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[@BBCNewsnight](/creator/twitter/BBCNewsnight)
""I want it we all desire it we all want it rapidly." Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle tells Paddy O'Connell he wants to recognise the state of Palestine as he called the situation in Gaza "intolerable" #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1948506011481801047) 2025-07-24 22:10:09 UTC 711.2K followers, 26.7K engagements


""How is anyone going to be able to trust Government again" The Telegraph's Poppy Coburn says the Afghan data leak and subsequent super-injunction is the "biggest political scandal in living memory" #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1945967432977268952) 2025-07-17 22:02:45 UTC 711.2K followers, 60.7K engagements


""Could Britain shut X down" "Britain has the power to shut down any platform." As new rules aim to shield children online from pornographic & harmful content @bbcpaddy presses Science & Tech Secretary Peter Kyle on how far the government is willing to go. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1948530839152927009) 2025-07-24 23:48:48 UTC 711.2K followers, 423.4K engagements


""An awful lot of people are going to be fearful." Jon Sopel host of The News Agents predicts that Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will cause problems for Labour the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1948876968130191722) 2025-07-25 22:44:12 UTC 711.2K followers, 3090 engagements


"MC: "Is it a problem that Keir Starmer doesn't play golf Would these meetings go better if they were on the golf course" JP: "Well he could drive a car perhaps." Breitbart's Joel Pollak on whether golf could help Keir Starmer win over President Trump. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1948883570518282599) 2025-07-25 23:10:26 UTC 711.2K followers, X engagements


"For me the recess cannot come soon enough for this Govt and Keir Starmer probably does need a reshufflehe needs to reboot his party Conservative peer Lord Vaizey says the Labour Government are lurching along: #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1946335602632171953) 2025-07-18 22:25:43 UTC 711.2K followers, 15.2K engagements


""If you know what to do it can be a very powerful tool." JOE Editor-in-Chief Oli Dugmore says Nigel Farage's million TikTok followers means his Reform UK party could benefit from the voting age being lowered to XX. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1945970819844186251) 2025-07-17 22:16:12 UTC 711.2K followers, 17.1K engagements


"EXCLUSIVE: Newsnight filmed a drone dropping a large package into HMP Wandsworth prison. This was filmed at 3.30am on XX June behind the category B men's prison which houses sex offenders and terrorists. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1944889258860290522) 2025-07-14 22:38:28 UTC 711.2K followers, 177K engagements


"Tony Blair did some great things one thing he didnt do well enough was change the Labour Party Jake Richards argues Sir Keir Starmers tougher approach to Labour rebels compared to Tony Blair shows hes leading a party much more disciplined to serve the country #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1945604823614636119) 2025-07-16 22:01:52 UTC 711.2K followers, 60K engagements


""A launch pad to annihilate Israel" As French President Macron decides to recognise Palestinian statehood @nicholaswatt shares Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahus response. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1948516897684623391) 2025-07-24 22:53:24 UTC 711.2K followers, 9897 engagements


"I think its fair to say the Govt is very worried about situations like this; new asylum accommodation opening in a particular place -they worry it could be quite sensitive & might flare up Ailbhe Rea of Bloomberg comments on protests outside an Essex asylum hotel. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1946341724617310221) 2025-07-18 22:50:03 UTC 711.2K followers, 14.2K engagements


""X in particular has been the place where most young people have found pornography" Baroness Bertin author of the Independent Porn Review says X should face the "full force" of the law if they do not meet age verification requirements by Friday. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1948025706308382993) 2025-07-23 14:21:35 UTC 711.2K followers, 29.5K engagements


""We don't know where they've come from. I sound so right-wing but I'm not I just find it wrong." @vicderbyshire speaks to Epping residents about the protests outside a local asylum hotel. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1947422010671276248) 2025-07-21 22:22:43 UTC 711.2K followers, 258.6K engagements


""They'll end up in the street. they'll have nowhere else to go" Paul McNamee Editor of The Big Issue on what will happen to migrants if the hotels they're staying in are closed. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1948516830726803841) 2025-07-24 22:53:08 UTC 711.2K followers, 186K engagements


"It's absolutely obvious to me that people should have a digital identity. Let's stop shouting at the French. A lot of this is on us. Ex-MI6 boss Sir Alex Younger backs calls for digital ID cards and adds that they could help deter small boat crossings. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1943433747401183744) 2025-07-10 22:14:47 UTC 711.2K followers, 1.1M engagements


""'We are going to have a summer of riots. You can just feel it. It is a tinderbox.'" After protests outside asylum hotels @nicholaswatt reports what he has been told by a parliamentary veteran who warns: "'My constituents feel they are losing control'". #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1947423639684415555) 2025-07-21 22:29:11 UTC 711.2K followers, 167.4K engagements


"WATCH: "I haven't heard that from anybody at the Fed." President Trump's extraordinary public disagreement with Jerome Powell the Chair of the Federal Reserve about the cost of its new buildings as played on #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1948514616256180454) 2025-07-24 22:44:20 UTC 711.2K followers, 19.1K engagements


""You also yourself don't believe that Mr Epstein killed himself." @bbcpaddy challenges David Schoen former lawyer to both President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein over conspiracies about the paedophile financier's death. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1948532941551743309) 2025-07-24 23:57:09 UTC 711.2K followers, 8551 engagements


"In the cab ride she asked me XX times where are we going Journalist Martin Frizell married to former GMTV presenter Fiona Phillips talks about the progression of his wifes Alzheimer's. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1945607719827767524) 2025-07-16 22:13:22 UTC 711.2K followers, 345.1K engagements


""One of the reasons people are shifting to Reform is people think none of this is fair. " Former Tony Blair & Gordon Brown adviser Theo Bertram comments on the anti-migrant protests in Epping. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1946341855702008105) 2025-07-18 22:50:34 UTC 711.2K followers, 17.3K engagements


""Two highly-qualified pathologists said this looks more like a murder." Mark Epstein brother of paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein tells Newsnight that his brother's death should have been thoroughly investigated as a homicide. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1948888050034978971) 2025-07-25 23:28:14 UTC 711.2K followers, 7288 engagements


"Today was a horrific day for my family. Naginas father suffered severe PTSD flashbacks after finding out he was impacted by the Afghan data leak. He was an interpreter with the British Army in Afghanistan. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1945249430535274915) 2025-07-15 22:29:39 UTC 711.2K followers, 210.7K engagements


""They've been remarkably restrained" Baroness Claire Fox praises the protesters in Epping calling for the closure of a migrant hotel. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1948511197827154110) 2025-07-24 22:30:45 UTC 711.2K followers, 188.3K engagements


""Not the sort of behaviour you expect from a party that's just had a historic majority one year into power" The Telegraph's Poppy Coburn reacts to Keir Starmer removing the whip from Labour MPs including Diane Abbott. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1945964596675715295) 2025-07-17 21:51:28 UTC 711.2K followers, 110.8K engagements


""There is no client list.the Attorney General Director of the FBI and so on jumped the gun a bit" David Schoen former lawyer to both Trump and Epstein on the difficulties facing the President as he heads to the UK. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1948506694490751025) 2025-07-24 22:12:52 UTC 711.2K followers, 10.1K engagements


""In the 2016 election. Jeffrey told me that if he said what he knew about the candidates they'd have to cancel the election." Mark Epstein tells Newsnight that his brotherpaedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein "had dirt on people". #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1948876297263858143) 2025-07-25 22:41:32 UTC 711.2K followers, 36K engagements


"Its a powder keg now and we need to get something done. We need the Home Office to listen After days of protest Epping Forest District Council Leader Chris Whitbread tells Newsnight he wants to see the asylum seeker hotel in his area closed. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1947416684333031651) 2025-07-21 22:01:33 UTC 711.2K followers, 14.2K engagements


""Nigel Farage has shown himself to be unbelievably agile and adept and adroit." Jon Sopel host of The News Agents on which politicians best capture public attention when politics is fragmented. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1948878872184860957) 2025-07-25 22:51:46 UTC 711.2K followers, 17.9K engagements


""Trump could sign an executive order tomorrow demanding the release of the Epstein files" Epstein victims' lawyer Spencer Kuvin says reinterviewing Ghislaine Maxwell is "a waste of time" as his clients just want access to info the US Dept of Justice already has. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1947996473259348156) 2025-07-23 12:25:25 UTC 711.2K followers, 10.9K engagements


""How is it possible a junior employee. is responsible for the financial crisis." Former Barclays trader Carlo Palombo whose conviction for rigging LIBOR was quashed today. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1948153423670419789) 2025-07-23 22:49:05 UTC 711.2K followers, 15.4K engagements


"This week new rules will require all sites hosting pornographic content to enforce age verification in an attempt to stop under-18s from viewing pornography online. Will it work Young people talk candidly to #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1947780667632218290) 2025-07-22 22:07:53 UTC 711.2K followers, 19.3K engagements


""We're just swamped with people there could be up to 1500 people in here - mostly men" "When Keir Starmer made his 'island of strangers' speech he was echoing Enoch Powell" "As someone that consumes the news on a regular basis I couldn't say what Labour is doing" #Newsnight speaks to protestors and counter-protestors at an asylum hotel"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1948165414019891694) 2025-07-23 23:36:44 UTC 711.2K followers, 155.6K engagements


""The appearance is a very poor one in terms of the way the police are perceived to have handled that protest" TomWinsor former Chief Inspector of Constabulary speaks on the policing of migrant hotel protests in Epping - but adds the police are "not taking sides". #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1948149590286278682) 2025-07-23 22:33:51 UTC 711.2K followers, 10.1K engagements


""There simply isn't really a sensible alternative." Former Home Office minister Laura Farris on how the government addresses local dissatisfaction over asylum hotels after protests in Epping and Diss. #Newsnight"  
![@BBCNewsnight Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::20543416.png) [@BBCNewsnight](/creator/x/BBCNewsnight) on [X](/post/tweet/1947419650389602547) 2025-07-21 22:13:20 UTC 711.2K followers, 88.6K engagements