Elizabeth Pears
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Longform editor @FT . Previously: news editor at BuzzFeed News. I'm not really on here anymore so email me.
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We haven't had a general election since 2019.
In that time, we've had 3 prime ministers, 5 chancellors, 4 home secretaries (Sue-Ellen twice), about 6 by-elections following allegations of sexual misconduct, lobbying and a PM accused of misleading parliament
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Well, I've seen it all now. Liam Neeson admitted to going around trying to find a black person to kill because someone he was close to got raped by a black person, and the journalist spoke to a psychologist to help contextualise his racism and included it in the article? WILD.
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Sometimes it feels like we've collectively forgotten that a white supremacist murdered a British MP
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"Gareth was forced to consult legal representatives and speak out about his diagnosis after a tabloid newspaper found out about his HIV status and sent reporters to his parents’ home."
This isn't journalism and those involved should be deeply ashamed.
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Blue Ivy freestyling. Asahd producing hit tracks. North West designing clothes. 2017 is a real life version of Bugsy Malone.
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Toby's my winner. I don't care.
I am crying. I'm howling.
"My head is with Chloe..."
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If one person taking the knee has sealed the fate of GB News then the accusation that it's an empty political gesture needs to be reassessed 😶
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Sorry to spoil the ending but this entire column nails it:
"One of the world’s best athletes would literally rather quit a grand slam tournament than ... talk to the press. Rather than scrutinising what that says about her, it might be worth asking what that says about us."
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Just so we're all on the same page: Many white middle class people do drugs, including those who make our laws, enforce those laws, disproportionately put black people in prison because of those laws, and those who write stories on all the above.
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The replies to this tweet are so pure
She took her first steps... I was training and missed it. I cried.
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Come on, Kaz. Come on.
There was nothing confusing about that.
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10:39am Alan Sugar sends racist tweet
11am He defends tweet and insists it's funny but says he'll delete it if people are that upset
12.01pm He apologises and says tweet was misjudged
12.53pm The BBC says: "nothing to see here"
When it comes to race, it's rinse and repeat.
Lord Sugar has acknowledged this was a seriously misjudged tweet, and he’s in no doubt about our view on this. It’s right he’s apologised unreservedly.
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I really didn't want to get into the whole Fyre Festival thing because as a reporter who was actually on the ground and saw that horrendous campsite - and as a Bahamian - the whole disaster makes me *furious*
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@AdamPugh
@victoriasanusi
As a journalist, I would've run these quotes in a heartbeat, but in a different way.
I'd like to think I would've had the wherewithal to challenge him directly and get more on his motivations from his own mouth. And I probs would've signposted links to rape charities at the end
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The Conservatives have exhausted their own MPs to such an extent that the new foreign secretary isn't an MP, nor a member of the House of Lords, but the PM who resigned in 2016 after calling - and losing - the Brexit referendum
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I've seen some desperate bids for relevance on this app but using the name of a murdered black man to make a joke about a newborn child...?
The sniggering enablers and silent industry observers: You're worse.
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🚨Good content. Pure content.🚨
Amber is teaching Greg how to dance to Candy. Gotta get bae wedding-ready😭
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UK media: Prince Harry is an attention seeker
Also UK media:
Prince Harry coming to UK
Prince Harry lands in UK
First pic of Prince Harry in UK
Prince Harry arrives at father's residence
Prince Harry not meeting his brother
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when you finally leave your stressful job and people tell you you're glowing
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@MissTeeOfficial
Real talk. T, you've exposed my whole dating strategy: never go for the frontman or his sidekicks, look for the cool one in the background, someone who is in the mix but always happy to do their own thing. You'll never spend cuffing season alone. 😂
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Words are so powerful.
I've never seen a more inappropriate use of the words "Then again..."
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People often asked what it was like to work at BuzzFeed. I'd say it's what I wanted a newsroom of the future to be: a place where we gave reporters time to work on stories that mattered, stories that changed lives and changed laws. Sometimes stories that just made you laugh.
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A friend just reminded me of this incident. Sugar tweeted a racist meme comparing the Senegalese football team to beach hawkers.
What is the fundamental difference between these scenarios – besides one involving the royal family and the other the host of a lucrative TV show?
10:39am Alan Sugar sends racist tweet
11am He defends tweet and insists it's funny but says he'll delete it if people are that upset
12.01pm He apologises and says tweet was misjudged
12.53pm The BBC says: "nothing to see here"
When it comes to race, it's rinse and repeat.
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there are four letters in the word "woke"
quite a few more than the number of black reporters on the standard's news and politics desk
it shows
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Some of the language in both documentaries pissed me off too, particularly Billy's claim that Fyre Festival was going to bring value and entertainment back to the Bahamas.
You're another Columbus, bro. You didnt discover shit.The Bahamas had been doing just fine without you
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Oh, and shout out to family law barrister
@Joannatoch
who replied to that tweet with her own - since deleted - offerings that had all the creativity and finesse you'd expect from an 8-year-old.
Now apologising swiftly and unreservedly as you'd expect from a legal professional.
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Oh I can believe it.
The BBC paid tribute to Kobe Bryant using footage of... LeBron James. FFS.
I genuinely cannot believe that the actual BBC News at 10 just did this
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The more I read, the worse this gets.
Headline: "Rape, race, and how I learned revenge doesn't work." REALLY?
"...Recounts a disturbing incident from his past." Which is the "disturbing" incident? The rape? Or the plot to kill?
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It makes me furious because it shows that a white man can bullshit his way through life and people will buy into it without doing due diligence. It makes me furious that people without the necessary experience thought they could pull off a festival in just a few months
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The images that *really* stuck with me from the Netflix documentary, however, was of Bahamians toiling and working the land to fulfil the whimsies of a now convicted felon, who sold a product that did not exist.
Those people were totally exploited.
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PS I watched both Fyre Festival docs and while FuckJerry's Netflix doc has the gloss you'd expect from the media company that produced the slick promotional material for the event, the Hulu doc, Fyre Fraud, is editorially superior and more balanced
Definitely watch both.
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I am currently in this plane to go to the dumspter fire that is FyreFestival
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Black and brown people aren't allowed to follow their instincts.
BAME people fined more than white population under coronavirus laws
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The Beeb is making great progress on gender equality but stalling on race
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Will happily deliver a thorough oral history of my outfits and in-depth analysis of my breakfast choices, but find it incredibly difficult to share **personal and professional news** about myself. So let me be the last to say:
...I joined the FT newsdesk today!
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I have very strong views about Jake and Liberty and they won't be popular.
But it starts with the producers playing that video of Jake in Casa which I think was exceptionally cruel towards Liberty and they should take some responsibility.
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I regret to inform
@lbcbreaking
that this is *not* Baby Archie Windsor. Your source is *not* a verified Sussex Royal Twitter. And the baby belongs to fitness model Bella Kraus 👀
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Did we or did we not see Lillie complaining to the Casa Amor girls that Liam wasn't being reciprocal?
Had Liam chosen to bring her into the villa, she would not be questioning his behaviour right now at all. Let's call a weave a weave.
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Quote from a talent manager who asked not to be named: "This is worse than a scam. A scam makes money."
#FyreFestival
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If you grew up in a city like London, Sunderland will look and feel a bit different. You will feel this acutely if you're not white
But the city has such a rich history of - and passion for - theatre, music and performing arts. This is why these comments will sting
I’ve got to say, it concerns me that Vice President of
@RADA_London
, who just so happens to be
@CynthiaErivo
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When a minister targeted a HuffPo reporter - calling her "creepy" and publishing a textbook press query on Twitter, triggering a pile-on - Jess Brammar didn't stand by her, she stood up.
When the SoE said there was no racism in the British media, she challenged that too.
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Exuma, just a few gens ago, was home to the biggest slave plantation in the Bahamas, Rolleville. Bahamians who carry that surname, like MaryAnn Rolle who appears in the doc, can easily trace their roots back there.
People have worked really hard to build something for themselves
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Bahamians are not happy
The organizers of the
#FyreFestival
owe The Bahamas and the Bahamian people an apology for damaging our tourism brand. We need to sue.
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I don't think Liam is innocent but Lillie is hamming it up and I think the extent of this producer intervention is unwarranted.
You go to Casa Amor to get tempted... that's the whole point.
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It really hurts me to say this, but despite all the damage that Europeans have done in their colonial pursuits, in some developing countries, when people see a white person with a wad of cash they lose their damn minds.
When 👏🏽Will 👏🏽You👏🏽 Learn ?
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Stormzy has been very clear that this scholarship is for black students not BAME students. (He got a lot of flak for it as referenced in the report.)
Just shows how meaningless this term is when some use it so mindlessly. One size does not fit all. It's not interchangeable.
Stormzy says he’s funding the costs of two more students from minority backgrounds to study at Cambridge - as part of an effort to help more students from black and ethnic minority families get to Oxbridge universities.
@MinnieStephC4
reports
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More often than I'd care to admit I wonder how Doria Ragland got entwined with Thomas Markle.
But, anyway, no other reporter but
@ellievhall
could discover that Samantha Markle has been using an alt account to troll and spread conspiracy theories about her half-sister, Meghan.
Samantha Markle Is Suing Her Sister Meghan For Defamation. But She’s Been Smearing Meghan For Years.
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I'm here at Exuma at the Fyre Festival
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Forgot Dominic Raab's greatest hits:
Astonishing to think that in the space of just seven years, we have had seven Foreign Secretaries...
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I wish the Anguilla Attorney General said how he really felt
Meeting the worst Foreign Secretary we’ve ever had amongst the destruction of Hurricane Irma in Anguilla. Disinterested and out of his depth he cared nothing for our situation. Good riddance
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And it really makes me furious that the Bahamian authorities got so seduced by it all and went along with it - potentially bending* or breaking the rules - until the final hour when shit got really real
*Evian situation
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Please, Love Island producers, use my idea:
Do an X Factor-style twist and make the Casa Amor girls couple up with the new villa boys so we can force Salma and Medhy to be a thing.
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I'm talking about the small business owners who rented land to Fyre, rented their cars or homes to Fyre, cooked for Fyre employees, labourers who cleared down land, chopped trees, erected tents, and havent been fairly compensated or paid at all.
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There have been two occasions in recent memory where I've witnessed this brand of good vibes:
- the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics
- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding
What did they both do well? Inclusivity.
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We often talk about how the Kardashians use the media to their advantage, how Instagram and social media have given celebrities more control over their image, celebrity gossip mags can't keep up with the internet, and now - via Facebook Live - Jada Pinkett is changing the game
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Akala has proven himself to be one of Britain's best commentators on race and an astute "public intellectual" (don't really like that phrase) in general.
Please note, he credits Pan-African supplementary school with nurturing his education. They're *vital* institutions
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What a great time for democracy for the former Tory chancellor to be editor of a newspaper
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@victoriasanusi
They might dump Kaz and Tyler and say "at least they can leave together".
Can't dump Jake. Can't keep Kaz and dump Tyler.
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Why weren't Bahamian authorities protecting Bahamian people?
How many times are you going to allow foreign interests to take advantage?
The owner of Norman Cay clearly smelled the BS and pulled out.
If only elected officials in the Bahamas had had the cajones to do the same ✌🏽
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I don't know who needs to hear this, (especially before 7am) but it's just "myriad ways" not "a myriad of ways".
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Acknowledging the irony of being a white man winning a diversity award, he went on to urge the room of journalists to speak to trans people before they report or comment
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So some people at Fyre Festival are soon about to head home but there are many others still stuck at the site. Some ppl spent 6k to be here
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Michelle Obama will appear in conversation with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at Southbank to discuss her new memoir on Dec 3
Christmas has come early!
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Toby is the living embodiment of the phrase "here for a good time not a long time".
I rate his chutzpah.
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As a Bahamian, I still have questions: Who granted this licence? What kind of due diligence was undertaken? What did enviromental health or similar make of this site and its lack of progress? And what the hell kind of operation was Mr Cunningham at customs running?
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The Fyre Festival is the perfect cautionary tale for the social media generation and it seems fitting that that tale ends with a Netflix documentary and a crowdfunder* for unpaid workers.
*Do your own due dil on this
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When I landed in Exuma last year, the Fyre Festival was an internet joke, but what I saw wasn't funny at all.
I saw young Americans, sunburnt, hungover, sleep deprived, overwhelmed, & with nowhere safe to stay. Many of them were not the rich douchebags associated with FyreFest
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I woke up thinking of Martha Osamor, who was selected by Vauxhall members to represent Labour in a 1989 by-election. She was removed by Neil Kinnock and Kate Hoey (Brexiter!) was parachuted in.
Labour has history when it comes to poor treatment of its black and brown members
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@lu_georgee
I'm not backing Liam. My point is that Lillie can't claim girl code when she was equally complicit.
Her focus, let's not pretend, is to get taken back to the villa. She doesn't care about Millie at all.
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And now his watch has ended
Jon Snow to step down as Channel 4 News presenter at end of 2021
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Tell me you're British without telling me you're British.
Married man accused of kissing his aide: “I accept that I breached the social distancing guidance.."
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Quick refresher on phrases that seem OK in you head but are not:
- I don't have a racist bone in my body
- I don't care if you're red/green/purple
- [This significant person in my life] is [insert ethnicity] to defend yourself **glances at Sharon Davis and Stig Abell**
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Please don't take this lightly irrespective of your age.
'Healthy' NHS nurse, 36, in intensive care after contracting COVID-19
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Michelle Obama works out to Eve - Tambourine. No choice but to stan.
It's about that time when New Year's resolutions get a bit harder to stick to. To offer a little inspiration, I want to share my go-to
#WorkoutPlaylist
with you. These songs always seem to give me that extra boost to get through my toughest workouts. What's on your playlist?
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Interesting to see a government minister accuse a journalist submitting a press query of a "smear". A press query is private unless made otherwise.
When you name a journalist and make their query public you risk exposing them to abuse for doing their job by following a tip.
It’s also creepy and bizarre to fixate on who didn’t participate in a video and demand they explain themselves. As a govt minister I have a platform, but it worries me that other people with less of a voice can be smeared in this way...7/8
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It was a miracle that as bad as Fyre Festival was it didn't end up worse.
Miraculously, it hasn't damaged tourism, but it will take the Bahamas a long time to shake off their association with *that* cheese sandwich and the worst festival ever.
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Toby's like the toddler you find with your favourite lipstick all over his face, sitting in a pool of your expensive hand cream, having put your entire wallet down the toilet.
You want tell him off but instead you start laughing.
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People told me they had saved up to come on this once in a lifetime experience. Well, Fyre Fest certianly gave them that.
As I drove into the campsite, I was horrified. It was like something out of a sci-fi film. No one in good conscience could believe it was a safe environment
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The civil rights activist Roy Hackett, who was one of the lead organisers of the Bristol bus boycott, has died at the age of 93.
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Get familiar with Chloe Westley, the head of Boris Johnson’s Downing Street social media team
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Toby is like the lovechild of Fraud Bae and MC Harvey and TBH you can't even get offended. He's not a serious guy. Mary's days are probably numbered too 🤣
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The Bahamas is so incredibly beautiful but "Fyre Cay" was like an ugly landfill site, with a weird lagoon that had no barriers to stop people falling in. The campsite barely had any lights: Drunk people + no lights + a 20ft drop 🤔
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To be fair, there is a man involved in this
Why are you lying
@jordynwoods
?? If you’re going to try and save yourself by going public, INSTEAD OF CALLING ME PRIVATELY TO APOLOGIZE FIRST, at least be HONEST about your story. BTW, You ARE the reason my family broke up!
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Charge: West Mids police officer filmed telling a black man: "Are you going to go Black Lives Matter on us are you? ... You would be the first one I’d shoot if I had a gun, definitely."
Outcome: final *written* warning i.e. still in a job
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A hard watch. I hope dearly that Richard comes home
“It’s my baby, he’s my treasure, he’s my oxygen.”
Mother of missing Oxford student Richard Okorogheye, Evidence Joel gives an emotional plea for help to find her son.
Get more on this story here:
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Brilliant interview and guess what? The Financial Times has taken down its paywall. Come in, come in...
#FTfreetoday
Climate activist Vanessa Nakate: ‘I was ready for anything’
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It's always about crisis management and being seen to do the right thing.
Sugar's concerns over antisemitism in the Labour party show he understands the danger of racist tropes and stereotypes, but he's fallen incredibly short in seeing the humanity and diversity of Africans
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