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The fundraising effort by a 99yo is astonishing - but the notion that the NHS has somehow become a charity and that is perfectly ok should make our blood run cold.
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So , Liz Truss seems to have stopped King Charles going to the next COP Global Climate Summit and giving a speech. Equally the king appears to have authorised the leaking of this. It ain’t going to be like it was with mummy.
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Several experts confirm Hamas’ view to @Channel4News that the audio tape of “Hamas” operatives talking about the missile malfunction is a fake . They say the tone, syntax, accent and idiom are absurd.
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I am now free to tell you that yesterday 4631 Russians were arrested yesterday in 64 cities for opposing Putin’s war. Russian charity OVD calculates 13,028 Russians have now been arrested.
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Just to repeat my appeal . If any Met Police officers wish to come forward with information relating to the force’s secret deal; non investigation of No10 parties and cover-up. Please get in touch. Anonymity guaranteed of course…
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PARTYGATE/CABINET OFFICE - I can now guarantee that there will be developments on here in the coming days regarding the conduct of the Cabinet Office in all this. Watch this space. Thankyou.
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Israel has yet to produce one shred of evidence to back its claim of a Hamas command and control centre under Al-Shifa Hospital…
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UK’s richest MP, Chancellor Sunak continues to refuse to answer questions about his wife’s business interests in Russia.
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All eyes on Keme Badenoch - Tory party leader front runner but a little local difficulty. Elected with 2610 but 2600 postal ballots didn’t go out because of a foul-up….
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As a lifelong Newcastle United supporter I feel sick this morning. No time for Ashley but he doesn’t murder and dismember journalists or chop people’s heads off or treat women as third class humans on an industrial scale. What the hell has “football “ become?
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Channel 4 News put the findings of the investigation into the explosion at the Gaza City hospital on Tuesday to the IDF and requested a formal response to the claims….
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Ukrainian soldier at checkpoint this morning. “Where you from?” “Britain.” “Britain? Give my love to Boris.” Those anti tank missiles have gone down quite well.
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Since genocide is much talked about at the moment, we might pause and think in Britain today, this being the anniversary of Culloden - part of an official policy to destroy the lives, homes, culture, language, dress and very existence of The Highlands.
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Back in December I promised on here I would look into why the Met Police are not investigating the Downing St parties? I have done so. The response from the Met is interesting . Watch this space …
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It continues “this recording is made up of two separate channels and demonstrates that these two voices have been recorded independently . These two independent recordings have then been edited together in a digital audio workshop, have added effects and recomposed.”
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So on the eve of Saudi - owned Newcastle United meeting Abramovich - owned Chelsea, we learn Saudi Arabia executed 81 people in one day: 73 Saudis, 7 Yemenis and 1 Syrian. Fit and proper…
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Another day, another die-back. This time mussels and razor clams on Saltburn beach. @Channel4News
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Tonight - @Channel4News how Warwickshire Police kept Warwickshire Hunt out of court with a secret deal last year that you’re still not allowed to know about and the Chief Constable refuses to be interviewed about
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The North York Moors today - fire after fire as they set grouse moors alight, as if the climate crisis simply doesn’t exist.
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This now means that Rangers cheated their way to 14 trophies: they cheated the taxman, they cheated us all.
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BBC website today running order: 1 royal baby 2 royal baby 3 royal baby 4 royal baby 5 royal baby 6 royal baby 7 humans “threaten 1 million species with extinction”...
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Worth noting that Harry didn’t just score a victory over Rupert Murdoch. He also wisely (and courageously) totally ignored palace advice not to pick a fight with the Murdoch papers.
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BREAKING NEWS: United Utilities, the largest corporate landowner in England, is pulling grouse shooting on its moorland by way of not renewing its leases when they come to an end…
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As govt proposes pouring billions into so-called carbon capture, please remember there is not a single example on earth where this actually works at required power-station scale. It is chiefly promoted by - guess who? Fossil fuel lobbyists.
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Curious how much Venezuela suddenly matters to the EU when the recent notorious election in Bangladesh didn’t register like this...nor the Catalan question... nor the host of murderous dictators it supports across the Gulf. Why Caracas guys?
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Kharkiv y’day - large missile appeared to be shot down where we were, about 500m from Kharkiv Railway Station. Our team witnessed the missile coming in. This was about an hour or so before the attack on Kramatorsk Railway Station. Team from Al Jazeera also saw it…
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The scale of Rangers' cheating: £48m paid to 80 people over 10 years to unfairly win 14 trophies
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Boss of Ecotricity this morning - “we can have energy bills one tenth of what they are now if we move to renewables. There is no energy policy in the UK.” Meanwhile Govt talks about drilling new oil and gas which will make zero difference to any bill.
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Please ignore anybody today who says the Rosebank oilfield in the North Sea is going ahead. It is not. It is going to court. There it’s compatability with law on Netzero will be tested. Just like the Cumbrian coalmine plan is…
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People kill - not guns. But research shows that it is exceedingly hard to shoot almost anybody if you don't have a loaded gun.
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Three months on the Cabinet Office has responded to my Freedom of Information request about how they cut a deal with the police to stop them investigating alleged unlawful Downing St parties during the COVID shutdown…
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The dance is done - Assad remains safe and victor of war; West can claim it has sent message; Kremlin doesn’t need to respond; Western contempt for proof and work of OPCW totally exposed.
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The governance of Scottish football under Regan and Doncaster is totally exposed by the Supreme Court. The position of both is untenable.
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SHELL - Q4 profits due out today expected to smash forecasts as domestic gas bills soar. In 2020 Shell did not pay any tax in the UK. It also got nearly £100 million from taxpayers in rebates. Govt has rejected an oil and gas windfall tax.
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So, as the sheep-infested, overgrazed, deforested, overdrained Pennine watershed floods England again and again and again and again and again - might someone somewhere out there actually put two and two together?????
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Gordon Brown tells me on @Channel4News “I think the Americans probably knew there were no weapons of mass destruction “ in Iraq. Gads .....
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BP’s boss called the company a “cash machine” profits up 30x on pre-Covid in just last quarter. BP & Shell can now afford to pay every domestic gas bill in the UK. Sunak has no plans for a windfall tax.
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POLICE AND PARTYGATE - more from my own inquiries soon but the Good Law Project is taking legal actions against the Met over its failure to investigate No10 parties….
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Happiness: the interview that's now been watched 37,600,000 times online
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We also know Israel attacked the hospital on a Saturday injured 4 staff. On Sunday they phoned up telling everyone to get out and evacuate. The Archbishop of Canterbury confirmed the Saturday attack .
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Leave you tonight with the words of Margaret Aspinall of the Hillsborough Families today:”What chance has any single person got when 96 people can be unlawfully killed and nobody held to account. We all should be ashamed of ourselves for allowing that to happen.” Goodnight.
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Mystery signs have appeared near Coventry. Retweet the sweet bejasus out of this please
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Back in UK from Moscow - where calling war war and invasion invasion is now a serious crime. It became simply impossible to work for you I am afraid. My inconvenience was minor. For many fleeing Russia lives are being wrecked.
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Israel is blocking access to Gaza for international media as well as food, water & fuel. Effect is censoring a full account of what is happening there. Our ability to tell the story from inside the Strip thus increasingly difficult. We shall persevere.
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Congratulations to those few journos in Scotland and outside, who pursued the Rangers cheating story to expose the truth in the end.
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BREAKING - 5 year campaign wins big - Supreme Court says you can’t grant planning for oil and gas without considering greenhouse gas emissions when that oil is burned . Huge potential impact for any new oil gas or coal projects in UK
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(Our) opinion is that this recording does not meet the standard required for evidence and should not be used by the media without the clear caveat that is has been digitally manipulated “
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Famous for its noise. Now infamous for its silence. Is Scottish football dealing with its past paedophile rings generally? Is Celtic FC particularly? Special investigation with new evidence now being edited for @Channel4News
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Germany’s language on Russia is measured. Its actions, significant. UK’s language on Russia is dramatic. It’s actions pedestrian.
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Hard to construct a few words more likely to bring about Scotttish independence than Sajid Javid’s monumentally crass statement on twitter today. Insouciance and ignorance about Scotland in 50-50 mix.
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Shell reports negative tax in 2024 and received £3.9m from UK taxpayers. Shell’s overall profits amounted to $23.7 billion over that period.
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Plus the Reform candidate was disowned. Labour have 21 days to push for a re-run. A clean Reform candidate and major tactical voting could oust her….
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Heading towards 20m views - the most watched @Channel4News studio interview ever. Happiness :
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So the final wash up on all this from ONS stats with CQC NHSEngland and Scotgov input is that Scotland completed vax in elderly care homes by Monday at 98% (not everyone says yes or can be Vax’d).The real English figure is around 80% of all residents as opposed to eligibles.
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New pollution data reveals startling success of London ULEZ. Numbers of old, filthy vehicles have halved and particulate and other pollution averted is more than pollution from London’s airports.
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And yes, I will appeal as I have appealed the police’s refusal to send me the information. Am a bit busy in Ukraine but promise to try and get it done for you.
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A court in London was told today that MI5 agents are authorised to commit serious crimes, on British soil, without informing prosecutors, under a secretive MI5 policy...
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Rangers cheated the taxman to gain sporting advantage on the pitch. We know this because they have repeatedly said so. Unlawful = cheating.
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Given all the other countries with more than 150,000 Covid deaths have far, far larger populations than the UK, many will conclude that the UK is the worst country on earth at dealing with Covid in terms of fatalities.
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Blood scandal: truth , no justice. Hillsborough: truth, no justice. Bloody Sunday: truth, no justice. Chinook Crash: truth: no justice. Post Office: truth, no justice.
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10 years of cheating the taxman to 14 trophies and all in the watch of Stewart Regan and Neil Doncaster at SFA/SPFL
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It’s like we go to the greengrocer who says »Yeah mate sorry the onions are so expensive. But their price is tied to the price of diamonds. Nothing I can do about it mate. » Cheap renewable electricity generation has to be uncoupled from 8x more expensive gas generation. Now.
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So waiting for Sue Gray becomes waiting for the police now. Remember none of this would be happening had the police investigated from the outset as they did elsewhere up and down the land for alleged breaches of Covid rules.
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BREAKING NEWS - scientists from Newcastle , York and Hull Unis have been invited to the Environmental Select Ctte in Parliament who appear to be considering a new investigation into chemical pollution killing N Yorkshire sea life.
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Great to see Scottish football fans of all colours taking the action needed against cheating. SPFL board also wants action. SFA lost cause.
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Looks like Cuadrilla is packing up its fracking operation in Lancashire after causing a series of earthquakes considerably larger than anything it said would be possible....
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We are now aware of at least 9 paedophiles operating out of Celtic FC/Celtic Boys Club. Several have faced no legal process even now as a result of attacking children...
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I never asked for any individuals to be identified - I simply believe the public should know how and why the Cabinet Office told the Met Police not to investigate and the police went along with this…
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RIP Paul McConville and Turnbull Hutton who bravely stood for justice on the Rangers BTC and died before it arrived. You are remembered
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The PM says it is dangerous to buy oil and gas from a violent blood-soaked dictatorship in Russia. So he is going to ask for more oil and gas from a violent blood -soaked dictatorship in S Arabia instead.
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Weird how some attack Corbyn for repeating the long-held MI5 view that our invasion of Iraq "substantially" worsened UK terror threat
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Exempt from the Rule of Six, ignoring social distancing... grouse beaters and keepers at Hunt House near Goathland in NYMoors last week on an estate owned by the Queen. One rule for us etc ...
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Rather convenient Charles talking climate to BBC; William’s interview on Shatner space and now the queen “overheard” demanding action. Will she reforest Balmoral and abandon shooting - redeploying gamekeepers to save biodiversity?
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Wrong. It presupposes, guesses, assumes, projects, absolutely nothing whatever. It is just electoral statistics and electoral rules. That’s all.
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24 schoolchildren from N Cyprus went happily to bed on Sunday night in their 10 floor hotel. They’d won their volleyball matches on tour in Turkey that day. Life was good. Hours later every single one of them would be killed in the earthquake. @Channel4News tonight 5.30
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Appalling deluge of racism on here this morning by those who think the plight of people risking their lives to get to UK should just be ignored by the media. I think these black and brown lives matter and their situation deserves some of our attention.
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After Hillsborough, Bloody Sunday - are we really really really going down the road of another "limited inquiry" this time into Grenfell?...
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Meet Dr Jacqui Reed with years of toxic river sampling as a UK Govt scientist and with phd in handling toxic river sediment . She’s personally sampled the Tees and feeeport zone - says current dredging must “absolutely stop now”. Govt/developers insist it is safe….
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$731bn: That's the extraordinary level fossil fuel subsidies reached in 2021, double 2020 levels despite pledges to phase them out. Ever feel you’ve been had?
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Simple fact is Porton Down have not, can not, will not say this nerve agent was made in Russia. What will OPCW conclude ?
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The language is crucial here. UK Govt talking about “offering” everyone on Care Homes the vaccine. Nicola Sturgeon says 98% of vulnerable elderly “have been vaccinated” in Care Homes. There is a difference...
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PARTYGATE/POLICE so we the pattern of secrecy and non-disclosure emerges it appears Gray’s ‘investigation’ will not include publication of minutes; email exchange ; notes etc…
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Cancelled - Russian oil tanker NS Champion will not now be berthing at the Flotta Terminal in Orkney
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Am email passed to @Channel4News exclusively has three senior scientific advisors calling for the massive South Bank Quay t Freeport dredging to be stopped pending real scientific independent assessment
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Moreover she could not stand as party leader unless she is an MP. If this scenario unfolds Kemi Badenoch would not be an MP until the matter is finally and fairly settled which at present it does not appear to be.
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@Channel4News Coquet Island tonight in Northumberland. 30% of Sandwich Terns dead; 50% of Roseate Terns dead; almost every chick of the 10,000 strong Black Headed Gull colony dead #birdflu
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Bizarre reaction from some MPs to Nigel Farage’s speech accusing him of threatening them in some way. I heard nothing that could possibly be construed as a threat
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Committee for the Protection of Journalists : 21 journalists have been killed since Oct 7th. 17 Palestinians, 3 Israelis and 1 Lebanese. At least 1 Israeli journalist taken hostage by Hamas.
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So this morning Scot Tories left licking their (self-inflicted) wounds after the obvious mistake of calling for Sturgeon’s head before Sturgeon’s evidence had been heard. RD called it “procedural” - others would call it “daft”
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“What does it take to get tested? I see celebs and politicians being tested. My father was a frontline nurse. He’s been dead for a week. They still haven’t tested him.” Thomas Harvey Jnr, @Channel4News
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At daily briefings govt and medical advisors always said fewer than 20,000 deaths would be “success”. Since more than 20,000 have now died in UK (they only count hospital deaths), is that “failure”?
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BREAKING - SNP, Lib Dems, Greens and Labour all say yes to proposed election debate on Climate Crisis. At the moment the Tories are refusing. #Election2019
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