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Duncan Campbell

Duncan Campbell is a freelance writer who worked for the Guardian as crime correspondent and Los Angeles correspondent. He is the author of If It Bleeds, (2009), The Paradise Trail, (2008), The Underworld and That Was Business, This Is Personal. 

October 2024

  • The journalist Claud Cockburn in London in June 1945.

    ‘A street-boy throwing stones at pompous windows’: Claud Cockburn and the birth of guerrilla journalism

    Forty years after the death of the man who exposed Nazi sympathisers in Britain and interviewed Al Capone, his son used MI5 files to illuminate his amazing story in a new book

June 2024

  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange looks out a plane's window<br>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange looks out a plane window as he approaches Bangkok airport for layover, according to the post by Wikileaks on X, in this picture released to social media on June 25, 2024. Wikileaks via X/via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Julian Assange’s release frees up one UK prison cell, but why has it taken so long – and what about the others?

    Duncan Campbell
    This case is nothing to be proud of. As politicians stood by, he suffered within a chaotic system they have done little to fix, says author Duncan Campbell

May 2024

  • Supporters of Julian Assange outside the US extradition hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on 20 May 2024.

    The case against Julian Assange has been a cruel folly. His right to appeal is a small step towards justice

    Duncan Campbell
    Successive home secretaries and the courts have been spineless in pandering to the US government, says former Guardian crime correspondent Duncan Campbell
  • George Davis.

    ‘George Davis is innocent OK’: Londoner recalls campaign to free him in new TV series

    Davis was released after stunts including scuppering of Ashes Test – but later landed back inside for crime he actually committed
  • ‘About 80% of the time, they would catch me’ … a detail from one of Cockburn’s illustrations in Tale of Ahmed.

    ‘I know the adrenaline of escaping’: Henry Cockburn on turning his time on the run into a refugee rap epic

    His Costa-shortlisted first book examined his own schizophrenia, from hospital breakouts to hiding from the police. Now the writer has fed this into Tale of Ahmed, a story in rap verse about a boy fleeing Afghanistan for Britain

March 2024

  • Several black and white signs being held aloft, bearing the words 'Free Julian Assange' and an image of Assange.

    British judges were right to allow Julian Assange’s appeal. The next three weeks will show who cares about justice

    Duncan Campbell
  • DAME SHIRLEY PORTER CASE AT THE HIGH COURT, LONDON, BRITAIN - 1997<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by James Horton/Shutterstock (282681o) DR. RICHARD STONE DAME SHIRLEY PORTER CASE AT THE HIGH COURT, LONDON, BRITAIN - 1997

    Richard Stone obituary

February 2024

  • Julian Assange extradition hearing second day at High Court, London, England, Uk - 21 Feb 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14358187br) Supporters gather outside the High Court on the second day of Julian Assange's extradition hearing. Julian Assange extradition hearing second day at High Court, London, England, Uk - 21 Feb 2024

    After this week’s Julian Assange court hearing, this is clear: extradition would amount to a death sentence

    Duncan Campbell
    Lawyers posed the pivotal question: how can exposing crime and torture be worse than committing them, says former Guardian crime correspondent Duncan Campbell
  • Kevin Lane outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London

    ‘It’s not about glorifying crime’: ex-convicts in demand for talks and tours

    You can dine with a former mobster for £999, as the ‘true crime’ TV and podcast trend translates into live events
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London

    Julian Assange’s moment of truth has arrived – and the stakes are high

    If his appeal fails this week, the WikiLeaks founder could soon be on a plane towards a potential jail term of 175 years

December 2023

  • Allan Chappelow

    Miscarriage of justice watchdog reviews murder conviction of ex-MI6 informant

  • Gary McKinnon with his mother Janis Sharp

    Film to tell story of Scottish hacker Gary McKinnon’s fight against US extradition

October 2023

  • Michael Mansfield at his home in Warwickshire.

    Michael Mansfield KC: ‘The two-party system is a straitjacket’

    The barrister famous for his work on landmark cases such as Grenfell, Stephen Lawrence and the Birmingham Six has written a book about fighting injustice

September 2023

  • Police in west London on Saturday.

    Daniel Khalife captured after he was pulled off a bicycle while riding along a towpath, police say – as it happened

  • A spoof "wanted dead or alive" sign showing Daniel Khalife outside Wandsworth prison

    Great escapes: a brief history of Britain’s most daring prison breaks

August 2023

  • Lennon Heads For Court<br>Singer and songwriter John Lennon (1940 -1980), of The Beatles, leaves his borrowed flat with DS Norman Pilcher (left) and DS Eric Goddard (right) the day after his arrest on charges of possession of drugs, London, 19th October 1968. Lennon and his girlfriend Yoko Ono were living at Ringo Starr's flat at 34 Montagu Square, when the premises were raided by the drug squad. Lennon is on his way to appear at Marylebone Magistrates' Court. (Photo by Daily Express/Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

    Norman ‘Nobby’ Pilcher obituary

    Drugs squad detective who arrested many famous rock stars in the 1960s, including John Lennon, Dusty Springfield and Brian Jones

June 2023

  • Sculptures of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning during a demonstration to demand the release of Assange, London, 24 June 2023.

    Time is running out for Julian Assange. If MPs do not act, how can they say they value free speech?

    Duncan Campbell
  • Ronnie Knight and his wife, Barbara Windsor, centre, at the El Morocco nightclub in Soho, London, 1965, with the gangster Reggie Kray, right, and his wife, Frances.

    Ronnie Knight obituary

May 2023

  • Ebla Mari and Dave Turner in The Old Oak.

    ‘My short term memory is fading and my eyesight is not what it was’: Ken Loach takes his last film to Cannes

    The Old Oak is about the rehousing of a group of Syrian refugees in a run-down former mining town

February 2023

  • Conservative party vice-chair Lee Anderson, pictured in January 2023.

    Dear Lee Anderson: Derek Bentley was innocent and hanged. We scrapped the death penalty for a reason

    Duncan Campbell
    There were moral and practical considerations to ending the barbarity of state executions in Britain. They are still relevant today, says writer and former Guardian crime correspondent Duncan Campbell
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