🚨personal news🚨I’ll be leaving the BBC at the end of May. Newsnight in its current format will end then, so most posts will go. I decided not to apply for other BBC jobs. Working there for 35 yrs has been life defining: an eyewitness to history collaborating with such brilliant…

'You can take away Cabinet briefs but she has her own power base unlike any other member of the Shadow Cabinet'

The Spectator's Katy Balls explains Angela Rayner's role in the Shadow Cabinet and says her absence as a media 'attack dog' will raise Tory morale.

#Newsnight

'I remember people saying that in 2022 about 'Beergate' and then the Conservative's lost the guts of 1000 councillors'

Stephen Bush of the FT tells #newsnight he’s sceptical about the long-term political impact of the police investigation into Angela Rayner.

Tonight on #Newsnight with me - we explain why Angela Rayner is being investigated, what an Iran attack on Israel might look like, and we hear from the actors behind #Bluey ’s parents in the hit cartoon show. 1030pm 📺

Police investigate Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner bbc.in/3vGRK0W

EXCL: w/Charlotte Rowles

“Gang culture” at neurosurgery department, doctor alleges

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Ben Pimlott’s book #HaroldWilson says below on Janet Hewlett-Davies: “In terms of personal comfort and companionship he leaned on her a lot”. It goes on to say Wilson’s wife Mary “became irritated by what at times appeared almost like a schoolboy crush”. Patrick Maguire⁩

Our film on overcrowding in prisons (Eng & Wales) for #Newsnight - with insight from staff working inside them, as well as a recently released inmate. Scathing assessment from Nick Hardwick. Producer Jed Neill & shoot/edit crew Luke Winsbury

More of that NN reporting ⬇️👏

“Why should voters care if prison’s really awful, where not much education, rehabilitation happens?”

“Our reoffending rate in this country costs about £18bn a year.”
David Shipley, in prison 2020-2021 says reoffending makes up around a third of the cost of total crime.

Prison isn’t supposed to be glamorous - it’s a punishment - but most inmates are eventually released which is why the impact of prison life on them is so important. Former inmate Joseph says overcrowding inside is having a detrimental impact on rehabilitation. More on #Newsnight

“The Asian community up and down the country was under siege. It was about time we did something for ourselves. In the face of racist violence and injustice we fought back.”
This is OUR story. Please watch #Defiance Fighting the Far Right 9pm on Channel 4

Names of three British aid workers killed in Israeli strike in Gaza are John Chapman, James Henderson and James Kirby, BBC establishes bbc.in/3xsDKIm

First party political broadcast I’ve seen for local elections on BBC One just now from the tories. Stated mortgage rates beginning to come down. Not experience of several ppl I’ve heard from?