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"In what world are you cancelled? I think the word is the wrong word. I think the word should be accountability."
Graham Norton criticises John Cleese and tells
#TimesRadio
that cancel culture isn't real.
@mariellaf1
"I'm going to terminate the interview, this is my last warning ... I've not come on here to justify where the story was placed or how I chose to go about that."
Isabel Oakeshott hangs up during her interview with Cathy Newman on
#TimesRadio
βHow are you so certain that removing your genitals ... will solve your issues, those issues are going to wait for you when you wake up from surgery."
Ritchie Herron is suing the NHS after transitioning, he claims was fast-tracked into making βthe biggest mistake of his lifeβ.
βPeople are saying things about Jews that they were saying in the 1300s.β
Author Howard Jacobson says he βcanβt sleep at nightβ and he is βflabbergastedβ by the state of antisemitism in Britain.
@HugoRifkind
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βThis is what happens to women like me. We are constantly misrepresented and it leads to us being discriminated against.β
SNP MP
@JoannacCherry
reacts to being βno-platformedβ by the Edinburgh Fringe after staff said they were uncomfortable with her views on trans rights.
"Thereβs humility in the way that Marcus lives his life."
In his first interview in four years, Sir Alex Ferguson throws his support behind Marcus Rashfordβs campaign to lift children out of food poverty.
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βAnybody earning 30 odd grand a year, which most nurses are, using food banks, then theyβve got something wrong with their own finances.β
Tory MP Lee Anderson tells
#TimesRadio
he doesnβt believe nurses are struggling to make ends meet.
"Thatβs not political correctness, thatβs just treating other people with respect."
Author Neil Gaiman (
@neilhimself
) describes being called βwokeβ for his work in The Sandman on
#TimesRadio
.
"I fail to see what this legislation is going to do to act as a deterrent."
Conservative MP Caroline Nokes says she won't vote for Rishi Sunak's migration bill.
@AyeshaHazarika
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@carolinenokes
'Mentally, I wasn't in the best headspace. I felt like a letdown to my friends, a burden.'
Ahead of the release of his documentary
#HowtoBeBehzinga
YouTuber Ethan Payne talks to
@TimesRadio
about YouTube, mental health and the decision to run a marathon.
@CalumAM
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@Behzinga
βMy party has slowly started to be taken over by an extreme viewβ¦Lee Anderson is really the tip of the iceberg.β
Former co-chair of the Conservative Party
@SayeedaWarsi
warns suspending Lee Anderson isnβt enough to eradicate Islamophobia from the party.
@AyeshaHazarika
Noam Chomsky claims Jeremy Corbyn won an βenormous victoryβ in the 2017 election.
@MattChorley
challenges him on the facts of Corbynβs leadership
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βI don't have repeatable words for the BBC right now.β
The BBC need to "stop participating in these ridiculous confected outrages" says Kathleen Stock as they drop RΓ³isΓn Murphy from 6 Music over her comments on puberty blockers.
@Docstockk
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@StigAbell
"He's just opened himself up to every jihadist and nutcase out there."
It is 'naively stupid' for Prince Harry, his publisher and ghost-writer to have published details of his kills in Afghanistan, explains Major General Chip Chapman.
@NotesFASMil
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@RickKelsey
"A member of my own party was convicted of threatening to rape me because of my views... trans rights activists threatened to murder me."
SNP's
@joannaccherry
says convicted rapist Isla Bryson, a trans woman, is a man and should be sent to a male prison on
#TimesRadio
.
βSuella Braverman probably is Islamaphobic.β
@samuelkasumu
says someone with βsuch prejudicesβ like Suella Braverman should not be Home Secretary of a liberal society like the UK.
#TimesRadio
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@kaitborsay
βI did leave the Guardian because I was told I was not able to write about certain things...whether it was about gender or antisemitism.β
@HadleyFreeman
argues she lost journalistic freedom while working at The Guardian.
The Guardian did not wish to comment.
@KaitBorsay
"My chief of staff was abducted, he faced custodial charges, he was stripped naked, he was tortured."
@ImranKhanPTI
tells
#TimesRadio
the Pakistan government attempted to kill him and abducted his staff to prevent him from winning the next election.
@LOS_Fisher
"People have got to sort themselves out. Join the 21st century."
Eddie Izzard says she isn't going anywhere after Rosie Duffield said she'd rather be arrested than refer to Eddie as she.
@eddieizzard
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@RuthDavidsonPC
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#TimesRadio
βI spoke to Kensington Palace that morningβ¦They said she's really upset and sad that she's caused all this trouble.β
Editor of The Sun, Victoria Newton, says itβs time to give the Princess of Wales a break after the βunfairβ backlash to her Motherβs Day photo.
@StigAbell
"I'm due to speak at the Oxford Union and some people really don't want me to... despite the fact they've had Martin McGuinness, OJ Simpson after his trial, David Irving and various other people."
@DocStockk
says her presence "punctures a fantasy version of the world."
"It's okay if you want to share your story, Harry, it is yours to share, but it's not fair to share your brother's."
Harry is being "cruel" to Prince William who is "not in a position to respond", U.S royal journalist Kinsey Schofield tells
#TimesRadio
.
"I had no idea that a senior politician could say things that were just not true and take legal action or threaten to take legal action on that basis."
Nadhim Zahawi used libel law to stop journalists from exposing his taxes, says
@DanNeidle
on
#TimesRadio
.
βEven if Iβm jailed, they feel that the party will still win. Thatβs why thereβs two assassination attempts on me, because if they remove me, then PTI minus Imran Khan might be palatable for themβ.
@ImranKhanPTI
talks to
@JPonpolitics
ahead of his possible arrest tomorrow.
"Putting a double rapist into a female prison, I don't know what risk assessments they're doing to have these men in the prison."
Female inmates do not trust Nicola Sturgeon to decide who is sent to female prisons, says ex-Cornton Vale Prison inmate Amanda Benson.
#TimesRadio
.
βIt is fascist...because what it's saying is we don't care about democracy, we don't believe people have absolute rights, we simply believe that our ability to govern overrules everything else.β
@adamboultonTABB
questions the βanti-democraticβ nature of the Rwanda policy.
βWhat happened on October 7th was a jailbreak. It was the slaves revolting.β
Iranian professor Mohammad Marandi claims Hamas are not terrorists.
@StigAbell
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#TimesRadio
"It is like reading Mein Kampf, in that Hitler thinks he's a great hero and you put the book down with absolute disgust. And you do put this book down with total disgust."
Readers finish Harryβs book with "disgust", journalist and author A.N. Wilson tells
#TimesRadio
.
βMy mother was in Belsen concentration campβ¦ she always used to say, itβs not a competition. That is exactly the mistake that Diane Abbott has made.β
@DannytheFink
says Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn βrefuse to recogniseβ oppression that βdoesnβt fitβ in their worldview.
"If Russia retains Crimea, then they'll always be able to do what they're doing now."
Liberating Crimea is key to Ukraine's success, General Ben Hodges explains.
@general_ben
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@AyeshaHazarika
"One of the worst TV viewing experiences of my life."
Times Washington correspondent
@hzeffman
reviews last night's US presidential debate and says Joe Biden was "capable, though not particularly good" and Donald Trump "turned up with a strategy to make Biden crack."
@AasmahMir
βIβm depressed. Iβm properly, really depressed. I canβt sleep.β
Four years since the UK left the EU, the leave-voting constituency Barking says theyβve seen no benefit from Brexit.
@Jo_Crawford
|
#TimesRadio
The Tavistockβs gender clinic is facing a class action lawsuit from patients over treatments.
Barrister
@thomasgoodhead
, who leads the class action, says the case "is going to be one of the largest medical negligence scandals of all time".
"Don't you find it slightly depressing? The idea that free speech, a fundamental cornerstone value of our society, is now mistrusted?"
Progressive people have suddenly become 'bigots,' broadcaster Andrew Doyle (
@andrewdoyle_com
) tells Hugo Rifkind on
#TimesRadio
.
βHarryβs a traitor. You canβt betray your own people. You canβt betray your familyβ.
Hereβs what royalists camping outside of Buckingham Palace have to say about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
#TimesRadio
βThe pride movement has been so taken over by corporations doing their woke-washing by planting their rainbow flags on social media.β
Oxfam is βwoke washingβ Pride Month, says columnist
@HadleyFreeman
.
@MattChorley
|
#TimesRadio
"Raise taxes on the rich or millionaires like me, or millionaires like Rishi himself, so that we can support the ordinary, hard working families of this country."
Former trader turned inequality economist
@GarysEconomics
speaks to
@mariellaf1
about the
#SpringStatement
"I would say that trans identifying males are still a subset of males."
Olympic swimming medallist Sharron Davies says that trans athletes competing in Olympic sports is like 'doping with testosterone."
@CathyNewman
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@sharrond62
βHe was one of the first people through the door, when Glenys died.β
Lord Kinnock says heβs keen to get involved with Keir Starmer, who he describes as βdecentβ for his response to Glenysβs death.
@EdVaizey
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#TimesRadio
"We should never have thrown women's sport under the bus so that half of the world were no longer entitled to fair sport."
Former Olympian Sharron Davies says she welcomes the World Athletics ban on trans women athletes.
#TimesRadio
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@sharrond62
π΄ "Suella Braverman has been repeatedly told by government lawyers that she's illegally detained asylum seekers at a processing centre in Kent."
The Home Secretary has refused to put people into hotels or release them on immigration bail,
@ShippersUnbound
tells
@AyeshaHazarika
.
"It damages breast tissue, the lungs, the ribs. Itβs a form of self-harm."
Charities are sending breast binders to young girls without their parentsβ permission, concerning activists about health risks. Stephanie Davies-Arai from Transgender Trend discusses on
#TimesRadio
.
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan,Β Imran Khan, saysΒ he isΒ "mentally prepared"Β for jailΒ on
#TimesRadio
.Β
"It's a very tough time, I'm going through two assassination attempts. Certainty of going to jail. SoΒ it is the biggest struggle of my life.βΒ
@ImranKhanPTI
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@cathynewman
BREAKING: Liz Truss's chief of staff has been interviewed by FBI agents about an alleged criminal plot to bribe a politician and influence a US election,
@Gabriel_Pogrund
tells
@ayeshahazarika
on
#TimesRadio
.
"When you get asked: βWhat have we benefited from Brexit to date?β You really have to scratch your head."
Britons are "paying heavily" for Brexit, which wonβt help grow the economy, Conservative MP
@Tobias_Ellwood
tells
#TimesRadio
.
"He's going to be overwhelmingly supported and almost certainly re-elected."
There's every reason to believe Donald Trump will be a candidate in the US 2024 election, says National Tea Party movement co-founder
@michaeljohns
.
βWe all have to understand that the only way to end this war is to equip the Ukrainian army sufficiently enough so that we can defeat the enemy on the battlefield. β
Advisor to the Ukraineβs defence minister Yuriy Sak says "we must not appease the aggressor" on
#TimesRadio
.
"Do military alliances bring peace or do they actually encourage each other and build up to a greater danger?"
Jeremy Corbyn
@jeremycorbyn
tells
#TimesRadio
@jponpolitics
he would like to see a world without Nato and other military alliances.
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"The only act of a parliament that is has some kind of moral integrity is to rip up her illegal and immoral bill, which has no place on our statute book."
@CarolineLucas
speaks out against the
#IllegalMigrationBill
βThis is not a regular army. This is a rogue terrorist army. And that tragic event happened due to the nature of this conflict.β
Israeli forces killing hostages held by Hamas in Gaza was a βtragic mistakeβ, says IDF spokesperson
@LtColRichard
Hecht.
@RosieWright99
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@CalumAM
"Do you accept, hands up, you've gone too far in some respects, you've said things that you would want to take back?"
"No, not not one thing."
Father Ted writer Graham Linehan is challenged on his controversial statements on trans issues, on
#TimesRadio
.
@Glinner
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@StigAbell
"We need to stop fixating on suppressing infection."
Sunetra Gupta, professor of theoretical epidemiology at
@UniofOxford
, says the government needs to "let infection reach an equilibrium level and strenuously protect the vulnerable".
@AasmahMir
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@StigAbell
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@SunetraGupta
"I can't believe I'm having to explain this...You're asking me, why should we be able to speak freely in a supposedly free country."
Scotland's new hate speech law is "breathing down the neck" of people who want to have "open discussions" on trans rights says
@Ella_M_Whelan
.
"For the last 22 years, everyone has been tip toeing around Putin."
Putin's arrest warrant is a 'watershed moment' for the international community, says Bill Browder.
@AlexisConran
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@Billbrowder
βI think I maybe spoke for the public at that momentβ.
@StephenFlynnSNP
, SNP leader at Westminster, responds to being caught saying βwhat the f**k was thatβ at PMQs today.
@MattChorley
"This is not a game of chess. It's either we win or Putin wins. And if he wins in Ukraine, the conflict will expand."
Russian chess grandmaster & dissident Garry Kasparov tells
#TimesRadio
the West is "at war with Russia, whether we like it or not."
@AasmahMir
|
@Kasparov63
Should we just learn to live with Covid?
Professor Christina Pagel says that "we're not learning, we're just pretending it's not happening".
@jennykleeman
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@lukejones03
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@chrischirp
BREAKING: Kwasi Kwarteng attended a private champagne reception hours after delivering the mini-budget, where hedgefund managers "egged him on" to commit to his plans.
This is according to Gabriel Pogrund, Oliver Shah, and Tim Shipman for
@TheTimes
@AyeshaHazarika
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#TimesRadio
βIt's okay for somebody who's a Marxist to bring what they've learned from Das Kapital into the room, but not to take what you believe from the Bible. That's nonsense, isn't it?β
@TimFarron
tells
#TimesRadio
that being religious can be a bar to serving in high public office.
βThey're saying the world has come together to eliminate us. The world is deaf to our suffering.β
Doctors in Gaza are struggling as they are βessentially in solitary confinement in a concentration camp with no access to medicinesβ, says Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan.
@JPonpolitics
"It was plunder, loot."
William Dalrymple, historian and author, says it is "indisputable" that the East India Company took huge sums of wealth from the richest country in the world and turned it into one of the poorest.
@hugorifkind
|
@DalrympleWill
βIt's not been edited. It was clipped.β
Chair of the Conservative Party Richard Holden defends the use of a βclippedβ video of Sadiq Khan on the partyβs social media.
@CalumAM
|
@RicHolden
|
#TimesRadio
"They'd gone out of the room and I said in a collegiate way, where has our friend gone? That was all I said."
@jeremycorbyn
explains the infamous Hamas 'friends' quote before condemning the 7th October terror attacks and Israel's response on
#TimesRadio
.
"Come on Cathy, you've broken the law, I've broken the law ... we've all broken the law."
@NadineDorries
defends Boris Johnson to
@cathynewman
live on
#TimesRadio
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"In this country we overtax labour and undertax capital."
Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester, proposes more taxes on mansions, wealth and land.
@JPonpolitics
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@AndyBurnhamGM
βDiana was very careful about her boysβ¦she protected them.β
Had Princess Diana been alive, Prince Harry wouldβve never married Meghan Markle, says
@RoyalDickie
.
@KateMansey
|
#TimesRadio
βThereβs a fragility in their logistics and their command structure that at some point, if enough pressure is applied, I think it cracks.β
Ukraineβs persistence will pay off like it did for the allies in WWII, says Lieutenant General Ben Hodges.
@general_ben
|
@KateGerbeau
"It's not a coincidence that most of our prime ministers have come from the same schools."
Michael Sheen, Welsh actor and producer, says our leaders have developed a sense of entitlement due to their upbringing.
@mariellaf1
|
@michaelsheen
"The public interest could not remotely be served by the return of Boris Johnson."
Bringing back Boris could only serve the Conservative party's interest, former cabinet minister Malcolm Rifkind tells
@CharlotteIvers
on
#TimesRadio
βThe way she treated me that night was appalling. MPs should not behave in this way.β
Katharine Birbalsingh, dubbed Britainβs strictest headteacher, tells
#TimesRadio
she was βbulliedβ by Labour MP Jess Phillips in a Twitter row.
@Miss_Snuffy
|
@StigAbell
"Some victims have their teeth knocked out, limbs are broken, sexual organs are seriously injured."
Kyiv-based human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk (
@avalaina
) says the scope and brutality of Russians using rape as a weapon of war is much more visible than in 2014.
"It is a very, very right-wing positioned government. The people who are more centre-right are not there."
Rishi Sunakβs cabinet reshuffle has formed a βvery right-wing governmentβ, which is bad for the UKβs reputation, Baroness Kennedy tells
#TimesRadio
.
βYou made a sweeping rhetorical claim, Iβm coming back at you with facts!β
@michaelgove
& Adam Boulton clash on whether public services have improved or declined.
@KateEMccann
and
@AdamBoultonTABB
are live now from the Conservative Party Conference on
βTrump outsources everything, he doesnβt do very much in-houseβ¦some of those vendors, itβll turn out, he never actually paid.β
Donald Trump is cheap, masking the fact he has βsquanderedβ his fatherβs fortune, says
@TristanSnell
, author of βTaking Down Trump.β
@HugoRifkind
"You can be criminalised for being black in England. Should we have the Euros here?"
John Barnes has told
#TimesRadio
gay people have to respect the culture, law and religion of Qatar and suggests England shouldn't have hosted Euro 2020 over racism in the UK.
"I've never been more ashamed to be a Tory. I thought Boris was the worst we could get, but now we've got her."
The Conservatives have 'lost credibility' and will not regain it in time for the next election, voter Father Ray Lyons tells
#TimesRadio
reporter
@Jo_Crawford
.
Liz Truss praised Rick Perlstein's work on Reagan and the new right.
The historian told
#TimesRadio
her basic misreading of his work is "mind-blowing".
@RickPerlstein
@StigAbell
βThere seems to be almost a battle of machismo and denial going on.β
Dr Ian Higginson, VP of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, asks NHS and political leaders if thereβs βan acceptable numberβ of patients dying as a result of delays and crisis in the NHS.
@RCEM_VP
*NEW SIGNING!*
We're over-the-moon excited to announce that
@janegarvey1
&
@fifiglover
are joining
#TimesRadio
to present a new live afternoon radio show together every Monday to Thursday.
Plus they'll be doing a new podcast.
It all starts on Mon 10 Oct. We cannot wait!
βThe state was unable, and to some degree, unwilling to treat her.β
As his daughter with severe ME was dying "a painful and difficult death", Times journalist Sean O'Neill says he had to βfightβ for her palliative care "because doctors didn't believe in MEβ.
@TimesONeill
"Ukraine is eventually going to win it β¦ we'll probably see the war wrapping up late summer 2023."
Ukraine is expected to win the war by summer 2023, senior war studies fellow at Kingβs College London, Dr Mike Martin, tells
#TimesRadio
.
βI want to hear you tell me what happened to the civilians in Israel on October 7th.β
This Hamas spokesperson was confronted over the murder of Israeli civilians in a heated exchange with
@StigAbell
on
#TimesRadio
.
βAnyone who holds the view that sex is real and sex is important will fear for their job within Oxfam.β
@MForstater
, co founder of βSex Mattersβ accuses Oxfam of creating a βhostile work environmentβ after publishing an ad that βtakes aimβ at J.K. Rowling.
@AasmahMir
"Boris Johnson was overheard replying, 'F*** the Americans.'"
Boris Johnson has reportedly rejected calls to back Rishi Sunak's Brexit deal, Tim Shipman reveals.
@ShippersUnbound
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@AyeshaHazarika
|
#TimesRadio
"Prince Andrew has kept quiet, heβs made some big errors, but heβs not attacking his own family. So I think heβll be better received than Harry."
Royal fans camping outside the palace welcome Prince Andrew, but not Harry, to the coronation.
#TimesRadio
"You're not backing down on offending every pig farmer in the country then?"
Tom Newton Dunn puts Boris Johnson on the spot over his row with pig farmers at
#cpc21
.
@tnewtondunn
|
@BorisJohnson
"A country of 44 million has fought a superpower to a standstill. That's a significant achievement. The Russians are looking for something to call a success and they're coming up empty."
Retired Major General says Ukraine can dislocate and defeat Putin's army.
@WarintheFuture
"Schools have a responsibility to record the sex of a child accurately and allow them to behave as they wish, outside of gender stereotypes".
To do otherwise would be 'reinforcing fiction,' says
@bindelj
.
βWhy is this on Israel? To have a humanitarian truce with a terrorist group that wants to destroy it?β
It's βreasonableβ for Israel to respond to Hamas says the Sunday Times Columnist
@HadleyFreeman
.
#TimesRadio
Conservative MP Sir Roger Gale has told
@TimesRadio
that "if anybody is responsible, if it happens, for bringing the Union down, it will be Mr Cummings and Mr Johnson".
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βThe court threw out South Africa's attempts to get an immediate stop to the war that would leave Hamas free to re-offend.β
The ICJβs order for Israel is just to βremind Israel of what its obligations are under international lawβ,says Israeli government spokesperson, Eylon Levy.
"There is no suggestion that the French are doing anything other than being diligent."
The French are simply fulfilling Britain's wishes by conducting time-consuming border checks, leading to a backlog at the Port of Dover, says Simon Calder.
@AlexisConran
|
@SimonCalder
"The military commanders have got to advise, Look, Mr. President, we have done as much as we can, but we really canβt throw the Russians out."
Lord Richard Dannatt tells
#TimesRadio
that President Zelensky should βstart negotiatingβ as βRussia is not going to lose.β