[2] Freedland also presents BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series The Long View; and writes thrillers, mainly under the pseudonym Sam Bourne, and has written a play, Jews.

[5] After a gap year working on a kibbutz in Israel with the Labour Zionist Habonim Dror (where Freedland had been mentored by Mark Regev, and Freedland was in turn, a mentor to Sacha Baron Cohen[6]), he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Wadham College, Oxford.

In 1992, he was awarded the Laurence Stern fellowship[7] on The Washington Post, serving as a staff writer on national news.

[13] Freedland was executive editor of the opinion section of The Guardian from May 2014 till early 2016 and continues to write a Saturday column for it.

He attributed the mistaken identification by confusing two lawyers with the same name to a "previously reliable Labour source" whose information he had "passed on too hastily".

Bring Home the Revolution: The case for a British Republic (1998), Freedland's first book, argued that Britain should reclaim the revolutionary ideals it exported to America in the 18th century, and undergo a constitutional and cultural overhaul.

Jacob's Gift (2005) is a memoir recounting the lives of three generations of his own Jewish family as well as exploring wider questions of identity and belonging.

It draws on the author's experiences in that region as a reporter for over twenty years, and a Guardian newspaper sponsored dialogue which was influential in the 2003 Geneva Accords.

The Final Reckoning (2008), was based on the true story of the Avengers: a group of Holocaust survivors who sought revenge against their Nazi persecutors, and just missed the peak of The Sunday Times best-seller list.

Boschwitz left behind the manuscript of King Winter's Birthday: A Fairy Tale, dreaming of the plot while held on the Isle of Man; the unpublished handwritten work, along with illustrations by Ulrich's mother, had lain undisturbed in a New York archive for eighty years.

British publisher Pushkin Press discovered Boschwitz's story and commissioned Freedman to translate it into English.

On November 14, 2024, Pushkin Press published Freedman's translation of Boschwitz's manuscript as King Winter's Birthday, with illustrations by British artist Emily Sutton.