Robert Peston
@Peston
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ITV (pol ed), Speakers for Schools (founder), writer (WTF), Hospice UK (vice pres), Arsenal (East Stand), Peston (as in #Peston show, 10.45pm Weds). So?
Joined March 2008
How to fix Britain? Kish and I have a few ideas. You can read them today
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RT @ITVJoel: 7th September 2025. ITV News v BBC v Sky v CNN - who wins?. Records will be set, sinews will be strained, epic poetry will be….
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How close is the UK to an economically lethal debt spiral? What should the government do about it? New Rest is Money podcast.
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RT @NesrineMalik: From Anas’s pre-written final message, to be posted upon his killing. ‘May God be a witness to those who remained silen….
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RT @AlexCrawfordSky: IDF says it’s killed Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif @pressfreedom and others warned of his death a few weeks a….
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New York, July 24, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely worried about the safety of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza correspondent Anas al-Sharif, who is being targeted by an Israeli military...
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2 progressive rabbis were booed off a stage for saying all lives matter. This is the speech in favour of a two-state peace framework for Israel and Palestine they wanted to give at today’s demonstration to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas .
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Co-heads of Progressive Judaism, rabbis Charley Baginsky and Josh Levy, were told to leave the stage after being drowned out by jeers. This is the speech they did not complete
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RT @itvnews: Nicola Sturgeon: My arrest was 'horrific' and part of me 'closed down'. Read more: . Watch Nicola Stur….
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In a wide-ranging interview with ITV News, the former first minister also expressed regret in her handling of transgender legislation during her time in office. | ITV National News
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RT @itvnews: Nicola Sturgeon has spoken to ITV News' @julie_etch about the arrest of her then-husband Peter Murrell and her own arrest in….
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The Bank of England’s cut in interest rates today may not be wrong but it is slightly puzzling. The minutes of the meeting of its decision-making Monetary Policy Committee says “overall the MPC judges the upside risks around medium-term inflationary pressures have risen slightly.
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Is there any case for Trump’s new round of tariffs? Will low-income voters, squeezed by tariff induced rises in living costs, ever turn on him? I talk to Philip Coggan about “The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump,” on Rest is Money pod.
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Peston’s Inbox: Going nowhere | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
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Keir Starmer’s going to have a very normal holiday because he’s a very normal guy
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The foreign secretary David Lammy talks to @chedwardes about the timetable for recognising Palestine, his respect for Diane Abbott, therapy, the taxi-ride from hell and taking mass with JD Vance
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His first 12 months at the Foreign Office have been hit by a string of high-stakes international flashpoints, from the unfolding horror in Gaza to regime change in Syria and Trump’s humiliation of...
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In response to the Lords lawyers’ letter in the Times that says the PM has breached international law by saying he will recognise Palestine, the distinguished human rights and international law barrister Philippe Sands says they are wrong, in a note to The Guardian. “I have no.
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Why is the fastest growing demographic of shoppers not properly catered for? Steph talks with Heather Jackson about the economics of menopause. New Rest is Money podcast .
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STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.30 July 2025. British hostage families are deeply concerned that hostages have been made a bargaining chip by the UK in its Palestinian State declaration statement. Since October 2023, we have represented the 7 families of the 10 hostages held by.
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RT @AdamWagner1: STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.30 July 2025. British hostage families are deeply concerned that hostages have been made a….
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Starmer’s new position on UK recognition of Palestine is intriguing. He says the UK will do this in a formal sense at the UN in September “unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza, reaches a ceasefire, makes clear there will be.
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