Claire Bolderson

Journalist, former BBC presenter & foreign correspondent. Makes radio docs, trains academics in comms skills, part-time MSc student, chair of school governors.

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

This is really a fantastic deep dive into the Mandelson Deripaska connection on @thenerve_news by Tamsin Shaw

Prepare to be deeply disturbed by another Russian influence operatio

Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread https://t.co/H9te8kTpiy

[Claire Bolderson @ClaireBolderson]

Gob-smackingly cruel and horrific. The dangers of an unregulated, unscrutinised #surrogacy business in the US.
The Babies Kept in a Mysterious Los Angeles Mansion https://t.co/MR4LcwXkEs

[Mike McCarthy @its_mccarthy]

We need to start to think of ICE in a different way. This isn't merely a governmental agency. It's a para military group that has seen its ranks swelled by people drawn from the far right's base. They are not enforcing laws, they are pursuing a political ideology.

[Claire Bolderson @ClaireBolderson]

A well deserved victory for the committed, tenacious @johnpringdns

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

The information commissioner has dismissed attempts by the Department for Work and Pensions to describe a disabled journalist as “vengeful” and “vexatious” after he tried to obtain information about its years of safeguarding failings.
#DWP
https://t.co/a48HcoP1Bi

[Claire Bolderson @ClaireBolderson]

@soniasodha And crucially, there’s a terrible lack of understanding (or wilful ignoring) of the MCA in local authority Adult Social Care. I made a doc on just that a few yrs ago . https://t.co/HdDbk3ZhLs

[suzanne moore @suzanne_moore]

While I was at the cinema, Davie resigned and a lot of blokes continued to literally mansplain the important issue of trust in the BBC . To women who have patiently explained why they have lost trust in the BBC. It's almost as if they cannot hear us.

[Claire Bolderson @ClaireBolderson]

@JeremyFarrar Interesting. So given the (rising) numbers should screening now be considered for never-smokers?

[Claire Bolderson @ClaireBolderson]

The horrific - and as @bindelj says, - scandalously under-reported story of the abuse of elderly women by multiple medical staff at Blackpool hospital.

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

(No paywall)
https://t.co/2zfXwuT3fT

[Rachel Salvidge @RachSalv]

EXCLUSIVE: England’s farms are being fertilised with a cocktail of toxic landfill juice + sewage sludge.

750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/ https://t.co/71IdRWfcDi

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

I find the way we destroy people with the courage to enter politics in this country utterly depressing. It is why I got out of newspapers. It isn’t just Angela Rayner. Read Sarah Vine’s book about the effect MPs expense farrago had on Michael Gove… we are red in tooth and claw as a culture, which keeps the best of us out of national public life.

[Claire Bolderson @ClaireBolderson]

DNS is a unique and invaluable source on all disability related issues. Every news organisation (and every charity in the sector) should subscribe.

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

For more than 16 years, Disability News Service has broken important stories about the discrimination disabled people face every day across the UK.
Now DNS is looking for new subscribers to help fund its work.
https://t.co/JbFeY1xcyD

[@mikefinnerty.bsky.social @finnertymike]

Its publication day for The Cheese Cure: How Comté and Camembert Fed My Soul. You can now pick it up in UK bookshops. Or buy the book, the audiobook or the e-book online. So excited. #cheese #fromage #thecheesecure

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

Deeply shocked by Israel’s deliberate killing of the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, his colleague Mohammed Qreiqeh and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa. Israel has now killed at least 186 journalists in the war.

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

That Gregg Wallace 'explanation' beggars belief. It manages to insult the women he harassed, the BBC, the Masterchef producers, people with autism, people who expect a certain level of professionalism in the workplace and even cheeky greengrocers. It's astonishingly bad.

[John Harris @johnharris1969]

Latest from me: on fears about the govt's plans for Special Needs education, with two key things that Labour ministers & MPs should think about (link below)

[Claire Bolderson @ClaireBolderson]

Great story and great reporting @chloehadj

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with The Salt Path: the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. It became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film.

But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth.

@chloehadj

Read: https://t.co/SjsMngcXyM

[Claire Bolderson @ClaireBolderson]

Whatever your position on assisted suicide in principle, this damning statement from the ⁦@rcpsych⁩ lays out just how appalling the current bill is. Well worth a read. https://t.co/iiTSUqtIQo

[Claire Bolderson @ClaireBolderson]

At last https://t.co/Fio9CkiNiB

[Claire Bolderson @ClaireBolderson]

Whatever your position in principle, please read this to understand what a truly terrible bill the assisted dying bill is.

[louis appleby @ProfLAppleby]

The assisted dying bill: “an unserious, irresponsible way to make law.”

Superb from ⁦@soniasodha⁩ https://t.co/KV9d5AMmkI

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

People on benefits will be poorer this year. Working age and disability benefits rise 1.7% from this week. Most by less than the price of a 1st class stamp. Inflation (CPI) is 2.8% and @OBR_UK forecasts a rise to 3.2% this year @bankofengland forecasts CPI to be 3.7% by Autumn