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Matt Frei

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2 years

If the government is now describing the 400 million quid owed to Tehran as a legitimate debt why could they not have done so five years ago and spared #NazaninZaghariRatcliffe all that time in jail?

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Overheard in Berlin bakery: “Brexit is like a 97 year old royal behind the wheel. You know it’s a bad idea but are too polite to stop it.”

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4 years

Dominic Cummings on eye sight is Prince Andrew on not sweating...

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2 years

Message to Putin and co: you can no longer rule like Stalin and live like Abramovich.

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2 years

Joke making rounds: “Apparently @KwasiKwarteng had trouble getting a seat on the plane because no one wanted him near business OR economy.”

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2 years

Some Tories are talking about @BorisJohnson as if he was an aberration foisted upon them. They made him. They own him.

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4 years

Italy records 368 new deaths in one day. Worse than the deadliest day in Wuhan.

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2 years

Lot of resentment in the gated community (Downing Street) that mostly junior and female staff have been handed fines from the Met. Not the bosses who called the shots to break the rules they had made. Will #SueGrayReport correct that?

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2 years

The best scenario Russia can hope for is to the victors a landscape of rubble, a disobedient enraged Ukranian population, economic meltdown at home, pariah status abroad. A very hollow Greater Russia, relying -if lucky- on China. And then what?

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2 years

Just crossing the border from Ukraine to Poland. Hard to leave. Border v quiet compared to last week. But Russia bombing airfields not far from here. Queasy feeling this is just the end of the beginning.

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3 years

The best thing the Met could/should have done tonight for some obvious reasons was to stay on the sidelines. Their heavy hand is astonishing

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5 years

May is blaming the EU for tying HER hands in a backstop that she orig, requested to satisfy HER red lines. No wonder EU pulling hair out

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5 years

Brexit was all about taking back control. Never has EU had more control than now. Revoking 50 gets it back without scorching economy

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2 years

“I know the right hon gentleman rarely leaves north London.” @RishiSunak trying get @Keir_Starmer on metropolitan elitism, tricky one coming from an ex Goldman Sachs PM worth 730m

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2 years

Looking forward to a few night’s sleep in my own bed without air raid sirens!

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2 years

At least the anti growth coalition is growing. The BBC, North London, taxis, Extinction rebellion, Remainers, Starmer, podcasts, Sturgeon, Drakeford….who have we missed? Hints of Trump. Talk about your enemies more than your vision.

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2 years

Just when some have been saying that PSB is dying slowly, @Channel4News added on 24% more viewers from Jan to April and 44% in 16 to 32 year olds, more than any other broadcaster. Ukraine war, partygate, great story telling

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2 years

It is absurd that we have Hungary in the EU, even though the just re-elected Orban mocks Brussles and Zelensky in his victory speech, while Ukraine’s membership is left at the door for now.

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2 years

I asked @BrunoLeMaire if @EmmanuelMacron will reset the relationship with @BorisJohnson and restore some cordial to the entente. “Not our priority” he said.

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2 years

Amazing story of Slavutych nr Chernobyl. Russian soldiers forced by unarmed crowd to hand over mayor they had kidnapped and then agree to leave city they had occupied. Civil resistance to Russian invaders is working in town after town. Russia can bomb from afar but can’t occupy

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The IDF killed 7 aid workers in a 4 car convoy in pursuit of 1 possible armed man. This is the same army that boasts it uses precision strikes to target terrorists/protect civilians like no other force. After six months and 32K deaths, mostly civilians where is the precision?

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4 years

Big question: why did govt abandon test, trace, isolate policy it had adopted at start and which has served South Korea and others so well?

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5 years

The Prime Minister keeps changing her mind on Brexit. Are the people allowed to change theirs?

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2 years

He lost to a woman who lost to a lettuce….

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2 years

@BorisJohnson is the third Prime Minister to be brought down by @BorisJohnson . Best line of the week from Sunday Times

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2 years

History shows that even If he wins tonight’s vote @BorisJohnson is wounded perhaps fatally. May and Thatcher both ended up resigning after “winning” their no confidence votes. Major ended up losing in landslide to Blair. These are the scenarios Tory MPs will weigh up tonight

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Matt Frei

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1 year

I spent a career as a BBC corr telling people around the world that the Corporation was independent of govt control. But this Sharp/loan/Boris business really doesn’t help. It undermines the global footprint of one of the British institutions that still commanded respect abroad.

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2 years

The rising wave of industrial action has been triggered by inflation but it is often underpinned by moral outrage that the sacrifices during the pandemic have remained financially unrecognised. A clap is not enough. Compare that to the soldiers returning from WW2 demanding change

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2 years

Do we believe @BorisJohnson when he claims he got 102 backers? Just asking. He blames the division of the party for being unable to govern when he helped to cause them.

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2 years

Woke up in #lviv at 5.45 to the screech of air ride sirens announcing a missile strike on a nearby airbase and went to bed in West London to the reassuring sound of planes heading for Heathrow. I will miss the people but not the sirens.

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5 years

Just had it confirmed that @theresa_may was told by Jean Claude Juncker that EU wld NOT reopen WA BEFORE she told Commons that was her planB

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4 years

Sr EU official asks me if we have become “a rogue state”? Others point out that trust is now shredded. If WA so bad why did UK ever sign it?

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3 years

Britain on cusp of no deal Brexit and with EU pulling up draw bridges to keep new strain of Covid out: that island thing not working out

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2 years

National treasure/local hero @jonsnowC4 on Rugby Street. He has mastered the art of presenting and reporting from the field, from the studio, from the heart. A joy to work with and to watch. Thank you Jon

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Matt Frei

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3 years

Why are London hospitals overflowing when we have all these nightingale hospitals? What happened to them? Beds but no staff?

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5 years

In Brussles they are learning the name Mark Francois and scratching their head: “at least he didn’t go to Eton”, one official said.

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2 years

The great thaw of March has begun in Ukraine creating fields of mud for heavy armour to get bogged down in. It’s called Rasputitsa! and apparently it’s not helping the Russian army. Go mud!

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2 months

I spent five weeks in Israel unable to get into Gaza after Oct. 7th. Unlike previous conflicts there we were not allowed in even during the short ceasefire. Why? This needs to change. Please open the door so we can do our job.

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More than fifty senior journalists across the broadcasting industry at @SkyNews @BBCNews @cnni @Channel4News @itn @NBCNews @abcnews @CBSNews have signed an open letter calling for ‘unfettered access’ to #Gaza .

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11 months

a man who was famous for neglecting his hair has elevated his hairdresser to the Order of the British Empire. sums it up.

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5 years

Put money on @BorisJohnson resigning before EU summit, get caretaker PM to ask for extension, play victim, hope to win election on outrage

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2 years

It is sickening to hear that Russia is “graciously” allowing humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from cities that wouldn’t need to leave if the Russians weren’t destroying their cities.

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Matt Frei

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5 months

Gutted to hear about the gutting of #newsnight . Its power was always the combination of strong films with robust interviews often around an Off Broadway take. I had the privilege of working for it while a BBC foreign correspondent. It was once considered the gold standard.

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Matt Frei

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2 years

Very excited to add to my existing roles on @Channel4News international presenter fronting the global stories which are such a hallmark of our coverage!

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Matt Frei

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6 months

if the rage ever dies down here it is worth remembering John F Kennedy’s words, truer than ever: if you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable.

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Matt Frei

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3 years

Apologies to all my C4bosses and viewers. So exhausted long term memory kicking in on day of history... friendly ghosts of BBC past!x

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2 years

The war started by Russia is presumably making them the money to fight the war by pushing up oil prices to historic highs. When will Western allies boycott Russia’s main export oil? It will hurt us at the pump. But hey…

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5 years

@Geoffrey_Cox @cathynewman @jonsnowC4 Cox says bollocks to Snow: modern Britain in a codpiece

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5 years

@antmiddleton Can’t remember seeing “suffer together” on the side of the red bus.

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3 years

Hope I’m wrong but America is entering a dangerous/unprecedented phase: the outgoing govt. flatly refusing to concede. Playing with fire

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2 years

GERMANY RE-ARMS, EUROPE RELIEVED! another headline you didn’t see coming!

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It’s a joy to be back on @Channel4News three weeks to the day after my full knee replacement. I’m still taking it easy. Lots of physio and cooling. But the old bone on bone pain has gone. Phew

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3 years

What a week: Don’s gone. Dom’s gone. Ding Dong

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2 years

30c in the late morning, climate for better wine, 4 Prime Ministers in 6 years. We are becoming Italy…

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2 years

As a Wandsworth resident I can see why the Tory council lost after so many decades but….their efficiency on bins, street cleaning, potholes and all the local stuff that matters is almost Swiss. Plus low taxes….they must be furious with N10

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2 years

I’m told many Tory (ex) ministers and MPs simply don’t trust @BorisJohnson to stay on as caretaker because he can’t be relied on to take care

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2 years

Tonight we are live in Lviv at 5.45 for @Channel4News and then immediately afterwards my documentary on Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, the actor who played a President before he became a real one and is now inspiring his country and the world.

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Matt Frei

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3 years

Piers, grow some. As Piers might say.

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2 years

You just never know where tractors will lead you…they are devious machines hiding behind a plodding reputation. Victims of tractors already this year: 1) Russian army. 2) Neil Parish. Who next?

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2 years

Orban is thumbing his nose at the EU, refuses to allow arms shipments to Ukraine and tramples on European values, while taking money from Brussels. Is he with the EU or against it? Time to decide. Surely

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4 years

@piersmorgan @realDonaldTrump @DailyMail Conversion on the road to Domestos...

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10 months

This is so very sad! George was a very rare journalist: a great reporter, a superb presenter and a wonderful colleague. A sharp eye with no need for sharp elbows. RIP

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2 years

No hint of contrition from @BorisJohnson , blames the Tory herd and sounds as if he will cling on as caretaker PM. Credits the Darwinian system of leadership elections, which put him in N10 in 1st place. What goes around…

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1 month

Israeli govt spokesmen keep repeating the claim -even today- that no army has ever used so much care and precision to avoid civilian casualties”. On that… How many deaths of Palestinian aid workers, journalists, medics have been investigated? Where are the results?

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Matt Frei

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8 months

Will the half an hour saved by @HS2ltd from London to Birmingham be spent on the journey from London suburb, where high speed train will stop, to Euston? What a farce!

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2 years

Liz Cheney’s defeat in Wyoming and the abuse she has received from fellow Republicans, echoing Trump, shows how much the Grand Old Party has travelled away from the Constitution since Jan6. Power without principle.

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3 years

Trump finally got his wall but it’s built around Capitol Hill and it’s designed to protect it from him and his supporters

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4 years

If DC vision was weird why did he drive for half an hour endangering his child?

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1 month

The US is sending fewer much needed military supplies to #ukraine but delivered another full weapons package to Israel (cf. @washingtonpost ) at the end of last week. Go figure. It should use its leverage to do more in one war and less in another.

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Matt Frei

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4 years

Italy is set to overtake China for #coronavirus deaths. WHO believes virus has entered healthcare system. Not testing NHS staff cld do same

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2 years

Now driving on a very smooth Polish road, no doubt built with EU money, we have crossed from a country that is fighting to be in the West to one that has had -mostly- the benefits of that club for three decades: rule of law, prosperity, democracy. Challenged yes but still here.

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If Putin wanted to resurrect the Soviet Union he has already achieved it in one sense: food queues appear to be back as sanctions bite. I wonder how that is going down? #backtotheUSSR

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5 years

EU Commission contact: “why has @theresa_may attacked the very people she needs to persuade to pass her deal? Has she given up? Should we?”

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Matt Frei

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2 months

will be off the airwaves for a few weeks as I get a new knee. @Channel4News @LBC Hope to return to skipping or just walking without agony before too long. Any good book/streaming recommendations welcome. Or indeed post op advice from those of you who have been there/done that.

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2 years

Amid all the crimes against humanity there are also the crimes against its cultural patrimony. #Kyiv #lviv #odesa amongst many others are some of the most beautiful cities in Europe. Hands off!

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4 years

We have just won an #Emmy for @c4news coverage of Hong Kong unrest. So proud of our team! And the good courageous citizens of a great city!

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4 years

It’s the small detailed questions about wee stops, eyes sight, miles driven, petrol that make this so excruciating esp in absence of a sorry

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6 months

Getting some distraction by watching a bit of the #CovidInquiry and Cummings testimony and wondering whether a swear jar could solve the national debt.

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4 years

If govt could organise a daily press briefing during Falklands War (which was not a matter of national survival) surely can do same now!

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2 years

Confused after interview on @BBCRadio4 this morning. Is regulator @OfwatChiefExec working for us the consumer or the water company bosses? Hard to tell tbh

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2 years

“ Oh dear oh dear” as the King might put it

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2 years

Driving through sunny Poland away from the Ukranian border I have a feeling -somewhere in the pit of stomach- that the war I have left is following on my heels. Or perhaps I just need breakfast…

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3 years

To avoid the difficult issue of new vaccine passports why not ask everyone to bring existing passport to second jab and get an NHS stamp?

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3 months

Trump, who hates parting with cash, has been fined 350m USD in fraud case and barred from doing business in NY for three years. In the old days that alone would have been enough to sink a candidacy. But this is small potatoes cf his many other cases. The triumph of shamelessness

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3 years

If only @Facebook were as good at eradicating fake news everywhere as they are now at getting rid of real news in Australia.

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2 years

Big win for @EmmanuelMacron , European anthem underpinned the fact that it’s also big for Europe and Western values. Extreme right and Putin clear losers. And yet mood tonight at victory rally almost subdued. Can he unite France?

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2 years

Cyprus in favour of blocking swift ban for Russia Cld be big deal since that’s where most of the Russian money is kept.

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Welcome post knee op pain relief in the form of a @BAFTA nomination for our Israel/Gaza news coverage. Thank you @BAFTA !

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2 years

A good day for lettuces

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7 years

Mexicans calling out @POTUS on principle. Germans keeping their polite distance. Brits lunging into WH arms like cheer leader on prom night

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2 years

In Warsaw, eating lunch in trendy relaxed packed restaurant. Everyone seems blissfully oblivious to the war next door. Wanna say….long may that continue.

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2 years

Tory MPs used to love showing off that @BorisJohnson shredded the rules, defied convention and made his own. How’s that going now?

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6 years

Mexico built a wall around their goal and Germany paid for it.

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7 months

Is @Nigel_Farage about to join the party that he helped so much to morph into his world view? I’m placing a small bet with myself.

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Matt Frei

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2 years

Happy 40th to @Channel4 and @Channel4News today. It’s been a joy and a privilege to work with so many amazing people on the best news programme in the UK. 40 is the perfect age. Still young yet wise…

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2 months

what a fantastic win for an amazing team! So proud. There is no better programme to work for.

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. @Channel4News is Network Daily News Programme of the Year, for “its experienced and respected team of correspondents, and its mission to explain as well as report,” said the jurors. #RTSAwards

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Matt Frei

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2 years

Almost in Warsaw. Sign says Berlin 542 km. Nothing is that far from Ukraine.

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2 years

Went to special @stbrideschurch service today for journalists killed or wounded in Ukraine, reminding us and others of the value and risk of our profession in these times and in the middle this information war. Wonderful readings, music, choir, reflection by @CarolineWyatt

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7 months

is it even sensible for Biden to turn up here tomorrow, let alone stand next to BN at a press conference?

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Matt Frei

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2 years

Nothing more dangerous than a powerful nation that thinks it has become a victim thwarted on its path to entitled greatness by outside enemies. This is the story Putin has been telling himself and Russia since 1991, not realising that the seeds of their decline are homegrown.

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3 years

The truth !! There is truth and there are lies, told for power and for profit. So true!

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