Ming Ho

Writer. @neversaidplay #WGGB Best Radio Drama; #AManySplendouredThing @BBCRadio4 Eps 1 & 2 @BBCSounds from Dec 2023:

[Ming Ho @Minghowriter]

.@BBCSounds Both eps of my dramatisation #AManySplendouredThing now online: Ep 1 https://t.co/wA2FJ27nJF, Ep 2 https://t.co/Gf6YK2akQ0. #HanSuyin's love story set amid revolution in #1940s #China & dying days of #colonialism in #HongKong with echoes today. #mixedheritage #ESEA

[Talking Pictures TV @TalkingPicsTV]

A British Gainsborough Pictures Classic! THE WICKED LADY (1945) 11:40am #TPTVsubtitles
Starring #MargaretLockwood #GriffithJones #JamesMason

[Annette Dittert  @annettedittert]

It's maybe time for a long story on @carolecadwalla who had warned and done the work on potential corruption around Farage et al years ago but was instead hounded and insulted and later sued.

Even worse, she wasn't listened to at the time. Why not?

[Eric Rose 🔶 @DoctorAngry]

Today, as on 7/7 each year, I remember my colleagues and very close friends who were in BMA House when the bomb exploded on a bus right outside and did their best without equipment to tend to the wounded and comfort the dying .

[Fig Newton @TopTerf]

To the London black cab driver who found me bloodied in the chaos of central London and drove me all the way to Reading: thank you.

Thank you for cleaning my face. For the sugary tea at the BP garage. For delivering me safely to my friend's front door and refusing to charge me a single penny.

In the trauma of that day, I never asked your name. I don’t think I even thanked you properly, and I am so sorry for that. But I hope you know that I remember you every single year.

You were a hero when London needed one most.

#SevenSeven
#NeverForget
#LondonBombings

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

NHS SPENT 11 MILLION POUNDS TRYING TO PROVE ONE CARDIOLOGIST WAS WRONG

Dr Raj Mattu flagged 5 patients crammed into 4 bed cardiac bays at Walsgrave Hospital in 2001. A 35 year old died because staff could not reach him in time.

He told @BBC. The trust suspended him, reportedly hired private investigators, and sent over 200 complaints about him to @gmcuk. All 200 were rejected.

At the 2016 remedy hearing the trust's barrister called him greedy for wanting the compensation he was already owed, then suggested he retrain as a school teacher on 30,000 pounds a year.

He won. Around 1.22 million pounds, up to 2.5 million once tax was added. The legal fight cost the trust over 11 million in public money.

Patients died. He spoke up. The system spent a decade trying to prove him wrong instead of fixing the ward.

Sources: @BBC @Telegraph @itvnews @guardian

[Catherine Roy @catherineroyuk]

One of several letters wishing midwives trained as nurses first.
https://t.co/e9L9DeAM3J

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

https://t.co/AfwPdlw1S4

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Bravo to the @Gabriel_Pogrund & team. This is the story in plain sight that needed to be nailed. Congrats are in order for getting it over a difficult line.

George Cottrell has operated with impunity at highest levels of UK politics for more than a decade
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[Ming Ho @Minghowriter]

@Helen_Whately You know that’s just not true. Shame on you.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"The scandal is not that the Jewish community received solidarity. It is that the same instinct simply has not been extended to Britain’s Muslims. There has been no Cobra meeting....not a single newspaper outside Scotland has carried the Edinburgh attacks on its front page."
https://t.co/DpIbLsEh0x

[Adrian Gosling @digitalsunshine]

"How on earth have have we ended up in this position?" asks Laura Kuenssberg, who along with Chris Mason, Henry Zeffman and co, have pushed long and hard for us to wind up in exactly this position

#bbclaurak
#BBCBreakfast

[Bobby Dean MP 🔶 @Bobby_Dean]

Russia is "creating fake online far-right and Muslim groups" to cause division.

They are promoting a "relentlessly bleak view of the UK and spread racist abuse about migrants and Muslims".

It is infecting our public debate and tearing our country apart. We must resist it.

[Brendan Cox @MrBrendanCox]

This is a brilliant investigation. It shows what many of us knew. Hostile states are supporting both Islamist & far right causes in order to divide us. If you are echoing those narratives you are aiding & abeting a hostile state.

https://t.co/Qr8sbm42zv

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenothate. Huge kudos to all involved.

B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity.

“You are not numbers or case files.

“You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

Barely a month ago this man was imprisoned for the violent rape of a Sikh woman believing that she was a Muslim. No Douglas Murray articles in the Spectator, no Baroness Fox speech in the Lords. No riots. Two tier? Too right https://t.co/8wABWe3bww

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

BBC PAID A WOMAN HALF A MAN SALARY FOR THE SAME JOB AND THOUGHT NO ONE WOULD NOTICE

Carrie Gracie spoke fluent Mandarin. Ran the @BBC Beijing bureau. Thirty years of service. One of four international editors at Britain's most prestigious broadcaster.

Then the BBC was legally forced to publish salary data in 2017. Gracie looked at the list. Her male counterpart covering North America was on up to £249,000. She was below £150,000. Not even on the published list. Neither was Europe editor Katya Adler. The two women. Funny that.

She had explicitly made equal pay a condition of taking the China role. The BBC said yes. Then paid her nearly half anyway and apparently hoped she'd never check.

She checked.

She asked for equal pay. The BBC, with the confidence of an institution that had been getting away with this for decades, offered her a raise that still left her short.

She turned it down. Resigned from the post. Published an open letter to the licence fee payers explaining exactly what their public broadcaster was doing with their money.

The BBC's response was to put her through nearly a year of their own internal grievance process. Run by the same institution she was complaining about. Investigating itself. Shockingly, it went nowhere.

It took three separate meetings with the Director-General and the concrete threat of an employment tribunal before the BBC caved, issued a public apology, and paid her £361,000 in backdated wages.

She gave every single penny to the Fawcett Society (@fawcettsociety).

A publicly funded broadcaster. Breaking equality law. Caught red-handed. Dragging a 30-year employee through a year of institutional theatre. Paying up only when a judge became a realistic possibility.

[Nick Raine @nick_raine]

At least 40% of #UniversalCredit claimants are in employment. They claim because their employers do not pay them enough. The overwhelming majority are working class women in low paid jobs, many work in care. The solution is a proper living wage not attacking the working poor.

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

Henry Nowak's father outside court yesterday: "We do not want Henry's murder to be used to create further hatred, division or tension."

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

A fully qualified FY1 doctor earns £19.27/hr after a 5-6 year medical degree and £100,000+ of student debt.

Doctors have faced some of the worst real-terms pay cuts in the public sector, and still earn a fifth less than in 2008.

Restoring pay to £22.67/hr over time is overdue.