Benjamin Butterworth
@benjaminbutter
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Journalist and broadcaster. Senior reporter for @theipaper. Also written for @WashingtonPost & @guardian. Indefatigable.
Joined March 2009
My god can we skip the Trump victim complex about him not getting the Nobel Peace Prize. The committee decided before any deal was agreed between Israel and Hamas. It’s not all about Trump. But, credit when due, if peace holds he should absolutely be a contender next year.
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Only man to appeal against conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot has sentence increased to 10 years https://t.co/nsvrzsxgRE
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A French court increases by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot.
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Taylor Swift's new album breaks her own sales records
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The star gets the biggest first-week sales of her career in the UK; and sets new records in the US.
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It is October 7th now. I have added the 🎗️ to my blazer to commemorate the victims. I will be back on @GBNews going over Tuesday’s stories in 🇬🇧 and 🇺🇸 until 2am with @beverleyturner
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The Palestine protesters have shown us who they truly are since the Synagogue attack.
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Come join us @PatrickChristys show @gbnews . The usual gang is here @benjaminbutter and @JakeBerry . There will be fireworks !!!
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Holocaust survivor Mala Tribich lights the final candle at the Trafalgar Square commemoration of October 7 🎗️
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What's coming up on the Press Preview? 📰 @SkyGillian will be joined by journalist @BenjaminButter and broadcaster and psychotherapist @LucyBeresford for a first look at tomorrow's top stories. 🕥 10.30pm 📱 https://t.co/13ONi7pgam 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602 and Freeview 233
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Hyacinth has kicked the bouquet 💔 Keeping Up Appearances star Patricia Routledge dies at 96
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She also starred in Alan Bennett's TV monologues and played the BBC's amateur sleuth Hetty Wainthropp.
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Heartbroken. Sick at the news. On our holiest day. Being a Jew in Britain feels unbearably lonely. Our days here feel numbered. We always knew this moment would come. It was never if, only when. No words. Only prayers for the murdered and the injured. 💔
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You cannot claim to care about Jewish people feeling safe in their country at midday, then let hate marchers parade through Britain’s cities at 6. It is obvious why they planned this for today.
Massive Palestine protest, this evening of all evenings. Featuring a sign accusing Keir Starmer of being a Zionist terrorist.
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On the holiest day of the year we are attacked at a Manchester synagogue. Our children walk to school behind barbed wire protected by guns. Yet some still answer this atrocity with “what about…” This is my country, the sanctuary my grandfather found after surviving the
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Listen to the Jewish community. They have been warning of the ugly, vengeful anti-Semitism on our streets, and they have been ignored. The horror in Manchester was predictable.
We have been shouting and screaming and shouting and screaming about this for months. Unfortunately our cries are far too inconvenient to the marching middle class virtue signallers enjoying their day in the sun. Now here we are. On Yom Kippur.
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It is Yom Kippur, the holiest period in the Jewish calendar. Britain's Jewish community is once again terrorised with reports of a stabbing at a synagogue in Manchester. https://t.co/xhwqcRFJRs
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Sir Keir Starmer says Britain must defeat a rising wave of antisemitism and promises Jewish people he will ensure the country is a place "where you and your family are safe, secure and belong".
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For seven months, BBC Panorama placed an undercover reporter into the Met. He was also secretly working for Panorama, capturing shocking video evidence of misogyny and racism at Charing Cross Police station. https://t.co/t6jqG5n1ba
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A BBC reporter describes secretly filming misogynistic and racist attitudes among serving Metropolitan Police officers.
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Keir Starmer doubling down on the "racism" charge. Fair play to him. He's right.
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