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From Brentford to Berlin. 🐝🦁

For the first time in British broadcasting the leader of a party in the House of Commons will have his own nightly TV programme. Ofcom says this is allowed because ‘Farage’ isn’t a news programme even though its viewers think it is.

I’m getting more information about the Microsoft outage from watching New Delhi TV on Sky than I am from BBC News TV and radio. (I live in London).

Releasing major breaking announcements on social media levels out who picks it up first. Some UK media were well ahead of some US media.

Stewart Purvis Some timings: 1746 GMT (6.46pm BST): Biden's first tweet 1748 GMT: Reuters' first flash 1751G: AFP's first flash 1755G: Sky News tweets 1755G: NBC News tweets 1756G: BBC Breaking News tweets 1758G: CBS News tweets 1800G: CNN Breaking News tweets 1801G: ABC News tweets 1808G: Fox News tweets

70,000 in the Stade de France and the Olympics don’t start until tomorrow. It’s the quarter-finals of the Men’s Rugby Sevens and France are on soon.

It’s Argentina 14 France 26 as Les Bleus take their revenge for that ⁦Enzo Fernández⁩ video. 70,000 roar them into the semi-finals of the Olympic rugby sevens in Paris. #chelseafc

Thank you Paris. We only came for 24 hours of rugby sevens at #Paris2024 and everywhere we went helpful guides, many of them volunteers,made us very welcome across the city. Wish we’d stayed longer.

Interesting that the oft maligned traditional “MSM” broadcasters are far and away the most trusted sources of news BBC News (UK) 62%, ITV News 59%, Channel 4 News 59% …and that two of the top three are still produced by one small company: ITN ITN Reuters Institute

Ignore the lessons of history at your peril. The Royal Diamond Jubilee Flotilla 2012. #OpeningCeremony

Many thanks to the 50 people who came on my most recent ‘Hampstead Spies’ guided walk. Bookings are now open for Saturday August 3rd at 1045.It often sells out so book now at walks.com/our-walks/the-… ⁦London Walks⁩

Jeremy Bowen and Peter Snow are celebrating the 90th birthday of ITN and BBC foreign desk legend John Mahoney ( to the left of Jeremy). To generations of BBC and ITN reporters and producers John was always the calm, reassuring voice on the phone that you needed at tense times.

Brian wore his fame lightly .RIP. beesunited.org.uk/in-focus/how-a…

Farewell friend, Simon was one of the very best.

I found this a very moving report from Ukraine.

In the home of the KGB’s star spy recruiters in London we’ve found a new name on the residents list of the Isokon building who was also on MI5 suspects list. And so was her former boyfriend.

Very good news from ⁦Ofcom⁩ for the future of journalism on ⁦Channel 4⁩ ( but then I’m very biased on this particular issue) ⁦Channel 4 News⁩

I’ve written a blog about the research I did with Jeff Hulbert which led to this article by Nicholas Hellen. It’s at profpurvis.com

“The release of Hart’s 310-page MI5 file, obtained by Stewart Purvis, a former chief executive of ITN and Jeff Hulbert, a historian, has revealed more details about Hart’s secret life.” thetimes.com/uk/history/art…