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Jessie Thompson

Reporter · GB

Indexed articles, last 90 days
5
Latest publication
Oct 1, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Independent
Top 50K sites
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Jul 8, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Jessie Thompson

    The Celebrity Traitors is so glorious it’ll restore your faith in the universe (opens the original)

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    Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. The Traitors is truly the gift that keeps on giving. Every time you think the BBC show can’t get better, it does. Last time round an undercover crime novelist shouted at everyone while they were eating croissants and a couple of traitors went at each other in the turret. In the inaugural celebrity edition last autumn, Celia Imrie nervously farted and Tom Daley decided Kate

  2. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Jessie Thompson

    National Theatre boss Indhu Rubasingham: why we don’t need an NT North (opens the original)

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    Earlier this year, National Theatre boss Indhu Rubasingham offered a stark warning. If new writing for the stage continued its rate of decline, she said, we would risk betraying the legacy of William Shakespeare. Delivering the 2026 Jennie Lee lecture, a new annual speech honouring Britain's first arts minister, Rubasingham was armed with shocking stats: the past decade had seen 44 per cent fewer new plays staged outside of London and 30 per cent less in the city, as well as a 76 per cent drop i

  3. Article · Aug 16, 2026 · Jessie Thompson

    Nine publishers turned this book down. Now it’s an absolute must-have for all kids (opens the original)

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    They say never meet your heroes. Meeting your daughter’s, though? Pretty fun. Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt are the unassuming, slightly mischievous pair behind one of the biggest hits in children’s publishing, the multimillion-selling You Choose books – which my little girl is completely obsessed with. Look online and you’ll see parents sharing stories of how their children’s copies were so loved they fell to pieces; that no other book got a look-in at bedtime for over a year. I ca

  4. Article · Jul 20, 2026 · Jessie Thompson

    The inside story of the Harry Kane BBC interview that defined England’s World Cup run (opens the original)

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    The Independent is celebrating the greatest TV moments of the year so far, from the ones that got the nation talking to the scenes that moved us or made us laugh. In a series of articles running this summer, insiders share the part they played in making them happen. It was Sunday night in the UK. The nation went to bed with bated breath (unless, that it is, you decided to stay up). England would play Mexico in the third round of the World Cup at 1am UK time (or 2am, as it turned out, thanks to a

  5. Article · Jul 8, 2026 · Jessie Thompson

    The devastatingly relatable novel every new mum needs to read (opens the original)

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    Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. But what if Mrs Dalloway had to buy the flowers herself, make breakfast, hang out the washing, sing every nursery rhyme under the sun (twice), walk to the swings and source a thermometer from a neighbourhood WhatsApp group, all while shepherding two small humans alone, having been up since 4.45am? Like Virginia Woolf’s classic tale, Lisa Owens’ second novel, Natural Disaster, is set over one day. Although it’s prefaced with a quote nodding to

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