Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s my exclusive Channel 4 News investigation - produced by the incredible Claire Sinka on the shocking allegations the author of The Penguin Lessons sexually abused former pupils:
www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...

2 14

Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: C4News reveals shocking allegations author of The Penguin Lessons - best-selling memoir turned into a hit film starring Steve Coogan - abused boys at a school in Dorset in the 1970s. The author, Tom Michell (known in his teaching days as Mike Thompson) strenuously denies the allegations

3 3 10

Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · 26d

Here’s former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn telling me Keir Starmer is playing into the hands of Reform UK and hitting out at the former Downing Street aide’s “disgusting” jokes about Diane Abbott www.channel4.com/news/jeremy-...

Jeremy Corbyn: Starmer is ‘playing into the hands of Reform’

We spoke to former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is now forming a new political party.

www.channel4.com

1 3 12

Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · Mar 21

And on #TheLadder it's the doyenne of colour, who styles Queen Camilla's hair, Jo Hansford.

Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · Mar 21

Olympic rower James Cracknell has some choice words on skulduggery in the Oxford v Cambridge boat race. @pennymordaunt.bsky.social & @jonashworth.bsky.social chat #WTF ; hereditary peer Viscount Colville tells me about the dramatic protest in the House of Lords in #TheThickOfIt

1

Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · Mar 21

Plus: word of a fascinating new crowdfunding project to give hope to cancer sufferers; @frasernelson.bsky.social previews his column; Nadhim Zahawi analyses the chancellor's dilemma.

1

Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · Mar 21

On @listentotimesradio.bsky.social from 4: a smorgasbord of news. @benclatworthy.bsky.social updates us on #Heathrow & as CT police lead the investigation Chris Steele will analyse the security implications.

1 1

Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · Mar 14

AND the amazing Lorraine Kelly on how she climbed The Ladder & how much harder she thinks it would be for working class Scots like her to get into TV today. Join me from 4 until 7.

2 1

Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · Mar 14

PLUS @gmb.org.uk on growth (or lack of it); Labour MP Clive Lewis @clivelewis.bsky.social on looming welfare cuts; Olympian Imogen Grant on calls for the IOC to be greener; @frasernelson.bsky.social with a peek of his @thetimes.com column; @pennymordaunt.bsky.social & George Foulkes chat #WTF

3

Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · Mar 14

On my @listentotimesradio.bsky.social show from 4: all the latest on war (or peace?) in Ukraine with chair of Ukraine's Foreign Affairs Committee Oleksandr Merezhko & ex US Ukraine envoy Kurt Volker; Tesla cheerleader Dan Ives on THAT letter about tariffs (did Elon Musk write it?)

2

Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · Feb 28

AND after the shock second place in the german elections for the far right AfD, we'll hear from Beatrix Von Storch, the party's deputy leader, whose Nazi grandfather was found guilty of crimes against humanity. Join me from 4 until 7.

1 2

Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · Feb 28

PLUS as international development minister Anneliese Dodds quits over Starmer aid cuts, Andrew Mitchell will give his analysis. We'll chat #WTF with Penny Mordaunt & @jonashworth.bsky.social

3 1

Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · Feb 28

Live at the White House on @listentotimesradio.bsky.social from 4, with stellar guests including former UK ambo to US Sir Nigel Sheinwald, former Ukrainian ambassador to NATO and the UK Vadym Prystaiko, ex PM of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk & former US Ambassador to Russia @mcfaulmike.bsky.social

1 8

Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · Feb 21

AND my guest on The Ladder is the brilliant Melissa Hamilton - the oldest woman to be promoted to principal ballerina at the Royal Ballet

3

Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · Feb 21

Top diplomat Simon McDonald joins me to talk about a huge week of diplomacy ahead

1 1

Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · Feb 21

Best-selling author Scott Turow talks about the campaign to combat the threat to creatives from AI

1

Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · Feb 21

On my @listentotimesradio.bsky.social show NOW: the very latest from the Middle East as the ceasefire deal hangs in the balance.

1 6

Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · Feb 15

Ex-NATO Commander tells me on Channel 4 News Europe doesn’t have time to build a pan-European army - saying EU/UK need to act with greater urgency.

Europe needs ‘war-time sense of urgency’ – ex-NATO commander

We spoke to General Wesley Clark, who was Supreme Commander of NATO forces in Europe during the war in Kosovo.

buff.ly

1 11 26

Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · Feb 15

Early @channel4news.bsky.social at 1620. As President Zelensky pleads with European leaders to form an army to fill the vacuum left by the US, reports tonight of an emergency meeting in Paris TOMORROW to respond to Trump on Ukraine. Tune in. A lot is happening…

4 6 31