Meirion Jones @MeirionTweets Twitter profile

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Meirion Jones

@MeirionTweets

10 months

So two weeks after a developer bought Crooked House pub (which would be worth far more as building land) it catches fire. Two days later it is bulldozed before any chance to see if building can be saved. Was the JCB booked before the fire?

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10 years ago Sir Jimmy #Savile had just died & BBC News was preparing state funeral type coverage of his memorial service. Meanwhile in the Newsnight office myself, the brilliant, brave (& very funny) Liz MacKean & @hamlivingston were preparing to expose..

How two BBC journalists risked their jobs to reveal the truth about Jimmy Savile

The long read: Listening to the women who alleged abuse, and fighting to get their stories heard, helped change the treatment of victims by the media and the justice system

www.theguardian.com

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Here's a real mystery. We buy £50K a year of drink for FCO & No10 to entertain guests "with wines of appropriate quality at reasonable cost” & you'd expect that to be massively reduced during Covid so why won't they publish figures for when Boris was PM?

UK ministers asked to explain fourth delay to Covid wine cellar report

Labour accuses government of holding back data on use of official alcohol stock between March 2020 and 2022

www.theguardian.com

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7 months

If BBC goes ahead with plan to chop £5M from £8M @BBCNewsnight budget - strip it of reporters & turn it into chat show they should at least have decency to ditch the name because it'll have nothing in common with show so many of us were proud to work on

Looming Newsnight cuts add to fears over future of BBC licence fee

After losing its editor this week, programme faces shake-up that critics say could have long-term impact

www.theguardian.com

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10 months

Supposed to be taking some time off but couldn't resist #CrookedHouse Who-Dunnit. So I'm on Vanessa's show on @TalkTV at 6.15. I asked what turned out to be right question "Did they book the excavator before the fire?" in a tweet which went viral 12K likes & RTs. Today @CNplus

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2 months

@tuckwell_steve As suspected this is just a ruse to collect email addresses to send out Tory propaganda

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1 year

This just gets worse. The gowns were not packaged in a way that would keep them sterile so were useless. Mone's family made £70M from these deals. Whole idea of a VIP lane for friends of government to get contracts is corrupt. Where are the police?

PPE Medpro: UK government alleges firm supplied defective gowns to NHS

Exclusive: DHSC alleges gowns were not sterile, could not be used within NHS ‘for any purpose’, and technical labelling was ‘invalid’

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

Sad news. Karin Ward who opened the Pandora's box of Jimmy #Savile 's offending - the first woman to go on camera - has died. She was brave & badly treated by the BBC. She made it easier for other victims of sexual assault to be believed & wrote excellent Victim Zero. RIP Karin

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One of the unsung behind-the-scenes heroes of the Paxman days of @BBCNewsnight has died. Dave Murden was our driver but so much more than that. He was a source of intelligence on what the guests were saying as they were driven into the show. Famously when Nick Clegg was...

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Deputy PM he was sat in the back of the Dave's blue Merc on the way into TV Centre & asked his aide what were the 3 worst questions Paxman could ask him. They ended up being questions 1, 2 & 3. RIP Dave Murden

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10 months

So the JCB was hired from Lyndon Thomas Ltd shouldn't be too difficult to find out who hired them #CrookedHouseCrookedDeveloper

Paul Dadge

@Dadgey

10 months

Within hours of @StaffsPolice and @StaffsFire leaving The Crooked House at Himley, footage has emerged of a digger moving onto site and quickly demolishing the building. Credit: Anonymous- Facebook Spotted Russells Hall

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11 months

@Ian_Fraser First thing to say is that there are plenty of 29-year-olds out there who have achieved much & would refresh the House of Lords. But the only experience Owen brings is working as a junior crony for the second worst PM in history & there's no shortage of Boris cronies in the Lords

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7 years

Gifted BBC & Channel 4 reporter Liz MacKean has died, far too young. Loved by everyone she worked with. Hated by villains she turned over

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10 months

A reminder that just because you own a building doesn't mean you can't be charged with arson for burning it down

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8 months

@IrkthePurists He's recruited 4 followers in the 7 years he's been on Twitter - hopefully @GreggsOfficial will bear this in mind - and actually it's a nice friendly greeting

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3 years

supposedly cuddly corporations like BBC will do anything to defend the bosses. 10 years on we've done nothing to deal with cover-up culture. There is still no law to make BBC managers or hospital chiefs or school heads report sexual abuse. Mandatory reporting now please. RIP Liz

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Meirion Jones

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6 years

Off duty cop Charlie Guenigault & hack Geoff Ho took on London Bridge attackers unarmed, firefighters stormed into Grenfell knowing fate of New York comrades on 9/11, police and ambulance straight into Manchester Arena aftermath but the 1922 committee are so more deserving

Mitch Benn

@MitchBenn

6 years

Theresa May awards New Years Honours to the board of the 1922 Committee for Services to Letting Me Stay Prime Minister Please.

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11 months

There's something frustrating about how likes of Osborne can get Met to investigate an email when most of us can't get them to take car or bike thefts or break-ins seriously. There's also one allegation in there that you'd hope they at least ask him a couple of questions about

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2 years

For me this is key 2 minutes in Netflix - Jimmy #Savile : A British Horror Story - when BBC bosses pulled our investigation in favour of running tributes to "Great Man". BBC high-ups had known since 1973 he was bringing underage girls back to his flat to stay overnight

Phantom Power

@PhantomPower14

2 years

The BBC declined to take part in Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story but it haunts the series with footage of the shows that enabled his industrial scale paedophilia. The BBC protected Savile to the end but treated Merrion Jones and Liz MacKean as traitors for exposing the truth

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3 months

Crooked owners - sorry Crooked House owners - who illegally demolished the historic Midlands pub after "someone" set fire to it ordered to rebuild Crooked House as was - that's going to be an engineering challenge

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7 years

When they say no-one knew of holocaust till end of war. This is my Dad's copy of Victor Gollancz's appeal. 150,000 copies sold in Jan 1943

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5 months

Found out for myself yesterday driving from London to Mumbles chaos caused by Welsh 20 mph speed limits. I crossed border but to my surprise was allowed to continue at 70. For the next 70 miles including through Swansea until I got into Mumbles no speed limits had changed.

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She got a VIP contract for £122M of PPE because her mates were in power - none of which was usable. She & her husband made £60M profit on that which they have lied about ever since & Michele Mone says "I can't see what we've done wrong" That's the problem with these people

Pippa Crerar

@PippaCrerar

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Tory peer Michelle Mone has finally admitted that she stands to benefit from tens of millions of pounds of profit from PPE sold to UK during pandemic. A huge vindication of my colleague @david_conn 's diligent journalism...

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@metpoliceuk Would be great if Met started enforcing existing laws including violence v women (especially violence v women by their own officers) before inventing new offence of "undermining this celebration" of feudal primogeniture. Only 12% of young people think monarchy very important

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@EllyOldroyd Yes @CliveMyrieBBC & @bbclysedoucet & @OrlaGuerin & @sarahrainsford are doing extraordinary jobs but so are the people you don't see on screen - producers, fixers, camera crews, picture editors, security - the whole team on the ground

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3 years

In retrospect Liz did the right thing. The BBC thought it was me & a senior press officer sent emails saying he would "drip poison about Meirion's suspected role". How you even keep your job after putting stuff like that in emails is a question only BBC management can answer...

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5 months

Finally finishing clearing my Mum's house after a year. This is saddest find so far - dried fruit for the Christmas Puddings she'll never make again - best anyone's ever tasted - much in demand. She had a long, happy & useful life much loved by friends & family. RIP Eileen

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4 years

On this day in 1966 Asquith Xavier finally broke the colour bar which had stopped anyone who wasn't white working at Euston station - a small but significant hero whose action will be marked with a plaque at the station in Chatham where he lived

RMT salutes worker who overturned racist recruitment at Euston station

Rail union praises ‘brave actions’ of Dominica-born Asquith Xavier, who overturned 1960s colour bar

www.theguardian.com

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@MeirionTweets

10 months

TIMELINE 2017 Planning regs change you can't demolish a pub without planning permission 03/8/2022 Google Earth shows JCB & dumper truck on landfill site next door Jan 2023 Crooked House gets new roof March Marstons put pub on market

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7 years

Liz MacKean won Scoop of Year 4 Savile, Daniel Pearl Award 4 Trafigura, Grierson 4 Hunted & Journalist of Decade - oh & she was very funny

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3 years

I've worked with both Fran (we were output editors on R4's PM prog in '90s) & Robbie Gibb. The texts won't surprise anyone who's worked with Robbie. There were people with many political views at Newsnight but they parked them to get the job done. Robbie was unusual in waging...

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2 years

BREAKING: Nestlé sourced beef from abattoir using cattle from deforested Amazon land seized from Indigenous people

‘This land belonged to us’: Nestlé supply chain linked to disputed Indigenous territory

Investigation reveals cattle raised on Mỹky territory ended up in global supply chain including food giant

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@MeirionTweets

9 months

@Bartlebeans @TalkTV @CNplus 2017 law changed to stop pubs being demolished without planning permission. Also if they set fire to it it is arson - just because you own it doesn't mean you can't be guilty of arson - if you are reckless and endangered human life - firefighters lives put on the line

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8 months

This is exactly what happened with reporter at Newsnight who was making women very uncomfortable - suggestion was he should only work with men - senior people on the programme had to insist he was the problem not the women & he was moved out

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8 months

This is what stood out the most to me in the #RussellBrand investigation: that rather than hold a predator to account for his behaviour, a media platform would instead deny women access to jobs they are qualified for 😤 The complicity & cowardice. #MeToo #Complicit

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1 year

@Haggis_UK Red card? Jenrick owns 3 houses each worth £2M+ but we've paid £100K in rent for his 4th house in Newark. As Housing Secretary involved in numerous cash-for-planning-permission scandals & diverted levelling-up money into his own constituency & there was his Lockdown hypocrisy

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4 years

Any journalist worth her or his salt will go to prison rather than reveal a source - the only exception to that is if a source deliberately lies to you to mislead the public using you as the vector

Kevin Maguire

@Kevin_Maguire

4 years

All lies and liars should be put on the record. Name them.

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3 years

him as a monster. Poppy (who wrote this piece) was working with Liz on another project at the time & saw what happened. I suppose the main revelation is that it was Liz who leaked the BBC's cover up to the press. At the time I (wrongly) thought it was Mark Williams Thomas...

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10 months

@Janet_Wilson19 If so that also gives a possible "perverting the course of justice" charge as well

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7 months

@BBCBreaking Obviously I've been worried by Gaza, and the floods, and the cost of living crisis, and the rivers be being filled with sewage, and global warming but at least I don't need to worry about bankers having to queue up at food banks any more

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of 10 years it seems obvious why the BBC pulled an investigation which would have shown that one of their biggest stars was a paedophile & would've raised questions about how many senior managers knew what was going on & turned a blind eye. But Pollard found that although we...

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3 months

Really stupid @BBCNewsnight is being dismantled at a time when it's vital UK & US elections & war on Gaza are scrutinised in depth. Here's a reminder of better times. When we moved to BH in 2012 they decided to skip the old Newsnight sign from the office wall. I saved it

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10 months

@deltadenizen No - 2017 Town & Country Planning regs said you can't demolish a pub without planning permission. If arson investigation not finished perverting the course of justice becomes another possible offence. Also video of demolition shows multiple health & safety breaches

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@AllotmentWorlds Despite the subsidence the Crooked House has survived since 1765 which is probably older than wherever you live

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with a QC wasting time trying to trap me into admitting being the mole rather than getting on with finding out why the BBC covered up for Savile. My evidence the following day was subtly different but no-one noticed. I suppose the lesson is that corporations - even...

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4 years

In 1781 the good ship Zong was becalmed in mid-Atlantic and running low on supplies so captain threw 132 slaves over the side to their deaths. The owners claimed for them on insurance starting a legal battle which let former slave (& former #Greenwich resident) Olaudah Equiano...

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3 years

It was only a year later that Liz told me it was her. I had just given evidence at the Pollard Review which was supposed to find out why the BBC had pulled our investigation into Savile in December 2011 & instead broadcast tributes to him all through Christmas. At a distance...

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@MeirionTweets

5 years

Not for the first time a major public building is consumed because of failures to take fire prevention seriously during repair and maintenance work - Notre Dame, Glasgow School of Art, Ally Pally, Cutty Sark - why is this lesson never learnt?

The Mirror

@DailyMirror

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Firefighters 'powerless to stop flames' as Notre Dame is engulfed by fire

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3 years

As a journalism Prof once said "If someone says it's raining and another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window"

Peter Jukes

@peterjukes

3 years

Emily Maitlis rejects 'impartality breach' rebukes and warns BBC over caving in to Downing Street

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There was none but they alleged I was the source for 4 articles in Oldie, Private Eye, Guardian & Times. All 4 journalists confirmed to Pollard that I was not their source & the criticism was removed from the report. Liz put me in the picture after my first day's evidence...

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This is still Richard Sharp & Robbie Gibb's BBC News Home front page leading on Raab's spin that civil servants are over-unionised activist snowflakes resisting hard-working minister's "reforms" when in fact according to an all-party select committee he goes "missing in action"

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had the story & it should've been run there must have been a good reason for it being pulled but no-one could suggest what that reason would be. Instead the BBC managed to divert Pollard into a mole hunt. The draft report alleged that I was the leaker. I asked for evidence...

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@MeirionTweets

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...being on BBC Board. I didn't overlap with Jess Brammar at Newsnight but I know that the old-timers there held her in much higher regard - extremely capable & kind - as a Deputy Editor than they did "Sir" Robbie

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@MeirionTweets

7 months

I know it's our fault for naming him after a Welsh bandit but Twm Siôn Cati has added to his array of toys stolen from neighbours gardens. First came the Space Jam ball then the Lemur glove puppet - yesterday he struggled in through the cat flap with the pink & grey ear muffs

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@MeirionTweets

2 years

Huge thanks to @JolyonMaugham & @GoodLawProject for trying to hold Thurrock Council to account for this huge scandal where vast amounts of our money have gone missing under the cover of secrecy - would still be secret if it wasn't for @Gareth_Davies09

Jo Maugham

@JolyonMaugham

2 years

Just how did Thurrock Council come to have invested a staggering £665 million into local businessman Liam Kavanagh’s ventures in four short years? What of that money will Thurrock see back? #goodlawproject

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One of great things about @BBCNewsnight was working with reporters who weren't just gobs-on-sticks but really knew their stuff. So minutes after 9/11 happened & everyone running around chasing Iran, Abu Abbas even Michigan Militia @MarkUrban01 first to say Al Qaeda - Bin Laden

Mark Urban

@MarkUrban01

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🚨personal news🚨I’ll be leaving the BBC at the end of May. Newsnight in its current format will end then, so most posts will go. I decided not to apply for other BBC jobs. Working there for 35 yrs has been life defining: an eyewitness to history collaborating with such brilliant

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10 months

@hoppy1848 @LeeAndersonMP_ You're being too generous Mike it's 0.08% of GDP

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@MeirionTweets

8 months

I'll be speaking at a timely roundtable in parliament today on how abusers like #Savile take advantage of our libel laws to conceal their crimes. With @OhNinaC @veritynevitt @ladywell23 @tamsinallen1 @helenakennedykc organised by @TBIJ #RussellBrand #StopSLAPPS

Times Radio

@TimesRadio

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“It’s much wider than just Russell Brand.” Meirion Jones, whose investigation into Jimmy Savile for Newsnight was suppressed by the BBC, tells #TimesRadio he’s been contacted by “numerous women” who say there’s a “much wider problem” within the industry. @MeirionTweets

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2 years

Worst speech by PM to CBI since 1996 when I filmed bosses snoring through John Major's effort for Newsnight. Written up by Telegraph writer - who'd seen advance copy but was in bar for speech - as triumph. That writer - Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson

‘Embarrassing’: Boris Johnson criticised for rambling speech to CBI

Business leaders and Conservative MPs criticise speech in which PM extensively praised Peppa Pig World and imitated car

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5 years

Whenever lawyers threaten us with libel I am reminded of 1st successful high profile libel trial - in 1684 - when the most famous pirate in history Captain Morgan (from what is now Cardiff) sued an author for calling him errr... a pirate and won £200 (£40K+ today)

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@kelvmackenzie "Most blokes I know" is the key phrase here

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6 years

#ENGCOL #WorldCup18 Who should a Welshman support- a banana republic which doesn’t know where it’s going & has no functioning railway system north of the capital - or Colombia?

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@MeirionTweets

10 months

@Tumble_W33D When the fire crews turned up on Saturday night access through the lane had been blocked off by a large mound of earth - possibly bulldozed there by a JCB with the intention of blocking fire engines

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@MeirionTweets

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Forget the content - but dear Head of No10 Comms (1) Put Xmas tree lights on steady not shimmer because they draw your attention away from Rishi (2) Drop tripod 6 inches so that Rishi looks big rather than small (old TV producer trick) (3) Try getting Sunak not to look terrified

UK Prime Minister

@10DowningStreet

5 months

In his New Year message, Prime Minister @RishiSunak looks forward to 2024 and the work we will continue to do to build a better future for people across the UK 🇬🇧

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4 years

And a peerage for a Russian oligarch over John Sentamu - one way for Boris Johnson to mark Black History Month

David Lammy

@DavidLammy

4 years

No.10 broke precedent and snubbed Britain’s first black archbishop for a peerage because it says the House of Lords is too large, but it made room for Ian Botham, Claire Fox and Theresa May’s husband. Blatant institutional prejudice #BlackLivesMatter

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Just to remind everyone especially those who look down on specialist mags @ComputerWeekly led way on this with @Rebeccathomson_ 's piece in 2009 (15 years ago!) & then @Karlfl investigations. @rbrooks45 @PrivateEyeNews & @nickwallis also did great work. @bryanglick

Nick Wallis

@nickwallis

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Pathetically proud of the work I did on this. Thrilled @bryanglick commissioned it. V grateful to @Karlfl for his uncredited extra help on fact-checking. This was pre-inquiry.

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...a narrow party political war on behalf of the Tories. He was seen as useful by the BBC both there & as Head of BBC Politics because he could get Conservatives on - but on their own terms. He didn't see his work at BBC as being any different to the No10 job or indeed...

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@bmay "Too much fighting on the conference floor"

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10 months

Unfair to jump to conclusion new Crooked House owners ATE Farms think they're above the law. But Harborough Council issued enforcement notices after they illegally built a house inside a barn and ran road haulage business from what was supposed to be a farm HT @JonBurley3

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I hope every journalist, every sub, every Editor involved in this charade of a front page is ashamed. What happened yesterday was 800K demonstrators calling for end to bloodshed in Gaza marched peacefully while hundreds of drunk ultra-right yobs stirred up by Suella & the likes

DTN News

@DTNNews_

6 months

Mail on Sunday Front Page 12th of November 2023 DTNNews DTNFrontPages DailyMail newspapers

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Now we've seen full footage plain Gideon Falter was lying when he said he was just trying to cross the road. He was marching into the demo to try to provoke a reaction. Something he has repeatedly tried to do. This is all a distraction from need for #CeaseFireInGazaNOW to stop

Saul Staniforth

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A former police officer matter-of-factly observing that there are some people who want the pro Palestinian marches banned, the marches can only be banned if there's a likelihood of serious disorder, and therefore the people who want them banned are trying to create disorder.

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I don't know why I bother but this is not Prigozhin's plane being shot down - it's footage from two months ago of Wagner Group shooting down AN26. If you'd ever been to Russia you'd know that mobile phones are everywhere & 3/4 of population on social media. Footage of Embraer

UncleSamsNaughtyFella

@JustAJaneJ

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Outside Moscow or St Petersburg proper: No one seems to have a flushing toilet, but they 🤡🤡sure as heck have a mobile phone to record #Prighozin ’s plain going down 🧐🧐🧐

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@SoVeryBritish Sleepless in Settle

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@bbcnickrobinson Up till 50 years ago God Save the Queen was played before every Wales rugby game. By 1974 it was inaudible because of the booing. In retaliation Twickenham refused to play Hen Flad fy Nhadau at all which brought things to a head & GSTQ only played as an English anthem henceforth

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People say to me "After what happened to you how can you support BBC?" Easy - first it wasn't the BBC it was the management, second - 90% in Beeb do really good job, third - show me a country that does this better. I will always be a critical supporter of the Beeb & licence fee

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You don't know what you got till it's gone.

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@jimwaterson It's been a long time since I was in a political party - but I'm thinking of joining the Yorkshire Tea Popular Front

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Talk about making work for yourself.. In March Baroness Dido Harding part of Board of Jockey Club which "courageously" decided to go ahead with Cheltenham Festival #coronavirus super-spreader event. Now she's running UK Gov's #Covid19UK Track & Trace programme #WrongSortOfTrack

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@fasc1nate Only survivors of Trafalgar left in Greenwich Hospital @ORNC in 1854. Richard Baker (3 from left) born a slave in Baltimore ended up in Royal Navy in Leviathan at Trafalgar. Moby Dick author Herman Melville recalled ‘most interesting talk on the terrace at Greenwich’ with Baker

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@DerbyChrisW @Channel4News In what sort of world is defending Hamas deliberately targeting 260 unarmed people at a music festival & slaughtering them because they're Jewish an "effort to obtain justice"? Of course although you defend murdering 100s of Jews just for being Jewish you're not anti-semitic

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Why does the BBC still call these atrocious murders "honour killings" as if the victims are to blame for dishonouring their families

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Personal News: I'm now officially Editor of @TBIJ which means I won't have to be introduced as "Investigations Editor of the Bureau of Investigative" aargh! Sad news our brilliant boss @raoldroyd will leave next year so we need a new CEO/Editor in Chief

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@GinaShirah81815 Fortunately you don't need to worry about the Marburg virus being activated and turning into zombies tomorrow in the UK - because the Emergency Broadcasting System only operates in the USA

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Just watched all of The Reckoning. Handled victims with respect. I think Steve Coogan excellent as Jimmy #Savile - simultaneously vacuous & hiding behind a screen of catchphrases and shellsuits and full of menace. Can understand decision to end it with his death - my only thought

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@TelegraphRugby @jimw1 So on Saturday is the @Telegraph expecting me to join in singing a tuneless dirge about a deity who doesn't exist saving a man who is supposed to rule over us because he's descended from William the Conqueror?

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Oh well - there goes my knighthood! #Savile #PrinceCharles

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@beardedjourno It says multi-faith Martin - having visited what would you say is the maximum number of faiths it could house at one time 1 If it was dry 2 If it was raining in a howling gale

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When we complain about how tough it is to report in Britain... Our colleagues around the world in Malta, Mexico, Turkey and the rest are being gunned down by gangsters or butchered by high ranking officers who had "misunderstood" the Crown Prince's instructions

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Another #Mexican journalist murdered. Gunned down in front of her child. “Mrs Breach had reported on organised crime, drug-trafficking and corruption for a national newspaper..” #journalismmatters

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This is incredible. Rishi Sunak "forgot" to consult health chiefs about Eat-Out-to-Help-Out-The-Virus which sparked 2nd wave but spent weeks & £2M (of our money) on focus groups to try to make £850M splurge acceptable to voters. Great work @PippaCrerar

Rishi Sunak spent £2m on focus groups for ‘eat out to help out’ scheme

Exclusive: Extensive polling ordered by the then chancellor, documents reveal, but scientific advisers not consulted

www.theguardian.com

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@bmay Nine yes nine "stand up and fight"s

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People like Lucy Letby and Beverley Allitt come along every 10 years or so. What's shocking here is management trying to cover up and threaten whistleblowers rather than stop the murderer

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@sarajcox "...and don't call me Shirley"

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No surprise - Karin Ward doesn't make BBC list of notable deaths of 2021 - but in her own way she was a trailblazer - courageous enough to tell her story -encouraging other victims of powerful men that there was a chance that they would be believed rather than mocked #Savile

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Sad news. Karin Ward who opened the Pandora's box of Jimmy #Savile 's offending - the first woman to go on camera - has died. She was brave & badly treated by the BBC. She made it easier for other victims of sexual assault to be believed & wrote excellent Victim Zero. RIP Karin

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No journalist put their name to that article - not surprised

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In 1665 heroic village of Eyam went into lockdown to stop plague spreading to other areas - 273 villagers died cut off from world - but to no avail because the local squire went to London then hastened to Durham and Barnard's Castle spreading the infection or something like that

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My thoughts on The Reckoning, #Savile and the BBC with former @BBCNewsnight colleague @maitlis & long ago WATO/PM colleague @jonsopel @TheNewsAgents starts 26 minutes in

The News Agents - Podcast | Global Player

Keir Starmer was asked live on LBC how far he'd be prepared to see Israel go in response to Hamas. Would he support a blockade? A siege of Gaza? And that's where the questions get tough. Israel has...

www.globalplayer.com

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Bye-bye Bureau. After 7 years I'm off at end of March. It's been a blast & I've got to work with great people. We set a new record in November with about 2 million people a day reading our stories through our publishing partners. I'm sure the Bureau is in good hands & will go...

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To be clear I support the BBC - I hate attempts to destroy it as it turns 100 - I was proud to work for Beeb & proud of my colleagues & much of the output - but I can't defend managers who allowed #Savile to abuse for 30 years & the decision to run tributes rather than expose him

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With 2 dramas coming out about @bbcnewsnight this should be moment BBC piles in resources to get people back watching. Instead they're wrecking it. Here's @SamMcAlister1 on the Newsnight cuts "The powerful will sleep more soundly if programmes... #SCOOP

‘She was an unsung hero’: Billie Piper on playing producer Sam McAlister in a new drama about...

In Scoop, Piper plays the woman who landed the interview. They discuss their unlikely alliance, the pitfalls of fame and Andrew’s delusions

www.theguardian.com

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@AndrewRTDavies Surprised to find your so-called blanket 20mph limit doesn't exist when I drove from London to Mumbles last week. It was 70 with a few sections of 50 on the M4, 70 on the A483, 50 on Fabian Way going down to sections of 30 and 40 going through the middle of Swansea and then 30 &

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I exposed #Savile & BBC cover-up at personal cost. That doesn't mean I think everything BBC does is wrong. I've investigated paedophilia & cover-ups in Catholic Church, BBC, Schools & other institutions over many years. The Lighthouse cult is lying about @CatrinNye . She was...

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@connolly_lg @fletcherr Bonus points for Muttley gif

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