Charles Thomson

Newsquest Crime & Investigations (Essex) — 4x Weekly Reporter of the Year — 2x Crime & Investigative Reporter of the Year

[Charles Thomson @CEThomson]

'Amazing'
'Disturbing'
'Astonishing'
'Shocking'
'Like a real life Line of Duty'

The reviews are in. All episodes are out.

A true crime podcast tells how a local newspaper unearthed a shocking paedophile ring cover-up.

Unfinished: Shoebury's Lost Boys - https://t.co/JK1gYXAV2x

[Charles Arthur @charlesarthur]

Amazing: journalist does journalism to discover something, and because everyone is so used to people living by press release, they literally can't believe the journalist found it out on their own.
https://t.co/lUVIdrKqID

[Charles Thomson @CEThomson]

@drfunkenberry @llb2s3xi3 Will the CD be audio of the blu ray? Or is it a disc of unreleased outtakes?

[Jon Wiltshire @JonWiltshire_]

🚨 This is getting seriously dangerous.

The @BBC is withdrawing educational material on climate change and migration following accusations of political bias.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT A POLITICAL OPINION.

It's established science.

MIGRATION IS A FACT OF HUMAN HISTORY.

Its economic, social and cultural contributions are documented, as are the challenges it can create. Immigration policy is open to debate, but children deserve to understand the evidence, not have political uncomfortable facts filtered out.

Political impartiality must never mean treating established evidence as ideology.

Education should teach children to examine reality critically, not sanitise it to avoid political controversy.

#ClimateChange #Immigration

[Tom Chivers @TMChivers]

In 2010 the BBC Trust threatened to resign if Osborne ended funding for free over-75s licences. It worked - until new Trustees buckled 5 years later

Now the Board is stacked with patsies & seat-warmers, who put padding their CVs above licence fee payers’ interests

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

“You’re a horrible little reporter, aren’t you?”

If any previous president had said that to a reporter at the White House, a female reporter in particular, it would have been a multi-day scandal.

But we as a country and media have normalized this boorish, abusive misogynist.

[Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee]

This is utterly bonkers. How can one person (and presumably one producer) cover such an enormous brief. Education and social affairs are the things that affect millions of normal people. I am not a BBC basher, but how on earth does the corporation think this is public service?

[Charles Thomson @CEThomson]

One of the most important pieces of journalism I’ve seen in years.

The sheer volume of extremism captured is horrifying: calls for concentration camps, shootings & drownings; heinous incest fantasies; internal cover-ups caught on camera in real time.

It must & will win awards.

[Hardcash Productions @HardcashProd]

Our film ‘Undercover: A Year in Reform’ is on ITV1 this Sunday at 10.20pm

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

Striking how fast Reform went from free-press defenders to calling for the arrest of journalists who investigate it.

Its move to the populist-authoritarian model is unlikely to do much for its poll rating.

[Chris Daw KC @crimlawuk]

I am sitting waiting to log on for a CVP video hearing in a major case, which has been delayed purely because of this serious technical failure by HM Court Service.

This is why the system is in a mess.

Not because of juries, which this government is still set on attacking in some of the most serious cases to come before the court.

If we solved even the basic flaws in the system, like this, the backlog would shrink overnight.

[Anna Isaac @Annaisaac]

Excl: New undercover footage shared with the Guardian raises fresh questions about Reform leader’s statement that £5m gift was for security

Farage's claim that the money was a reward for Brexit was "not the line to take from the press office".

The conversation also shows former close aide Dan Jukes say that it is "a bit priced in" by the public that Farage should profit from politics.

Footage via @Verbatim_Media
https://t.co/a88pzxb7Nu

[Charles Thomson @CEThomson]

@RichardOsley @HarryTaylr We had a site doing this with all our stories about a year ago, likely with AI. We sent a letter before action for copyright infringement and they knocked it off.

[Charles Thomson @CEThomson]

@BarryPierce People checking their phones during screenings is extremely distracting to all around them and totally inconsiderate.

[Dr Hanko Honkasson @drhanko2]

I would genuinely love to hear a member of the Newsnight production team, offer a justification of how it made a lick of sense editorially to have the podcasting former banjo player from Mumford and Sons argue tax and economic policy with an actual economist from the Green Party.

[Charles Thomson @CEThomson]

@TerrelleGraham @BFI It was a seriously shabby way for @BFI to treat loyal, long-term supporters & has had repercussions for #LFF. We had three phones loudly go off the other day in one 80min screening. When I first started going, that would have been enough to cause uproar.

[Charles Thomson @CEThomson]

@TerrelleGraham @BFI The result is loyal, year-round @BFI supporters of 20+ years, who booked dozens of #LFF tickets every year, finding themselves at number 33,000 in the ‘members’ booking queue. That is a significant part of why the atmosphere & audience behaviour has changed, in my opinion.

[Charles Thomson @CEThomson]

@richjohnston I was last there about a month ago, looking for a recent blu ray release, which they did not have. I tend to have more luck in Fopp.

[Charles Thomson @CEThomson]

Dreadful news for Funko Pop collectors who live in central London.

Obviously awful for the staff. But the revived Oxford St HMV was a depressing husk of its predecessor, which was a mecca for movie/music fans. It was basically Forbidden Planet with a few shelves of CDs & DVDs.

[🕸 𝕰𝖑𝖎𝖟𝖆𝕯𝖔𝖔 🕸 🇺🇦 @elizadoo7]

HMV to close Oxford Street store after three years | BBC News https://t.co/paKcLHDLKr

[John Bye @_johnbye]

Maajid Nawaz is joining GB News. Last year he appeared on Neil Oliver's GBN Originals online show, where he claimed doctors murdered the elderly en masse during the pandemic, and the January 6th Capitol riot was a false flag.

Just the man to "revamp GB News' online presence". 🙄

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Profoundly sick.