Virginia Giuffre's family call for Duchess of York to be stripped of royal title #Newsnight www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx9Tb_qbrk4

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Me, 10km into a half marathon, putting Thunderstruck by AC/DC on repeat: “This might be the best song ever”. Me, finishing a half marathon, Thunderstruck by AC/DC still on repeat: “This is the best song ever”.

“In the cab ride… she asked me 72 times, ‘where are we going?’” Journalist Martin Frizell, married to former GMTV presenter Fiona Phillips, talks about the progression of his wife’s Alzheimer's. #Newsnight

I forgot to post on here but I got promoted to assistant editor at Newsnight. Really grateful for the opportunity and the support management have shown me already.

“When people say it’s the council marking their own homework, it isn’t.” Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips tells @vicderbyshire.bsky.social that a locally-led response to grooming gangs is “the only one she has seen work”. #Newsnight

Yesterday was my first day at @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social. My new email is [email protected] if you want to get in touch.

VD: “As a result of some of Elon Musk’s tweets, the threat to you has gone up?” JP: “Yes...” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social speaks to Jess Phillips about Elon Musk’s attacks about her response to grooming gangs in the UK, adding his comments are “endangering” her. #Newsnight

The great @robbiehawkins.bsky.social signs off working for Sunday with Lewis Goodall (BC)

A year ago the BBC seemed to have handed the death sentence to Newsnight…yet the dire prophesies have been defied’ @iburrell for the i paper writes that the average audience is up 30% since NN’s relaunch & the digital views for its interviews are in the tens of millions

Congratulations Robbie. Terrific news. It doesn’t seem *that* long ago that you were answering the phones on Christmas Day at Radio Northampton while I read the news!

🚨Personal news: after 5(!) terrific years, it’s my last week at @lbc.co.uk. Really excited to be joining BBC Newsnight in the new year. Very grateful + proud of my work with the brilliant @tomswarbrick.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com @iaindale.bsky.social + some great colleagues along the way.

Game was bad enough but absolutely sick of #hcafc fans being idiots, spending half the game abusing female fans in the home end rather than getting behind the team. Seriously considering giving up on going to games altogether. Sick of it.

"Terrorist organisations will not deliver peace." While Angela Rayner 'welcomes' the end of Assad's regime, she tells @lewisgoodall.com 'we want to see a democratic government' in Syria.

The people saying this are broadly just addicted the drama of recent years and only understand politics through the prism of the Tory party. The Labour Party mechanism doesn’t work in the same way and even if it did there’s no equivalent discontent or political split in the current Labour party.

We’re all suffering from qualitynesia now. Enjoyed this. on.ft.com/49lFF0c

Four now confirmed dead in this strike, two of them World Central Kitchen aid workers

A classic Emily Thornberry response to this: "Whatever. I mean, whatever. If people want to vote for him, fine. You know, whatever." @lewis_goodall: "That was an absolutely vintage Emily Thornberry eye roll there."

NEW: Conservative Shadow Cabinet member Kevin Hollinrake tells @lewisgoodall.com he 'very much would' welcome Jeremy Clarkson if he ever wanted to become a Tory MP. @lbc.co.uk

COMING UP ON SUNDAY WITH LEWIS GOODALL 10 @LBC Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall Shadow Housing Sec Kevin Hollinrake Mother of the House Diane Abbott Chair of Foreign Affairs Select Comm @emilythornberry.bsky.social Anti Corruption campaigner Bill Browder Join us.

On the streets of Liverpool, there is a humanitarian crisis A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation

"It's done more bad than good." Fuse ODG tells @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social that he believes Band Aid is responsible for Africa losing 'trillions of pounds in revenue.'

In 1979 around 15% of MPs had a manual worker background. That dropped to 3% by 2015. At the same time previous work in politics went from 3% to 17% over the same period. We know this has consequences for political rhetoric. 1/

Saw John Prescott speak a lot at uni and he never failed to tell the story of this. Lost count of the number of times I heard him say: “Tony told me to connect with the public!” Reckon a lot of us could recount his after dinner speech by heart.

Chatting to old Hull Uni pals about JP and reminded of the time a group of Labour students went back to his house after a day campaigning. Someone mentioned he was going a wedding soon but didn’t have a suit. John promptly took him upstairs and gifted him the suit he’d worn to his son’s wedding.

Politics really doesn’t make them like this anymore youtu.be/_nJioyq3We8?...

Wow Gladiator II is rubbish

"Everyone else has to pay inheritance tax if they're over the threshold. Why not farmers?" @tomswarbrick.bsky.social headed down to the farmers' protest in London.

LBC people are starting to trickle over...here's an ever-updating list:

For those asking - Tom Swarbrick is now here too bsky.app/profile/toms...

Tories Chris Philp and Iain Duncan Smith warn cops against becoming "thought police" in light of Allison Pearson IDS tells @lewisgoodall.bsky.social Badenoch is quite right to comment on "a complete absurdity" - "we don't want police investigating this type of thing - it's thought police territory."

Huge🔥 from former Mother of the House, Harriet Harman, who hits out at Streeting re. assisted dying intervention, saying him weighing in is a "misstep" and he should can review... it's "important he doesn't" weigh in and "its not about resources" saying it "muddies water" @lewisgoodall.bsky.social

Louise Haigh dismisses climate change sceptic Chris Wright's appointment to President-elect Trump's team and says "we will work with the US wherever our interests align" "We are clear that the UK-US special relationship endures and we will work with President Elect Trump" @lewisgoodall.bsky.social

SUNDAY WITH LEWIS GOODALL FROM 10 ON LBC -Transport Sec Lou Haigh -Shadow Home Sec Chris Philp -Baroness Harriet Harman -Former Dem Head of Mi5 Nigel Inkster -Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith -Assisted Dying bill sponsor MP Kim Leadbeater -Essex Police Commissioner Roger Hirst Join us.

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