SJ Bennett
@sophiabennett
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I write mysteries. Not here much. sophiabennett_writer on Instagram https://t.co/gNZdPetkuU @CCampbell_Agent
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Joined September 2007
More than just a bad apple: why we must look closer at the Nathan Gill scandal New evidence connects the Ukrainian politician who paid bribes to Gill - Reform UK’s former leader in Wales - to a campaign to destabilise the US election @carolecadwalla reports
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it’s a 2 minute radio program, never repeated, broadcast 18 times a week. Bigger audience than Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon … combined. Millions listen, with no need for the information it gives. Just to listen. The BBC Shipping Forecast is 100 years old.
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Reform keeps arguing that immigration is an issue when it isn’t. There is a by-election right now in Caerphilly and Nigel Farage’s party keeps saying that immigration is an issue there. BUT over 97% percent of people in the area were born in the UK. There are perfectly
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"Amateur sleuth Queen Elizabeth II is back on the case in 1960s England in the 5th installment of this historical mystery series The New York Times Book Review calls "sheer entertainment." Win a copy of @sophiabennett's "The Queen Who Came in from the Cold" from @crookedlanebks
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Three years ago, on 8 September, I handed in book 3 of my series starring Queen Elizabeth II as a secret sleuth. This weekend, I'm finishing book 6, set in 1966. If you're a fan of the series, book 5 will be out in November: The Queen Who Came In From the Cold.
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An excerpt from Randi Weingarten’s new book, “Why Fascists Fear Teachers,” reveals why Trump and the far right are demeaning teachers, slashing school funding, and rewriting history. 📕 https://t.co/rxfqLv5jKE
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🚨Rolling Stone is now confirming what we all knew happened with Jimmy Kimmel’s show. According to their reporting, executives at ABC and Disney didn’t think Kimmel said anything outrageous but they feared retaliation from Trump. This is a blatant attack on free speech.
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I love that Rolling Stone has a feature on our UK Channel 4 news. It’s true. Tomorrow night, the 17th of September, at 10pm, Channel 4 News will report a 100 of Donald Trump’s lies on national television. Welcome to the UK Mr President. #C4news
The special will catalogue over 100 of Trump’s lies and falsehoods, with “brief text-based fact-checks, offering viewers the truth behind the tweets, speeches and soundbites.” Details: https://t.co/V1PDyv1WND
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EXCL: A trove of leaked data from Boris Johnson’s private office reveals how the former PM has been profiting from contacts and influence he gained in office in a possible breach of ethics and lobbying rules. All the details here 👇🏼 https://t.co/e6NNDaXLHy
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Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests
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If only Angela Rayner had followed the Telegraph’s advice. Then they might not call her a hypocrite.
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Of all the ‘tax dodgers’ to pursue as a society, as a people, as a country we pursue…. Angela Rayner…. I can hear the guffaws right along the West Coast of the US…. in the St James Clubs… across private equity…. on the world’s fleet of private jets…. it is quite a feat
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The first handwritten letter from a Prime Minister to a departing minister I can remember. A significant, personal touch.
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Right wing media has had it in for @AngelaRayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake & has paid heavily for it. Hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics needs more voices like hers
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I find the way we destroy people with the courage to enter politics in this country utterly depressing. It is why I got out of newspapers. It isn’t just Angela Rayner. Read Sarah Vine’s book about the effect MPs expense farrago had on Michael Gove… we are red in tooth and claw
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Cant't wait for Bloody Barnes, the new crime writing festival in London in February. What a lineup!
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JD Vance’s security entourage in the Cotswolds is huge. By comparison, when the late Queen travelled round the UK she usually went by train. She and her companions would have 4 seats in a 1st-class carriage, plus 2 more for her detectives, leaving the rest of the carriage for
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- In the year to March, 96% of migrants to the UK were legal - 4% were illegal - 47% of people in a YouGov poll say there's more illegal than legal migration 'We are a gaslit nation' declares James O'Brien, as the 'sons and daughters of Brexit are fed a diet of misinformation'.
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... watching The Ballad of Wallis Island, by @timkeyperson and Tom Basden, with a sparkling cameo by Carey Mulligan. It was a gorgeous, gorgeous warm bath of a treat, about love and loss and growing up and moving on. Absolutely beautiful, and a worthy slam-dunk success.
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