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Robert Booth UKJournalist

The Guardian

Health & social care coverage read by Vital Signs

12 articles

Across 2 topics, first on 2 Sept 2025, most recently 9 Jul 2026.

This counts only pieces our coverage scan read on the topics Vital Signs tracks, not their full output.

Biography

Robert Booth is an award-winning journalist at The Guardian, where he is currently UK technology editor. He previously held the title of social affairs correspondent at the paper, covering topics including care workers, poverty, housing, homelessness, and the COVID-19 inquiry. He has covered housing and homelessness for over two decades and has reported on the Grenfell Tower fire and its aftermath. His recent work focuses on artificial intelligence, public surveillance, and the use of technology in UK public services including the NHS.

References

  1. 1.Robert Booth | The Orwell Foundation — Confirms he is an award-winning journalist at The Guardian, currently UK technology editor, and has covered housing and homelessness for over two decades
  2. 2.Robert Booth - Social Affairs Correspondent @ The Guardian - Anewstip — Identifies Robert Booth as Social Affairs Correspondent at The Guardian, with the @robert_booth X handle and LinkedIn profile
  3. 3.Guardian Journalist looking for UC, Council Tax Relief or Housing Benefit claimants – DPAC — Contemporaneous source (2019) identifying Robert Booth by name as 'Social affairs correspondent, The Guardian'
  4. 4.Robert Booth - Journalist Profile - Intelligent Relations — Confirms current title as UK technology editor at The Guardian; notes his articles cover topics including care workers, poverty, COVID inquiry, and Grenfell Tower
  5. 5.Robert Booth (@Robert_Booth) / X — X profile self-describes as 'Guardian UK technology editor'; handle @robert_booth matches Anewstip record for the same journalist
  6. 6.Robert Booth's Profile | The Guardian, The Guardian Technology – Muck Rack — Lists Robert Booth as published in The Guardian and The Guardian Technology

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Recent articles

  1. MPs urge Labour to ditch £330m Palantir software contract with NHS

    The GuardianHospital discharge / bed-blocking9 Jul 2026

  2. Online child safety campaigners call for US inquiry into Roblox

    The GuardianMental health20 May 2026

  3. Google denies breaching law by promoting suicide forum linked to 164 UK deaths

    The GuardianMental health14 May 2026

  4. Palantir’s access to identifiable NHS England patient data is ‘dangerous’, MPs say

    The GuardianHospital discharge / bed-blocking11 May 2026

  5. AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses

    The GuardianHospital discharge / bed-blocking30 Apr 2026

  6. Labour and Lib Dem MPs demand ‘shameful’ Palantir NHS contract be scrapped

    The GuardianHospital discharge / bed-blocking16 Apr 2026

  7. Hundreds of UK teenagers to pilot social media bans and restrictions

    The GuardianMental health1 Mar 2026

  8. NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed

    The GuardianHospital discharge / bed-blocking12 Feb 2026

  9. ‘It felt hypocritical’: child internet safety campaign accused of censoring teenagers’ speeches

    The GuardianMental health8 Feb 2026

  10. ‘I feel it’s a friend’: quarter of teenagers turn to AI chatbots for mental health support

    The GuardianHospital discharge / bed-blocking9 Dec 2025

  11. ChatGPT ‘upgrade’ giving more harmful answers than previously, tests find

    The GuardianMental health14 Oct 2025

  12. Parents could get alerts if children show acute distress while using ChatGPT

    The GuardianMental health2 Sept 2025

Bylines and quoted sources are read automatically from UK coverage of the topics Vital Signs tracks, so this page reflects what our scan has read rather than a complete record. Where a biography and photograph appear, they are published by the outlet itself about its own correspondent, and linked above. Social accounts are not held: asserting an unverified one would attach a real person to an account that might not be theirs. See the methodology, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.