Harry Lambert (journalist)

Harry Lambert is a British journalist. He is special correspondent at the New Statesman.[1]

Harry Lambert
Alma materUniversity of York
OccupationJournalist
Known forSpecial correspondent, New Statesman

In August 2019, he argued in a New Statesman cover story that the value of British university degrees was "collapsing" and "creating a lost generation" of students.[2]

Academic

Lambert graduated from the University of York with a first-class degree in economics and politics. He is now a visiting lecturer at University College London, where he teaches feature writing.[3]

Career

In 2014, Lambert ran May2015.com, the New Statesman's 2015 election site.[4] In 2015, Lambert was the first journalist to interview Yanis Varoufakis after he resigned as Greek finance minister.[5]

In September 2019 he was described as "a new star in political journalism" by Iain Dale, the broadcaster.[6] The same month, Lambert profiled Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson's senior adviser, for the New Statesman. BBC media editor Amol Rajan praised the piece's "proper, deep reportage" and "plain prose, ... contain[ing] urgency and moral invective."[7]

In March 2020, he wrote a cover story for the New Statesman on the relative power of advisers in Boris Johnson's government.[8] In response, David Allen Green, the lawyer and writer, described Lambert as "combining fine political reporting with a grasp of the policy and structural issues that inform the ongoing struggles for power".[9]

Lambert has also written for The Independent, for whom he covered the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks in 2015.[10] In 2020 he wrote for BBC Sport on the death of Kobe Bryant.[11] He has written for Wired, The New Republic and GQ. As a broadcaster he has appeared on Sky News, BBC News, and LBC.[12]

Covid-19

In March 2020 Lambert reported on Exercise Cygnus, the confidential 2016 exercise that had revealed the UK's ill-preparedness for a pandemic.[13] A subsequent piece traced the country's failed preparations since the mid-2000s.[14] In July 2020 Andrew Bailey, in his first print interview as Bank of England governor, detailed to Lambert how the UK staved off financial disaster when Covid struck.[15]

References
  1. Wilson, Amy (22 October 2019). "Harry Lambert joins New Statesman". Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  2. Lambert, Harry (21 August 2019). "The great university con: how the British degree lost its value". Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  3. ucl.ac.uk. "Feature Writing in a multi-media world". Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  4. Lewis, Helen (9 September 2014). "Welcome to our new elections site, May2015.com". Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  5. Lambert, Harry (13 July 2015). "Exclusive: Yanis Varoufakis opens up about his five month battle to save Greece". Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  6. Dale, Iain (27 September 2019). "Tweet". Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  7. Rajan, Amol (30 December 2019). "The Russell Prize 2019: A celebration of the year's greatest prose". Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  8. Lambert, Harry (4 March 2020). "Who's in charge inside No 10: the maverick advisers running Britain". Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  9. Green, David Allen (6 March 2020). "Cummings and Commentary". Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  10. Lambert, Harry (12 January 2015). "Charlie Hebdo: How did it affect ordinary Parisians whose city was under siege?". Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  11. Lambert, Harry (6 February 2020). "'Take the next shot' – the new message from Kobe Bryant's final game". Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  12. "Who Is The Real Dominic Cummings? This Journalist Tells James O'Brien". 28 September 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  13. "Government documents show no planning for ventilators in the event of a pandemic". 16 March 2020.
  14. "Why weren't we ready?". 30 March 2020.
  15. "The adults in the room". 15 July 2020.
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