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Jeremy Corbyn on Iran, student loans, and electing the King
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- Jeremy Corbyn on Iran, student loans, and electing the King
- Runtime
- 15:50
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- We were joined by Jeremy Corbyn on College Green following Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement to reflect on a chaotic week in global politics, and to unpick Keir Starmer's response to the US and Israel's attacks on Iran.
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- I was cancelled for calling the Green Party middle-class
- Runtime
- 26:18
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Lisa McKenzie is an academic who fell into an online storm when her tweets about Hannah Spencer and class went viral.
Lisa joins Andy in our first episode of Cancelled to share her views from the time, whether they've changed, and the wider class dynamics at play in British politics.
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- Housing lobbyists own the Labour Government | Select Commitee
- Runtime
- 10:13
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Harry Scoffin has been on a mission for years to help people trapped in unfair leaseholds. Did you know, anyone can buy up your home's freehold and rent the land back to you? Did you know some people are paying £14,000 a year to a total random for this pleasure? It's not fair. So why is Starmer and his Labour government allowing it?
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- MPs fear Starmer is dragging UK into another Iraq
- Runtime
- 8:34
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- MPs on College Green expressed concern over UK involvement in the US-Israel war with Iran.
The UK's RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus was targeted in an drone strike amid heightened tensions between Iran and the US. Initial reports suggested the attack occurred hours after Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that Britain had permitted the US to use British military bases for strikes on Iranian missile sites. However, a Ministry of Defence assessment later clarified that the drone strike happened before Starmer’s announcement.
Starmer has faced criticism from both political opponents and members of his own party. He had previously indicated the UK would not participate in military action against Iran, but later allowed the US access to British bases. Addressing Parliament, he defended the decision, describing Iran’s actions as “outrageous” and stressing that while the UK would continue defensive measures, it was not joining offensive strikes. US President Donal...
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- Are the Tories pushing for Iraq 2.0? | PMQs Analysis
- Runtime
- 38:08
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Andy, Laura, and Seán react to a particularly heated PMQs showdown between Kemi Badenoch and Keir Starmer, as the Tory leader ramps up the rhetoric over Trump’s escalating conflict with Iran.
As Donald Trump pushes forward with military action, Badenoch demands to know why the RAF isn’t striking Iranian missile sites, accusing the Prime Minister of weakness, dithering and putting welfare before defence. But Starmer insists the UK will not join a war without a lawful basis and a viable plan, even while allowing US planes to operate from British bases.
The trio break down whether Badenoch is banging the war drum, and ask whether this reasonable opposition or reckless point-scoring. They dig into what the special relationship looks like in practice, as well as echoes of Harold Wilson's response to Vietnam.
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- HIGHLIGHTS: Keir Starmer grilled by Kemi Badenoch on Iran at PMQs
- Runtime
- 14:41
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Looks like it's war, if the Tories had their way. #pmqs
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- Title
- Jeremy Corbyn is not happy with Labour's Spring Statement
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- MPs react to Chancellor's "oblivious" economic statement
- Runtime
- 8:33
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- MPs react to Chancellor Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement.
Today, Reeves defended her economic strategy, saying it is delivering stability in an increasingly uncertain global environment, despite downgraded short-term growth forecasts.
In her Spring Statement, Reeves confirmed that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has cut its UK growth forecast for 2026 to 1.1%, down from 1.4% predicted at last year’s Budget. However, growth estimates for 2027 and 2028 were revised up to 1.6%, suggesting a stronger medium-term outlook. GDP per person is now expected to grow by an average of 1.1% annually between 2026 and 2030.
The OBR also forecast that inflation will fall to 2.3% this year, lower than its previous 2.5% estimate, before reaching the Bank of England’s 2% target by the end of 2026. However, these projections were made before escalating conflict in the Middle East pushed up oil and gas prices. The OBR warned that sustained energy price ri...
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- Hillary Clinton storms out of her Epstein testimony #politics
- Runtime
- 0:56
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Hillary Clinton WALKS OUT of Epstein testimony
- Runtime
- 27:02
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Former US Secretary of State and Democrat candidate for president Hillary Clinton testified before the Oversight Committee to answer questions about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Over the four-hour hearing, Clinton was grilled on possible connections to Peter Mandelson, Prince Andrew, Noam Chomsky, as well as the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Institute.
Questions were raised over donations, her husband Bill Clinton's use of Epstein's private jet, alleged visits to Little St. James, and more.
Clinton, at one point, even walked out of the room when she was made aware that photos of her giving testimony had leaked to the public.
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- Tory absolutely SLATES Rachel Reeves for "weak" Spring Statement
- Runtime
- 0:52
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Rachel Reeves in FURIOUS clash with Tory Chancellor who slates "weak" Spring Statement
- Runtime
- 18:28
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- After Rachel Reeves' anticlimactic Spring Statement, Mel Stride took to the floor to hit out at the government for a "weak" statement that failed Brits in its lack of substance.
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- WATCH: Bill Clinton GRILLED in Epstein Files hearing
- Runtime
- 22:23
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Bill and Hillary Clinton were in front of Oversight Committee in a location away from Washington back in February to answer questions about their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Representatives grilled the former president for more than four hours, and dug deep on what he knows about Epstein's connections to the former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and the current president Donald Trump.
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- Ed Davey destroys Dubai tax exiles🔥
- Runtime
- 0:30
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- MPs slam tax avoiders who “fled” UK for Dubai
- Runtime
- 8:06
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Dubai is under attack, and a lot of people who fled the UK want the country's help. Is it right to give money to help new-residents of the UAE in a time of crisis? Or did they make their own bed? MPs have made their thoughts known.
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- What the media aren't telling you about Trump and Iran | Scott Lucas interview
- Runtime
- 24:05
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- We are once again joined by the great Scott Lucas to make sense of another chaotic weekend in Donald Trump's foreign policy escapades. This time, the President decided to join forces with Benjamin Netanyahu to make a martyr of Ayatollah Khamenei, for which the Iranians have attacked multiple gulf states and Israel.
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- Gorton and Denton: I voted Labour before, I won't do it again
- Runtime
- 0:51
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Palantir is taking over Britain. This is how | Martin Wrigley interview
- Runtime
- 26:34
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Laura is joined by Lib Dem MP Martin Wrigley to find out just how deep Palantir's influence stretches in British society, including in the NHS, the MOD, and even the police.
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- Can anyone stop the Green Party's surge? Rachel Millward interview
- Runtime
- 13:19
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Earlier this week we spoke to Green Party co-deputy leader Rachel Millward about the party's surge in support under Zack Polanski, their prospects as the new party of the left, and the downfall of Labour under Keir Starmer.
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- Asking ex-Labour voters why they're voting Green
- Runtime
- 10:27
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- We were down in Brighton earlier this week as Zack Polanski and Caroline Lucas set up to speak to hundreds at the Brighton Dome.
We got talking to some of the would-be Green voters in attendance and asked them what appealed to them about the party, and why they left Labour.
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- Labour Minister makes excuses for by-election wipeout
- Runtime
- 9:07
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander had the honour of heading out to the media studios on Friday morning to pretend the Labour house isn't on fire.
After coming THIRD in the Gorton and Denton by-election, the minister had a lot of explaining to do.
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- Title
- Zack Polanski: We need more ordinary people in politics
- Runtime
- 0:34
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- How the Greens won this Labour safe seat | Gorton and Denton report
- Runtime
- 15:41
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Gorton and Denton was one of Labour's safest seats in the 2024 general election, but this morning it became a Green constituency.
How did we get here? Laura Beveridge heads up the week before the election, and the night of the count, to make sense of the crumbling of this Labour stronghold.
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- Are Mancs proud to be British?
- Runtime
- 1:19
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Title
- Asking English people if they're proud to be British
- Runtime
- 10:18
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Much is made on both the left and right of politics on pride in place, so we took to the streets of Manchester to find out if they're proud to be British.
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- Fact-checking Keir Starmer's Student Loans claims at PMQs
- Runtime
- 47:26
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Ava, Laura, and Seán sit down after PMQs to make sense of Keir Starmer's claims that the country is on the up and up, even though nobody feels it.
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- HIGHLIGHTS: Keir Starmer HAMMERED by Kemi Badenoch over Student Loans scandal at PMQs
- Runtime
- 12:36
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Keir Starmer came under fire today for the student loan fiasco that doesn't show any sign of letting up anytime soon. #pmqs
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- Title
- This is why Keir Starmer is so unpopular
- Runtime
- 2:13
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Zack Polanski: Nothing will stop the Green Surge
- Runtime
- 22:37
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Ava sits down with current Green Party leader Zack Polanski and former Green MP Caroline Lucas ahead of their Bold Politics Live event for a conversation about their current campaign, political attacks, and whether Labour is panicking ahead of the Gorton and Denton by-election.
Polanski believes the Greens are directly threatening Labour’s base, and that the response from Labour, along with Farage's Reform UK, has been to “flood the zone” with noise and character attacks. The Green leader hits back against headlines about his drug harm reduction policy, as well as several bad faith distortions of Green Party positions.
Lucas strongly condemns what she describes as the weaponisation of drug policy, insisting the Green approach is about regulation, public health and harm reduction. Both accuse opponents of deliberately misrepresenting nuanced policy to score cheap political points, warning that it degrades trust in democracy as an institution.
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- Labour MP SLATES Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor 🔥
- Runtime
- 1:48
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Title
- WATCH: MPs move to release Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Files
- Runtime
- 36:03
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Today Ed Davey presented the Liberal Democrats' Opposition Day motion to call for the release of documents pertaining to the appointment of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor as a UK trade envoy during the Blair years.
Labour's Chris Bryant gave the government position after Ed Davey's powerful intervention, announcing that the government have no objections to releasing the files outlining how and why the former prince got a job for the government.
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- Title
- The Truth About Labour Together
- Runtime
- 1:26
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Title
- Just Martin Lewis being a legend
- Runtime
- 9:32
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- After Martin Lewis barged onto the GMB set to lobby Kemi Badenoch over the Conservatives' new plan to tweak the student loan system, we decided to have a look back at the archives of Martin Lewis' best bits.
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- Morgan McSweeney was created by Peter Mandelson
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Capitalism is a trap - and you can't get out | Clara Mattei interview
- Runtime
- 35:29
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Ava sits down with economist Clara Mattei to explore a bold and unsettling idea: capitalism isn’t failing - it’s functioning exactly as intended.
Drawing from her book Escape from Capitalism, Mattei dismantles the myth of the free market, explaining how what appears to be freedom and choice is actually a system of control. If everything we need to survive is commodified, we must sell our labour to live. That dependency, she argues, creates a hierarchy where workers produce more value than they receive, and where policy is structured to protect that imbalance.
Mattei speaks strongly on austerity, arguing that it is essential to maintaining capitalist power. By making life more precarious, keeping people indebted, overworked, and insecure, austerity limits our ability to organise and imagine alternatives. Even institutions that claim neutrality, like central banks, play a political role in sustaining this order.
Mattei argues that many so-calle...
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- The Greens would beat Andy Burnham in Gorton and Denton 👀
- Runtime
- 0:46
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Should student loans be abolished?
- Runtime
- 1:07
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Asking Brits if Student Loans are fair
- Runtime
- 8:18
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- 18 year olds in England have for decades had their pocked picked by the government to pay for university, even though their parents, and the government, got it for nothing.
We took to the streets of Manchester to see if the people there thought that student loans are fair, and should be scrapped.
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- Morgan McSweeney destroyed the Labour Party
- Runtime
- 2:21
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Morgan McSweeney: The Man that Ruined Labour | Peter Oborne interview
- Runtime
- 30:35
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Today Ava is joined by journalist Peter Oborne to discuss the Labour party under Keir Starmer, and the man that dragged him into power: Morgan McSweeney.
Peter breaks down the allegiances that McSweeney built over a long career campaigning for the Labour Party, leading to his links to the man that almost brought down Starmer's premiership - the former American Ambassador Peter Mandelson.
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- Is this the end of Reform UK?
- Runtime
- 14:36
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- In a clip from today's podcast, Ava and Seán discuss Rupert Lowe’s newly launched “Restore Britain” project, and ask what it means for the future of British politics.
Is this yet another pressure group on the populist right, or something more calculated? Ava and Seán discuss the ideology behind Restore Britain, how it'll affect Nigel Farage's Reform UK, as well as the wider movement to shift the Overton window further and further to the right.
Also noted is Rupert Lowe's status as an elected official, meaning he is taxpayer-funded. What are the ethics of an MP peddling rhetoric like Lowe is? Is this yet another argument against defections without by-elections?
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- Title
- Why I reported Andrew Windsor to the police
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- I reported Andrew Windsor to the police
- Runtime
- 16:58
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Graham Smith of Republic joins Ava and Seán to dive deep on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's connections to the Epstein files, and what that means for Britain's monarchy.
This interview was recorded before Andrew Windsor was arrested by Thames Valley Police, and Graham Smith was one of those who initially reported the former prince to the authorities.
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- Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is arrested
- Runtime
- 21:17
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- PoliticsJOE brings you an emergency broadcast in response to news that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office earlier today.
Seán and Laura dive into the dramatic and deeply controversial arrest of "a man in his 60s from Norfolk", and discuss what Mountbatten-Windsor's connections to Jeffrey Epstein will mean for the monarchy. With questions swirling around historic emails and renewed scrutiny over what was known and when, the pair unpack how we got here and whether this could mark a turning point for the Royal Family.
Is this simply another scandal the institution can weather, or does it cut deeper than previous crises? With King Charles at the helm, does the monarchy have the same resilience it once did under Queen Elizabeth? And how much public patience is left?
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- The Truth about Tony Blair | Michael Waldman interview
- Runtime
- 29:42
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Laura sits down with Michael Waldman, series director of new documentary The Tony Blair Story, for a wide-ranging conversation about one of the most consequential and controversial political figures in modern Britain.
Waldman details his time behind the scenes of the documentary, as well as his in-depth interview with Blair himself. He reveals what it was like trying to “get under the skin” of the former Prime Minister, and how Blair responded when pressed on his record, especially Iraq. Laura pushes Waldman on whether Blair truly believes the war was justified, and on a striking moment in which Blair admits reflects on his decisions "in the deep of night".
The conversation also gets into other interviews with key New Labour figures including Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell. Waldman explains the editorial dilemmas surrounding Mandelson’s inclusion amid controversy, and reflects on Campbell’s candid assessment of Iraq.
The pair also a...
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- Jeremy Corbyn: I warned about NHS Privatisation YEARS AGO #politics
- Runtime
- 2:13
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Just Palantir CEO Alex Karp being absolutely UNHINGED on investor calls
- Runtime
- 13:29
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- In quarterly updates to Palantir investors, Alex Karp has put his foot in it more than once before.
Here's some of the stranger things he's said on calls in the last couple of years.
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- Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana face-off at Your Party hustings
- Runtime
- 17:54
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- An online hustings for the election of Your Party's public office holders took place on Sunday, where Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn were making the case to be selected under the collective leadership model as members of the leadership team from the Public Office section of their membership.
All candidates are as follows:
CORBYN, Jeremy
SULTANA, Zarah
LEWIS, Grace
SMITH, Laura
ADAM, Shockat
LAVALETTE, Michael
KHAN, Ayoub
REA, Tony
MAMJAN, Shehrazade
FERNIE, Keith
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- How Britain legalised money laundering | Oliver Bullough interview
- Runtime
- 39:06
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Ava sits down with financial crime expert and author Oliver Bullough to unpack the vast, hidden system of money flowing through London and the UK.
Bullough reveals the staggering scale of dirty money coursing through Britain, with estimates of hundreds of billions of pounds moving every year, and up to $5 trillion globally. As he explains, money laundering is the engine that powers organised crime, kleptocracy, terrorism, and war. From Russian oligarch wealth embedded in London property to criminal networks exploiting Britain’s financial infrastructure, the UK has long played a central role in legitimising stolen money.
Ava and Bullough dig into why successive governments have been reluctant to confront the problem head-on. From political convenience to economic self-interest to fear of upsetting allies, Britain's response has been stunted. Bullough answers why financial crime has been overlooked for so long, and whether meaningful reform is actually possibl...
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- WATCH: Donald Trump's Commerce Sec GRILLED for Epstein link
- Runtime
- 8:46
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Howard Lutnick was in front of the Senate Committee this week where his links to Jeffrey Epstein were put on full display.
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