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Jonathan Freedland
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Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy with @leviyonit. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE Sept 2025
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    Jonathan Freedland
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    Sep 5, 2025
    Replying to @Freedland and @simonmontefiore
    Book promotion klaxon 🚨The Traitors Circle comes out next week - this gives you a flavour of what it’s about, along with some of the early responses. (Sound on) You can get the book here linktr.ee/jonathanfreedl…
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    Jonathan Freedland
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    Jul 17, 2020
    We won’t be able to say we didn’t know
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    Jonathan Freedland
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    Feb 27, 2023
    A jaw-dropper from Brexiter Steve Baker on @BBCRadio4’s PM just now: “What an extraordinary opportunity for Northern Ireland: dual access to both markets”. Er, that “extraordinary opportunity” was available to the entire UK before Brexit
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    Jonathan Freedland
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    Jan 2, 2021
    A senior NHS consultant texts: “Why not vaccinate all teachers in time for return to school on 18 jan? A box of Astra Zeneca vaccine to every school. It would only take days but what a great start to the year to know that all teachers were safe.”
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    Jonathan Freedland
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    May 23, 2020
    Dominic Cummings made his name denouncing what he regarded as a hypocritical Westminster elitism contemptuous of ordinary people. Now he is the face of it
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    Jonathan Freedland
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    Mar 13, 2022
    People keep saying that Britain has a “noble tradition” of taking in refugees, citing the kindertransport as proof. Simon Heffer did it again on Radio 4 this morning. But here’s the problem.
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    Jonathan Freedland
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    Nov 5, 2020
    At the time, this was a routine political moment. Now I find it quite moving x.com/adamhamdy/stat…
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    Jonathan Freedland
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    Jun 4, 2020
    After Donald Trump threatens to send in the army to crush protests, the head of the US military reminds those in uniform that their oath is not to protect Trump but the Constitution. It speaks volumes that he issued such a statement
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    Jonathan Freedland
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    May 13, 2020
    Keir Starmer is going to have to watch his weight: he keeps having Boris Johnson for breakfast #PMQs
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    Jonathan Freedland
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    Feb 25, 2019
    Jaw dropping
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    Jonathan Freedland
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    Mar 13, 2022
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    Again, for those 9,000 or so, the kindertransport was a literal life-saver. But it’s not quite proof of a "noble tradition" of welcoming refugees.
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    Jonathan Freedland
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    Mar 13, 2022
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    The reason it was the *kinder* transport - the reason that it focused on children - was that Britain, like most countries across the world, refused to take in Jewish adults, even as Jews faced the threat of Nazi persecution.
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    Jonathan Freedland
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    Nov 10, 2020
    Missed this at the time. It's great
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    Jonathan Freedland
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    May 25, 2020
    Tory MP and former minister tell me: "This is a Cabinet of fools led by a hollow narcissist who is nothing without his Svengali.“