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@reuters Durham University Tina Brown…

A timely visit by Antony Blinken in a perilous period for Ukraine.

The front has turned from a relative stalemate to a major Russian offensive in 2 weeks

30,000 🇷🇺 troops have taken 50 square miles of once-liberated territory

An attack on the Sumy region is also anticipated

BREAK: Labour MP Rosie Duffield MP says Natalie Elphicke should have the whip suspended while investigation takes place into our revelation that the Dover MP lobbied the justice secretary over her then husband’s sexual assault trial.

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This is a v important point.

But achieving it won’t be an easy task - it will require a more mature net zero strategy that actively engages with the trade offs of the transition and makes decisions not just on the basis of decarb but also wider social & economic priorities

Tortoise editor James Harding told a Lords committee last month that he had written to Ofcom's chief executive warning advertising on BBC podcasts would 'drain advertising away from journalism':
pressgazette.co.uk/podcasts/james…

Publishers including Global, The Guardian, DMG Media, Reach and Tortoise have written to the Culture Secretary about BBC plans to run ads alongside its podcasts on third-party platforms, saying they are 'highly likely to have a significant adverse impact'
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I like the BBC but they really need to stop suffocating the podcast market. Years ago I had lunch with a US exec who wanted to have an operation in london and the numbers just made no sense - mostly, he said, because of the BBC

Disturbing news from the frontlines near Kharkiv. A direct result of a lack of Western supplies. Russian troops not far from being able to set up artillery against the city. And we know the devastation which comes next.

Russia was able to open a new front in northeastern Ukraine - where it’s assaulting from “multiple positions” - because of delays in the supply of Western weapons to the frontline, the head of the region under attack has said.

news.sky.com/story/russia-a…

Defensive fighting is ongoing in Kharkiv region. And we are very vocal about our need to get every piece of weapons on time. It’s a perilous period.

'You've investigated left wing MPs for far less than this.'

@Lewis_Goodall challenges Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth on why his party are not going to investigate fresh allegations against Natalie Elphicke.

'He cared far less about the rule of law and victims of sexual violence when it wasn't politically expedient for him.'

Jess Phillips MP tells @Lewis_Goodall that 'questions must be answered' after Natalie Elphicke allegedly tried to lobby Robert Buckland over ex-husband's trial.

'You and the media are not getting it!'

As the government rules out an Israel arms embargo, Palestinian Ambassador Husam Zomlot tells @Lewis_Goodall that this decision does not reflect the views of 'the people'.

“Traitors never sleep.”

Natalie Elphicke will be ‘despised’ by her old party and ‘not trusted’ by her new one, minister Andrew Mitchell tells @Lewis_Goodall.

Only one in ten science teachers in schools in less deprived areas have science degrees. Only one apprenticeship for every three who apply. Neither ever makes the Times front page. Yet the small travails of the privileged private schools is front page news

'There is an opportunity to have a conversation that I would like the country to have about violence against women and girls.'

With Natalie Elphicke accused of lobbying for her ex-husband, Jess Phillips MP stresses to @Lewis_Goodall that the new Labour MP is 'not the perpetrator'.

'I don't know who this is - it's not me'.

Jess Phillips on LBC to Lewis Goodall.

Robert Buckland 'cares considerably less about the rule of law and the victims of sexual violence when it's not politically expedient for him', says Labour MP Jess Phillips on his allegations against Natalie Elphicke.

LBC Lewis Goodall

“Do you have complete confidence in Natalie Elphicke as a Labour MP?”

On the second attempt, Jonathan Ashworth answers @Lewis_Goodall with a “yeah, I've got no reason to disbelieve her'.