Liz Rawlings's Avatar

Liz Rawlings

@lizrawlings.bsky.social

Deputy Editor BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Arsenal season ticket holder. Get in touch: liz.rawlings1@bbc.co.uk

494 Followers  |  345 Following  |  3 Posts  |  Joined: 13.08.2024
Posts Following

Posts by Liz Rawlings (@lizrawlings.bsky.social)

Victoria Derbyshire challenges Zia Yusuf over Reform’s plans for spending cuts
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight Victoria Derbyshire challenges Zia Yusuf over Reform’s plans for spending cuts

Victoria Derbyshire challenges Zia Yusuf over Reform’s plans for spending cuts

#Newsnight

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YETicCXj6BU

05.11.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 100    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 4
Ex-Nato boss: Teens should be prepared to "defend our societies" from Russian aggression
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight Ex-Nato boss: Teens should be prepared to "defend our societies" from Russian aggression

WATCH: Ex-Nato boss: Teens should be prepared to "defend our societies" from Russian aggression

#Newsnight

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTtKTi04bSY

20.08.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 5
Video thumbnail

"Absolutely standard authoritarian tactics"

The King's former advisor Sir Jonathan Porritt condemns the Home Secretary for the proscription of Palestine Action.

#Newsnight

12.08.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 3
Epstein survivor says β€œmonster” Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison move is "a slap in the face"
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight Epstein survivor says β€œmonster” Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison move is "a slap in the face"

WATCH: Epstein survivor says β€œmonster” Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison move is "a slap in the face"

#Newsnight

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrll6Vw9W3M

05.08.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1416    πŸ” 584    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 16
A Nation's Shame: Grooming Survivors Speak | BBC Newsnight special
YouTube video by BBC News A Nation's Shame: Grooming Survivors Speak | BBC Newsnight special

WATCH - A Nation's Shame: Grooming Survivors Speak | BBC Newsnight special

Survivors of abuse and exploitation speak live to @vicderbyshire.bsky.social ahead of Baroness Casey's soon-to-be-released government report on grooming and rape gangs.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A_HiyPLqJc

03.06.2025 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Great interview with @vicderbyshire.bsky.social in the Telegraph

14.03.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

"It feels like a rerun of austerity and I'm worried about that."

Neil Duncan-Jordan, Labour MP for Poole, says cuts to benefits will create more poverty and says there will be Labour MPs who will vote against welfare benefits cuts.

#Newsnight

11.03.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 5
Post image Post image Post image

In his first TV interview since being diagnosed with dementia a year ago, ex-Hull City striker Dean Windass tells #Newsnight of his fears for his future 10-15 years down the line

Watch tonight 1030pm BBC 2

11.03.2025 11:32 β€” πŸ‘ 114    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

Mark Carney has been named Canada’s next Prime Minister.

In January he spoke to @faisalislam.bsky.social in a UK broadcast exclusive for #Newsnight

10.03.2025 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 196    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4
Video thumbnail

β€œShould the planned State Visit for [Donald Trump] still go ahead?”

Former Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt tells Nick Watt that the US President’s second state visit β€œabsolutely should” go ahead despite the clash with President Zelensky in the Oval Office.

#Newsnight

28.02.2025 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 118    πŸ“Œ 8
Video thumbnail

Sam Kiley: "Who started this war?"

Carla Sands: "I believe it was Joe Biden."

Sam Kiley: "Joe Biden didn't invade Ukraine!"

Independent World Affairs Editor Sam Kiley and former Trump ambassador Carla Sands disagree after today's White House meeting.

#Newsnight

28.02.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 446    πŸ” 81    πŸ’¬ 94    πŸ“Œ 14
Video thumbnail

"He has become a true voice of Ukrainian people"

Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Merezhko says his country is "proud" of President Zelensky after his meeting with Donald Trump today, insisting: "public opinion is on our side in the United States".

#Newsnight

28.02.2025 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1119    πŸ” 109    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 6
Video thumbnail

β€œI thought for many years that in my lifetime I would see America become a rogue state and that’s happened”

Podcaster Gabriel Gatehouse expresses his shock after Presidents Trump and Zelensky's historic White House meeting, adding "this is a mafia shakedown".

#Newsnight

28.02.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 962    πŸ” 227    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 13
Video thumbnail

β€œMaking concessions at the outset to somebody like Vladimir Putin, who is the combination of a street thug, a bully and a coward, is not really good tactics.”

H. R. McMaster, Trump’s National Security Advisor 2017-18, discusses the President’s approach to Vladimir Putin and Ukraine.

#Newsnight

13.02.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 245    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 5
Video thumbnail

β€œI don’t know how you can fix this when you haven’t got the social care in place?”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Health Secretary Wes Streeting what improvements the government is making to social care while meeting staff at King’s College Hospital in South London.

#Newsnight

13.02.2025 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 117    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 1
Video thumbnail

β€œIs [the NHS] really turning a corner?”

β€œIt’s beginning to turn a corner...”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social presses Health Secretary Wes Streeting on the government’s NHS improvement plans, who adds that β€œchange is going to take time”.

#Newsnight

13.02.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3
Post image

β€œThe number one priority is to stop the bloodshed.”

FULL INTERVIEW with Senior Director for Counterterrorism and Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump, Sebastian Gorka, speaking live from the White House about yesterday's Ukraine announcement.

#Newsnight

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXa4...

13.02.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 98    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 11
Video thumbnail

β€œThe imagery is next level shocking.”

β€œOur house will definitely be next…”

The story of the LA fires, as told by the residents whose neighbourhoods have been left devastated.

[Part 1]

#Newsnight

10.01.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 129    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 4
Video thumbnail

VD: β€œAs a result of some of Elon Musk’s tweets, the threat to you has gone up?”

JP: β€œYes...”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social speaks to Jess Phillips about Elon Musk’s attacks about her response to grooming gangs in the UK, adding his comments are β€œendangering” her.

#Newsnight

07.01.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 402    πŸ” 129    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 30
Video thumbnail

β€œI’m absolutely haunted [by it] and that’s why I advocate so strongly for assisted dying”

Nathaniel Dye – whose mother died of the same cancer he is dying from – explains why he’s backing tomorrow’s bill.

#Newsnight

29.11.2024 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 283    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 5
Video thumbnail

β€œI worry about coercion from medics, who are allowed to suggest people take this option.”

Palliative care patient Nicki Myers says the assisted dying bill takes power away from disabled people.

#Newsnight

29.11.2024 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 1
Video thumbnail

β€œTo close the door tomorrow... would be monstrous.”

β€œWe need more timed to scrutinise.”

Kit Malthouse MP and Ruth Jones MP disagree over the Assisted Dying Bill.

#Newsnight

29.11.2024 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 4
Video thumbnail

β€œThey believe this bill is going to scrape through on Friday.”

β€œThey think it is beginning to struggle.”

Political Editor Nick Watt shares the feeling around Westminster ahead of the vote on the assisted dying bill.

#Newsnight

26.11.2024 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 2
Video thumbnail

β€œYou can’t write in black and white a law that's safe, that won’t be progressively loosened and won’t be abused.”

Conservative MP Danny Kruger fears that if MPs vote in favour of assisted dying this week, the frail and elderly will be obliged to think about it as an option.

#Newsnight

26.11.2024 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 3
Preview
Journalism Researcher, Newsnight - EXTEND Journalism Researcher, Newsnight - EXTEND

Newsnight is looking for a journalism researcher as part of the BBC's Extend programme for disabled people. This is a great entry level role for a talented journalist.

Apply here, please share:

careers.bbc.co.uk/job/London-J...

#Newsnight

26.11.2024 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

β€œRunning a Sunday newspaper is a hugely expensive and complex business.”

Paul Webster, Editor of The Observer 2018-2024, shares his response to Tortoise Media's attempts to acquire The Observer newspaper.

#Newsnight

22.11.2024 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 126    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
Video thumbnail

β€œWhy would I accept counselling from the Church of England, why would I go to you?"

Nadine Dorries, who was abused by an Anglican vicar aged 9, tells @vicderbyshire.bsky.social the Church showed a lack of self-awareness by offering her counselling support.

#Newsnight

21.11.2024 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 176    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 2
Video thumbnail

β€œ[Russia has] rattled the nuclear-sabre again and again…"

David Petraeus, former director of the CIA, says the Biden administration giving permission for Ukraine to use longer range missiles and anti-personnel landmines is not escalatory despite Russian opposition.

#Newsnight

21.11.2024 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 287    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 1
Video thumbnail

Former Conservative MP Jake Berry - who attended the farmers’ protest in Westminster - says the Budget measures affecting famers amount to a "perfect storm".

#Newsnight

20.11.2024 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 1
Video thumbnail

β€œPensioners are the least likely generation to be in poverty in the UK.”

Jim Murphy, Secretary of State for Scotland from 2008-10, argues the younger generation is disproportionately affected by inequality.

#Newsnight

20.11.2024 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 216    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 3