I’ve covered protests of all sides which the Met police for a decade, compared to most forces around the world they are largely decent and fair. But this is bloody shocking and appalling.
These weren’t just perfectly written words to end a mammoth 11 days of broadcasting from around the country and the world, they were delivered with true feeling by Kirsty Young.
Or boy who suffered a severe childhood trama, who rebelled as a teen, publicly struggled through his twenties, finally tackled his mental health in his thirties, met a woman he loved who helped him to escape a life he never asked for nor clearly wanted.
People say I'm too critical of Meghan Markle - but she ditched her family, ditched her Dad, ditched most of her old friends, split Harry from William & has now split him from the Royal Family.
I rest my case.
The sound of clapping across London tonight, boats on the Thames blowing their horns and the tops of buildings like the Shard in the distance glowing blue for our
#NHS
Wait so the Chancellor has had a hoodie made with his own government program logo? This feels very undergrad freshers society stash, is he going to wear a HS2 one for site visits?
Exclusive: “I don’t know why anyone would want the job” - what Johnson says HM the Queen told him during his audience! The PM revealed it during a tour in Number 10 before being told off by staff not to repeat those things so loudly. 📷:PA
Paralympian Jonnie Peacock requesting to be removed from Penny Mordaunt’s video. Paralympic/Olympic footage rights clearance is an absolute minefield so will be surprised if they don’t get it pulled themselves…
Britain 2018 - citizen exercising free speech (happens to be
@OwenJones84
) is being heckled, hurled homophobic abuse, taunted and pursuers by braying trump supporters outside Parliament. What’s happened to this place...
Lead by two of the actresses from
@Channel4
’s Derry Girls and some cross party MPs,
@AmnestyNI
are marching across Westminster bridge with 28 suitcases. These represent the 28 women who still have to fly from NI to GB to access abortion in the rest of the NHS every week.
'End of Freedom' - an irresponsible headline from a paper owner by two brothers who literally own their own Channel Island for tax purposes and are utterly safe from all of this.
Breaking: I have it from reliable sources inside Downing Street that Larry
@Number10cat
has been locked in the garden of Number 10 so he doesn’t steal the show 🐈
To be fair he didn’t look that impressed this morning...
⚡️ “Drone footage captures moment icelandic volcano erupts”
Photographer Bjorn Steinbekk told
@5_News
that he had to "take the chance" and fly his drone into the erupting volcano.
He says seeing the footage felt like
@LFC
winning the Premier League.
@stephenkb
Deep structural problem in TV newsrooms, guest bookers are often young recruits new to the industry with few contacts and are out under huge pressure to get guests by bosses. Fox et al are low hanging fruit, often v gettable and responsive because they aren’t doing anything else
After the
@WHO
seemingly calls for all women between their first period and menopause to stop drinking alcohol
@BPAS1968
rightly comes out swinging with this response:
Just to clarify given some comments received, aware it was a vigil tonight but was comparing the Mets heavy handed tactics with how I’ve seen them cover large gatherings, usually in London protests. Also this was all avoidable if they had worked with the organisers of
@ReclaimTS
-“Whers are you from? Are you even British, WHAT PASSPORT DO YOU CARRY?”
(Somewhat taken aback at how he’d turned)
-“What difference would that even make.”
He mutters expletives as he walks away.
Weird to have gotten to the “where are your papers” place for reporters.
'Stop it now, get up from your desks, walk away, no more.'
In an extraordinary call this serving civil servant urges his colleagues who are facilitating Boris Johnson's 'lies' to quit.
@mrjamesob
Some personal news - delighted to be joining the BBC full time from next week at a moment when public service broadcasting is more important than ever.
DMs open for stories and tips!
Little thread on what it’s like to be a reporter in UK in 2018: Just did a live for
@Euronews
on Whitehall talking about Boris Johnson’s reported comments. As I finished and was packing up a well spoken man confronted me. He hadn’t actually been around when I was broadcasting.
I once fact-checked a lie told by Schapps on air at sky regarding the bedroom tax and number of bedrooms in his own home. His response was to circulate an attack dossier on me to right wing bloggers. Except he and his spad used his own LinkedIn to do it so I could see it was him.
@LondonFire
@LBC
And free ice creams being given out at the end of Latymer Community Church service for
#grenfelltower
, 100s gathered under the westway road
There will be crisis PR people looking at
#BoycottCocaCola
and
#BoycottMcDonalds
trending highly tonight with images like this wondering the reputational damage is worth the relatively small, in scale of their global profits, vs damage of staying in Putin’s Russia.
#Ukraine
WATCH:
@MayorofLondon
@SadiqKhan
becomes the first British politician in a generation to visit both India and Pakistan in the same trip crossing at the Wadah Border checkpoint. The motorcade protection was pretty intense:
@LBC
Shocking and brave audio tape from Britney Spears. She says she's forgoing big money offers from the likes of Oprah because it doesn't feel right to cash in on her treatment. She details the extent of the abuse and claims her family tried to kill her during the conservatorship:
Wow, niche fact of the day for anyone else who went to
@durham_uni
-local boy Dominic Cummings used to help his uncle run Klute! For those not in the know it’s a converted rowing boathouse once dubbed Europe’s 2nd worst night club, then the worst burnt down making it defacto No1
Factcheck: I was at the interview location,
@skynews
’ IFB phone dropped the call so he could no longer hear the presenter. He waited for them to fix the problem and then came back up to recommence the interview after a package. Few politicians would have stuck around
In only twenty years trust in the BBC has crashed from 80% to 44%. I'd hazard a guess that it is things like this -BBC journalists included in openly partisan takes- that plays a role ...
The Union Jack has been lowered to half mast and the
#NewZealand
flag has been raised above Downing Street following this morning’s horrific terror attack.
Latest: Kensington Palace issues response to TMZ story that Meghan Markle’s father will now not attend the
#RoyalWedding
following allegations he staged paparazzi photographs:
@euronews
Corbyn "I ask our media as good journalists to just report what we say".
So no fact-checking, analysis, questions for all sides then?
#GeneralElection19