
Richard Watson
@richardwatson1
Investigative journalist and former correspondent, BBC Newsnight.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight 02-04-2009 06:59:34
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My last day today ā¦BBC Newsnightā© after 33 years at the BBC. Lots to celebrate tonight, but may be Iām most proud to see my daughter ā¦@ninakwatsonā© making her way as a young freelance journalist covering world affairs.


Fabulous, nostalgia-drenched evening as several generations of Newsnighters gathered to raise a glass to the inimitable Kirsty Wark and Mark Urban and reminisce about the joy of working with some of the smartest and most unruly people in TV journalism


Wednesday night was real laugh Frontline Club with 44 years worth of great BBC Newsnight stalwarts including Peter Snow who was there Day One. Billed as leaving do for urbane Mark Urban & brilliant Kirsty Wark but really a Wake to mark end of the show as we know it. So long



2018: When #AlFayed was alive we made this C4News film with Cassie Cornish-Trestrail alleging he sexually preyed on women - including a schoolgirl. He'd been reported to police. So what did the Met do to hold him to account and keep women safe? channel4.com/news/new-allegā¦

Constantly repeating that fighting had stopped for yrs coz Assad & Russia agreed to that. WRONG. They've been bombing civilians for yrs - they did not stop. Why repeat things that aren't true? Look at Fared Al Mahlool | ŁŲ±ŁŲÆ Ų§ŁŁ ŲŁŁŁ 's reporting for months & yrs to see videos of attacks. #Syria 2/2




bigger reveals. 3 of us on Newsnight knew activists conned by Mark. Daisy Ayliffe & Richard Watson went to Nottingham & obtained tape of Mark's confession. It wasn't till CPS dropped the case 10/01/11 that we could tell full story & put out recording youtube.com/watch?v=1Dpt5Fā¦

What whole fiasco shows is spycops & their masters thought "ordinary" women & even kids disposable so long as they got on with "important" work. Doc shows those women including Helen Steel Alison Smith Lisa LĆ¢n Belinda Harvey & 'Naomi' turned out to be extraordinary