George Alagiah

@BBCAlagiah

Presenter BBC News at Six; author of A Passage to Africa and Home from Home. First novel, The Burning Land. Retweets are not endorsements. Also

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    Mar 29

    Ever Given was my kind of crisis. A little suspense. Everybody learns something. Nobody dies. Over in a week.

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    Mar 22

    Delighted that my BBC colleague Aung Thura has been released by the military in Myanmar after being arrested while reporting. 40 journos have been arrested since the military coup last month. Journalism is not a crime.

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  3. Mar 22

    Congratulations. What’s your specialist subject?

    Congratulations to , the new host of and !
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  4. Mar 18

    Congratulations to the team for keeping the tradition going. Had some wonderful times sitting at what was then a seeming revolutionary IBM golf-ball typewriter.

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    Mar 15

    MHRA tells ⁦⁩ that in the UK it had received more notifications up until 28 February of blood clots on the Pfizer/BioNTech than the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine – 38 versus 30 - although neither exceed the level expected in the population.

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    Mar 15

    Here's the question to which I'd like an answer. Pfizer have reported 25 cases of bloodclotting in 11 million vaccinations. Astrazeneca have reported 28 cases in 10 million. What is the logic of suspending one without the other? That's a question they won't answer.

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    Mar 14

    Never seen an urban landscape as staggeringly jaw dropping as Barcelona. (ht )

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    Mar 13

    Congrats ‼️ 📰BBC News - Amol Rajan joins Radio 4's Today programme line-up

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    Mar 10

    Great to see Dr Wu Lien-Teh, the first medical graduate of Chinese descent from and inventor of the surgical face mask, as today's . Dr Wu is one of the many featured in our exhibition

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    Mar 10

    UK scientists discover key inflammatory protein in the blood of patients with severe Covid-19 It could help identify those most at risk of dying from the virus

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  11. Mar 10

    The debate about impartiality in news in a nutshell. Listen to and

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    "Wasn't Piers Morgan simply speaking his truth?" Julia defends Piers Morgan after the presenter quit Good Morning Britain following complaints over his comments on Meghan and Harry. Watch talkRADIO live ► |
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    Mar 10

    Former top Treasury mandarin says test & trace “most wasteful and inept” public spending in history - and links acceptance of that in Govt to Bank of England effectively printing the money to fund it...

    The wins the prize for the most wasteful and inept public spending programme of all time. The extraordinary thing is that nobody in the government seems surprised or shocked. No matter: the BoE will just print more money.
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    Feb 24

    A class act. We are so proud of the inimitable 👏

    Congratulations to from for his second win of the night for Television Journalist of the Year, who stood out to the judges for the “all-round quality” of his reporting
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    Feb 23

    Just listening to on about latest catch-up funding for schools: “tutoring programme should become a fixed part of the education system”

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    Feb 19

    Hello Mars.

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    This is incredible
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    Feb 13

    14.56 million as of yesterday had received a first vaccine dose - reported total seems set to hit 15 mill tomorrow or Monday

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  17. Feb 13

    Spent last week at home after being pinged by NHS covid app. Got into on Netflix, based on French classic story of a gentleman thief. Distant echoes of Cary Grant in . Loved it.

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    Feb 11

    RECOVERY Result for Tocilizumab For patients with COVID-19, hypoxia & inflammation: - reduces mortality - shortens time to hospital discharge - reduces the need for invasive mechanical ventilation Good news for patients. Good news for the health services that look after them

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    Feb 5

    Nigeria’s customs service, working with UK Border Force, have seized a gigantic hoard of illegal wildlife products on a ship bound for Vietnam. 10 tonnes of tusks, skins, bones & scales, all from endangered species. Thought to come from 709 elephants, 11 lions, 10,600 pangolins.

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  20. Jan 28

    The passing of another great. But we have her voice forever. RIP

    Sad news about the passing of South African legendary music icon 💔- Seliyana. Thank you for the music. May her soul rest in peace. 🙏🏿
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