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Victoria Derbyshire
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social
Journalist, broadcaster, Mum of 2 boys, owner of 2 cocker spaniels

BBC Newsnight 🎥
Ukrainecast 🎧
And Then Came Breast Cancer 🎧

BAFTA RTS Sony Pink News AIB British Podcast Award winner
#Newsnight 1030pm BBCTwo BBCNews

After Venezuela how alarmed shld Greenland, Colombia & Cuba be?

And what about the UK gov response?

With
@vanessaneumann
@jeremycorbyn
@DSORennie
@nicholaswatt
January 5, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Venezuela declares a state of emergency after President Trump says the US has captured President Maduro amid ‘large scale strikes’
January 3, 2026 at 11:29 AM
President Trump says the US has carried out a "large scale strike against Venezuela" and "captured its leader, President Nicolas Maduro" & his wife
January 3, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Love Fiona :)

#thetraitors
January 2, 2026 at 8:38 PM
The Queen praises John & Amy Hunt for their courage after the murders of Carol, Hannah & Louise

Recently an incredible event at Cheltenham raised £250,000 for the Hunt family Fund - it really was a very special evening - all the money will be donated to women’s charities

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HOME | Hunt Family Fund
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December 31, 2025 at 8:49 AM
An email by "A" from "Balmoral" asked Jeffrey Epstein's then partner Ghislaine Maxwell for "inappropriate friends", new documents released by the US Department of Justice show

The sender asks: "Have you found me some new inappropriate friends?" and the sign-off reads: "See ya A xxx"
December 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The government is changing is proposals to tax inherited farms - the planned threshold before families will start paying IHT will increase from £1m to £2.5m
December 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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“It's on a scale of Epstein...”

Carrie Lazell, who says she was sexually assaulted by the late Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed when she worked at the store, speaks to @vicderbyshire.bsky.social about what she describes as “decades of abuse of women”.

#Newsnight
December 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
#Newscast - is the Erasmus scheme value for money?

Joe Pike and I talk to Nick Thomas-Symonds from the government

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Newscast - Is The Erasmus Student Scheme Worth The Money? - BBC Sounds
Government announces return to Erasmus study scheme in 2027.
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December 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
#Newsnight 1030pm

• PM orders investigation into foreign financial interference

• unemployment up - why?

• adoption breakdown - how can families be helped?

With former First Minister of NI Baroness Foster
Economics Editor of The Times Mehreen Khan
@nicholaswatt

See you soon @BBCTwo @BBCNews
December 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
#Newscast - PM orders a review into foreign financial interference in UK politics after Reform UK Nathan Gill case

Plus President Trump sues BBC for $5 billion. We go through the detail of the lawsuit

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Newscast - Are Foreign Countries Interfering in UK Politics? - BBC Sounds
Minister orders probe into foreign interference in politics.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
#Ukrainecast - Will Russia accept US/Ukraine peace proposals?

With Vitaly, Jeremy Bowen and me

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Ukrainecast - Will Russia accept US-Ukraine peace proposals? - BBC Sounds
US-Ukraine talks in Berlin have resolved issues, but will Russia agree?
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December 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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"I think that is probably the worst thing the BMA have done since they marched against the foundation of the NHS in 1948"

Health Secretary Wes Streeting criticises the British Medical Association for voting to carry on with "unconscionable" strike action.

#Newsnight
December 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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“'Globalise the intifada' is received by and seen as support for terrorist action"

Health Secretary Wes Streeting is asked whether use of the slogan “globalise the intifada" should be made unlawful.

#Newsnight
December 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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“If people go to a carol service, they’re not thinking ‘is this a life and death risk?’ We shouldn't be in that position.”

Following the attack on Bondi beach, Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland speaks to #Newsnight about its impact on the Jewish community in Britain.
December 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
A 10-year-old, two rabbis and a Holocaust survivor - at least 15 people have been confirmed dead in Sunday's shooting attack at Bondi beach
December 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Violence against women and girls is a "national emergency", the home secretary has said, as she announced plans to set up specialist rape and sexual offence investigation teams in every police force in England and Wales by 2029
December 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
New South Wales Police say 11 people have now been killed in that shooting at Bondi Beach targeting the Jewish community, with 29 taken to hospital - including a child

An event being held at the beach to mark the start of Hanukkah had more than 1,000 in attendance, police say
December 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The Metropolitan Police has said it will "take no further action" over claims Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor asked his police protection officer for information on Virginia Giuffre.
December 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
December 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
#Newsnight 1030pm @BBCTwo @BBCNews

See you in 10 mins

• a dramatic escalation of tensions between the US & Venezuela. President Trump says the US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of 🇻🇪 - where cld this confrontation lead?
December 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Joey Barton given suspended prison sentence 👇
December 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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"Although this is likely to provoke a lot of outrage in Islington... I have my doubts as to whether it's actually going to change any voters' minds."

The FT's Gillian Tett on allegations that Nigel Farage used racially offensive language at school - which he denies.

#Newsnight
November 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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"The level of categorical denial that he has issued tonight after the caveated denial yesterday... has taken it from a 50-year-ago issue to a today issue."

Sam White, former Chief of Staff to Keir Starmer, discusses the racism allegations against Nigel Farage.

#Newsnight
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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"No-brainer" | Poppy Coburn and Lewis Goodall on Labour, Brexit & rejoining the EU

#Newsnight

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"No-brainer" | Poppy Coburn and Lewis Goodall on Labour, Brexit & rejoining the EU
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December 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM