This is the piece I was referring to. Well worth a listen, especially for journalism students...

Given that Arne Slot is now front runner to be the new Liverpool FC manager, I think it's worth pointing out his name is an anagram of 'L Treason'. If that isn't evidence of... something or other, I don't know what is.

If anyone wants to learn how to make a good radio package, just listen to the piece on shoplifting by Jim Connolly on BBC Radio 4 Today at 0810 - an absolute masterclass. A clear narrative, almost all of it recorded in situ, great voices and really made you feel like you were there.

The Treasury is claiming that hitting the target of raising UK defence spending to 2.5% of GDP in 2030 amounts to a '£75 billion increase'.

How do they get to this £75bn number? 🤨

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'The impact will be very significant'

Ukraine’s former Defence minister, Andriy Zagorodnyuk, tells Joe Inwood that western aid could turn the tide of the war. #Newsnight

The Iran-Russia-China “axis” is, currently, more rhetorical than real. The real threat is more subtle: each of these three countries seeks to leverage its growing network of multilateral partnerships to the detriment of the United States. ow.ly/YxLG30sBJfA

A guy did the London Marathon and had a different wine at each mile! That’s something I can get onboard with

Conservative MP & PPS at the Home Office Kieran Mullen says he expects
asylum seekers sent to Rwanda to physically resist deportation

He tells #Newsnight that *without* force you essentially haven’t got a deportation policy

It’s over. No more amendments tabled in the lords on the Rwanda bill

From blackouts to broadcast blockbusters – BBC Two turns 60 this weekend.

To mark the occasion, here’s a #Newsnight mash-up of some of its best moments.

Made by Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈

'We're facing the emergence of a new China-Russia axis.'

Former US National Security Adviser John Bolton tells Joe Inwood: 'I think the lines are being drawn, and I think it's a question whether, once again, the West will be able to stand up to the threat.'

#Newsnight

Ukrainian medics from the 28th Mechanised Brigade have been hard at work on the frontlines against Russia

Newsnight’s Joe Inwood has been given exclusive footage from documentary filmmaker Jamie Roberts of Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods on BBC iPlayer

Former British senior diplomat Edward Chaplin was kidnapped in Iran in 1987, and relations between the UK and the Islamic Republic quickly deteriorated afterwards

He spoke publicly for the first time since the kidnapping with Newsnight’s Joe Inwood

It’s a #Newsnight night 1030pm BBC Two BBC News (UK)

• Murrell #SNP
• Menzies #Tories
• the *new* mental health act fails victims killed by people with severe mental health problems - say families
• ex-England Children’s Commissioner & England’s Behaviour Czar on shocking

#Newsnight 1030pm

•Rwanda Safety Bill - the Lords refuse to back down on 2 amendments - ping pong continues.
Nicholas Watt has very latest + we’ll talk to a Cons MP LIVE

• Labour LIVE on their plans to try to get people on working age benefits back into employment plus

How did the theft of socks and a ladies handbag lead to a diplomat being kidnapped and all but destroy diplomatic relations between the UK and Iran... An extraordinary tale - with contemporary relevance.

For BBC Newsnight

youtu.be/C4ck4210Ij0?si…

A cartoon by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/TkLMMQG

'The overall death toll - of more than 50,000 - is eight times higher than the only official public acknowledgement of fatality numbers ever given by Moscow in September 2022'.

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Paedophiles could be stripped of parental rights under new law bbc.co.uk/news/uk-688307…

Using some amazing (but previously unaired) footage gathered by Jamie Roberts I put together this report on the combat medics of Ukraine's 28th Mechanised Brigade for BBC Newsnight

youtu.be/P16RycO27a4?si…