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Ava Vidal

Reporter · GB

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 16, 2026
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Jul 16, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Ava Vidal

    Ed Sheeran had this coming (opens the original)

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    Of all of the music artists I ever expected to be caught up in a political row over Palestine, Ed Sheeran was nowhere near my bingo card. I met Sheeran many years ago, backstage on a BBC One charity show we were both appearing on. He was so young and fresh-faced that the host Steve Jones jokingly asked him for ID, questioning if he was even old enough to be in the venue. I remember Sheeran being pleasant, inoffensive and … bland, like a musical Michael McIntyre. But he stuck to his image as the

  2. Article · Aug 7, 2026 · Ava Vidal

    Everyone is laughing at Jason Arday. I think it’s a tragicomedy (opens the original)

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    When a letter authored by the Good Law Project in defence of Jason Arday was passed to me to sign earlier this week, I saw the names of many people I know and respect on it. Arday, the youngest ever professor employed by Cambridge University was under attack, it read. A man called Nathan Cofnas, a biologist who describes himself as a “race realist”, was leading the charge. Cofnas had previously published an essay in which he championed the idea that Black people are less intelligent than whi

  3. Article · Jul 16, 2026 · Ava Vidal

    The way Micah Richards handled his dad’s death reminds us how little football matters (opens the original)

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    Did you wake up this morning feeling sorry for yourselves after England crashed out of the World Cup, losing 2-1 to Argentina? I wonder how many of us, the 21.5 million viewers who watched the BBC coverage of the match, then felt thoroughly chastened when we heard about what pundit Micah Richards has been going through? After the match, Richards – the former England and Manchester City right-back who has been one of the most relentlessly entertaining talking heads during this tournament – to

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