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Live blogger, Thursday quiz writer, Doctor Who recaps, social media and Eurovision at @guardian

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I’m Martin Belam, a designer and journalist

I’ve been working in digital product development, information architecture and user experience design for over a decade, for organisations like the Guardian, Sony, Vodafone and the BBC.

In 2012 I founded the digital consultancy Emblem, and our clients include Trinity Mirror, Libération, Arts Council England and the Natural History Museum.

I help organise This Is LDNIA, and the annual EuroIA conference.

I’ve written and edited books for the Guardian ab…

Martin Belam’s Journalist Portfolio

"The who, what and why of UsVsTh3m" - Martin Belam at Hacks/Hackers London

"The who, what and why of UsVsTh3m" - Martin Belam at Hacks/Hackers London

On Tuesday evening I spoke at Hacks/Hackers London about one of the projects I've been working on for the las…

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"Telling the story of Firestorm" - Jon Henley & Robin Beitra at Hacks/Hackers London

"Telling the story of Firestorm" - Jon Henley & Robin Beitra at Hacks/Hackers London

Carefully planned as a spectacular launch to the Guardian's new Australian edition, " Firestorm" is a rich in…

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"Better Product Definition with Lean UX & Design Thinking" - Jeff Gothelf at UX Scotland

"Better Product Definition with Lean UX & Design Thinking" - Jeff Gothelf at UX Scotland

Jeff Gothelf opened up UX Scotland with a talk about being "lean". He described the focus of his talk as bein…

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Articles

One-line gig reviews for May 2026

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By Martin Belam 
| Martin Belam Blog
by Martin Belam, June 8, 2026 In this month’s round-up: Why sitting in the front row for Milton Jones is a high-risk health hazard, the unexpected joy of reconnecting with Super Furry Animals in a brutally sweltering O2 Academy Brixton, and how a post-pub wait for an Uber with my partner in Gosport left me wishing we’d gone inside to catch an unknown 90s alt-rock covers band.
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First Thing: Netanyahu orders Iran strikes despite Trump claiming ‘I call all the shots’

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By Martin Belam 
| Yahoo Canada
Martin Belam Mon, June 8, 2026 at 11:28 a.m. UTC 6 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, late last year.Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Good morning. Israel has again attacked Iran, in apparent defiance of the US president, Donald Trump, who had said in an recent interview that "I call all the shots", not the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
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First Thing: Bondi distances herself from ‘botched’ release of Epstein files

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By Martin Belam 
| Yahoo News UK
Good morning. Appearing before the House oversight and reform committee, the former attorney general Pam Bondi told lawmakers that Todd Blanche, the man Donald Trump has lined up to replace her, was "in charge" of the US Department of Justice's controversial handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. She also said she was "not certain of the extent" that Trump knew about the crimes of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell before they became public.
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