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The BBC has rejected a complaint against political editor Laura Kuenssberg over her use of the phrase ‘nitty gritty’ – which anti-racism campaigners claim originates from the slave trade. The award-winning journalist used the well-known term while speaking on BBC political talk show Brexitcast as she discussed the departure of top Downing Street press chief Lee … Read more
A BBC World News journalist being probed by the Corporation for allegedly trolling Jewish presenter Emma Barnett anonymously on Twitter is now accused of attacking critics of Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism campaigners under his own name. Nimesh Thaker is already under investigation after the Jewish Chronicle published images which they claim show that he had … Read more
BBC backs its political editor Laura Kuenssberg and says she did NOT tweet ‘in defence’ of Dominic Cummings after a ‘significant’ number of complaints Kuenssberg had responded to Daily Mirror’s political editor Pippa Crerar Mirror had first revealed his 260-mile trip from London to County Durham Critics claimed Kuenssberg was effectively defending PM’s chief adviser But … Read more
Labour trolls target BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg again – calling her a ‘Tory stooge’ after she appeared to defend Dominic Cummings over reports he flouted lockdown rules Kuenssberg disputed a Daily Mirror report that Cummings broke lockdown rules She Tweeted that a source told her Cummings’s trip had been within guidlines Former Labour MP Ian Austin … Read more