BBC News Culture & Media Editor. The Media Show. Ex-Newsnight UK editor. Ex-Channel 4 News. New Instagram katierazzallbbc
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The story of what happened at the British Museum, how treasures ended up on ebay & the man who warned museum officials he believed a thief was selling them off. Our @BBCRadio4 series starts 1.45pm MONDAY, also @BBCSounds
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Just for the record, Emily @maitlis has not been asked by the BBC to take tonight off - and if I thought she had been, I certainly wouldn’t have agreed to present the show @BBCNewsnight
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Fantastic (& completely right) end credits on @jonsnowC4 last show @Channel4News . Tears in my house. Total dude. Journalism that inspired me to try and be better. Thank you Jon
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@Louis_Tomlinson brought a TV into Glastonbury so folk could watch the football. I bumped into him right after England won #football #onedirection #Glasto2024 #england
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Come on @Cambridge_Uni have some heart. He should have been the first person in his school EVER to go to Cambridge. Through no fault of his own, he misses out because the computer says he doesn’t deserve 4 A*s #travesty #Covid_19
“I wanted to make everyone that believed in me proud… I knew I could get those grades if I actually did the exams.”
Mithushan Thiagarajah had an offer to read medicine at Cambridge and was predicted 4 A*s. Today he was downgraded and the offer has been withdrawn.
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The mother of the sisters murdered in a London park speaking now on @BBCRadio4 is INCREDIBLE - cops taking selfies by her daughters’ bodies, family having to find murder weapon. SHOCKING. She says assumptions were made about the girls because of institutional racism
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Sometimes you uncover a story that you have to keep rechecking because you can't believe it's true. That was the case when we started to investigate our series on unregulated children's homes. Could it really be right that vulnerable teenagers in care were being put in them?
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After 7 years at Newsnight, I’ve got a new job as @BBCNews Culture Editor. There can’t be a better brief in TV news right now. Culture is the window into all our lives & I couldn’t resist the opportunity to tell the stories of our fascinating & diverse country in all its glory
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The idea that people are dying in care homes and then, having been abandoned in this crisis, their deaths aren’t even being properly counted in the statistics thereby denying them even the most basic respect makes my blood boil. #coronavirusuk #carehomes
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Outside BBC right now a man is trying to smash up Eric Gill statue while another man live streams talking about paedophiles. Gill’s horrific crimes are well known. But is this the way?
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But anyone who works on the show - & that includes me - will feel deeply sad today about the end of @BBCNewsnight as we know and love it
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Four years ago today I was standing at the foot of Grenfell Tower, reporting the unfolding horror. My thoughts are with the bereaved, survivors & residents as another painful anniversary comes around 💚💚💚
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So many decisions are being weighed up in this crisis, but the hardest for me is how the lockdown is affecting vulnerable children. On tonight's @BBCNewsnight we look at the impact - a social worker tells us she was physically sick when she heard schools were closing
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He’d just done his “wild” Pyramid stage set & Rick Astley told me he would play “in the car park” to get back to Glastonbury another year. It’s not over for this festival yet - he’ll be doing Smiths covers later with Blossoms on the Woodsies stage #Glastonbury #RickAstley
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Talking on @BBCWomansHour the chief inspector at HMIC says the Sarah Everard case is ‘not a one off’ & that it has struck a ‘hammer blow’ to policing. She says forces don’t have effective means to prevent abuses of positions, that officers aren’t being properly vetted. Damning
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The @BBC has announced huge cuts to @BBCNewsnight as part of just released savings & digital reinvestment plans. The show will be shortened to 30 mins and become an “interview, debate and discussion show”. Reporter and other roles are being axed.
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Can people afford to self-isolate? If they can't, breaking covid chains of transmission is all but impossible. So what is the data saying? We've been looking into Self Isolation Support Payments - latest piece @BBCNewsnight tonight - the upfront £500 for people who must isolate
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This amazing documentary will be reshown on @BBCTwo tonight. A reminder of the bravery of Alexei Navalny and what he was up against.
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The story of the 21st floor of Grenfell. Many thanks to all the people who put their trust in us to tell their story bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt…
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We all need some good news & this is SUCH wonderful news: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on way home to UK bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60756870
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Prince Harry's uncle (and, of course, Princess Diana's brother) reacts to his nephew taking on NGN. The apology Harry won for his mother felt particularly personal and was clearly important to him.
It takes an enormous amount of guts to take on opponents like News Group Newspapers, and great tenacity to win. And it’s just wonderful that Harry fought for - and gained - an apology to his mother. She would be incredibly touched at that, & rightly proud. bbc.com/news/live/cd9qqj3gvv…
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In amongst all the news, this might not get the prominence it deserves, but the acclaimed documentary maker Roger Graef has died. He was a legend who made so many incredible films, including his ground-breaking 'fly on the wall' 'A Complaint of Rape'
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Thoughts for what's it's worth on mass testing after a day or two in Liverpool. Our story on @BBCNewsnight tonight reveals that the testing pilot is failing to reach the poorest communities in the city. In some parts, only 4% of residents have turned up to be tested
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So this is happening but we can’t get children back to school??? This is a national emergency - we need to find new sites, set up portacabins, create Nightingale schools & make it happen. Kids need to be in school and face to face with teachers.
Zoos, safari parks and outdoor cinemas in England to reopen on June 15 huffp.st/r7B4erk
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Yusuf Cat Stevens finishing his Glastonbury Legends set with Father & Son - is that something in my eye…?
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Such sad news. RIP George Alagiah
It is with deep sadness that the BBC is announcing the death of its much-loved journalist and presenter George Alagiah.
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ALT Image of George Alagiah on right. Left text "“Across the BBC, we are all incredibly sad to hear the news about George. We are thinking of his family at this time. “George was one of the best and bravest journalists of his generation who reported fearlessly from across the world as well as presenting the news flawlessly. “He was more than just an outstanding journalist, audiences could sense his kindness, empathy and wonderful humanity. He was loved by all and we will miss him enormously." Tim Davie BBC Director-General"
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Events moved fast since we recorded the Media Show asking whether Liz Truss was egged on by the press. But lots of important questions still to answer. Here’s @mrjamesob @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds
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Tonight, I meet David Harewood at Harewood House, West Yorkshire. His ancestors were slaves owned by the current Earl of Harewood’s forefathers in Barbados. We are first to see a portrait of the actor being unveiled to tell a more truthful family history @bbcnews @BBCRadio4 #PM
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Thinking of Marie Colvin, 12 years after she was killed in Syria, and all the journalists working in war zones right now. Alive, Marie was irrepressible; a seeker of truth with gallons of empathy & a no-bullshit radar. She was also wonderful fun. Photo @NPGLondon collection
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It's been a series that has stayed with us @BBCNewsnight - you can't look at your own children and others being brought up by loving parents & carers, without thinking of the unlucky ones, children in care who have the state as their parent & have been let down
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Today the Government announced its plans to change things. From Sept, it will be illegal for councils to put anyone under 16 in one (660 under 16s spent time in these homes in 2018/19). But England's Children's Commissioner @annelongfield says it should be ALL under 18s
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What happens to radio if the BBC licence fee goes? Phil Riley, a stalwart of commercial radio who was also the first (when at LBC) to get a politician (Tony Blair) to do a phone in, told me on the Media Show @BBCRadio4 the impact it would have on NON BBC radio - it's not pretty.
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On the Media Show @BBCRadio4 we dedicate the whole programme to TV News legend @jonsnowC4 He steps down from @Channel4News next week, a huge moment after an incredible career. We were colleagues for many years; even so some of his stories were new to me. Tune in 4.30pm & 9.30pm
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Michelle Yeoh ‘this is history in the making’. First Asian actress ever to win best actress. ‘For all the little boys and girls who look like me and are watching tonight, this is the beacon of hope…
Ladies don’t let anybody ever tell you you are past your prime’ (she is 60)
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Our latest report is on tonight's programme. This series is testament to so many: @annelongfield @ACCJPS @ccwild79 @sallyches @LondonLuke @innesbowen @esmewren @djoeclarke & all the care leavers who trusted us with their awful stories. Thanks most to them
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Much of this is heartbreaking but the knowledge that there are mums & kids (& some dads) now stuck inside homes with monstrous abusers is terrible. 2m domestic abuse incidents last year. Listen out, neighbours, & report abuse where you can
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He’s a legend & he spoke to us on @BBCRadio4 The Media Show. @jonsnowC4 on his career, on his last days of newsreading @Channel4News & on how he could have killed a certain Ugandan dictator- listen tonight 9.30 R4 & on bbc sounds
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Some of those who've already given the lives
Tonight, Newsnight pays tribute to some of the key workers who have died during the coronavirus crisis
👇 WATCH 👇
#Newsnight
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@DanCardenMP the MP for Walton, a deprived part of the city, relays his belief that people can't afford to self-isolate so don't want to find out they may have the virus. He says the criteria for the Gov's self isolation grant are too tough & 80% of applications are rejected
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Yulia, Alexei Navalny has made a powerful speech after the doc about her husband won Best Documentary at the #oscars "My husband is in prison for telling the truth". To him: "Alexei, I am dreaming of the day when you will be free, our country will be free"
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@ajtracey set begins with his powerful, angry words on behalf of the 72 people who died at Grenfell. He grew up in Ladbroke Grove & knows victims, survivors & bereaved #Glastonbury2022 #grenfell
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These homes (called supported/semi-supported accommodation) are supposed to help older teens transition to independence. Though some are good quality, we uncovered too many cases of children being let down, preyed on by criminal gangs, groomed by paedophiles, left to fend alone
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Meghan wins ruling in Mail on Sunday privacy fight bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59502787
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RIP Andrew Norfolk, the best of journalists, who fought for truth v powerful forces who didn’t want the grooming gangs story told. He inspired me as a young reporter & it was an honour to have him on The Media Show recently for perhaps his last interview.
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I'm still trying to navigate this, as we all are, but our job, as journalists, is to report what's happening. Tonight, we've done a piece for @BBCNewsnight about the self-employed people turning up at foodbanks after losing their livelihoods #coronavirus #Hastings
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And he’s on. Glastonbury’s oldest solo headliner Paul McCartney is on the Pyramid stage opening with Can’t Buy Me Love #beatles #Glastonbury
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Big news for Dr Who fans. And Sex Education fans. And anybody interested in our changing cultural landscape. First non-white doctor follows first female doctor. Congratulations Ncuti Gatwa bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61371123
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‘It is with a heavy heart that we cannot continue with Christmas as planned’ - in tier 4 you can’t meet anyone outside your household. Other tiers can only bubble up for one day - 25.12
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First clip released by @bbcstudios ahead of Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen, Platinum Jubilee programme made from private home movies. This is the Royals on HMS Vanguard in 1947... #RoyalsFamily #PlatinumJubilee
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Having played Hanging on the Telephone, Debbie Harry tells Glastonbury they had to get the “phone song” out of the way early now everyone has them in their pockets. Blondie rocking the Pyramid Stage #glastonbury #blondie
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12,800 teenagers were placed in supported accommodation in 18/19, so only 5% were under 16. Certainly the troubing stories we revealed were from kids who were 16 & 17 at the time, but still kids, and very vulnerable. Will the Gov plan for national standards sort this out?
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Delighted to say that @BBCRosAtkins & I will be presenting the Media Show on @BBCRadio4 for the next few months. We'll be alternating weeks, filling the (huge) shoes left by @amolrajan - Ros kicking off today at 4.30pm. Do tune in...
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What a woman. @KirstyWark leaves Newsnight (but fortunately not the BBC). Nobody could ask for a better colleague. Kirsty is one of life’s enthusiasts and a great encourager of others. She really is a team player and I know the team will miss her greatly
“It has been an honour and a blast… goodnight and good luck”
After 30 years of presenting #Newsnight, Kirsty Wark signs off for the final time
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The police told us of opposing gang members being housed in them & attacking each other, traumatised young people described being hungry, being frightened, being surrounded by violence & drug-taking - some made it out, others have been pulled further in to a world of criminality
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A reminder of the freedoms we take for granted
A 24-year-old Egyptian filmmaker, Shady Habash, was imprisoned for making a music video that mocked President Sisi. He died on Friday after two years in detention without trial. trib.al/5gsVbLx
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So thrilled The Media Show will be playing a bigger role in @BBCRadio4 plans with outings on @BBCNews Channel & @bbcworldservice - Wednesdays 4-5pm from April. A full hour with @BBCRosAtkins & me lifting the lid on media & tech bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/b…
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This is a good time to work for the BBC. Makes you proud.
BBC to deliver biggest push on education in its history - 14 weeks of educational programmes and lessons to every household in the country - whatever your child’s age, beginning on 20 April: bbc.in/3bIwJmA
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ICYMI I spoke to @jonsnowC4 a week before he hangs up his c4 news reading boots for the Media Show @BBCRadio4 about his incredible career, the health of the media industry & more - listen again bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0012f… - TV version coming @BBCNewsChannel
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David Hockney is a brilliant interviewee. Age 85, still full of wit & pearls of wisdom incl ‘I live in the now, the now is eternal’ & ‘if you put on weight, you don’t need a gym, you need a good tailor’. 1 of Britain’s greatest artists @BBCNews all day today
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Cameron Mackintosh on Sondheim: “The theatre has lost one of its greatest geniuses & the world has lost one of its greatest and most original writers… the brilliance of Stephen Sondheim will still be here as his legendary songs and shows will be performed for evermore.” RIP
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I heard the same. Still trying to process it. Horrific. Chilling. And feels frighteningly like that could be the case
Can’t quite believe what I just heard on @BBCWorldatOne. Former Met chief super Parm Sandhu saying female officers don’t always report suspicious behaviour of male colleagues because they “close ranks” & you risk being left to get your head kicked in on duty if you call for help
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Thank you to Chloe Finch for such a powerful interview - warm, eloquent, and full of insight about these homes while telling her upsetting story of a teenager fatally let down #newsnight
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Its 1251 pages are a damning indictment of British policing. Daniel Morgan died 34 years ago, an axe embedded in his head. Police corruption was alleged early on. Today the inquiry accused @metpoliceuk of ‘institutional corruption’
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Thank you Janice Long, for so many introductions to amazing bands & for being a woman on radio showing us what can be done. RIP. bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment…
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Loyle Carner @glastonbury - lyrical, political. Calling out toxic masculinity, knife crime, the Tories & telling the crowd he stands with striking teachers. Lots of cheers here
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Wonderful tributes to George Alagiah are pouring in after his death aged 67 bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment…
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Tonight on @BBCNewsnight we revisit the story of the 21st floor of Grenfell Tower and find out what's changed for the survivors & bereaved. Trigger warning: we have chosen to use some footage of the fire as a reminder of the outrage of Grenfell which must never be forgotten
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Prince Harry, Sir Elton John, David Furnish, Liz Hurley, Baroness Lawrence, Sadie Frost Law and Sir Simon Hughes have been given the go ahead to take Associated Newspapers to full trial over phone hacking & other illegality. Judge rules they can't use evidence given to Leveson
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Deborah Turness said from its inception nearly 44 years ago, Newsnight “has made an impact”, referencing Jeremy Paxman’s famous interview with Michael Howard and the @maitlis Prince Andrew interview. She praised the team of ‘talented journalists" & "high-quality product"
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Tonight @BBCNewsnight is a 1 hour Covid special: why were we so exposed & what can be done to safeguard the future? I am reporting from Pendle on love & loss incl in the Muslim community. These graves weren’t here before last March, many are Covid @sallyches 22.45 @BBCTwo
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A fabulous actor and a pioneer who broke down barriers. The wonderful, ever graceful Sidney Poitier has died. RIP bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment…
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Tonight on #Newsnight - as the law changes to make it illegal for local authorities to place children in care into 'supported accommodation' if they are under 16, we've been looking at the legal challenge to force the Goverment to make it illegal for every under 18
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This was always going to be a very difficult PMQs. We now know the PM was at the event in the Downing St garden. For 25 minutes. Now SNP @Ianblackford_MP telling Boris Johnson to resign. 'It's an open & shut case, it broke the law'
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Cultural venues are in ‘crisis mode’ Sir Nicholas Hytner tells @BBCNewsnight - with shows closing due to Covid, audiences plummeting, where are we heading? The idea that museums, theatres, comedy clubs will have to shut their doors again is too awful to face.
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Today new legislation comes into force that bans under 16s in care from being put into unregulated accommodation. It's an issue we've investigated for nearly 3 years on @BBCNewsnight Tonight - what happens to 16 & 17-year olds? @sallyches @LondonLuke
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1.3m children under 5 are living below the poverty line, according to analysis of Gov data by @LittleVillageHQ & @jrf_uk - those early years are critical for development & future life chances; what needs to change?
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England’s Children’s Commissioner @annelongfield wants the Government to ban the use of unregulated accommodation for ALL children under 18. She has given @BBCNewsnight her new report into a sector she says has been allowed to ‘expand unchecked’ despite the dangers
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We know Covid preys on the poorest households; across the country those in overcrowded housing and people who do high risk, people-facing jobs in transport, food production & supermarkets have been badly hit. If you support asymptomatic testing, these people need to be reached.
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Tonight on @BBCNewsnight - a letter to the PM organised by @scope says “The Government’s recovery plan has forgotten about disabled people, and risks making their lives even tougher…” We look at one issue affecting some disabled people: the reintroduction of benefit sanctions
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There’s only one story in town really, here’s the inside story of the party scoop @BBCRadio4 Media Show with my co-presenter @BBCRosAtkins bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00127…
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What will school closures mean for the attainment gap? On tonight's show we reveal @EducEndowFoundn analysis that says progress over the past decade will be entirely reversed - perhaps even significantly further. All kids need school, but virtual school is worse for some
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71.9% have been rejected in Calderdale, 77% in Liverpool, 70% in Dudley, 57% in Barnsley, 49% in Leeds. Across the Yorkshire Humber region, they've had 30,652 applications and rejected 61% - so what's happening? Clearly there is huge demand, but access to the scheme is difficult
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My local street fair right now. @Peston on vocals but who is in the shadows on drums…? Clue: @bbcstrictly contestant of old & ex politician… (can’t actually believe it, this isn’t the usual fare of this fair…) #yorkrise #sundayfun
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The idea of a copy of the Handmaid's Tale smuggled into Iran's Evin Prison for the women to read fills me with joy.
‘Books helped me to take refuge in the world of others when I was incapable of making one of my own.’
Hear Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's emotional #BookerPrize2023 keynote speech on the power of stories to change our lives.
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Why did it take a TV drama for a huge miscarriage of justice to get the headlines it deserves? We'll be discussing that on The Media Show @BBCRadio4 starting soon - who decides what makes the news? why is the story only now really cutting through? #PostOfficeScandal
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More than 128 journalists have been killed in the Gaza war, all but 5 Palestinian, says @pressfreedom - @BBC Gaza correspondent @Rushdibbc talked to me on The Media Show about some of those lost. Full interview The Media Show, Reporting From Inside Gaza @BBCiPlayer @BBCSounds
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We've spoken to staff working in care homes in recent days who say they have turned off the tracing app because they can't afford to be traced as a covid contact. They will only get SSP if they have to self-isolate as they don't qualify for the £500 support
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So well deserved for the wonderful, sublime & irreplaceable @KirstyWark
Our final award of the night goes to @KirstyWark for her Outstanding Contribution to broadcast journalism. “On screen she is unflappable, asks penetrating and tough questions when necessary and acts with empathy and compassion when needed,” said the jury. #RTSAwards
ALT A graphic for the Outstanding Contribution award, which announces Kirsty Wark as the winner
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RIP Geoffrey Palmer. I loved that man. The hang dog face that made misery hilarious. An institution in my childhood (Butterflies!) and ever since.
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The council says it's picked up 800 people without symptoms who would have been missed without the tests. They could have spread Covid into households & communities. But, as one GP put it, if it's only the 'worried well' turning up, Liverpool won't 'get out of the mess it's in'
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Our story is about to air on @BBCNewsnight - after years as a journalist I may have become a little hardened but the misery of what some children in care experience breaks my heart
'Care crisis': Sent-away children are 'easy victims' bbc.in/30lKeCL
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William Shawcross, who was investigating the process to appoint Richard Sharp as BBC Chairman, has recused himself as he has "met Mr Sharp on previous occasions". An "independent person" will take over.
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Maybe I am a bit tired today but reading this brought tears. Not everything is about making loads of money it seems. There are good people out there. And these ones seem to have created a Covid vaccine... #covid #oxfordvaccine #science #humanity #oneworld
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He died peacefully with him family beside him, after a short illness. He will be remembered by so many in the industry who knew him well & by all those others who may not know his name but remember his programmes that shone a spotlight into many of the dark corners of life RIP
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Secret Tory: Henry Morris unmasks himself as man behind parody account bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment…
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