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Dennis Vaughan
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Journalist (sometimes), Labour (mostly), Father (always).
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This should not simply be forgotten in the busy news cycle.
Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging.

Here’s my response:
November 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Juries are not perfect.

Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.

But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.

They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Prescott says the Panorama programme was aggressively anti-Trump. Neutral and experienced journalists who have seen the programme found it admirably balanced
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No relation (before anybody suspects).
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.

The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million

In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.

London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.

And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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For me, it is objectively ridiculous that the UK left knows and cares a lot more about Zohran Mamdani than it does about Pedro Sánchez - the left-wing Prime Minister of Europe's fastest growing economy.
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Anna Turley of Labour has 25 questions about the Conservative Idi Amin Tribute Bill on ILR and Deportations
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Labour demands clarity on Tory plan to strip thousands of right to stay in UK
Anna Turley says legally settled people threatened by Katie Lam’s proposals deserve urgent clarification
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers (or online).

"alleged drug vessel"

Call it a boat. A vessel. Anything that you can actually prove. There is exactly zero reason now, at the eighth instance, to use the administration's preferred language, without any evidence.
October 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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British.
October 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.
October 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The Swiss journalist @emilianobos.bsky.social ( @rts.ch ) managed to enter the Gaza Strip with a cameraman on Friday - first foreign journalists that enter Gaza. The below video was taken in Rafah.
October 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
October 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Really interesting article from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com but especially intriguing to me is the number of comments below that are essentially 'OK the data don't agree with my hunch but here's an unrelated statement that proves that I'm right about AI, the death of higher education, etc'
What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong
People with a degree are faring better, not worse than their non-graduate counterparts
www.ft.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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October 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Men.
The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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The government has lost the first legal challenge to hit the High Court over the UK-France deal

The applicant, an Eritrean asylum seeker who arrived by small boat in August, was due to be on a flight at 9am tomorrow - the government won't say if it's still taking off www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
Asylum Seeker Wins Bid to Delay Deportation Under U.K.-France Treaty
www.nytimes.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.
September 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Justin Webb just referred on Today to "platforms like Bluesky, where you can see the celebration of the killing" of Charlie Kirk.

What I'm seeing on here is overwhelming condemnation; despair at the violence of US politics; alarm at where this might go; & calls for equal horror at other shootings.
September 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold.

“We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.
September 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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I've a feeling Mr Farage might very much be regretting his trip... round about ...

Now 👇
Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".
September 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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“Reform UK has chosen the easy road of fear. We must have the courage to take the harder path: solutions rooted in decency, fairness, and the freedoms that make Britain worth defending”, writes Labour MP @bengoldsborough.bsky.social

🗣️ Nigel Farage would break what makes Britain strong
Nigel Farage and Reform UK would break what makes Britain strong
When Nigel Farage stood up this week and outlined his so-called “plan” for immigration, he didn’t sound like a democrat. He sounded like Vladimir Putin. He called for uniformed officers to raid Britai...
www.politics.co.uk
August 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Well done Calum Miller. Lib Dem MP for Bicester and Woodstock.
Calum Miller, MP for the constituency where Nigel Farage delivered his repatriation speech today, says Oxfordshire is “thriving thanks to overseas talent” – and criticised him for not meeting residents living near Campsfield House detention centre, next to the venue for Farage’s event.
August 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Last night fighting an ex Liz Truss minister (for goodness sake) on Newsnight about what to do about asylum accommodation.

Pitch forks are dictating UK asylum policy now. 🤦‍♀️

My thanks as always to the brilliant @implausibleblog.bsky.social for the clip ❤️🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8auh...
Epping asylum hotel CLOSED BY MOB RULE? Where should they go?
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
www.youtube.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Journalists in Gaza describing their starvation in real time

Originally compiled by @standing-together.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM