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The distinction is clear. BBC is a public body. ITV is a commercial station - it's a public limited company. The former, regulated with strict policy around bias and journalists and presenters personal opinions. The other isn't, to the same degree. Both regulated by Ofcom.

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they think they have carte blanche (yes that usage is apt too) to abuse, intimidate and destroy the property of people who have done them years-long service, and been longstanding members of their local community. I hate the far right. They throw stones and hide their hands.

The scum who did this - and they are scum, knowing exactly where that usage has its roots - will have eaten food prepared for them here on many occasions. They'll have chatted away to the family who run the business and maybe know them by name. But now, because they're emboldened.

I'm from #York. I'm absolutely horrified by this. I'm not going to say racism never existed growing up - I didn't face it, and I won't erase the experience of the PoC I grew up with. But still, it never felt like a city where prejudices like this were writ large and unquestioned.

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spectrum, by and large, reflecting views of the viewership, but it's led by women who know what they're doing - Charlene White, Kaye Adams, JSP, Jane Moore, Christine Blakeley, Mariella Frostrup to name a few, who know how to steer informed conversations, incisively.

where their job calls on them to engage with highly sensitive, polarised issues, then they need the support of people with that journalistic background and to be prepared to learn from them. @loosewomen does achieve that blend with a mixture of voices from across the political.

personalities. This isn't to say they aren't entertaining, or have insight or something to say. But, if you want a job doing, @ITV, you have to choose the people best equipped to do it - with the necessary experience. And if those presenters find themselves in the position.

at least with the former, the research has been done before every interview or think piece. It isn't to call Rylan names to speak of how ITV's flagship show has been dumbed down, with the shift from journalists to entertainment presenters, ex-popstars and now former reality TV.

and frothy, but it was informative too - underpinned by the fact that, love them or not, they both came with a journalism background and knew how to fact-check and push back. I don't always agree with Madeley on @GMB and much less Eamonn Holmes now he's on the other, but.

The issue with this isn't one man with misguided opinions - it's about @ITV @thismorning choosing people to front their show and debate these issues that don't have the experience to do so with the necessary critical rigour. When it started with Richard and Judy, it was lifestyle.

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A lovely thing that a panel of writers and critics found these new poems to have creative originality and literary merit, after all. Mòran taing dhaibhsan.

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For immigrants who sign, meaningful integration is always going to start, at least, with another #SignedLanguage. Perhaps in his tweet we hear Rupert's privilege of ability talking, too, as well as his #monolingual ignorance. #Languages #Multilingualism #BSL #ASL #English.

first option, when it comes to integrating an immigrant in those circumstances. Rupert doesn't acknowledge that #BSL, or #ISL, or #NISL exist (and aren't all the same!). He thinks that to live here, you have to speak to him on his terms, in his #language.

But perhaps the hearing and speech impaired have an experience of language that Rupert might be able to grasp, if everything above is beyond him. It's not rocket science that, if someone has difficulty hearing or speaking, it's a spoken language might not be the best. #BSL #ISL.