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Ciaran Jenkins

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Presenter and Correspondent @Channel4News.bsky.social

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
How many students are ‘misusing’ UK’s asylum system? www.channel4.com/news/how-man...
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How many students are ‘misusing’ UK’s asylum system?
The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has launched a campaign to tackle what she calls the “misuse” of the asylum system by international students.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"I hope this is one piece of the mosaic of evidence to change policies and exert pressure on Israel." International Association of Genocide Scholars' Tim Williams speaks to @c4ciaran.bsky.social about the resolution that genocide is happening in Gaza. Read and watch:
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‘Israel is committing genocide in Gaza’, say world’s leading experts
The world's leading genocide scholars association has passed a resolution saying the legal criteria has now been met to establish that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Thank you. It all began literally the second we came on air.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Thank you Alison
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Thank you Brendan
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
"If they stay in an area that is in an intense war zone, of course they're endangering themselves." @c4ciaran.bsky.social asks retired Israeli brigadier general Amir Avivi what Israel will do if Gazans refuse to move. Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/picture...
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Pictures of starving Gaza children are ‘fake’, claims former Israeli general
We spoke to retired Israeli brigadier general Amir Avivi.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Explained: How Israel is enacting a decades-long plan that would ‘bury’ the idea of a Palestinian state. We went to the West Bank to see it for ourselves. www.channel4.com/news/israeli...
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Israeli plan that could end the two state solution explained
Israel's government also gave approval to a major settlement plan in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the Palestinian territory in two.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Not sure! That’s one thing I love about our programme though.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
"The only honourable option is for Europeans to stand fully with Ukraine, to support Ukrainian territorial integrity." Former Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis talks to @c4ciaran.bsky.social about the Trump-Putin summit. Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/europea...
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‘Europeans must stand fully with Ukraine’ – former Lithuanian foreign minister
We spoke to the former Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
"It's Ukrainians who are fighting and dying every day." Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko tells @c4ciaran.bsky.social the Trump-Putin summit has to "satisfy Ukraine". Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/zelensk...
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‘Zelenskyy should keep publicly silent’ – Ukrainian opposition MP on Trump-Putin meeting
We spoke to the Ukrainian opposition MP Oleksiy Goncharenko and asked him what he felt about the prospect of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump meeting to decide on the future of Ukraine.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
"Trump wants a deal in Ukraine at any price." Anthony Gardner, former US ambassador to the EU, and Russia expert, Professor Mark Galeotti, talk to @c4ciaran.bsky.social about the Trump-Putin summit. Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/can-the...
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Can there be a Ukraine peace deal from Trump-Putin summit?
We spoke to Anthony Gardner, who served as US ambassador to the European Union, and Professor Mark Galeotti, who's an expert on Russian security affairs, and heads the Mayak Intelligence consultancy f...
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Reporting from Washington DC, @c4ciaran.bsky.social has more on the Epstein scandal that won’t go away for President Trump, who tries to maintain a focus on the economy through it all. channel4news.substack.com/p/on-the-gro...
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On The Ground: Epstein scandal looms over Washington DC
No time for silly season at the Trump White House
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
New from me on the Channel 4 News substack — Epstein saga lingers but Trump has plenty else to worry about. channel4news.substack.com/p/on-the-gro...
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On The Ground: Epstein scandal looms over Washington DC
No time for silly season at the Trump White House
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Analysis: care worker visas were ALREADY under 10,000 last year. Meanwhile there are 131,000 vacancies for jobs paying on average £11 per hour. www.channel4.com/news/how-rel...
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How reliant is UK on migrant care workers?
One of the government’s big announcements was that decision to end visas for people coming to the UK to work in the adult social care sector.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Donald Trump has the worst approval rating of any president at this stage since WWII with the exception of himself during his first term. www.channel4.com/news/trump-p...
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Trump presidential approval ratings among lowest since WWII
Mr Trump has dismissed a slew of opinion polls suggesting his popularity has plummeted as "rigged".
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Tina McKenzie from the Federation of Small Businesses and Emily Kilcrease from the Center for New American Security discuss with @c4ciaran.bsky.social whether they see "light at the end of the tunnel" amid ongoing negotiations with the US over tariffs that could impact the UK. Read and watch here:
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Trump Tariffs debate: economic disaster or stroke of genius?
We were joined by Tina McKenzie from the Federation of Small Businesses and Emily Kilcrease from the Washington-based think-tank, the Center for a New American Security.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The Scottish Government said it had an “action plan” … on “behaviour in schools”. And the Welsh Government said it was developing “proposals to improve behaviour.”
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
A spokesperson for the Department for Education previously said in response to these figures they were “committed to turning the tide on poor behaviour”, they were providing access to a “mental health professional in every school”.. But there was “more to do”.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
And look at what’s happening in primary schools. Our exclusive data reveals the most common age for a school child to be suspended for physically assaulting a teacher in England and Wales is 6 years old. Six years old.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
In the school year ending summer 2023 alone there were 55,000 suspensions for attacking an adult. Really alarming.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
So we’ve revealed the number of violent crimes and stabbings recorded by police at schools. And we’ve revealed the number of violent injuries reported to the Health and Safety Executive. For a sense of the vast scale of the violence there’s one more figure you need to know..
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The figures are for England, Wales and Scotland. (The HSE does not include Northern Ireland.)
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Violent attacks on teachers 2013-23 included: • 1,011 fractures • 126 lost consciousness • 16 lost or reduced sight • 4 amputations
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We revealed the number of teachers who experience violent injuries at work has more than doubled in the last 10 years, from 302 in 2013 to 682 in 2013. Over the decade there were nearly 5,000 violent attacks reported.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
These were attacks on teachers so violent they had to be reported to the safety regulator - the Health and Safety Executive.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
And there’s more.. We exposed shocking attacks on teachers in schools.. Injuries which knocked them unconscious, caused fractures or even amputations. www.channel4.com/news/factche...
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Teachers suffer hundreds of severe injuries at school each year, exclusive data reveals
Fractures, loss of sight and even amputations are among the severe injuries being suffered by teachers and other staff because of violence in schools, FactCheck can exclusively reveal.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Read the full Fact Check article from the fantastic Claire Wilde: www.channel4.com/news/factche...
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FactCheck: exclusive data reveals 150 knife attacks at schools in England and Wales
Police recorded 150 stabbings or other knife crimes causing injuries at schools across England and Wales last year, figures obtained exclusively by FactCheck show.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Again, these are figures form just over half of police forces in England and Wales so the true number will be higher.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Violent Crime in schools is entrenched: 2019: 18,721 2023: 23,489 2024: 20, 187
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
These would include crimes committed by adults as well as young people.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
There were at least 21,795 violent crimes at schools in 2024. That’s equivalent to more than 100 violent crimes EVERY school day.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Now violent crimes in schools. We have these exclusive figures too. Violent Crimes include a range of offences, from physical assaults and making threats to kill, to robberies and carrying weapons.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson described these figures as “deeply concerning.”
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Here’s a truly shocking figure. There were at least 150 knife attacks (which caused INJURIES) recorded in schools last year.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
These are crimes that were actually recorded by the police - with just over half of forces in England and Wales able to give @channel4news.bsky.social this information - so clearly the true number will be higher still. Scotland and Northern Ireland did not provide figures.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
There were at least 631 knife crimes recorded at schools last year. That’s equivalent to 16 knife crimes at schools EVERY school week.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Adolescence is fiction. Here are some facts. We’ve spent months investigating knife crimes and stabbings at schools..🧵
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
"Republicans have been very skilful about baiting traps for Democrats." Democratic strategist Matt Bennett tells @c4ciaran.bsky.social the opposition needs to adjust its strategy to counter Donald Trump. Read and watch here:
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‘Signal controversy first time Trump lost control’ – Democrat strategist
We spoke to the Democratic strategist Matt Bennett, and asked him if Donald Trump's more adversarial approach to Putin is a sign of cracks beginning to show in his administration.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I spoke to one of the young women arrested during the Metropolitan Police raid on a Quaker Meeting House.. www.channel4.com/news/youth-d...
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Youth Demand reacts to arrest for plans to ‘shut down London’
Six members of a direct action group called Youth Demand have been arrested during a meeting to discuss plans to ‘shut down London’ next month, accusing the Government of ‘facilitating genocide’ in Ga...
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
"We can show that we can have an impact when we are allowed to do our job." Antoine Renard from the World Food Programme tells @c4ciaran.bsky.social there are enough supplies to feed the people of Gaza, but a blockade is preventing them from getting through. Read and watch here:
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‘Gaza is running short of food’ – UN plea for ceasefire revival
We spoke to Antoine Renard, Palestine director for the World Food Programme, who joined me from Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
👀We’ve obtained secret NHS files that reveal 1 in 3 English hospitals are missing at least 10% of their planned nurses across their wards. Find out how many nurses are missing from your local hospital using our new tool —NurseCheck: channel4.com/nursecheck
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FactCheck reveals: England’s missing nurses
These are the secret NHS files you weren’t supposed to see.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Diolch!
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Yes it’s an inspirational story!
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
He wrote Myfanwy a year after he returned to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 as first professor of music at Aberystwyth. Apparently there’s a real Myfanwy, his childhood crush. She moved to 🇺🇸 too. Their paths crossed 30 years later and… she snubs him. No happy ending in life but one immortalised in music❤️
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Thank you Steve for another beautiful arrangement. ❤️ This one is personal for me. The composer, Joseph Parry, is from Merthyr Tydfil, as am I. His story is amazing- sent down the mines aged 9. Taught music by fellow iron workers. Moved to 🇺🇸and became sought after musician
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Lushest melody EVER 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Happy St David’s Day—Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus ❤️
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Tbh I forgot about it for a little while 🤭
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Grooming gang response has ‘improved’ says former police chief www.channel4.com/news/groomin...
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Grooming gang response has ‘improved’ says former police chief
We’re joined by former Norfolk Chief Constable, Simon Bailey, who was also the national lead for child protection at the National Police Chiefs' Council.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
That would be tragic!
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Here’s the @Guardian.com write up at the time amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015...
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Government to take over Rotherham council after damning child exploitation report | Rotherham | The Guardian
Report finds culture of bullying, sexism and suppression in a council ‘currently incapable of tackling its weaknesses’
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