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The much maligned fact-checking service BBC Verify is expanding amid massive job cuts at the corporation. Ironclad…
The BBC is cutting up to 2,000 jobs, nearly one in ten of its staff, to save £500 million. At the same time BBC Verify has snuck out job ads for two new roles paying a combined £90,000: a senior data journalist and a “journalism researcher.” This follows previous expansion in salary costs for the large unit. Meanwhile all departments are being told they face cutbacks and need to tighten their belts…
Verify already has 95 staff. The brand was the pet project of former head of news Deborah Turness, who quit over the Panorama Trump edit scandal. Her brainchild is getting bigger…
The hiring raises some questions about new director of news Rachel Jupp, who has set out her stall on “being where our audiences are”. Media sources tell Guido that Verify stories are not well read, nor are its video productions well watched. At the BBC 550 jobs are going in the first round of cuts including around 200 in news. The often-wrong fact-checkers being protected is sure to dampen morale further at the corporation…
The families of children abused by Vincent Chan at the Bright Horizons nursery in West Hampstead are calling on three Labour MPs who held senior posts at Camden Council to help them find out how he was allowed to keep working with children after red flags were raised five years ago.
At the weekend, the Guardian and ITV reported that Bright Horizons carried out a safeguarding investigation into Chan’s behaviour in 2021, and that the investigation was overseen by Camden Council. Chan was cleared and allowed to return to work at the nursery, where he went on to sexually abuse young girls in his care. In February he was finally jailed for 18 years.
Georgia Gould, now the Schools Minister, led Camden Council from 2017 until July 2024, which obviously covers the period of the 2021 investigation. Danny Beales, now MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, sat in Camden’s cabinet at the time. Sagal Abdi-Wali, elected as Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras last week, became council leader in May. Did any of these now-MPs raise concerns about this farce?
Camden has commissioned an independent child safeguarding review into the case, which is not now expected to be published until early next year. The families say they want the 2021 investigation report, the LADO records, and the emails and documents showing how the decision to let Chan return was made, with the children’s identities protected. They stress they are not accusing the three MPs of personally making that decision. But what did they know, and what oversight did Camden provide?
NHS England has finally told hospitals and GP surgeries to segregate wards, loos, and changing rooms by biological sex – 18 months after the Supreme Court ruled in April 2025 that sex under the Equality Act means biological sex. Remember when NHS England was ‘abolished’ by Labour?
The new guidance states: “Single-sex services, such as hospital accommodation, should be provided on the basis of biological sex.” It adds that “trans people… should be accommodated in line with their sex as registered at birth,” with single rooms offered where necessary. It scraps the old NHS line that trans people could use whichever facilities they preferred…
Soon after the ruling, then Health Secretary Wes Streeting promised guidance “in the coming weeks”. One way of putting it…
The rules cover patients and staff alike and trusts now have to audit their facilities to check they comply. 18 months and well-publicised tribunals later…
The original statement from GMCA after No10 said:
“In October 2021 Andy Burnham, in his role as Mayor of Greater Manchester, had a formal meeting with Khaldoon Al Mubarak at the UK Government’s Global Investment Summit arranged by the Department for International Trade.
In his capacity as Mayor, he was a guest of Manchester City FC at home matches on a small number of occasions, including attending Vincent Kompany’s testimonial match in September 2019, where he met the Chairman informally in the stands. These have been declared in the usual way.
Also during his time as Mayor, representatives of Greater Manchester sporting clubs would routinely join business delegations as part of Mayoral international visits. This included representatives from Manchester United travelling to Austin and Dublin, Lancashire Cricket Club joining a delegation to India, and Manchester City FC staff supporting visits to China and Japan.”
Burnham now claims this wasn’t anything to do with him and simultaneously that it did cover the subsequent meetings dug up by hacks. He now says:
“It was not prepared by me. That was a statement issued by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. So, it wasn’t comprehensive and you know, I’ve asked them to do a more manual trawl of everything because I want everything possible to be out there. There’s no question about that.”
Not going away…
The Plaid Cymru Government issued a press release celebrating the International Day of the Girl with a focus on period poverty. The ministerial comment from Sioned Williams describes women as people, saying, “On International Day of the Girl, we are reminded of the importance of ensuring people in Wales can manage their periods with dignity, confidence and pride.” Retrowoke…
Helen Jenner, leader of Reform in Wales, responded:
“It is incredibly disrespectful that the Plaid Cymru minister, on the International Day of the Girl, cannot bring herself to use the term ‘woman’ when discussing period poverty. This is the latest example of Plaid’s woke nonsense agenda.”
What’s the word for utter woke nonsense in Welsh?
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was asked if Burnham will take Britain back into the EU:
“Yes, sure – his commitment is authentic. He really does understand from the grassroots up why restoring what I think of as normality in our continent is vital for every party economically, politically, culturally, in terms of security, and he’s able to articulate it in language that people can understand. So yeah, he is definitely”.