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[arlenegreg @arlenegreg]

https://t.co/I1uY67gvdk

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

Thank you so much for this, Rupert. Most Brits quietly agree with you, but there are some who don’t understand what impartiality means, and think we’re being biased because we’re not biased in their favour. Best wishes.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The pianist Olena Kohut was killed in today’s Russian ballistic missile strikes with cluster munitions against the city center of Sumy.

She is one of 32 Ukrainians killed in the Palm Sunday strikes.

99 people were wounded.

[Rt. Hon Ben Wallace @BenWallace70]

Here are some genuine fake news that the Whitehouse now spouts: 1. We have given over double what Europe has to Ukraine. ❌ In fact Europe has given more. 1/3

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

Pres Trump: ‘I think Europe has given $100bn [to Ukraine] and we’ve given, let’s say, $300bn plus.’ The most reliable figures show the EU has given $138bn to Ukraine, while the US has given $114bn. In 2024 Europe and Canada provided nearly 60% of NATO’s security aid to Ukraine.

[Simon Calder @SimonCalder]

Trainline charges fees on about 1/3rd of the tickets it sells, in addition to the 5% commission it earns.
So I was surprised to read the claim: ‘You won’t find cheaper tickets anywhere else.’
You will – just choose one of the fee-free rail firms/retailers.
https://t.co/sqr6OraYIU

[Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire]

To all women invited for @NHS breast screening - the
earlier breast cancer is detected, the greater the chance of survival.

Please go.

It might just help save your life

[arlenegreg @arlenegreg]

Five key impacts of Brexit five years on https://t.co/36ny2yydVM

[arlenegreg @arlenegreg]

How Elon Musk seized on baseless memo claim to fuel wave of misinformation https://t.co/ltmBSeBnXK

[BBC Current Affairs @BBC_CurrAff]

25 Years of the 21st Century...

Episode 2: The Age of Mistrust

@matthewsyed asks if we have lost faith in institutions, politicians - and even money?

🎧 Listen on @BBCSounds.

https://t.co/dBkBF57Hji

[Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinson]

It is easy…tempting indeed…to be distracted by the sound & fury of the battle between two powerful men – the billionaire who owns X and has turned it into a megaphone and the British Prime Minister. However, this story is much more important than a clash between Elon Musk and Keir Starmer. It is about how to protect girls and young women from terrible sexual abuse. For more than 10 years official reports and police investigations have revealed that some have covered up and others have played down the fact that gangs of men - mainly but not exclusively of Pakistani origin - have targeted, groomed, raped and tortured mainly white girls. Musk has attacked and abused the PM and his safeguarding minister Jess Philips for refusing to agree to a new inquiry into what really happened. The Conservatives and Reform UK have echoed his call if not his language (which, the former head of counter terrorism, has warned risks inciting violence). Now the one woman who had not commented when so many others had has broken our silence. Professor Alexis Jay - who chaired the Independent Inquiry into child sexual abuse which reported more than two years ago and who led the investigation into the cover-up of masss rape in Rotherham more than a decade ago - has told me on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme there is no need for a new inquiry. What’s more she argues that it would get in the way of what needs to be done – implementing the findings of her report which was published more than two years ago. Professor Jay refuses to comment on the words used by Musk or, indeed, Farage or the shadow Justice secretary – the Conservative Robert Jenrick who has argued that what is to blame is mass migration of millions of people with what he calls "alien cultures". However, she had a clear message for them all. Those who "politicise child sexual abuse" are ignoring the needs of the victims she says. In another interview on the Today Programme I asked Robert Jenrick whether he accepted the Conservatives in government for 14 years had failed to do enough to tackle a problem that was first highlighted more than a decade ago. Why, I asked him, had Tory ministers failed to implement the recommendations of the inquiry? Why had they refused calls for a second wider national inquiry when they had the power to set one up. I asked him whether he’d ever raise these issues as a minister in the Home Office and pointed out that there was no mention in the parliamentary record Hansard of him ever raising the subject before Elon Musk did. Finally, and perhaps most significantly, I asked Jenrisk whether he now wanted to stop immigration from those "alien cultures" he condemns despite the fact that immigration from, say, Pakistan has recorded since Brexit and that many of Pakistani heritage have and are serving this country proudly - not least the former Home Secretary Sajid Javid and the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. You can hear his answers by listening back to the Today programme on @bbcsounds at 8.10 (that's 2 hours & 10 minutes into the programme) and Professor Jay's at 7.30ish (one hour & 30 minutes into the programme)Jenrick, like Messrs Farage and Musk insists that much more is now known about what happened in the past and much more needs to be known about what might be happening now right across the country. So they argue that there is a case for that second enquiry. Jay argues that that would distract from implementing the protections that are needed now and which the Home Secretary hastily announced last night - making it an offence to know about but not report or to actively cover up child sex abuse and improving the collection of the data on who the offenders really are.Having spent years investigating these crimes - unlike some who read a few tweets before firing off their own ill informed opinions - she is clear about two things. Firstly, the scandals exposed in Rotherham and Oldham - the covering up of mass child abuse - has undoubtedly happened elsewhere any may still be happening now. Secondly, child sexual abuse is not limited to any one group in society as repeated scandals have revealed.
I've written this long post to put into context the clips of the interviews I'm also posting which I know will be taken out of context by some who want to abuse their political opponents more than they want to stop the abuse of young girls

[Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire]

Survivors of Telford abuse crimes & the mums of two women murdered by boyfriends say of the Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips that ‘no one in public life has done more to support victims and survivors and to advocate for their interests’

https://t.co/idKx2kJN5W

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

The Crime Survey for England & Wales says incidents fell sharply from 1995 to 2024. ONS data shows crime in England & Wales is at its lowest recorded level. Burglary is 70% lower than in 2002-3. Domestic violence and car crime have dropped precipitately since the 1990s.

[BBC Current Affairs @BBC_CurrAff]

25 Years of the 21st Century...

@matthewsyed remembers some of the big events of this century and asks how they’re shaping us.

Episode 1: The Age of Digital Warfare

🎧 Available now on @BBCSounds.

https://t.co/PNw8hf3SSg

[Matthew Syed @matthewsyed]

Astonishing discussion with @antbruceking, General Nick Carter and others on how Musk and tech billionaires now have direct control over key military capabilities 👇

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Thames Water took out £195.8 million in dividends last year which broke the @Ofwat rules and could not be justified https://t.co/yUTjsi16oZ regulator will (try to!) recover £131m of them. It is one of four suppliers saying yesterday’s 35% price rise deal not enough

[andrew harding @AndrewWJHarding]

Behind the mask of the “perfect husband.” My profile of Dominique Pelicot. https://t.co/80zNAXJ0Es

[andrew harding @AndrewWJHarding]

Here's our radio documentary about the Pelicot trial and its implications for France. @BBCSounds @bbcradio4 with @arlenegreg and many others.
https://t.co/oiqATzE45b

[arlenegreg @arlenegreg]

#giselepelicot wants "the shame of #rape to switch sides" and tells rape survivors around the world: "look around you, you are not alone". In our @BBCRadio4 documentary @AndrewWJHarding asks what this case reveals about #France :
https://t.co/MRHEk2xqKB

[andrew harding @AndrewWJHarding]

Here's our BBC iPlayer documentary about the Pelicot case: https://t.co/Wa9hrLevpQ