Journalist, broadcaster, @BBCFoodProg #bbcfoodawards BUT NO LONGER POSTING ON HERE. @theSheilaDillon on Bluesky Insta: @Dillonthought Agent: [email protected]

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Joined June 2009
We’re going to do more with Frank…we hope. What an extraordinary man.
BBC Radio 4 - The Food Programme with @SheilaDillon ow.ly/ibUQ50Ymt5I Using creativity, flair and imagination to turn constraints into great food. A standout moment in last Friday’s The Food Programme was hearing from Frank Fiore, Catering Manager at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and a member of the Love British Food Hospitals and Care Catering Working Group (listen from 28 minutes into the programme). Championing local, farm-fresh produce and that powerful field-to-fork connection, Frank talks about cooking seasonally, being creative with what’s available — “I’ve got leeks today, what can we make with leeks?” — and making the very best of what you can afford. A powerful reminder that, in the face of the cost of living crisis, chefs across every sector rely on creativity, values and good British food to make a real difference. #LoveBritishFood #BritishFood ##PublicSectorCateringalliance #HospitalFood #CareCatering #FoodInHealthcare #ChefsCreativity #SeasonalCooking #FieldToFork #CostOfLivingCrisis
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Donald Trump is a convicted felon. He has launched this illegal war in partnership with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a fugitive from international justice who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Gaza.
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How does Moscow view Donald Trump at the end of 2025? One Russian paper today: “The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World…he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” #ReadingRussia
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She gets it.
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Not only did Israel systematically hunt down and kill almost every journalist in Gaza, they murdered more than 700 of their family members also. This slaughter went on while many of the world's most prominent journalists stayed quiet. It is an eternal stain on our profession.
Israeli forces are targeting journalists’ families in a war to silence Palestinian reporting. At least 706 family members have been killed, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate aje.io/pkapjm
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As Zelensky visits the White House and gets bullied again, remember this clip of Marco Rubio explaining the U.S. promised to defend Ukraine FOREVER if they gave up their nukes when the USSR fell. That’s why Lil Marco hides. He hoped we wouldn’t find it. Don’t share it right now.
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It has been made abundantly clear to women, over and over, that the trans movement is entirely predicated on prioritising men’s feelings over women’s physical safety
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The rot is finally surfacing. A former Brexit Party MEP - named in WhatsApp messages alongside jailed Reform UK leader Nathan Gill - is now denying pro-Russian payments after being linked to a Putin-aligned influence network. This isn’t a one-off. Brexit wasn’t homegrown. It was infiltrated. Farage built his career on a movement riddled with Russian 🇷🇺 links and now the messages, the money trails and the convictions are landing. Sunlight really is hitting the vampires. 🔗 bbc.com/news/articles/cn09x1…
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Tony Benn’s 5 key questions: “What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? How do we get rid of you? And if you can’t get rid of the people who govern you, you don’t live in a democratic system.”
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😩INSANE: Epstein emails confirm that he was advising Russia on how to handle Donald Trump. WTF?!!! THE USA IS COMPROMISED!
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“ if this happened in any other profession they’d be fired….Sent to prison!” Economists, bankers working within the strait jacket of #freemarketeconomics —ruining the world & our lives. Brilliant Ha-Joon Chang & Brian Eno instagram.com/reel/DKcPPdwTq…
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Why the #BBC is crucial, why the mostly foreign-owned, right-wing, let’s-destroy-democracy-&-make-serious-money @DailyMail @TheSun @thetimes @Daily_Express @Telegraph @GBNEWS spent so long, so much $£$ undermining the @BBC. Waste of taxpayers’ money? A last defence is what it is.
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Arbitrarily reshuffling Defra ministers mid-way through development of a Food Strategy and Farming Roadmap, because Labour party politics trumps actually fixing our broken food system, feels like some dumbass shit.
Very sad to be leaving a job in government I have loved - working with brilliant people at DEFRA and so many great people keeping our country fed: the farmers, the fishermen, everyone in the food supply chain and in rural areas. (1/2)
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This awfulness is happening now to a young person in my extended family. Up close, mental health services barely exist in the UK. Horrifying. Please sign. My Son Died After Mental Health Services Failed Him — Back Alyx’s Law to Save Lives chng.it/Zr2GphKhZG via @UKChange
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Against the background of genocide in Gaza, Ukraine, Adolf Trump...& the rest of Satan's campaign, this cause can seem trivial. But I don't think it is--it's helping defeat evil greed in our own capital. Donate on @justgiving and support this great cause justgiving.com/campaign/save…
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🎙📣 Catch up with the #FightFakeFood march on the "Big Food, Big Power" episode on @BBCFoodProg presented by @SheilaDillon including quotes from @sixinchessoil @CookerySchool @BiteBack2030 & more bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002g5… Thanks to all on the march inc @jennylinford @RealBread
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A fascinating scientist who as a young PhD trusted what he saw working in Uganda: what we eat is crucial in creating health. An unfashionable view at a time when the genome seemed to have all the answers. Food??! Ridiculous. @Rick_Stein @Anneli_Lof01 #davidattenborough
Today we’re talking evolution, fat and the brain with a scientist who’s long stirred debate: Professor Michael Crawford. In his ‘Life Through Food’ @SheilaDillon hears how his often dismissed research has changed the way we think about food. On @bbcradio4 at 11am. 🐟
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