Desperate TikTok lobbying effort backfires on Capitol Hill bbc.in/48Ljnn0

Excited to announce that in honour of #internationalwomensday2024 the creative team behind CrashBurnsPlay hosting a one-off Comedy Writing and Collaboration Workshop with Omnibus Theatre.
More details and pay-what-you-can tickets here: omnibus-clapham.org/comedy-writing…

McConnell endorsement of Trump is no surprise. Here's a snippet from an interview I did with him in April 2022.

If you watch anything this weekend watch this brilliant documentary about a modern Russian hero who stood up to Putin. Alexey Navalny was persecuted, poisoned, imprisoned & died because he dared to do so.
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Tucker Carlson interview: Fact-checking Putin's 'nonsense' history bbc.in/3UzhKoY

US Senator Chris Coons finds doppelganger in German Chancellor Olaf Scholz bbc.in/42Dz9yD

📰⚡️ What does Vladimir Putin gain from his Tucker Carlson interview?

✏️ by me and Matt Murphy

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Interesting to hear Tucker Carlson claim that “no western journalist has bothered to interview” Putin since the invasion of Ukraine. We’ve lodged several requests with the Kremlin in the last 18 months. Always a ‘no’ for us.

Since last summer I've been investigating reports of widespread sexual abuse within a secretive Christian church known as The Truth. Last month I called an ex-minister accused of sexually abusing a boy for six years, and he agreed to talk. bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…

This government minister, pressed for an example of BBC bias, names a reporter called Neil Buchanan.

There is no BBC reporter named Neil Buchanan.

Neil Buchanan presented Art Attack on CITV in the nineties and noughties.

Govt says there’s evidence of bias at the #BBC ?

But Culture Sec Lucy Frazer can't quite find the words or examples…

#KayBurley FC

US launches fourth round of strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen bbc.in/48EFlsm

Wrote a piece with Ouch Sony on Henry Kissinger's devastating legacy in Cambodia. bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

My story is pretty straightforward - the UAE planned to use the COP28 climate talks to make oil deals. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

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Well done to Laura FitzPatrick for making this year's ReelWorld Europe Radio Academy 30 Under 30! #RWRA30 🏆

Ken Early on Stephen Kenny: His vision did not long survive contact with reality, but those now putting the boot into him should remember that the crowd responded to him because he had the courage to offer them a vision in the first place.
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Some great insights in this piece from Max Matza on what this week's bust of 16 alleged mafia members means for organised crime in New York, and what we learned about the state of the mob from the indictments
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Since there's no jury, Judge Arthur Engoron is the sole arbiter of Trump's fate in the NY business fraud case. So why would he antagonize the judge all throughout his testimony?

Matt Murphy tries to get some answers bbc.com/news/world-us-…

Should domestic abusers have guns? US Supreme Court will decide in United States v Rahimi bbc.in/40zT3d2