Luke Turner

The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2023

No romantic myths of war to be found as those forgotten are remembered

HANDE hoch! The average Scottish boy in the 1970s had a beginner’s grasp of German courtesy of DC Thomson.

The National (Scotland) · Apr 16, 2023

‘It seems unlikely there wasn’t gay sex at the front’: The writers restoring queer lives into world war history

First World War poetry has always been defined by gay writers, so why is our idea of war still so heteronormatively masculine? Marcus Field speaks to two writers bringing questions of war, heroism and gender to the fore

The Independent UK · Apr 3, 2023

Matthew Shevlin adjusts his targets as he continues impressive scoring form

Coleraine striker determined to keep progressing as he enjoys life at The Showgrounds

Belfast Live · Jan 23, 2023