BBC 2, 22:30 2nite. Marina Litvinenko joins BBC Newsnight to talk about the painful memories that Navalny's death evokes, #Putin and #Russia . Watch Richard Watson, Maria Polachowska doc on #AlexanderLitvinenko . we.tl/t-dEFZeSPdLq.

Richard Watson Two weeks later we revealed the Heather Mills phone hacking by Mirror

We were right…12 years ago: ‘BBC's Newsnight has revealed what it calls 'the first chink in the armour' of news groups beyond the Murdoch empire. The programme reported on what it claims was widespread use of phone hacking and private detectives at the Sunday Mirror.’

Very well deserved. Ian Birrell is a great journalist. Check out his stuff. You won’t be disappointed.

A very good thread.

Every successful investigative & journalistically challenging part of a larger organisation like BBC Newsnight needs 2 conditions to thrive; some independence within the organisation & a degree of bloody mindedness. But a blinkered mothership will seek/need control of everything

Sarah Teather BBC Newsnight Richard Watson Yes. An end-of-evening predictable trot around the issues. Without the driver of original journalism, it’ll be the usual people saying what you’d expect them to say. Newsnight should break new ground, not dodder on through everyone else’s ruts.

First-class reporting by my former Newsnight colleague Secunder Kermani and team.

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My article in The Spectator is now free to read.

Thank you to everyone has sent me kind comments, they really mean a lot.

Thank you also to Fraser Nelson for believing us, caring about this and allowing me to write.

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Mark Urban We need more varieties of BBC News coverage not fewer. Things are feeling homogeneous. Newsnight needs to be resourced properly to continue to be its own thing.

‘Fabric of the nation’ but for how much longer? Newsnight as we know it, a mix of studio and film items produced by its own dedicated team, is now at risk from BBC cuts

#OnThisDay 13 Sept 1944, WWII heroine Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan was executed at Dachau camp. She was 1 of 39 women spies sent to France by Churchill's SOE.She refused to betray a single colleague under torture.
Noor's name should be known by schoolchildren
#SharedHistory

Another afternoon of phoning every single sodding hotel in a region to find not a single one has a room accessible to wheelchair users. How is this even legal? I’m so angry.

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Great opportunity here. Really good initiative. We need far more journalists with disabilities in this business!

My University of Oxford colleagues and I published a new open-access study applying our theoretically grounded Violence Risk Index to a range of far-right extremist groups. Check out the article in the peer-reviewed journal Terrorism and Political Violence: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10….
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Lovely to be able to go to local restaurant Louie Louie Group for dinner now they have a disabled ramp. Excellent new chef. Dinner of plaice and greens then strawberries and mousse. Well worth the wait.

Louie Louie Group Richard Watson Thank you! 😍