Lucy Gilder
@lh_gilder
Journalist covering home and social affairs @BBCNews Verify team | @JSchofieldTrust Fellow 2024 | Views my own.
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27-11-2021 19:36:27
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An inspring masterclass tonight with Karl Flinders richard brooks Teju Adedayo and Parmod Kalia on the extraordinary investigation done by some pioneering journalists into the Post Office Scandal - long before #MrBatesVsThePostOffice . Chaired by the brilliant ritula shah for John Schofield Trust
The chancellor is to use tomorrow's Budget to urge councils to spend less on diversity schemes. But how much do councils spend on staffing for these schemes? Answer: not very much. Today's Verify piece with Nick Eardley 👇 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
In 2023, police recorded 30,539 offences of a dog causing injury to a person or a guide dog, up 21% from 2022, according to our FOI investigation with Emily Unia. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
The UK’s asylum backlog started falling in 2023. The government hired more caseworkers and their productivity increased, leading to more decisions. We examine how this happened, why, and what it means for the asylum system in our updated briefing. 🧵(1/8) migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/brie…
Congrats to the winners & highly commended of the '24 NUJ / Orwell Society Young Journalist Awards! “What was notable about this year's entries was the close attention to forms of toxicity online." Political opinion writing + Best Arts Review here 👉 nuj.org.uk/resource/winne…
Our roundup of claims from the first GE debate Gang behind this Lucy Gilder Daniel Wainwright Phil Leake Tamara Kovacevic Anthony Reuben Callum May Nick Eardley Nadyne Dunkley Gergana "Gerry" Georgieva Alastair Reid bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Kamala Harris convention speech fact-checked by BBC Verify. From Jake Horton and Lucy Gilder: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Fact-checking Kamala Harris’s first campaign interview, reporting from Merlyn Thomas and Lucy Gilder: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Latest disinformation debunk from BBC Verify: Baseless claim that Kamala Harris was involved in an alleged hit-and-run incident spread by mysterious website. Reporting from Shayan Sardarizadeh, Merlyn Thomas and Lucy Gilder: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…