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Journalist & Presenter | šŸ“» Formerly LBC ā€˜Sangita Myska 1-4pm Weekends ’, BBC @Radio4 Documentaries & šŸ“ŗ@BBCNews TV | @JSchofieldTrust | RTs not an endorsement
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Brilliant news from @pocketcasts.com ! Generated transcripts are here! šŸŽ‰ This solves my biggest podcast listening niggle - finally easy to make notes while commuting/walking. Cheers for this! #pocetcasts #aitranscript #ainotes #ai blog.pocketcasts.com/2025/04/29/g...

Humblebrag incoming! I’ve been that told one of my favourite teachers (now retired) from the London comprehensive school I went to spoke very fondly of me & often told other students how proud she was of what I’d made of myself. It’s made me quite emotional. I’m chuffed to bits.

Happy Friday,folks! Remember:

Today’s news bulletins, ā€œReform is the new 3rd Party and Farage could be PM in about 5 mins time. Reform, Reform, Reform….ā€ Also today’s news bulletins, ā€œIt’s a local story, not all the results are in, these results wouldn’t translate into a Reform Govt at a general electionā€

Superb piece by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on how voices on the left are shut out of MSM:ā€œNo one said anything, no letter was sent. Instead, he tells me, the phone simply stopped ringing. Without explanation, his 20 years of work with [the BBC] came to a haltā€ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When Tory donor Frank Hester reportedly said Diane Abbott – the longest-serving Black MP – made him ā€œwant to hate all black womenā€ and that she ā€œshould be shotā€, Kemi Badenoch dismissed it as ā€œtriviaā€. When Kneecap, made a similarly abhorrent past remark she wants them banned. #TwoTierKemi

This is a shameful hit job on Louis Theroux, published by the Spectator. The magazine is edited by former Tory Secretary of State, Michael Gove.

How long is it before Louis Theroux is accused of antisemitism?

I’m backing this campaign. Please consider doing so too. ā€˜NDAs can silence victims of abuse, harassment & other wrongdoing. Please sign the petition to ensure the Employment Rights Bill bans NDAs in cases of misconduct’ @cbmsilence you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop… via @38degrees

This is absolutely unconscionable! The grassroots circuit is in ruins and this is a much needed outlet for new talent to get their chops and build an audience, in addition to spreading good vibes. Established musicians should boycott Global.

Tonight, I’m live on stage ā€˜In Conversation with Mehdi Hasan’ with @zeteo.com *SOLD OUT* trans-Atlantic tour. Mehdi & @owenjones.bsky.social will then drop an exclusive episode of their hit podcast. By coincidence, it’s also exactly a year since my final show on a certain radio station…

To those who’ve got in touch - no, don’t get your eyes tested. Yes, it’s me. The brilliant Grange Park Opera invited me to be the ā€˜model’ for the poster of the opera ā€˜Taj Mahal’. It’s an original work by Nishat Khan based on the love story that inspired the monument. Don’t worry, I won’t be singing!

It’s becoming difficult to distinguish satire from reality: Kwasi Kwarteng, whose policy almost crashed the UK economy, is on Sky News analysing Trump’s policy which is on the brink of trashing the world economy. He’s was asked if he knew what Chancellor Rachel Reeves should do...

Reminder: Palestinians in the Gaza Strip remain ā€œtrapped, bombed and starvedā€ say 6 aid agencies, as Israel continues to block food, medical aid and fuel for 2 million people including children, the sick and the elderly. It amounts to collective punishment, which is a war crime

STATEMENT ON DAN WOOTON’s 50 WORST PEOPLE IN THE UK LIST. I’m disappointed to note I’ve slipped from the top 10 in previous years to number 37. I’d like to reassure my followers that I remain committed to annoying *all* the right people and will endeavour to up my game in 2025.

It’s been an honour to judge the Radio Academy Industry Awards 2025 (think the Oscars but for radio & podcasts). Congratulations to all those who have made the shortlists. The entries were extremely strong - well done all! Thanks too to my fellow judges šŸ‘šŸ½šŸŽ‰šŸ¾#ARIAS @radioacademy

US treasury secretary Scott Bessent warns foreign governments not to retaliate saying the US had name tariff baseline but not the peak. In other words, the tariffs could rise if the U.K. and others retaliate #LiberationDay #Trump

ā€œIreland now has a 20% tariff with America. Northern Ireland has a 10% tariff with America. That is going to make the Windsor framework even harder to implement"

So.. Trump imposes 10% tariffs on UK goods. He's imposed 20% tariffs on EU goods. Seems the invitation to chow down with King Charles (that Keir Starmer waved around when he met Trump) is worth a 50% discount to the President That is the very definition of transactional

White House declines to name an end date for the immediate global tariffs Trump has just imposed. Read that again. Let is sink in. This is what happens when the corporate kleptocracy takes charge of the Oval Office #LiberationDay

Canada &Mexico not subject to reciprocal tariffs for now Nevertheless Trump’s so-called Liberation Day tariffs have gone far further than pundits predicted Questions: what will the inflationary pressures be? How will the Federal Reserve react? What effect of on global trade? How should UK react?

Bloody hell. First graph shows the full list of tariffs. Second shows the S&P Futures Market plummet as believe the so-called Liberation Day tariffs will stifle US growth. In other words, this will HARM the pockets of the very Americans President Trump claims he’s protecting

Seconds after writing my prev tweet, NASDAQ FUTURES has reversed by 4%. The Market very little confidence Trump’s Tariff Plan will inc US economic growth. This is why the President waited for the DOW to close before making his Liberation Day announcement

As I type.. NASDAQ FUTURES market was up 1.8% when Donald Trump began his Liberation Day speech. It’s now reversed almost 3%. That’s a big dump. It means futures mkts have little confidence this tariff plan will spur economic growth in the USA as the President is claiming

Trump timed his so-called Liberation Day tariff announcement for *after* the Dow Jones has closed. It means reporters won’t be able to comment on how the stock market (bar futures) is reacting to a trade war. Some might describe the President’s timing as cowardice. Thing is, Futures Mkts ARE open..

True to form Trump kicks off his so- called Liberation Day tariffs by claiming modern America has been ā€œraped, pillaged and burned…(plus a load of other stuff that never happened)ā€ by other countries. Good luck to all the real-time fact checkers working in newsrooms tonight.

Trump Liberation Day Ramble lowlights: *The Europeans our friends, our good friends but also our worst friends *India, tough, very very tough. The PM just left, he’s a friend, but tariffs.. *Japan, ā€˜Chinzo’ Abe, a great man, I said, ā€˜Chinzo’, we have to do a deal Etc etc etc

NEW: Laurence Fox has been charged with a sex offence for ā€˜sharing up-skirting’ photograph of TV personality Narinder Kaur. @narindertweets69.bsky.social

On way in to BBC Talkback to discuss struggling MP's who need free stuff to get through due to their low wages.

Shocking news from the occupied West Bank: Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary ā€˜No Other Land’, Hamdan Ballal, has been arrested by the Israeli army after masked settlers attacked his house, according to the Center for Jewish Nonviolence.

America, 2025.

Many of you have shown me immense kindness, support and understanding over the last 24 hours. Thank you x