Ed Clowes - London - The Telegraph

<p>Sometimes you have to get fired again and again (and again) to figure out your place in the world. Ed Clowes’ (<a href='https://twitter.com/EdClowes'>@edclowes</a>) story is not your common journalistic tale. Kids, don’t try this one at home. He gets fired for increasingly noble reasons though, ultimately getting kicked out of the city-state of Dubai. Be warned, despite the title of this episode, it is more about the Middle East than London.</p> <p>Ed discusses bumbling his way through a series of London jobs (4:57), moving to Dubai for a magazine sales job but getting into the journalism side (6:43), getting fired from a job in PR (16:03), finding his feet again at the newspaper Gulf News only to get kicked out of the country (21:05), how censorship works in Dubai and how the government directed an anti-Trump shift at the paper (32:40), finding work in the UK and feelings on moving home after being away so long (38:34), delving into what it's like living in the classist, mixing pot of a shopping mall that is Dubai (43:11), what it's like working at The Telegraph (54:37) and end on the lightning round (1:01:45).</p> <p> </p> <p>Here are links to some of the things we talked about:</p> <p>Ed's story about Uber in Dubai - <a href='https://bit.ly/3fg1alY'>https://bit.ly/3fg1alY</a></p> <p>His story about JP Morgan report on climate change - <a href='https://bit.ly/2UEpnKM'>https://bit.ly/2UEpnKM</a></p> <p>Hot Ones interviews on Youtube - <a href='https://bit.ly/2zs3XJw'>https://bit.ly/2zs3XJw</a></p> <p>Full Size Run on Youtube - <a href='https://bit.ly/3e0Kv5F'>https://bit.ly/3e0Kv5F</a></p> <p>Reuters story on UK coronavirus response - <a href='https://reut.rs/3cZilH1'>https://reut.rs/3cZilH1</a></p> <p>NYT investigation into the taxi industry - <a href='https://nyti.ms/2lEESUF'>https://nyti.ms/2lEESUF</a> </p> <p>Ed's story Trump backer defends Saudi Arabia - <a href='https://bit.ly/37riuln'>https://bit.ly/37riuln</a></p> <p>BBC's Jon Sopel on Twitter - <a href='https://bit.ly/3fg1mlc'>h