Had an incredible response to John Morris & Brian Unthank on #Newsnight
John a laundry operator for the armed forces, Brian an RAF cook - both witnessed UK nuclear tests in 50s & 60s without a scrap of protective clothing, & have had serious health problems as a result.
The Newsnight Pelicot interview a remarkable interview and piece of television. Pelicot the epitome of dignity and strength. And pitch perfect from @vicderbyshire.bsky.social
Gisèle Pelicot: The Newsnight Interview review – you can only gaze admiringly at her strength and grace
Gisele Pelicot - the #Newsnight Interview
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“When they are defending their liberal democracy, they are in fact defending ours as well.”
ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus shares a Christmas message with #Newsnight and says that the Ukrainians “deserve all the support they can have from us.”
WATCH: Lord Heseltine pressed on Reform "equivalents to the fascists in the 30s" comments
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Newsnight stories & interviews were viewed
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Virginia Giuffre's family call for Duchess of York to be stripped of royal title
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#Newsnight is expanding - we’re going GLOBAL 🌎
From tonight for a trial period we’re LIVE on the global feed of BBC News at 1030pm
Am v much looking forward to saying ‘and welcome to our viewers around the world’ :)
‘Newsnight has gained a new lease of life….in the age of social media, opinions abound but the kind of thoughtful analysis provided by Newsnight is in short supply’
So says Daily Telegraph 👇
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IN FULL: “There is a reason why at hockey games Canadians are booing the US national anthem… we are insulted, we are mad, we are angry”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social speaks to Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly about US tariffs and the "51st State"
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“I thought for many years that in my lifetime I would see America become a rogue state and that’s happened”
Podcaster Gabriel Gatehouse expresses his shock after Presidents Trump and Zelensky's historic White House meeting, adding "this is a mafia shakedown".
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#Newsnight stories & interviews were viewed 20,892,000 times in December
THANK YOU to you :) 🙏
“I might have stood down this summer if they hadn’t gone round boasting they were trying to ban me as a candidate”
“I think the Conservative Party is in serious danger of not existing”
#NewsnightExtra | Diane Abbott & Tim Montgomerie discuss their year in politics
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“No no no no no. Everyone who knows me...knows I’m heading towards Wiltshire not Washington.”
Peter Mandelson, who is now set to become the UK's Ambassador to the US, when asked by Kirsty Wark about the rumours in July earlier this year.
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A year ago the BBC seemed to have handed the death sentence to Newsnight…yet the dire prophesies have been defied’
@iburrell for the i paper writes that the average audience is up 30% since NN’s relaunch & the digital views for its interviews are in the tens of millions
Robbie is one of the best. Lucky Newsnight. Give him a follow if you don’t already.
WATCH: The full @vicderbyshire.bsky.social interview with Gisèle Pelicot's lawyer, Stéphane Babonneau, is available to watch on YouTube.
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“For the first 10 years [I was working] 120 hours a week - I was sleeping 20 hours in a whole week.”
Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal speaks to @vicderbyshire.bsky.social about his recent diagnosis for bipolar and his wife’s decision to have him sectioned.
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“Republicans on Capitol Hill seem to be absolutely astonished”
Newsnight Political Editor Nick Watt shares some of the feeling in Washington DC about Matt Gaetz's nomination to be Donald Trump’s Attorney General
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