BREAKING: Having achieved nothing in many months of lockdown, today some good news. I have helped reunite a Syrian child with their mum in Britain. It is the single greatest achievement of my life.
There are thousands of Syrian children like the little one we helped this week, there is much more to be done. But for the child whose life we have transformed, for the family we reunified, for the love we have spread, I am grateful all the same.
#chooselove
Politicians, civil servants and exemplary British officials overseas have worked around the clock to make this reunion possible. Words will never be enough to thank them. And we don’t thank our politicians and civil servants enough.
A great-grandmother and Windrush campaigner who has terminal cancer has begged the Home Office to resolve her immigration status before she dies, but it has refused to expedite her case.
“Diversity matters hugely!” says BBC Executive Committee. The cttee is 94% white, 63% male, with an average salary of £316,000 (Over 11x nat average.) Diversity matters! Just don’t let it get in the way of assembling an old fashioned executive committee!
@BBCNaga
#nagamunchetty
An outpouring of love from every corner of the world for our little Syrian friend! I will make sure child and mum know how loved they are. Thank you everyone for being so kind. ❤️
#chooselove
#helprefugees
@jonlis1
Yes I feel the same - it’s old news already but still hard to accept that our country might be run like my disorganised household. Forgetting to pay for swimming lessons / sign up for ballet / join the ventilator procurement scheme.
My article in
@spectator
is now free to read.
Thank you to everyone has sent me kind comments, they really mean a lot.
Thank you also to
@FraserNelson
for believing us, caring about this and allowing me to write.
Moment
@TulipSiddiq
repeatedly warns
@alextomo
and the Channel 4 News team to "be very careful" before telling our pregnant producer "Thanks for coming Daisy, hope you have a great birth, because child labour is hard! See you!"
The head of the WHO on
#Tigray
#Ethiopia
“I haven’t heard in the last few months any head of state talking about the Tigray situation anywhere in the developed world. Anywhere. Why? Maybe the reason is the colour of the skin of the people in Tigray.”
LOL John McEnroe on
#Raducanu
when she was forced to retire at Wimbledon:
“It appears it just got a little bit too much...Allow her to take some deep breaths and maybe get some wild-cards. She’ll probably get one for the Australian Open but I’m not sure about the US Open.”
Emma Raducanu becomes first British woman to reach a Grand Slam singles final in 44 years, with straight-set win over Greece’s Maria Sakkari at US Open
I have produced a feature documentary for Channel 4 using never-seen-before footage captured by
#Grenfell
Tower’s Artist in Residence. Grenfell: The Untold Story will be on Channel 4 on Wednesday, September 8th at 10pm. Please watch.
My ITN role models are also women who spoke out against misogyny. The ones who reported harassment and sexual harassment in your newsrooms, who lost their jobs and who were gagged with NDAs. I salute their courage and indefatigability.
@cbmsilence
This International Women’s Day, we asked colleagues across ITN to tell us about a female role model who has inspired them.
With special thanks to our colleagues at
@ITNBusiness
and our women’s network Thrive for putting this film together.
#IWD2023
My first documentary has been nominated for THREE BAFTAS!
I am blown away and so proud of all my friends right across the
#grenfell
community who were so brave and so kind to work with us. This is for you. Never Forget.
@GrenfellTowerMC
@GrenfellUnited
If Sheikh Hasina is heading to the UK, major questions for Keir Starmer and the Labour Govt will surely follow.
In the UK a govt minister - Tulip Siddiq - once boasted that she “worked” for Hasina’s now toppled Awami League Govt.
#Bangladeshstudentprotest
I directed & produced
#Partygate
: Inside the Storm with
@bbclaurak
&
@BreakwellNeil
for the good people at
@BBCPanorama
For the first time, insiders have told us - in detail - what they saw.
Tune in to our documentary tonight on BBC 2 at 7 🍿
There is now a group of brilliant, talented, principled journalists outside ITN. All lost their jobs for reporting harassment, discrimination, bullying inside ITN newsrooms.
If you have been affected, my DMs are open. I know how scary it is. But you are not alone. x
We all owe thanks to the unshakeable, encyclopaedic
@peteapps
who has, for almost FIVE YEARS, been revealing the layers upon layers of injustice that caused the
#grenfell
disaster. His journalism is so important.
Follow him if you don’t already!
Report from today at the Grenfell Inquiry from
@luciemheath
:
Research required to begin a review of fire safety rules was not signed off by the responsibile ministers after it was branded “far from being a priority” in an email to ministerial advisors
Months ago, my daughter left her Elsa doll in the
@ltmuseum
Lesley who works there has kept us updated on Elsa’s welfare and today she posted Elsa home to us with a lovely letter. We are so grateful. Lesley, you’re the BEST 💖
Absolutely astonishing heartbreaking story by
@JackieLongc4
&
@C4Faye
now on Channel 4 News. The bank manager handcuffed & arrested - accused of everything from fire arms offenses to terrorism & money laundering. Then the police searched his mum’s house too. Because he is black?
I worked with the best journalists in Britain: Paxman,
@MichaelLCrick
Steve Smith, Tim Whewell, Kirsty, Maitlis, Liz MacKean and so many amazing crews, editors, production managers, producers and the prog’s lovely driver Dave Murden. God bless you Newsnight. You’ll be missed.
Good for
@BrentfordFC
and good for Thomas Frank. My brother in law sat next to him on the bus in Richmond the other day and he chatted all the way. No limos or posh cars thank you very much. 🚌 🚍
In my first ever shift as a freelance producer, I ran around TV Centre in West London and found
@theresa_may
in the lobby. She was Home Secretary. I begged her to sit in a studio and be interviewed. Kindly, she said yes and that’s how I got a job at
#Newsnight
Team Grenfell has already won a BAFTA for
#grenfelltheuntoldstory
but last night we missed out.
It was an honour to be there. Thank you to all my friends across the community for bravely telling us your stories.
@GrenfellTowerMC
@GrenfellUnited
And finally... after 7 joyful years at Channel 4 News, tonight I wave goodbye to my heroes
@jonsnowC4
@JackieLongc4
@lilo11
and far too many friends to mention.
Any questions to my disorganised assistant
@ben_wicks
but for now it’s back to that Quality Street tin.
British women can have their lives ruined by unscrupulous bosses simply because they asked if they are paid equally. This has to stop.
#therighttoknow
#showthesalary
The Fawcett Society supports the pledge to Show the Salary because we know the culture of pay secrecy undermines the fight for
#EqualPay
.
Join us in pledging to
#ShowTheSalary
:
We broke the story of the undercover cop Mark Kennedy with
@richardwatson1
from a court in Nottingham when the case against a group of environmentalists collapsed and the truth about
#spycops
exploded
The Ethiopian government has ordered Doctors Without Borders and the Norwegian Refugee Council to cease aid operations in the Tigray, Amhara, Gambella and Somali regions
Me & Allegra were first to tell the story of zero hour contracts on
#Newsnight
I woke up the next morn and it was the phone in on 5 Live. I realised we’d told something that mattered. Our friend Jonathan Callery filmed, I made the graphics out of post its
Here are me and
@AllegraStratton
in an old fashioned looking newsroom where we still wrote things down with pen and paper. Those days on the road, the long evenings in edits with such brilliant people, it was some of the most fun I ever had at work.
Wow! More than TWO MILLION people have watched our State of Chaos doc series on the BBC.
@bbclaurak
You too can catch up on iplayer right here:
#StateOfChaos
The best Arsenal
Anecdote: when Bergkamp signed, he knew he was a big deal when he saw himself on Ceefax “I call up Page 301 I'm shocked. In huge letters: BERGKAMP JOINS ARSENAL. For the 1st time it hits me: Woah! I'm on teletext. Me! I go to Page 302 DUTCH STRIKER GOES FOR £7.5M
Congratulations to all the nominees of the RTS Programme Awards 2022, in partnership with
@audionetwork
. See the full list of nominations here:
#RTSAwards
Tune in to the latest brilliant ep of
#stateofchaos
now.
9pm on BBC 2.
Massive shout out also to our friend and yours, shooting director supreme
@stupowell123
Tonight! and now on
@BBCIplayer
- if you're not one of the millions who've already watched it, you can now do all 3 in a box set binge - State of Chaos box set
Last night on our
#partygate
Panorama special, we revealed how a security guard who tried to stop a party in full flow was jeered at.
Today the
#SueGrayReport
describes ‘multiple examples of a lack of respect & poor treatment of security & cleaning staff. This was unacceptable.’
Me
@RSheikh26
&
@tomtraies
have been visiting schools to hear about Britain’s Crumbling Schools.
We met kids whose handwriting’s wobbly because their classrooms are so cold & headteachers who use sandbags & buckets in class when it rains.
Watch our film tonight BBC One at 8pm!
“The whole documentary is a treasure-trove of newsworthy snipes and seemingly minor revelations that coalesce into a picture of a government at loggerheads and in permanent crisis.”
Lovely reviews! Thank you. Off to bed.
#StateOfChaos
Just went to a kids piano recital. The first little girl played Chopin waltz in C# minor. My daughter played three blind mice very slowly with one finger, stopped, started again, ended abruptly and took a massive bow.
@krishgm
Yes!
Also if you tell women who report harassment at work that they should stop going on, or what they think is harassment isn’t, or they should protest in a less controversial way or concentrate on their job maybe ask yourself: am I the problem?
London private school
@JAGSschool
has 22 acres of fields, a purpose-built theatre, ozone-filtered pool & it claims to have “a social conscience.”
But its cleaners are treated like this? “When we get sick, we work while ill or lose our pay.
@UVWunion
🧵 Bangladesh’s Prothom Alo newspaper has a front-page story on the final moments of Hasina’s tenure. She insisted on using brute force until only 45 minutes before her departure; no amount of pleading from her aides and officials could persuade her to relent. 1/n
Our brilliant director and editor James Newton and Emma Lysaght at the
#BAFTATV
craft awards - thanks so much to Constantine Gras, all the Grenfell community,
@daisyayliffe
Amy Flanagan, Kirsty Cunningham, Sam Emmery and all the team thank you
Please watch our documentary this evening!
#Partygate
Inside The Storm on BBC 2 at 7.
You will hear astonishing testimony from Downing St insiders - speaking for the first time to us on
@panorama
Me & my kids made this mosaic with
@ACAVANorthKen
in honour of the Portuguese speakers of Grenfell Tower - including our friend
@MarcioPDSGomes
It contains 72 pieces of gold to remember those we lost - and it’s now in the pavement of North Ken.
#grenfell
#justiceforgrenfell
Anthony Scaramucci, former White House comms director on modern
#America
tonight on
#c4news
- ‘We’re a little crazy with the guns, so we should knock it off now. But by and large, the place is amazing.’
#GunViolence