Jessica Wilkins

Interview producer for @_BiggerThanFive. Former @bbcworldservice @TimesRadio and @AJE. News account, so plenty of alarms and plenty of surprises. My views etc.

[Jessica Wilkins @JessicaFWilkins]

Very proud to be part of the Times Radio breakfast team on October 7th.

[Malika Bilal @mmbilal]

I can't even remember the last time I did something other than re'tweet', save, or favorite on this app, a shell of my former mainstay social media platform. But that's all the more reason why I need you to read this - the thing that's nudged me out of X retirement - and share it

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

British students will now have the right to study, live and work in the European Union for the first time since Brexit.

[Lizzy Buchan @LizzyBuchan]

Rachel Reeves doubles down on her criticism of the Iran war, saying it was a “mistake”

“I’m not convinced that this conflict has made the world a safer place”
https://t.co/MjdZYcavcY

[CapX @CapX]

CapX is hiring!

Join one of the best teams in Westminster to help make the case for popular capitalism

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[Lindsey Hilsum @lindseyhilsum]

NYT headline for the ages

[Jack Elsom @JackElsom]

EXCL from @ryansabey: Level of jobless white working class lads is a “national scandal”, govt adviser Alan Milburn says, as stats show one in four is not in employment or education.

https://t.co/LWxt0Uzlm0

[Ben Marmarelli بن مرمريلي בן מרמרלי @mrmrly44557]

April 12, 2026, I visited Marwan Barghouti in my capacity as his lawyer.

What I confirmed through this visit is deeply alarming. In recent weeks, Marwan Barghouti has been subjected to three violent assaults. On April 8 in Ganot Prison, he was severely beaten and left bleeding for more than two hours. He requested medical care and was denied treatment. On March 25, he was assaulted during his transfer from Megiddo to Ganot. On March 24, in Megiddo Prison, guards entered his cell with a dog, forced him to the ground, and the dog repeatedly attacked him. 

These are not isolated incidents. They form a clear pattern of escalating abuse: violence, medical neglect, and treatment that places him at immediate risk.

He had a great deal to say. Above all, he wanted to know more about his family and the Palestinian people, What is happening in Palestinian and Israeli scene I tried to tell him everything I know.

But even that conversation took place under absurd conditions: the phones did not work, so we had to shout through the glass just to hear each other.

For five hours, I sat there without food or water, trying to make sure this visit meant something.

This is what a legal visit looks like today: basic conditions denied, communication obstructed, and even the most elementary human and professional standards ignored.

And still, despite all of that, his mind was sharp, focused, and deeply engaged with everything happening outside those prison walls.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

"The Future Is Peace" co-author @AzizAbuSarah argues that in order to have healing conversations about Israel and Palestine, people must first ask the uncomfortable questions

[🇪🇸 VAMOS ESPAGNE 🇪🇸 @juliamacfarlane]

.@Sarah_Montague: You’re a UK company, the govt said it wants to invest in UK companies for defence-but the interest you’ve got is from everywhere but the UK?
Skycutter, UK drone maker that makes interceptors: Yes, talk is cheap.

Absolutely breathtaking

https://t.co/5QveIUpsLZ

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says Italy is suspending its defence agreement with Israel as global protests mount over the US-Israel war on Iran.

🔴LIVE updates: https://t.co/WSC3mQB9Gp

[Zoë Crowther @zoenora6]

“We just need to acknowledge that humans have a natural interest in sex… it is a joyful thing," Niblett says

Read the full interview here (including a few sentences I never thought I would write) 👇

5/5
https://t.co/ErHxonBDIz

[Jessica Wilkins @JessicaFWilkins]

"The abandoned animals — one male and three females — roamed free and began to breed with remarkable success. Ever since, successive Colombian governments have struggled to decide what to do with the expanding herd, sometimes dubbed the “cocaine hippos”."

https://t.co/Y0omiEwScm

[LBC @LBC]

'He clearly deliberately went out of his way to find little girls.'

@VeraBaird thinks the Southport inquiry needs to examine the aspect of misogyny in the case.

[Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz @bundeskanzler]

I am deeply concerned about developments in the Palestinian territories. In my phone call with Prime Minister @netanyahu, I made it clear: There must be no de facto annexation of the West Bank.

[Hamish Falconer MP @HFalconerMP]

The UK is clear that Lebanon must be included in the ceasefire.

I have seen the vital work of @redcrosslebanon in Tebnine; the killing of an aid worker is tragic.

Ongoing strikes risk a humanitarian crisis. Hizballah must disarm and Israeli strikes stop now.

[Lucy Fisher @LOS_Fisher]

🚨Major intervention on defence spending by Lord George Robertson, author of govt Strategic Defence Review, tonight

UK’s leaders hv shown ‘corrosive complacency’, putting nation ‘in peril’ while it’s ‘under attack’

PM ‘not willing to make the necessary investment,’ he tells @FT

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: A judge has dismissed Donald Trump's $10bn (£7.43bn) lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, over reporting on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

🔗 https://t.co/n4dBLqlErV

[Gideon Rachman @gideonrachman]

Can’t wait to read this. I’ve always seen Russel Brand as a moral guide

[Antonello Guerrera @antoguerrera]

NEW. I have interviewed @BorisJohnson on Iran, Ukraine, Trump, NATO, Brexit for @repubblica. Some highlights:

1 - Johnson: “We've all made a big mistake in Europe, as soon as it was clear that Trump had got into a trap in the Gulf, that there was a kind of checkmate in the Straits, we should have realised that Europe should try as much as possible, within reason, to help America and help America get out of the mess. There's no doubt that this is a mess, right? I don't understand how the Pentagon thought they could do this…”

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

The ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz is deeply damaging. Getting global shipping moving is vital to ease cost of living pressures.

The UK has convened more than 40 nations who share our aim to restore freedom of navigation.

This week the UK and France will co-host a summit to advance work on a coordinated, independent, multinational plan to safeguard international shipping when the conflict ends.