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Alexandra Topping

@LexyTopping

Senior reporter at the Guardian, currently covering the media beat. Northerner stranded in the South. Long-suffering Evertonian. Views are mine alone.

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linkhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/alexandratopping calendar_today03-03-2009 11:57:46

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🚨 Rare job alert 🚨 We are looking for a North of England reporter to join our crack northern team while I’m away presenting Today in Focus workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/337/

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EVERY SINGLE CHILD Ofcom interviewed had seen violent content online. How have we let these companies do this to our children? theguardian.com/technology/202…

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CPS lawyers trivialise teen sexual abuse
Independent examination of rape prosecutions hears lawyers are ‘obsessed’ with credibility of victims and use victim-blaming language
theguardian.com/law/2024/mar/1… Alexandra Topping on The Guardian

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“Soteria is a start, it’s a signal of hope.”But “we need to keep going”, take a truly “end to end” perspective on justice, and learn how to prevent sexual violence from happening in the first place. My views in Alexandra Topping analysis piece The Guardian 👇 theguardian.com/law/2024/mar/1…

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With the chancellor bombarded by calls for tax cuts from the right of his own party, a large coalition of campaigners inc Trades Union Congress Women's Budget Group Fawcett Society PregnantThenScrewed say further cuts to broken public services will reverse equality theguardian.com/society/2024/f…

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‘Had such fun talking to some talented, and unsurprisingly funny, people in UK Comedy >> We’re going back to silly’: what’s the next turn for British comedy in era of nostalgia? theguardian.com/culture/2024/f…

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It's a funny one this - simply an attempt by the Indy to attract vanishingly rare advertisers?>> Independent in talks to take over BuzzFeed and HuffPost in UK and Ireland theguardian.com/media/2024/feb…

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Every BBC executive: 'People have to see and hear people they relate to on the BBC'
Ofcom: Working class people see little representation on the BBC of “normal, working-class lives”
Also BBC: How about the great-great-grandson of Sir Alexander Grant, 1st Baronet for Going Home

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Disappointing to see the BBC bypass people who’ve spent their lives honing their craft in radio. A platform like Radio 1 doesn’t need “celeb” presenters.

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I'm writing about TV comedy this week, whether there is a crisis or plenty of new, great stuff is coming through. I'm looking for great people to talk to about it, so would appreciate any steers! (yes, this is a blatant beg)

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It drives me CRAZY that school shoes for my girl have stupid straps, bows, expose half the feet & are shiny but for my son they are comfy, reinforced for play and cover the whole foot. Sort it out Clarks Shoes Start-Rite Shoes M&S theguardian.com/education/2024…

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Avon&Somerset's Sarah Crew is, in my opinion, one of the bravest public servant's we have in this country - she knows how hard it is to make change happen, and change can only ever happen when you expose what is going wrong

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