Ben de Pear
@bendepear
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TV Journalist and Executive Producer, founder @Basement_Films. Former Editor of Channel 4 News. https://t.co/dCpQYbQ3xA @bendepear.bsky.social
Joined June 2009
Jemima Goldsmith has urged Elon Musk to stop suppressing posts on X about her jailed ex-husband Imran Khan, accusing the social media company of “secret throttling”. Read the full story here: https://t.co/fdtePJTDma
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May we all add to our Hanukkah prayers tonight a blessing for Ahmed El Ahmad. This is what solidarity looks like.
Extraordinary courage from Ahmed El Ahmad, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example. https://t.co/HTeLRTlbFV
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Absolutely extraordinary bravery
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Very proud that tonight in Tel Aviv “Gaza: Doctors Under Attack” is being shown at the @solidarityfilmfest
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You’re free to say whatever you like @trussliz and we’re all free to laugh at it
Britain's Free Speech Crisis | The Liz Truss Show | Episode 2 | Featuring @AllisonPearson, @Glinner and Lucy Connelly
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It has been another devastating year, filled with loss, destruction and death. Through it, B’Tselem continued to gather information and record testimonies in order to document what is happening on the ground under Israeli rule and to give the public the clearest and most reliable
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.@elonmusk Elon, you may recall we have met before. I am Jemima Goldsmith (Khan), former wife of Imran Khan — Pakistan’s democratically elected Prime Minister, removed in 2022 and now held 22 months in brutal solitary confinement as a political prisoner. Our two sons have not
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Hey @VodafoneUK why doesn’t your mobile app help with people abroad it’s on an AI bot loop
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THIS: Trump Administration Weighs Hitting UNRWA With Terrorism-related Sanctions - U.S. News
haaretz.com
Trump-appointed Political Appointees at the State Department Have Largely Driven the Push for Terrorism Sanctions on the UN Palestinian Aid Agency, While Many Career Officials, Including Lawyers...
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"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" @waadalkateab's work in Syria @Channel4News over 4 years garnered unprecedented or matched number of views & awards & culminated in the Oscar nominated film @forsamafilm watch her return;
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Military parades and celebrations have been held across Syria to mark the first anniversary of the fall of Bashar al-Assad, and the end of a five-decade dynasty of iron-fisted rule.
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Joe Root is finally a wizard in Aus after Harry Brook’s Bazball scarecrow act | Barney Ronay
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A tale of two Yorkshiremen, one keeping England in the series, the other batting without a brain
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The definition of free speech is the nonsense you put out there on a daily basis pedalling rubbish and rewriting your disastrous premiership. But keep it up @trussliz it’s hilarious and we’d miss it
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Waking up with @jimmaxcricket is an absolute pleasure. Just to be clear that’s on @bbctms and he’s in Australia
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A generation of Brexit editors led their readers to economic doom, Brexit slashed GDP by 6-8pc (Source: SIEPR) and today's headlines are by the hoodlums that created this bloody mess in the first place. I grew up with these editors, they should hang their heads in shame. This is
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Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So, so chilling.
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From back in the day: The Banks Files: How Brexit 'bad boy' Arron Banks was eyeing a massive Russian gold deal https://t.co/kUCL2XzG8t via @Channel4News
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Millionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks eagerly pursued a multibillion-pound gold deal brought to him by a Russian oligarch with links to the Kremlin just months before the EU referendum, Channel 4...
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That's a shame because all of them seem to think that Brexit has been an economic disaster. Might have been worth listening to them before, and now after Brexit.
I think people in this country have had enough of organisations with acronyms that have consistently got things wrong in the past
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Our friends in Gaza, 250+ of whom have been killed doing their jobs, won an @iemmys award last night for "KIll Zone: Inside Gaza" which we made for Channel 4. We are beyond proud that this film - one of the first to be made purely in Gaza was recognised for this honour, its 8th
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An extraordinary turn of events. The chill wind of Trump litigation against media organisations working exactly as it is intended. And another example of the internal neurosis over a largely irrelevant Panorama edit resulting in *more* partial coverage of Trump, not less.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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To repeat; Robbie Gibb stopped our access to politicians @Channel4News when we covered Windrush a story he thought "no one gives a shit about"; he has meddled repeatedly in editorial matters from the board; & am told he meddled to ensure our Gaza film did not run.
On Farage's teenage racism here is the piece we did whilst I was @Channel4News in 2013 https://t.co/sAJE7shcU3 & HERE how a @bbcnews investigation into his https://t.co/U8pSNMsjUA targetting the far right online was dropped after they emailed Robbie Gibb
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