Nick Robinson

Simple answer Zack. Our job is to report. We interview you & those you quote who use the word genocide. We do the same for those who disagree. We also report that no international court has yet made a judgment. Nor has the UN. That’s not me or the BBC taking sides or downplaying what’s happened in Gaza. It’s doing our job.

Amnesty International say what is happening in Palestine is a genocide. The UN Special Rapporteur say it's a genocide. Countless genocide scholars say it's a genocide. How are we still doing this? And why is the BBC doing this? youtu.be/Es_wxH04bgs?si…

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Coming up on @BBCRadio4 at 5.30 pm @ZackPolanski on Political Thinking or listen now to the unedited 50 minutes conversation on his roots, values, beliefs & much more on @BBCSounds is.gd/ZHMEfM

@robjlinds @BBCPolitics Did you watch a one minute clip before making a judgement and commenting or listen to the full 50 minute interview ?

@BBCPolitics @bbcnickrobinson Nick Robinson would spend an entire interview with Ghandi asking him if he thinks he'll win the Nobel Peace Prize.

I want to be in a position where Green Party could "potentially hold the balance of power" at the next general election, Zack Polanski tells @bbcnickrobinson Listen to the latest #PoliticalThinking on BBC Sounds 🎧 bbc.in/4uHnxbq

@ColinParryPeace @AndyBurnhamGM You & Wendy have shown courage, grace and extraordinary empathy ever since that day Colin. It was one of the honours of my life to work with you both when you made a @BBCPanorama film exploring the conflict which robbed you of your son.

Today is the 33rd anniversary of the day the IRA bombed Warrington town centre and killed my son Tim and 3 yr old Johnathan Ball. Words can never describe how losing a child leaves a huge hole in your heart and your family. Eternal love Tim ❤️❤️

@BBCr4today You can watch an edited version of @ZackPolanski's Political Thinking interview on @bbciplayer or listen in full to an unedited 50 minutes or so on @BBCSounds shorturl.at/EkFRW

Does Zack Polanski have ambitions for the top job in politics? The Green Party leader tells @BBCNickRobinson it's 'definitely' on his mind but his immediate focus is to have enough MPs to hold the balance of power. Listen to Political Thinking: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

What shapes the political thinking of those who shape ours? That’s the question I explore with @ZackPolanski on Political Thinking. We discuss his roots, his values & the events which made him the first Green leader to talk about becoming PM. Listen now is.gd/jXNMfA

Can @ZackPolanski be PM? Listen to my 50 min conversation with the Greens “storyteller” - on the traumas that made him change his names & his conversion from being a supporter of austerity & Zionism …and breast enlargement through hypnotherapy. Plus more is.gd/jXNMfA

We should do more in a war we’re in whether we like it or not @KemiBadenoch argues. What more ? I tried to find out this morning on @BBCr4today

This is clearly not a limited, small scale, tactical strike against Iran. Donald Trump’s video statement makes clear that bombs will fall everywhere. He is calling on people to rise up against the regime, offering immunity to those who abandon it & certain death to those who don’t. He warns of American casualties @realDonaldTrump/116147082884192486" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…

What’s the argument for a military attack on Iran? I spoke to @omid9 who’s posted accounts of the brutal crackdown on protesters by the regime on Political Thinking. We talk about the protests, regime change, his upbringing & his life as an actor & comic is.gd/UCJCIB

It has begun. Listen to @BBCr4today for latest on US/Israeli military attacks on Iran

Is @RishiSunak English? Of course he says BUT does @Nigel_Farage agree? I ask him on Political Thinking because @GoodwinMJ - the man Farage wants to join him in Parliament - says “People can identify as British and indeed English in terms of nationality but many (eg Rishi Sunak) are not English in terms of ethnicity." Farage talks about "putting our own people first” but is reluctant to define what he means by "our people". He says what matters is how you feel not your DNA. This matters if @reformparty_uk are to ever take power. Hear our conversation about identity, integration & racism; whether he's a Thatcherite or a Corbynite; Broken Britain, Trump, Putin & being "half ready" for government on @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Radio is special. So too is the BBC. And @BBCSteveR is very special indeed. Listen and enjoy

Is @Nigel_Farage right to say that "If we take the word ("colonised") out Ratcliffe is accurate & right"? As I point out to him on this week's Political Thinking Sir Jim got his facts wrong & so did Farage when defending him. Ratcliffe claimed the UK population had increased 12 million since 2020. Actually, it increased 2.7m in that time. If he'd said since the year 2000 he would have been right. In a post backing him Farage said “1 million people living in this country don’t speak any English at all”. Actually, the last census showed that 161,000 don’t speak English at all although a further 880,000 could not speak English well. He said "4 million people living in this country barely speak passable English". Actually, 4 million did not speak it as their main language but spoke English either "well" or "very well". Facts matter but so too do ideas, arguments & debates. I explore both at length on Political Thinking. It's a 40 minute conversation you can hear now on @BBCSounds

This is a devastating and important read. The abuse that has been directed ⁦@Dannythefink⁩ is beyond horrific. Yet he follows his survivor parents’ philosophy: life is worth living 💪 Daniel Finkelstein: how the world’s antisemites turned on me thetimes.com/article/b2a9dc…

"I absolutely dispute the idea that this isn't someone driven by burning passion" The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, and former leader of the Labour party, Ed Miliband, defends the Prime Minister Keir Starmer, saying he's passionate about changing the country.

It is, of course, a fact to say that resignations did not follow Anas Sarwar’s extraordinary public call for Starmer to quit but that doesn’t mean folk didn’t consider resigning, talk about it & then pull back. You’re right to say that Prime Ministers can & do survive challenges as both John Major & Gordon Brown did. However, it is also true that others - Thatcher, May, Johnson & Truss - have been toppled. Its always unwise to pretend you know with any certainty what will happen next but so too is it to argue that everything would be going OK “if it weren’t for those pesky kids” in political journalism.

@bbcnickrobinson @Simon_Nixon @BBCr4today @Ed_Miliband What I also didn’t hear him say was all Labour MPs looked over the precipice. Of course there were rumblings, but the only MPs I heard go the record were “usual suspects”. No MP resigned - not even a PPS. Certainly not a Minister, or Chancellor. And PMs have survived even that.

Not a hint of humility or self-reflection from @BBCr4today (or anywhere else in the legacy media) this morning after more than a week of relentless breathless speculation about the prime minister’s future that predictably turned out to be completely wrong.