Benjamin Butterworth
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Journalist and broadcaster. Senior reporter for @theipaper 🗞️, often found on TV. Also written for @WashingtonPost and @Guardian .
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They all think they can get away with it, until they can’t.
Newsreader Huw Edwards has resigned and left the BBC, the corporation has said
Read the full story below ⬇️
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Don’t know why people think kids learning about gay relationships in school will turn them gay. I learned about World War Two, but am yet to invade Poland.
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Hang on. Dominic Cummings just said he went home to his wife, who was sick, during the lockdown, then left his home and returned to Downing Street in the afternoon. That’s a breach in itself.
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My beloved grandmother, my whole world, died earlier today. Everything I am is thanks to her. She saved me from violent, addicted parents to give me a chance at life. She gave me love and discipline and dreams. I am heartbroken. I cannot imagine a day in the world without her.
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[Graphic warning] I have just seen the raw footage from Hamas terrorists of their attacks on 7 October. The screams of civilians murdered in their cars, babies slain in Disney pyjamas, children begging for “daddy” as he is blown up, the dead spat on.
As they mercilessly…
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Kirsty Young’s monologue on the final departure of the Queen is utterly beautiful.
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Only a matter of days until Dominic Cummings is caught drinking at 22:30 to test his eyesight.
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British Jews owe you no explanation for the actions of the Israeli government. They do not need to explain their views on Middle Eastern conflicts to live without racism. It isn’t complicated.
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This is just nasty and unbecoming. Meghan looks like a school bully.
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@IndieWire
Harry Styles needs to stop cosplaying as gay. Quit toying with us and our experience for your own commercial exposure.
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This normal looking photo is an historic first: the gay prime minister of Luxembourg and his husband meeting with the lesbian prime minister of Serbia and her girlfriend.
Progress often seems far too slow. But it’s real, and it’s worth celebrating 🌈
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My mum has lost her job as a school cleaner because they found out she had a drug dealing conviction *23 years* ago. How can our criminal justice system say it aims to rehabilitate people when someone who hasn’t re-offended can be made unemployed for a crime decades later?
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Prince Harry has donated $1.5m from his book proceeds to a charity that helps people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa. He founded the charity with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho to honour Diana.
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A candidate for the most powerful job in the world, proudly displaying the love for his husband. A message to every gay kid in America that they can be anything they want to be. Even president.
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On A Level results day, I collected my grades, then went and got voted off the Weakest Link after Anne Robinson asked me if I was a virgin.
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Channel 4 launched an online streaming service *before* Netflix (or BBC, ITV etc.) and it was able to take that risk precisely because it is publicly owned and able to take risks in the interests of innovation. This seems to have been totally overlooked.
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Rishi Sunak describing himself as an example of Britain's meritocracy because his parents are migrants.
What he doesn't mention is that he went to a £40k a year school and is married to the daughter of a billionaire venture capitalist, who he worked for before becoming an MP.
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I see the people who riotously condemned Israel for the loss of life in Gaza are now vibing with the Houthi, who have killed more than 8,000 Muslims. It’s almost like its not about moral superiority, it’s about a hatred of Jews and the West.
It appears that this woman is thanking Yemen for firing missiles at unarmed ships.
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I had thought the death of the Queen would feel like it’s time for constitutional monarchy to end, but rather unexpectedly it has convinced me of why it is so important.
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This is heart wrenching. Gareth Thomas says that a journalist found out he is HIV positive and told his parents, before even he could. If journalists were treated like doctors, you would get struck off for behaviour like that.
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The Philip Schofield debacle has gone too far. An adult having a workplace affair with another adult is inappropriate, but it is hardly illegal. Obliterating their life and career in front of millions is deeply cruel, and I fear for Schofield’s wellbeing.
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When the govt told us to stay inside, not see our loved ones, cancel weddings and miss funerals, we did it. When they told us to go out and support hospitality, we did it. When they told us to wear face masks, we did it.
How dare they say we are to blame for their mishandling.
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The bigots and bots replying that they ‘do not believe’ this horror, that these slain civilians must have their tortured bodies displayed to the world, shows how acutely important it is decent people keep speaking up. They are trying to sew the seeds of a new holocaust denial.
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Only two days ago the Queen put on smiles to ensure the smooth transition between prime ministers. Learning how poorly the Queen is today shows how extraordinary her commitment to her people is. Every day of her life has been, as she pledged in 1947, devoted to service.
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God save whoever hacked Sputnik and did this 😂
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Clap for the NHS
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Imagine being so bad you get sacked from a Cabinet Chris Grayling is still in.
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I find the hypocrisy of Prince Harry breathtaking. After spending his entire time complaining of media leaks and manipulation by royals, he then reveals what Charles privately said right after burying his own dad. That seems pretty twisted to me.
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It's got lost in all the chaos, but MPs have voted to make LGBT inclusive sex and relationship education the law - by a huge margin of 538 to 21. After weeks of harmful, difficult debate about the rights of LGBT people, this is such a great step forward.
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Spain: Why haven’t you paid us €12m in tax that you owe?
Shakira:
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Uncomfortable to see so many people mocking Sasha Walpole, the woman who took Prince Harry’s virginity, for her looks and size. She didn’t say a bad word about Harry or Meghan - she just wanted to take control of her own story after being outed. What ever happened to
#BeKind
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Exclusive: BBC staff have been banned from attending LGBT pride events and told they could be suspended if they breach the new rules. David Jordan, the head of editorial policy and standards, took the decision on Wednesday.
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Amazing! These Polish MPs coordinated their outfits to make the pride flag at the swearing in of their homophobic president 🙌🌈
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@UEFA
You support diversity right up to the point it means something, and then you don't. You prioritise avoiding vague corporate discomfort over the basic human rights of some of your own Hungarian fans.
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Even Agatha Christie couldn't write this. Rebekah Vardy's PR, who seems to have admitted leaking in messages, was told to hand her phone over to the court. But the phone "regrettably" fell into the North Sea after a boat she was on hit a wave shortly after the last hearing.
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Today marks *10 years* since my mother last touched heroin 🙏 after battling drug addict since she was a teenager. She lost her home, her kids and her self-respect. Now she has been a decade sober and doing better than ever. It is the most extraordinary achievement.
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Not sure it was the best branding decision for Matt Hancock to launch his leadership bid in front of the word ‘cock’ at head height with a load of arrows pointing at himself.
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In 3 days at Manchester Pride, with thousands of people drinking in the streets, I didn’t see a single fight, not even a scrap. Can you imagine if that was football lads? The way this country obsesses over LGBT people, when the real threat is a crisis of toxic straight men.
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When I turned 30 last year, there was nobody else I wanted to spend it with. She woke me up in my childhood bed, we had cake, watched Bedknobs & Broomsticks and chatted for hours. We did it again when she turned 90. It hurts so much now. But Im glad she knew how much I loved her.
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I was standing outside Buckingham Palace as the Queen made her final journey through those gates. But I took my earphones out and put my phone away. It was a moment to feel, not to film. And what a daunting, sad moment it was.
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@maryamhaidar_
“Performative activism”? She got shot in the head. All you’ve managed is to write shit on the internet.
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There isn't another human on Earth who could command this scale of affection and gratitude as Queen Elizabeth II has. People lining the streets of London as far as the eye can see; billions watching on TVs the world over. What a remarkable send-off.
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@SamF_H
@IndieWire
Except he’s only ever dated women and never, ever said anything substantive that suggests he’s pursued a man, despite endlessly wanting people to think he has with vague comments.
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This is horrifying. Blockades to stop people buying books in Wales. What next, newspapers? It isn’t based in science, it’s based in control. This never happened in the full lockdown and it shouldn’t happen for one day more in Wales,
@MarkDrakeford
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This is powerful, and truly awful: “I’m sitting here waiting for them to come. There is no one to help me or my family. I’m just sitting with them and my husband. And they will come for people like me and kill me.”
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Has she joined ASOS?
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Shamima Begum seen in make-up and Western clothes as she seeks break with IS past.
Tracked down by the Telegraph, the one-time London schoolgirl declined to be interviewed, but agreed to pose for photographs.
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Boris Johnson announces 1.25% rise in National Insurance.
That means millionaire landlords pay nothing more, businesses pay nothing more, pensioners taking home cash from assets pay nothing… but a young person with no savings, no assets and stagnant wages is forced to pay £££s.
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Sorry but this is literally queen behaviour 🤣
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@GMB
For the uninitiated: John Fashanu disowned his brother Justin Fashanu for coming out as gay, and his brother later killed himself. In 2012, John Fashanu claimed his brother was not gay and was said he was an attention seeker.
Repugnant.
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A young person never complained, the police said there was no evidence of criminality - both before and after The Sun story - and yet a 61-year-old man's private life was mauled by millions, and he now lies in hospital, his life in tatters and wife begging for it to stop.
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Get back to me when you’ve turned your back on the pay cheque.
Brexit Party MEPs turn their backs in European Anthem at opening session of European Parliament
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I am stunned. The Met managed to track down my Southbank attackers and one of them has been arrested. Incredibly satisfying news.
Just got mugged on a post-work walk down the southbank. Three men punched me, strangled me until I couldn't breathe and threatened me with a knife. They stole my phone and even ran off with my glasses so I was totally disorientated. Little shits.
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Emily
@Maitlis
is absolutley right: coronavirus is not the great leveller. Yes, everyone is vulnerable, but some are far more exposed to that vulnerability than others, and they are often our lowest paid workers.
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Or they could tell boys to stop upskirting.
Schools are telling girls to wear shorts under skirts to stop 'upskirting'
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Jones exposed as the deeply condescending, arrogant and heartless individual he is. Unable to authentically sympathise with the people of Israel for the obsession with his own sense of intellectual superiority. He has always brought shame to the left.
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Sharon Osborne, a woman worth $200m, just said on BBC One that she forced a member of staff go into her burning house to collect artwork, then sacked him when they didn’t laugh about it the next day. That’s.. vile? 🤔📺
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This is stunning. Dominic Cummings travelled across the country to Durham to stay in another home *while symptomatic* with coronavirus. His wife claimed in the Spectator they had been in London. Prof Ferguson and Scottish CMO resigned for much less.
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The US has banned vaping following of six deaths. Meanwhile guns remain freely available despite 39,000 deaths a year.
White House announces FDA is going to take flavored e-cigarettes off the market
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Very moving to see Will Smith win the best actor Oscar for his portrayal of John Prescott.
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This is horrifying - crowds chanting “Shame!” outside a primary school at the name of a gay teacher.
You cannot make a child gay. But you can make them hate. And you can make innocent gay Muslim kids hate themselves with abhorrent situations like this.
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Asked for clarity on confusion, BBC said pride is fine if it is seen as a “a celebration”, but if the “trans issue" (as it was described) is involved then it passes as a protest and news and current affairs staff should not attend.
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Just received this email for daring to criticise Meghan Markle.
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When I was at school a bully threw a brick at me and cracked my head open. But I never joined fucking ISIS.
London Bridge terrorist 'turned to ISIS after being bullied at school'
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@CarmineSabia
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The only people whose mentality needs challenging are people like you who would rather spread hate and animosity than celebrate a happy family bringing new life into the world.
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As the world piles in with their view of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, I can’t help but think about what Meghan said just months ago.
"Not many people have asked if I’m ok ... it’s a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes."
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@CBSNews
I hope people don’t forget his mum died days ago. The most extreme pressure imaginable.
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Tonight I was compared to the Taliban - a group that beheads and murders women and gay people - for supporting trans people’s existence in society. A disgusting indictment of the assault on LGBT people and their allies. There is no low these people won’t go to.
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Owen Jones has been found guilty of bullying his own colleague, alongside other upheld complaints, Private Eye reports. Glad to see the
@guardian
finally seeing through him. Owen is a profoundly unkind man who has trolled me online - sometimes unprovoked - and it was horrible.
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I don't care if I'm meant to hate it all as a young person: I am excited for the coronation. Super excited. The pomp and glory and history and celebration of 🇬🇧 fills me with joy. It's worth it for that.
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@ShabanaMahmood
Your suggestion that kids knowing gay people exist is not “age appropriate” is the oldest homophobic trope in the book - smearing gays as predatory and peadophiles. This speech is courting serious bigotry for the sake of pandering to a section of your core vote.
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@SilverAlso
Yes. Several of their best known reporters, alongside other major broadcast and print news outlets. I am sure it will be widely reported.
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As a mark of respect, This Morning will no longer be offering the chance to have heating and instead be playing Spin to Win for the opportunity to queue jump to see the Queen’s coffin x
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@GMB
@piersmorgan
You don’t have to be a world gender expert to respect other people living as they were born to live. I stick by every word, Piers 💪🏳️🌈
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@InayaFolarin
Did you even read the sign you’ve tweeted? It literally says in small font that there are women’s and men’s toilets, it’s just that those two sets of toilets are up the stairs.
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@KilclooneyJohn
If you’re so ignorant as to not even know the name of the winning Vice President candidate in the UKs closest ally, then youre too ignorant to be shaping laws in the House of Lords
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All the homophobes saying it’s too confusing for kids to see gay characters, but think it’s totally normal for aardvarks to work as school teachers.
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If every school in Britain stopped mentioning that gay people exist, you would have no fewer gay people. What you would have is more scared, vulnerable gay people, failed by the education system we are all meant to rely on.
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@Crimsonguy69
The Israeli embassy did a screening for a group of reporters. They ask that events are reported, but graphic footage was isolated to the room at request of families.
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I feel so proud seeing long queues of fellow Britons getting their booster jabs. While the conspiracy theorists and covid deniers are hysterical on Twitter, in the real world people are taking responsibility and following the scientists ✌️
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This man was homophobically abused for putting a rainbow flag in his window for
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There are far, far more good people than there are bigots.
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Extraordinary that Dr Jenny Harries continues to dish out advice largely unquestioned 'because of the science'. Weeks ago she backed people going to sports events like Cheltenham, saying the virus wont last long outdoors. It was dangerous tosh we're paying the price for.
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200 million people just watched a Serbian lady wash her hands and sing about Meghan Markle’s hair. Only at
#eurovision
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This is *Amazing*. I found a shop in the capital of Kosovo called Hillary, that just sells versions of pantsuits worn by
@HillaryClinton
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This is a huge victory for the LGBT activists and allies around the globe who stood up to the brutal leader of Brunei and won. Now we need to push countries like Brunei to stop criminalising people who are born gay altogether.
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My mother has a lot of explaining to do.
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Dear
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The child of anti-gay parents is as likely to be gay as the child of any other parents. Your demands hand the power to homophobic adults to stop their kids understanding and feeling safe in themselves. That is profoundly wrong.
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Rang up my local GP’s office.
Me: “I need to see a doctor, please.”
“Of course. Our next available appointment is on Wednesday… 13 April.”
Me: “Why so long to see a doctor?”
“No, 13 April is next available phone call. They’ll assess if you can see a doctor after that.”
🤨👎
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It is understood senior management is concerned about the BBC being seen to take a side in the debate around trans issues, and has bracketed LGBT prides as political, alongside the likes of Black Lives Matter protests.
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Soho is absolute bliss this evening. Streets filled with people people eating al fresco, people signing outside restaurants to attract business. It’s heaven.
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Chris Grayling’s trial shift as a waiter went exactly as expected.
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I watched
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’s Panorama from *2015* on the Post Office scandal. The heartbreak of this woman who was jailed while pregnant, then put on suicide watch. Four years after this, Paula Vennells was awarded a CBE.
This scandal is about so much more than a computer system
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