Columnist & interviewer, The Times. Orwell Prize for Journalism. Trustee of @AldeburghCinema.
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‘Martyn’s Law’ burdens every venue that can hold more than 200 with complicated, costly rules offering scant protection thetimes.com/comment/columni…
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Do village halls really need an anti-terror plan? My @thetimes column on the thicket of red tape, huge expense & false solutions of Martyn’s Law, coming to cancel your fireworks display or Christmas market soon.
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Neither Israel nor Cable Street… what do Greens & other Palestine flag-wavers want from British Jews? My @thetimes column
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Lord Archer called me “the most disgraceful journalist I’ve ever met.” When I met Jeffrey for @thetimes
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Judge celebrated people on how they treat those who have no power over them. From a @thetimes reader.
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I wish my local Green/LibDem council was just issuing statements on housing or bins. Not having to reassure frightened Jewish residents.
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“We only ban a march when its opponents will be violent.
We know Jews won’t kick off, so they have to tolerate a celebration of a recent Jewish massacre.”
Violent bullies always win.
What a way to police a city.
"Just ban it"
That was a common response to us urging students not to hold a pro-Palestine protest on Oct 7.
We can't ban protests & can only ask the Home Sec to do so if the risk of serious disorder is so high that it can’t be managed by conditions.
That's not the case here.
ALT An infographic setting out the powers available to the police under sections 12, 13 and 14 of the Public Order Act.
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Reform didn’t need to go to Nigeria: they could have asked me. The story about Kemi Badenoch & chess comes from my February 2024 @thetimes interview with her. Here is that section of the transcript.
Kemi Badenoch said she was Nigeria's national chess champion at age 7. So we sent a reporter to Nigeria to find out the truth.
She lied.
Here is everything else she has lied about:
Community note
Kemi Badenoch did not claim to be Nigeria's national chess champion. In the February 2024 Times interview transcript she said she won "a national competition for chess" at age 7 in Nigeria but immediately clarified "there were only two girls who entered."
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The PM presents fixing social care as painful, courageous, a sticking plaster ripped off. Instead it should be sold as good news for everyone not just the old. My @thetimes column.
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I interviewed the @WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich about his 16 months in a Russian prison, a story of incredible resilence and self-discipline for @thetimes thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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And my column on the women of Piddington and how the easiest way to radicalise Middle England is to tell people to suppress their rational fears. @thetimes
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I interviewed Sharon Horgan for @thetimes about whether 60 is the end of your sexual shelf life and her fantastic new show Youth, her best (in my view) since Catastrophe.
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I interviewed Dr Xand van Tulleken for @thetimes – and then I threw away all my vitamins and snake-oil food supplements. thetimes.com/life-style/heal…
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Janice Turner retweeted
"How can commercial surrogacy be illegal in Britain — as it is in France, Germany, Spain and Italy — yet we allow anyone, even sixtysomething single men who we’d never let adopt, travel abroad and buy a child in often dangerous and amoral jurisdictions?"
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Janice Turner retweeted
Six times Janice Turner asked Southwark's deputy leader a yes/no question: should the women-only session at Camberwell baths stay single sex?
The EHRC code took effect on 5 Aug. As she says, some councils are in denial...
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On my local swimming pool & the performative virtue of the councils still fighting the EHRC. My @thetimes column
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Why Labour is the only party which has never been led by a woman: my @thetimes column.
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