How many students are ‘misusing’ UK’s asylum system? www.channel4.com/news/how-man...

"I hope this is one piece of the mosaic of evidence to change policies and exert pressure on Israel." International Association of Genocide Scholars' Tim Williams speaks to @c4ciaran.bsky.social about the resolution that genocide is happening in Gaza. Read and watch:

Thank you. It all began literally the second we came on air.

"If they stay in an area that is in an intense war zone, of course they're endangering themselves." @c4ciaran.bsky.social asks retired Israeli brigadier general Amir Avivi what Israel will do if Gazans refuse to move. Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/picture...

Explained: How Israel is enacting a decades-long plan that would ‘bury’ the idea of a Palestinian state. We went to the West Bank to see it for ourselves. www.channel4.com/news/israeli...

"The only honourable option is for Europeans to stand fully with Ukraine, to support Ukrainian territorial integrity." Former Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis talks to @c4ciaran.bsky.social about the Trump-Putin summit. Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/europea...

"It's Ukrainians who are fighting and dying every day." Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko tells @c4ciaran.bsky.social the Trump-Putin summit has to "satisfy Ukraine". Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/zelensk...

"Trump wants a deal in Ukraine at any price." Anthony Gardner, former US ambassador to the EU, and Russia expert, Professor Mark Galeotti, talk to @c4ciaran.bsky.social about the Trump-Putin summit. Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/can-the...

Reporting from Washington DC, @c4ciaran.bsky.social has more on the Epstein scandal that won’t go away for President Trump, who tries to maintain a focus on the economy through it all. channel4news.substack.com/p/on-the-gro...

New from me on the Channel 4 News substack — Epstein saga lingers but Trump has plenty else to worry about. channel4news.substack.com/p/on-the-gro...

Analysis: care worker visas were ALREADY under 10,000 last year. Meanwhile there are 131,000 vacancies for jobs paying on average £11 per hour. www.channel4.com/news/how-rel...

Donald Trump has the worst approval rating of any president at this stage since WWII with the exception of himself during his first term. www.channel4.com/news/trump-p...

Tina McKenzie from the Federation of Small Businesses and Emily Kilcrease from the Center for New American Security discuss with @c4ciaran.bsky.social whether they see "light at the end of the tunnel" amid ongoing negotiations with the US over tariffs that could impact the UK. Read and watch here:

Adolescence is fiction. Here are some facts. We’ve spent months investigating knife crimes and stabbings at schools..🧵

"Republicans have been very skilful about baiting traps for Democrats." Democratic strategist Matt Bennett tells @c4ciaran.bsky.social the opposition needs to adjust its strategy to counter Donald Trump. Read and watch here:

I spoke to one of the young women arrested during the Metropolitan Police raid on a Quaker Meeting House.. www.channel4.com/news/youth-d...

"We can show that we can have an impact when we are allowed to do our job." Antoine Renard from the World Food Programme tells @c4ciaran.bsky.social there are enough supplies to feed the people of Gaza, but a blockade is preventing them from getting through. Read and watch here:

👀We’ve obtained secret NHS files that reveal 1 in 3 English hospitals are missing at least 10% of their planned nurses across their wards. Find out how many nurses are missing from your local hospital using our new tool —NurseCheck: channel4.com/nursecheck

Lushest melody EVER 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Happy St David’s Day—Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus ❤️

Grooming gang response has ‘improved’ says former police chief www.channel4.com/news/groomin...

This was 2015. Just remarkable to hear the excuses and denials even after so many details of the child grooming scandal were exposed.

News Justin

Such a joy to make music with the wonderful @bbcstever.bsky.social and to share it with all of you — Merry Christmas! 🎄

This is a story about the grooming, rape and abuse of children in Barrow, Cumbria. Of girls sometimes still in their school uniform. A month ago, three brothers were convicted of a raft of serious sexual offences against children across Barrow, and in Leeds. (1/4)

Pupils are hungry, homeless. One child has been sleeping in a van. What’s happening in schools should shock us but it’s worryingly routine.

“Red wind alert, a very rare event”, says NRW www.channel4.com/news/red-win...

Assad regime falling ‘would be a dream’, - White Helmets volunteer responding to fast-moving developments in Syria and Damascus on @channel4news.bsky.social tonight:

Security Aisle 15… it’s Robin the wine!

"Hello, we exist, we have existed for millennia." Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, Husam Zomlot, tells Matt Frei what he would say to Trump's new Israel envoy, Mike Huckabee, who believes "there is no such thing as a Palestinian". Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/palesti...

The government has been warned it needs to alleviate child poverty to get poor children back into school. Official figures show those from deprived families are far more likely to be persistently missing lessons. Read and watch @c4ciaran.bsky.social's analysis here www.channel4.com/news/how-sch...

"The far right and the left have said they would vote together, to overturn the government." Éléonore Caroit from President Macron’s Renaissance party tells @c4ciaran.bsky.social the only way forward for French politics now is to 'build compromises.' Read and watch www.channel4.com/news/france-...

“We stick with stories” on @channel4news.bsky.social 👀Great profile of our editor @esmewren.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

"Take the public more seriously, by actually engaging them in the debate." Sunder Katwala, Director of British Future, tells @c4ciaran.bsky.social the government should engage more with the public on how it will deal with immigration. Read and watch here: www.channel4.com/news/public-...

Who would ask universities to accept 200,000 fewer international students? And how much would tuition fees increase if they did?

Keir Starmer says net migration has quadrupled since 2019. But in 2019 student visas were around a THIRD what they are now. Actual students, not dependants. Returning to 2019 levels will require some tough choices.

I’ve been filming today with teachers trying absolutely everything to get kids into school. They say: 1. Toast works. Attendance improved. 2. Toast costs. A secondary school had to cut the toast and now teachers are buying breakfast bars for kids from their own pocket.

I’m going with Toscym 🙄

Dubbed the ‘Taffia Tosca’ by @larkingrumple.bsky.social

Barbara Taylor Bradford wrote her first novel in her 40s. It sold 30m copies. Never give up..

Opening night of Tosca at the Royal Opera House — who was bossing it on stage? Tosca - Swansea soprano Natalya Romaniw Scarpia - The Great Bryn of Gwynedd Spoletta - Aled Hall Pencader Truly a musical nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎶

"She inspired, literally, millions and millions of people." Jenny Seagrove, who starred in the Channel 4 adaptation of ‘A Woman of Substance’, by the late Barbara Taylor Bradford, tells @c4ciaran.bsky.social what a "force of nature" Barbara was. Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/jenny-s...