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7 years
Zinger from Corbyn: "I hope the prime minister will correct the mistakes of the former home secretary."
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If Brexit minister Steve Baker is suggesting that we've selectively quoted from the Brexit analysis, he should publish it in full and show what we've missed
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The statement from Jo Cox's husband Brendan is extraordinary in its dignity and compassion
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@emilydugan @BuzzFeedNews Like the Parkland students now, the Dunblane families faced a well-organised gun lobby, a conservative establishment resistant to a total ban, and accusations that they were politicising the massacre. But they won. There hasn't been a school shooting in Britain since.
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NEW: Families and survivors of the Dunblane school massacre 22 years ago today have sent a powerful message of support to the Parkland families in Florida: change can heppen via @emilydugan
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Where "think fast" = London mayor referring to the words he actually said
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Pathetic excuse by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who had to think fast on his "no reason to be alarmed" statement. MSM is working hard to sell it!
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Emma Steveton, 27, described the terrifying panic and stampede after the Parsons Green tube incident
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#BritishThreatLevels "would you mind sharing this table?"
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7 years
Wow. BBC reporting that Manchester police have stopped sharing info with US because of leaks. That's a huge step
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I keep reading this line and still can't quite believe it's happening
@SkyNewsBreak
Sky News Breaking
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Russian government spokesman says Russia agrees with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump that NATO is obsolete
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@hazelshearing These never-seen-before abusive postcards received by suffragette leaders are basically like Edwardian Twitter
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If you're just joining us, Theresa May is either responsible for the biggest fail in election history or has won a landslide
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6 years
This is a big 48 hours for Google
@PaulBrandITV
Paul Brand
6 years
Understand Brexiters holding out for another five potential resignations from the junior ranks of government today/tomorrow.
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@PatrickStrud This is one of many gut punches in the story...
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@jane_mcmullen The film comes 17 years after @wilsonjamie and I revealed that Latifa's elder sister, Shamsa, had escaped from the Maktoum estate in Surrey. She alleged to UK police that she was then kidnapped off a Cambridge street by her father's men and flown back to Dubai under duress.
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I know these are crazy times, but it's absolutely extraordinary to hear a minister stand up in the Commons and completely shitbag the work of his own department just because it's politically inconvenient
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Today’s @BBCr4today Thought for the day was an absolute classic of the genre: 1. The scourge of teenage knife crime 2. I cut myself with a knife once 3. I went to a cooking class last week to learn knife skills 4. Detailed description of segmenting an orange 5. God
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Here's the Daily Mail offering a plea in mitigation for Jo Cox's killer that he didn't make himself, either to police or at trial.
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17 years on, this is the story from my entire career that bothers me most. She alleged she was kidnapped off a British street but British police were blocked from investigating after her powerful father made representations to the UK government.
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Stuart Millar
4 years
Some personal news. Thrilled to be joining the BBC as digital news editor alongside @nmalinarich and @NajaNielsen2 . Can’t wait to get started.
@BBCNewsPR
BBC News Press Team
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Congratulations to Nathalie Malinarich ( @nmalinarich ) and Stuart Millar ( @stuartmillar159 ) who have just been announced as Digital Development Editor and Digital News Editor for @BBCNews
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You can see me on the BBC doc talking about Shamsa's story, the troubling parallels with Latifa's disappearance and the serious questions they raise about Britain's close relationship with Sheikh Mohammed, a horseracing friend of the British royal family
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I'm old enough to remember when Britain had a government, an opposition and a AAA credit rating
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8 years
. @peretti 's email to BuzzFeed staff about the RNC ad deal pulls no punches
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7 years
Life comes at the Daily Mail fast
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6 years
Red sky at night... ... Total government meltdown shitshow in the morning
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Hannah Al-Othman
6 years
Nice skies here so at least we have something pretty to look at as we wait for Brexit news
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Stuart Millar
7 years
Meanwhile, in the lack of self-awareness Olympics...
@Conservatives
Conservatives
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Brexit seems to be one big game for Labour. When will they take it seriously and decide on a position? #lab17
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7 years
Absolute zinger question to May from BuzzFeed's @alexGspence : "what would Donald Trump have to do for you to criticise him?"
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@PatrickStrud This account from one of the men Daryll Rowe infected of being taunted and abused him is absolutely horrifying
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6 years
@MatthewWells I mean, that one does really
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@MarkDiStef Farage told Fox & Friends the NHS funding issue was caused by a "population crisis" as a result of immigration. That appears to have prompted the Trump tweet
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7 years
Common factor of both Manchester and London: local people reporting concerns about the attackers to anti-terror hotline but say no action
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6 years
Toby Young on Today says Roger Scruton shouldn’t be questioned just because views don’t align with “prevailing progresssive orthodoxy” To recap those views: - no such crime as date rape - sexual harassment is “impoliteness” - Islamophobia “invented” - homosexuality not normal
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@BuzzFeedNews He was arrested because the DVLA failed to notice a valid visa in his passport and passed his details to the Home Office. Immigration enforcement then failed to check the information and just went ahead with the raid. DVLA has since apologised, but the Home Office has not.
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6 years
A tweet straight from the School of Trump, right down to the juvenile name-calling
@BorisJohnson
Boris Johnson
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Crumbling Corbyn betrays Leave voters - and all because he wants to win a commons vote. Cynical and deluded.
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MI5 decided Masood not worthy of surveillance but the Home Sec says lesson is nobody should be allowed secure WhatsApp. Obvious really.
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The best way to read the Boris Johnson column is as a letter to Santa
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@BuzzFeedNews In fact, two weeks after the raid, the Home Office tried to revoke his valid visa. A judge threw out the Home Office claim, but even then the department rejected the family's application for a residency card. Matukutire's wife is British, as are his two children
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7 years
#BritishThreatLevels "You have one new voicemail"
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7 years
It's a very big deal for GCHQ to drop standard neither confirm nor deny response
@gordoncorera
Gordon Corera
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"These allegations are complete and utter nonsense,” a GCHQ spokesperson tells me after Spicer cites story it was asked to spy on Trump.
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7 years
Here's an example of Nigel Farage never discussing where he goes or who he sees
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8 years
President Obama called Jo Cox's husband Brendan tonight from Air Force One. White House pool readout of the call:
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7 years
Studies in World Leadership
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6 years
The doc features an interview with then Detective Chief Inspector David Beck, the Cambridgeshire officer who tried to investigate Shamsa's kidnap allegation. He tells the BBC that the inquiry ended when he was denied permission to travel to Dubai to interview her in person.
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Brexit minister Steve Baker's week is going from bad to worse. PM urged to consider whether he's fit to be in government after he suggested civil servants were cooking the figures to stop Brexit via @elashto
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The Queen is about to have tea with Trump at the same time as new indictments are announced back in the US in the Trump-Russia collusion probe. Timing. This will be an awesome episode in season 56 of The Crown.
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8 years
After the KKK and Putin, that's a clean sweep for Trump
@AFP
AFP News Agency
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#BREAKING Syria's Assad says Trump a natural ally if he fights "terror"
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8 years
This Scottish guy tricked US hard-right conspiracy site Infowars into publishing a fake story about Trump
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The horrific reality of the Home Office's hostile environment laid bare A father, in the UK legally, was arrested and pinned to the ground naked with his toddler left unattended on the basis of a bad DVLA tip off He recorded the raid and it's appalling
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Cry laughing at @MarinaHyde 's description of the ERG
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Let the historical record show that 21 March 2018 was the day Britain coined the phrase: "They couldn't even organise a fish-throwing in a major river"
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May starting to sound rattled as ITV reporter points out she's buckled under pressure
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TMay: You can't lose a Meaningful Vote if you never have a Meaningful Vote
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This is a really superb piece of writing by @bbclysedoucet on the lives upended in Kyiv a week after the Russian invasion began
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It's over. Thank uck for that
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The Trump protest has been passing BuzzFeed’s office for about 40 minutes now and still no end in sight. Huge.
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May's speech is like one of those management aways days where the only thing that gets agreed is that we need to communicate more
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DON'T OPEN IT FFS
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ScienceAlert
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A Massive, Black Sarcophagus Has Been Unearthed in Egypt, And Nobody Knows Who's Inside
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Golden age of journalism in one tweet:
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Downing Street: "Everything is ready" for triggering of Article 50 Boris Johnson:
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@PatrickStrud The man, who was one of the first to go to police, contacted @PatrickStrud in Feb 2016 to tell his story and send a message to his attacker: "I want to tell him he hasn't won."
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. @Guardian editorial captures the enormous significance of the Senate's CIA torture report http://t.co/VeMBEQE7Zf http://t.co/JKom7EhGYv
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@AlbertoNardelli To be clear, this means that Tusk, Juncker and top EU officials knew the vote was off when Michael Gove went on BBC Today prog at 8.10am on Monday and insisted it was "100%" on
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Looking at embargoed version of #QueensSpeech and let's just say Her Majesty is going to be done in plenty of time to get to Ascot for 2pm
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This is an actual work of art ⚡️ “Police appeal for information about 'Shrewsbury Fruit Fondler'” by @hrtbps
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A whole new level of moronic unlocked
@piersmorgan
Piers Morgan
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President Trump is now the most famous person in history. That's why so many celebrities hate him. My new column.
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Brilliant and utterly gripping interview with Putin by Austrian TV presenter Armin Wolf. Even the official Kremlin transcript crackles with Putin's frustration at the forensic questioning
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Just to clarify, ACLU have won a nationwide stay on deportations under Trump #MuslimBan .
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@emilydugan @BuzzFeedNews Responding to the Dunblane families’ letter of support, Lori Alhadeff, whose 14-year-old daughter, Alyssa, was among those killed in Parkland, told @BuzzFeedNews that they were already beginning to see change in the US
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@BuzzFeedNews @emilydugan The key point of this story is that it can't just be written off as an unfortunate error. Data sharing is a central feature of Theresa May's hostile environment immigration strategy
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Impossible to read amazing ex Wyden staffer post on Obama's real attitude to open debate without jaw hitting floor
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!!! The Home Office has reversed its decision to refuse a visa, just 23 minutes after we published this story. That's a new record for @emilydugan
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Hostile environment latest... This gay couple have been together for 11 years but the Home Office refused their visa application because their utility bills were in only one name via @emilydugan
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Super sharp as ever from @BBCRosAtkins on Zelensky's use of social media to counter claims he'd fled Kyiv
@BBCRosAtkins
Ros Atkins
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100 seconds on how President Zelensky has responded to the invasion. When Russian media reported he'd fled Kyev, he posted a video saying he hadn't. When America offered an evacuation, he replied ‘I need ammunition, not a ride'. Produced Catherine Karelli
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Today I am mostly explaining to the young reporters @BuzzFeedUK what mad cow disease is and I've never felt quite so old
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Jo Cox Gave This Powerful Speech Calling For Britain To Accept Child Refugees via @elashton @BuzzFeedUK
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So the inauguration speech was basically a Breitbart editorial
@maggieNYT
Maggie Haberman
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WH official also finally concedes it was written by Bannon and Stephen Miller
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London fire commissioner Dany Cotton describes fire as "unprecedented incident". Says never seen anything like it in her 29 years service
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Obama: "Let's be clear there's no possible justification for these attacks." #Dallas
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BREAKING: PM reveals that 120 tower blocks have now failed fire safety tests, from 37 authorities. Failure rate still 100% #PMQs
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Stuart Millar
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an expert on unverified urination stories writes...
@piersmorgan
Piers Morgan
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From the guys who publish unverified dossiers about hookers & urination. 😂😂
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Stuart Millar
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Worth watching this superb doc on BBC2 tonight by @jane_mcmullen about Sheikha Latifa al Maktoum, the daughter of Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed. She hasn't been seen since she attempted to escape from Dubai at the beginning of this year.
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BBC News Press Team
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WATCH: “This could be the last video I make… If you are watching this... either I’m dead or I’m in a very bad situation” Tonight @BBCTwo 9pm ‘Escape from Dubai: The Mystery of the Missing Princess’ is the dramatic story of a Princess who tried to flee & hasn't been seen since
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Wow. Obama has publicly criticised FBI director over Clinton emails letter: "We Don’t Operate on Leaks"
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China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang, according to new evidence seen by @BBCNews
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The answers to Johnny's question have gone on so long he's now eligible to vote #leadersdebate
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Breaking: police confirm Manchester attack carried out by suicide bomber. "One man who detonated an improvised explosive device".
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Alicia Melville-Smith
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@gmpolice chief constable Ian Hopkins speaking on Manchester attack now: death toll at 22, 59 people injured, being treated at 8 hospitals
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Important detail. It wasn't an idle, reflex RT, Trump went looking for this material
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"The Royal Family will pay for the wedding" Interesting they're making that so explicit right up front.
@KensingtonRoyal
The Prince and Princess of Wales
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The marriage of Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle will take place at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in May 2018.
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Obama: "We also know that when people are armed with powerful weapons they make these attacks more deadly and more tragic." #Dallas
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London mayor's spokesman says he "has more important things to do than respond to Donald Trump's ill-informed tweet"
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Matt Chorley
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Sadiq Khan has "more important things to do" than respond to Trump's tweets, says an aide
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Boris Johnson holed up in Foreign Office right now prepping UK's response to Turkish military coup in the form of a bawdy limerick
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Chilling quote from a Belgian counter-terror official to @mitchprothero
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If the shock of the result was abating and you were just starting to hope maybe Trump not as bad as feared...
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