Debbie Lye

I've heard that @elonmusk decreed that anyone criticising POTUS be X-pelled which inspires a childish impulse to say @realDonaldTrump is a smelly poo. Bye bye

Join us in celebrating our 75th season in style @cadoganhall . Tickets from cadoganhall.com/whats-on/kings…

Extra gallery seats (band C - lower priced tickets) have been made available for our upcoming concert on 29th March @cadoganhall . Why not pick up a bargain! See: cadoganhall.com/whats-on/kings… #choir #concert #ChoralMusic

29th March 2025: looking forward to singing @cadoganhall with two wonderful soloists: @SophusBevanus and Roderick Williams; our fabulous conductor @colla_voce; and the Thames Sinfonia. Tickets from cadoganhall.com/whats-on/kings… #concert #choralmusic #choir

@bbcnickrobinson It was a good interview @bbcnickrobinson I feared you might not ask the tough questions, but you exposed the crave, exploitative hypocrisy

It is easy…tempting indeed…to be distracted by the sound & fury of the battle between two powerful men – the billionaire who owns X and has turned it into a megaphone and the British Prime Minister. However, this story is much more important than a clash between Elon Musk and Keir Starmer. It is about how to protect girls and young women from terrible sexual abuse. For more than 10 years official reports and police investigations have revealed that some have covered up and others have played down the fact that gangs of men - mainly but not exclusively of Pakistani origin - have targeted, groomed, raped and tortured mainly white girls. Musk has attacked and abused the PM and his safeguarding minister Jess Philips for refusing to agree to a new inquiry into what really happened. The Conservatives and Reform UK have echoed his call if not his language (which, the former head of counter terrorism, has warned risks inciting violence). Now the one woman who had not commented when so many others had has broken our silence. Professor Alexis Jay - who chaired the Independent Inquiry into child sexual abuse which reported more than two years ago and who led the investigation into the cover-up of masss rape in Rotherham more than a decade ago - has told me on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme there is no need for a new inquiry. What’s more she argues that it would get in the way of what needs to be done – implementing the findings of her report which was published more than two years ago. Professor Jay refuses to comment on the words used by Musk or, indeed, Farage or the shadow Justice secretary – the Conservative Robert Jenrick who has argued that what is to blame is mass migration of millions of people with what he calls "alien cultures". However, she had a clear message for them all. Those who "politicise child sexual abuse" are ignoring the needs of the victims she says. In another interview on the Today Programme I asked Robert Jenrick whether he accepted the Conservatives in government for 14 years had failed to do enough to tackle a problem that was first highlighted more than a decade ago. Why, I asked him, had Tory ministers failed to implement the recommendations of the inquiry? Why had they refused calls for a second wider national inquiry when they had the power to set one up. I asked him whether he’d ever raise these issues as a minister in the Home Office and pointed out that there was no mention in the parliamentary record Hansard of him ever raising the subject before Elon Musk did. Finally, and perhaps most significantly, I asked Jenrisk whether he now wanted to stop immigration from those "alien cultures" he condemns despite the fact that immigration from, say, Pakistan has recorded since Brexit and that many of Pakistani heritage have and are serving this country proudly - not least the former Home Secretary Sajid Javid and the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. You can hear his answers by listening back to the Today programme on @bbcsounds at 8.10 (that's 2 hours & 10 minutes into the programme) and Professor Jay's at 7.30ish (one hour & 30 minutes into the programme)Jenrick, like Messrs Farage and Musk insists that much more is now known about what happened in the past and much more needs to be known about what might be happening now right across the country. So they argue that there is a case for that second enquiry. Jay argues that that would distract from implementing the protections that are needed now and which the Home Secretary hastily announced last night - making it an offence to know about but not report or to actively cover up child sex abuse and improving the collection of the data on who the offenders really are.Having spent years investigating these crimes - unlike some who read a few tweets before firing off their own ill informed opinions - she is clear about two things. Firstly, the scandals exposed in Rotherham and Oldham - the covering up of mass child abuse - has undoubtedly happened elsewhere any may still be happening now. Secondly, child sexual abuse is not limited to any one group in society as repeated scandals have revealed. I've written this long post to put into context the clips of the interviews I'm also posting which I know will be taken out of context by some who want to abuse their political opponents more than they want to stop the abuse of young girls

@JohnEdwards33 That's nasty. He's a really nice guy as well as being a clever political operator

The unelected, unaccountable snake Mandelson slithers into his next million-dollar role thanks to the weak and easily manipulated Starmer. Everyday I think this corrupt government can’t get any worse and every day it proves me wrong.

🚨WORLD’S RICHEST MAN BUYING OUR DEMOCRACY🚨Elon Musk is set to pump £78m into Nigel Farage’s party—a sum that would allow Reform to flood our politics with targeted ads. Add your name to the petition! 38d.gs/n3se

🌏🚆 World Sustainable Transport Day! @AmandMcLoughlin, UK International Development Director for Indonesia, shares her journey using Jakarta’s MRT and TransJakarta. 📖 Amanda loves reading her favourite book while commuting. What’s your go-to activity? Share below! ✨ Stay tuned for the British Embassy Jakarta’s new sustainable infrastructure partnership with the Government of Indonesia which is launching soon. Let's make sustainable choices every day! #SustainableTransport #ClimateAction #UKIndonesia #WorldSustainableTransportDay #Jakarta #MRTJakarta #TransJakarta #BlokM #Mbloc #Sarinah

On Saturday 29th March, 2025, 7.30 @cadoganhall we are singing Brahms' A German Requiem and Poulenc's Gloria, with soloists @SophusBevanus and @RGCWbaritone, conductor @colla_voce accompanied by the Thames Sinfonia. Tickets from cadoganhall.com/whats-on/kings…. Never too early to book!

Immigration is not the reason that you can’t get a hospital appointment, it’s the reason you can get one. Please repost for all the people who can’t seem to grasp that.

I hope you're right @RoryStewartUK

What a stunning opportunity for a stunningly talented musician. I look forward to hearing the result.

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Nikki Haley announced that she stands 100% behind her comments that Donald Trump is too old and mentally incompetent to be President. Retweet to make sure all Americans see this.

BREAKING: Nikki Haley admitted Kamala Harris has a large lead among women voters because Donald Trump and JD Vance have been remarkably offensive. Retweet to make sure all Americans see Nikki Haley bash Trump and Vance.

I'm 19 and I just voted for @KamalaHarris in my first presidential election! Can you RT and follow to remind America that Gen-Z will save democracy?

@montie That's a disgraceful assertion about a man notable for courage and integrity

Jeremy Bowen’s contribution to From our own Correspondent on Radio 4 could have been written by Hamas. It is a disgrace that the BBC employs him as their international editor.

@SayeedaWarsi @Conservatives Well done @SayeedaWarsi and long overdue. The moral vacuum at the heart of your former party means that like John Betjeman's Slough "it isn't fit for humans now".

It is with a heavy heart that I have today informed my whip and decided for now to no longer take the @Conservatives whip. This is a sad day for me. I am a Conservative and remain so but sadly the current Party are far removed from the Party I joined and served in Cabinet. My decision is a reflection of how far right my Party has moved and the hypocrisy and double standards in its treatment of different communities. A timely reminder of the issues that I raise in my book Muslims Don’t Matter

@DrDavidJeffery @TonyDowson5 In my experience it's easy enough to blunt those tools, thinkers so often being drinkers

They've a lot to do but great that music is on the agenda

This is Montana GOP Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen. Her office just left Kamala Harris’s name off ballots sent to thousands of Montanans living abroad. RETWEET if you think @SOSJacobsen should be investigated!