Pol Allingham

My interview with Kemi Badenoch in the Standard today

More coverage from yesterday's vigil outside Downing - by @Polallingham #StopKillingJournalists independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

A vehicle appears to have driven slowly into Just Stop Oil (JSO) protesters as hundreds marched through London for the group’s “last day of action” ✍️: @Polallingham standard.co.uk/news/uk/london…

An activist known as Stop Brexit Man has been cleared of flouting a police ban after playing anti-Conservative and anti-Brexit edits of The Muppet Show and Darth Vader’s theme outside Parliament ✍️: @Polallingham and @RosieShead standard.co.uk/news/crime/ris…

The Archbishop of York has condemned Israel’s “appalling” latest strike on a hospital in Gaza, which left a girl dead ✍️: @Polallingham standard.co.uk/news/politics/…

The Russian captain of the container ship which crashed into a US oil tanker in the North Sea has been charged over the death of a crew member ✍️: @Polallingham independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Pro-Ukraine protesters outside Downing Street have expressed fear and hope in the face of a world that is “changing dramatically” ✍️: @Polallingham independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Sir @Keir_Starmer spoke with US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron after welcoming Volodymyr Zelensky to Downing Street ✍️: @Davi_Lynch and @Polallingham salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/national/…

An Auschwitz survivor has warned “do not allow yourself another lesson to learn”, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation

Susan Pollack, 94, asked why antisemitism has not yet been eradicated, ahead of the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation ✍️: @Polallingham independent.co.uk/news/uk/auschw…

For those waking up in US, bewildered in Europe, what happened? Have been on air for last 12 hours pouring over the data Here it is There's no silver lining for Democrats. Trump won everywhere. He's going to win the popular vote. He did better across the demographics. He grew his coalition, better with black voters, Latinos, young voters. The US become less racially divided by party. Harris underperformed Biden virtually everywhere. Trump improved on his 2020 margin in 2,367 counties. His margin decreased in only 240 counties.

A 10-year-old girl has died after she was bitten by her family’s dog, police have said ✍️: @Polallingham uk.news.yahoo.com/10-old-girl-di…

Piotr Kucharski jailed for claiming to be part of Wagner group. I photographed Kucharski in Aug after he wore extreme rightwing+white supremacy symbols while admitting the offence at the Bailey. The pic contributed to his sentencing today ✍️ @RosieShead theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/n…

Three journalists have been killed in southern Lebanon after an Israeli strike on housing well-known to be used by several media outlets. The area is not under Israeli ‘evacuation orders’ and was chosen by journos because it was viewed as relatively safe.

Equality before the law is a fundamental democratic principle, armed police should not get special treatment buff.ly/3zZBwSN

Wes Streeting has promised to toughen up smoking laws. He said “when the smoking bill is introduced, it will be more ambitious than the bill introduced by the previous government.” standard.co.uk/news/politics/…

The King and Queen were “among the first” to donate to a new appeal by a group of charities working to get aid into Gaza and Lebanon, the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has said ✍️: @Polallingham independent.co.uk/news/uk/gaza-l…

"It's a very mixed feeling & that worries me a lot," Uyghur activist @MahmutRahima told @politicshome, calling on the Lab govt to "honour its promises" The govt is reportedly backtracking on plans to recognise China's treatment of Uyghurs as genocide politicshome.com/news/article/u…

The Novichok poisonings inquiry will look at whether an “innocent” British woman died after she was caught in the “crossfire of an illegal and outrageous international assassination attempt” ✍️: @Polallingham & @jereynolds_ independent.co.uk/news/uk/dawn-s…

The mayor of Tampa has just suggested to CNN he may have to be arrested and taken into custody “ to save his life “