The News Agents
Why is Israel now threatening Keir Starmer?
- Title
- Why is Israel now threatening Keir Starmer?
- Runtime
- 36:16
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The PM's recognition of a nominal state or Palestine has provoked a furious response from the right flank of the Israeli government - several members of which are openly calling on their own government to now seize the occupied West Bank in retaliation.
Israel says this is a reward for Hamas and that Keir Starmer is concerned with his own party management - is there any truth to any of that? Why is Netanyahu unable to see the part he himself has played in bringing this historical move about? Will any of the rhetoric bring salvation to starving people in Gaza or the hostages in their midst? And is this move a tacit admission from the British government that it is powerless to change the situation there?
Later, what does the memorial for Charlie Kirk tell us about Christian nationalism and the MAGA movement?
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- How Trump's free speech crackdown is angering the Right
- Runtime
- 40:02
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- As more details emerge about the alleged killer of Charlie Kirk and more questions about his motivation, one thing is pretty clear - he is not obviously part of any "domestic terror network" of the kind Donald Trump and his administration is now pursuing. Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson is going after the Attorney General for her threats to free (hate) speech. How did the administration get themselves into this mess?
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- Trump celebrates the silencing of Jimmy Kimmel
- Runtime
- 26:01
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Overnight, the late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel was literally cancelled - taken off air and his show suspended, for what his ABC network bosses called "insensitivity" over Charlie Kirk’s death.
The firing came after comments from the broadcast regulator suggesting he would revoke licences if the show wasn’t stopped.
Are media companies now complicit in Trump's plan to silence them? And why isn’t anyone in MAGA calling out this version of cancel culture now?
Later, we are with Trump and Starmer in the Chequers press conference as they face questions on Epstein, Mandelson, Putin and Gaza.
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- How welcome is Trump in Britain?
- Runtime
- 40:49
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- POTUS has landed in the UK - where he's been so effectively directing public conversation and with increasing noise on the Right about the need for Britain's own MAGA movement. What do the British public really think about Trump? Do they welcome or resent this "unprecedented" state visit? And will it make Keir Starmer’s own position stronger or weaker? We speak to More in Common's Luke Tryl.
Later, why are British MPs getting barred from Israel? And what do they want the PM to say to Donald Trump on Gaza? We speak to Dr Simon Opher, one Labour MP recently turned away at Israel's border.
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- How Charlie Kirk's murder is being weaponised by his own side
- Runtime
- 32:47
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Last night, JD Vance appeared as guest host on Charlie Kirk's podcast. He took the opportunity to use the platform and vow to "dismantle institutions on the left that promote violence and terrorism." He used the death of his good friend, Charlie Kirk, to warn that “an incredibly destructive movement of left wing extremism“ contributed to his killing. Is the Trump administration genuinely blind to the violence also coming from the right? Or are they using this high profile tragedy as a way to justify a crack down that was always part of their plan?
Later, what did the Prime Minister know about the Mandelson-Epstein friendship before he was appointed? As an emergency debate takes place in the commons today, what does this all spell for Starmer?
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- Far-right ideas becomes mainstream.
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- 1:26
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
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- Musk tells the UK to "fight or die"
- Runtime
- 37:52
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Elon Musk popped up at Tommy Robinson's march in London on Saturday, calling for parliament to be dissolved, overthrown and for people to fight or die. So, that’s all normal. UK Politicians by and large seemed to think that was all fine. So is the far right now normalised to such a degree even the government won’t properly call it out? And who are all these people lining up alongside Tommy Robinson - a man once considered a racist and a thug by many?
Later, the MP for Wiltshire Devizes has just switched parties without a by-election. Conservative Danny Kruger, formerly a mate of both Boris Johnson and Robert Jenrick, declared his party dead. And has joined Reform. How will his constituents feel about that? And how can you blame "successive government failure" when you have been part of it?
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- Title
- Are world leaders treating Trump like a useful idiot?
- Runtime
- 39:02
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Donald Trump has told reporters (several times) that he is “ not thrilled “ by Benjamin Netanyahu's bombing of Hamas targets in Qatar. He’s told Netanyahu it’s “an unfortunate incident “. Just like he’s asked Putin nicely “not to bomb Ukraine“. When is Trump going to realise his words have little effect on either man? He’s failed to stop either war despite coming into office promising to stop them - is he proving once again he’s the TACO president? Is he actually scared of other strong men leaders?
Later, we revisit the story Trump calls a “Democrat hoax “ - his relationship with Epstein now revealed in print form. We talk to the Republican strategist Doug Heye.
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- Title
- Nicola Sturgeon’s message to Keir Starmer - Stop making Nigel Farage the next PM
- Runtime
- 42:04
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Nicola Sturgeon has a message for Keir Starmer. Stop legitimising Nigel Farage - or you’ll make him the next PM.
Scotland’s former first minister has done a lot of reflecting since she left office. In an extended interview we talk about her fractious relationship with Alex Salmond, her conclusions on her gender ID policy, the police investigation that saw a blue “murder tent“ erected in her garden, and whether she could have won Scottish independence if she’d led the campaign.
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- Title
- How Peter Mandelson TORCHED Himself with Epstein
- Runtime
- 9:28
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- How damaged is Keir Starmer by Peter Mandelson's resignation as our man in DC - less than a week out from Trump's state visit?
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- Title
- Starmer must stop legitimising Farage’s arguments, says Sturgeon
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
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- Why is Charlie Kirk now being hailed a "martyr"?
- Runtime
- 25:05
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- American flags are flying at half mast today to honour the memory of Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and MAGA influencer shot dead at a university event in Utah.
It is hard to state how influential Kirk was in attracting younger voters towards the Republicans. Donald Trump has said he was influential to his 2024 election campaign.
In a White House video, Trump said the “radical left” were "directly responsible" for the "terrorism" now present in America, by comparing “wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers”. He pledged that it would be put to a stop. Other MAGA commentators have gone further, claiming that the US is at war and that American conservatives cannot co-exist with liberals. What does Kirk's death mean for American politics now? And why are some British politicians claiming that Kirk spoke "common sense", when his views were so out of kilter with public opinion?
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- Title
- Why is Keir Starmer standing by Jeffrey Epstein's 'best pal'?
- Runtime
- 24:10
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Lord Mandelson has admitted there may be more embarrassing emails and correspondence between himself and the notorious paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The US ambassador was speaking to The Sun the day after a birthday message emerged calling Epstein his “best pal“, and just as the Telegraph revealed details of a business deal that Mandelson worked on with Epstein AFTER he had been convicted.
Keir Starmer has stood by his ambassador but failed to answer Kemi’s PMQs question - did he know about these dealings when he originally signed off the job? Can Mandelson stay in his role? And why is Starmer determined to defend him.
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- Title
- Trump's letter to Epstein is revealed
- Runtime
- 17:39
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- A US congressional committee has made public the 'birthday book' allegedly given to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 to mark his fiftieth birthday. In it, messages, photos and drawings from his friends - including Donald Trump.
The White House is furiously denying that the American President ever submitted a drawing to Epstein, insisting that the signature is not his. Democrats have called it "revolting" and "sick". After spending so long shouting about an Epstein cover up, how wounded are Trump and the Republicans by the latest revelations?
And, the Labour deputy leadership race heats up. Why it might have Keir Starmer sweating.
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- Title
- Turquoise burqas and Royal vaccine conspiracies
- Runtime
- 1:51
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
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- The real reason behind Keir Starmer's reshuffle
- Runtime
- 34:31
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Labour's new home secretary Shabana Mahmood has barely got her feet under the desk, but already the rhetoric out of the home office has changed. Countries that don't "play ball" on migrant returns could lose visas - Mahmood stressing she will do "whatever it takes" to secure Britain's borders and stop the boats.
Her appointment appears to be a tacit admission that Labour's first year has failed on migration - and in response, it looks like Keir Starmer has tacked right in the hope of beating off Reform. On welfare, suggestions too that Labour could be set to reattempt their botched reforms of last term - more pain for Labour's left.
If Starmer's reshuffle pushes this Labour government to the right - how does that fit with Labour's deputy leadership contest? Already senior Labour figures like Andy Burnham have been out of the traps to criticise the shake up and suggest an alternative prospectus for government. And with a contest set to drag on for weeks and w...
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- Has RFK Jr declared a war on science?
- Runtime
- 38:06
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Why has USA's health secretary RFK Jr fired the head of America's public health body? He says she was taking the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in the wrong direction. She and her colleagues - who have resigned in protest - say they were uncomfortable following an anti-vax, anti-science direction of travel. Where will the MAHA project leave Americans? Will vaccines dry up? And does it even have Trump's support? We speak to Dr Mandy Cohen, who led the CDC until Trump's inauguration in January.
Later, federal troops are coming onto Chicago's streets - a city described as a "hellhole" by the President despite having a lower murder rate than several cities governed by Republicans. Is Trump trying to create a private army under his control?
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- Title
- Angela Rayner resigns - can a reshuffle save Labour?
- Runtime
- 33:14
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Keir Starmer announced 'Phase 2' of his government on Monday - a reset of his Downing St operation supposed to get Labour gripping the agenda and on the front foot for the year ahead.
Just four days on, the PM faces his biggest test yet. Angela Rayner, the deputy PM, housing secretary, and deputy Labour leader resigning after a breach of the ministerial code for not paying the correct tax on the purchase of a flat in Hove.
In response, Starmer is undergoing a sweeping reshuffle - only the chancellor Rachel Reeves was told her job was safe ahead of time.
What happens now? Could a left-wing candidate cause Starmer a major political headache if they run to replace Rayner as deputy leader? Will Rayner become a lightning rod on the backbenches? Does Starmer risk creating yet more enemies in sacking cabinet ministers?
Can the PM use this moment to bolster his authority - or is it his most destabilising day in office?
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- Title
- “There aren’t many like her in politics”
- Runtime
- 1:56
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
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- “I feel let down”
- Runtime
- 2:10
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Title
- “Of COURSE Britain’s broken - HE broke it!”
- Runtime
- 1:37
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Why has Nigel Farage gone to America to slag off Britain?
- Runtime
- 26:03
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The morning after Nigel Farage appeared in Washington DC to berate his own country before Congress, the News Agents decamped to a Farage-free zone; his own constituency of Clacton-on-Sea.
On Capitol Hill, Farage warned that the UK was turning into "North Korea" due to the restrictions on free speech laws. He urged the US not to follow Britain down this path - even urging Donald Trump to slap sanctions on his own country if it forces big tech companies to follow UK law rather than America's.
We’ve been asking people here how they feel about their MP slagging of his - and their - country in America? Does they think he has a point? Or is Reform's leader simply being deeply unpatriotic?
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- Title
- Is Angela Rayner on resignation watch?
- Runtime
- 17:29
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Angela Rayner broke cover today - just before PMQs - to give an interview to Sky News in which she admitted she may have made a mistake on the tax she paid for her seaside property. The details are complicated - and involved both her special needs son and her divorce - but was it tax evasion (illegal) or tax avoidance (not illegal)?
And will her political future rest on the answer?
Later, we’re discussing Graham Linehan , Lucy Connolly, JD Vance and freedom of speech in the UK.
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- Nick Clegg defends his coalition gov’t
- Runtime
- 1:17
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
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- Nick Clegg: What really happened at Facebook?
- Runtime
- 57:19
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Nick Clegg worked intimately alongside Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook/Meta for seven years. He departed Silicon Valley in January and has written a new book - How to Save the Internet - and given his first broadcast interview to The News Agents.
Is the world wide web as we know it being dismantled? Does he still see social media as a force for good? Could it impact an election? And how much did Zuckerberg care about the impact the product has on children’s health? We chat AI, British politics, and why he suspended Trump from the platform...
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- Title
- Is the White House lying about Trump’s health?
- Runtime
- 2:44
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
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- Why does Keir Starmer keep agreeing with Nigel Farage?
- Runtime
- 36:37
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Keir Starmer has shaken up his core team in Downing Street today. It's an attempt to grip the agenda, improve the government's messaging and take on Nigel Farage after a difficult first year in office.
"Delivery, delivery, delivery" was what the Prime Minister said was the government's priority for the year ahead - but deliver what? There is a debate taking place in the Labour party between those who believe a more progressive case is needed, that you don't beat Farage by apeing his talking points.
Others are convinced that it is only by addressing these concerns that you can stop them from splintering off to Reform. Will today's reset get us any closer to revealing which side of that divide the PM is on?
Later, what the fevered online speculation about Donald Trump's health this weekend tells us about the White House - has there been a cover up or was it just a campaign by an army of trolls?
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- “I am deeply worried” says AI co-founder
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
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- Does America really "want a dictator"?
- Runtime
- 46:23
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- It's not the first time Donald Trump has overreached, but his latest assertion is that he has the right to do whatever he wants. Trump wants total control - of universities, the police and anyone he perceives to be a threat. He's 'fired' Lisa Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. The FBI have raided John Bolton's home. Are there any signs anywhere of any checks on Trump? Or is America sliding towards a dictatorship?
Later, we're joined by Patrick Gaspard - Obama’s 2008 national political director. He's the informal advisor to Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party’s nominee for New York mayor.
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- Title
- Are we sleepwalking into an AI 'economic bloodbath'?
- Runtime
- 33:10
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- This is the first part of two special Friday episodes on the way AI promises to transform our politics, economies and societies. Lewis has been in San Francisco, where trillions of dollars of investment in AI is fuelling the 21st century equivalent of the space race. Around half a dozen firms are powering this revolution, largely out of sight or scrutiny. While the political and economic implications are profound, politicians seem unwilling or unable to even conceptualise what might be about to happen to their own voters.
In the first of these special episodes, Lewis has been speaking to Jack Clark, one of the founders of Anthropic - one of the big AI firms. These companies don’t speak out that often, but Clark has a sober message for politicians. If politics doesn’t wake up- there could be an economic bloodbath within the next 18 months.
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- Everything wrong with Keir Starmer’s media strategy - and how to fix it
- Runtime
- 38:45
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- There's news today of a Downing Street shakeup and speculation too about a ministerial reshuffle next week. Parliament returns on Monday, with Labour MPs hoping that the new term will bring with it a chance to rejuvenate a government that has plummeted in the polls and a party that seems almost mutinous.
This summer, Nigel Farage has planted himself at the centre of the news agenda - with regular press conference, media stunts and interventions. Labour ministers have been doing the round too - but they seem to have less to say in recent weeks than the Reform leader,
Amidst all the talk of a reset, Jon and Lewis break down where Labour's media strategy is going wrong - and what Keir Starmer needs to do to win the messaging war.
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- Title
- Has America’s fentanyl crisis landed in the UK?
- Runtime
- 24:55
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- From coast to coast, America’s towns and cities have been besieged by an opioid epidemic, a crisis which has wrought misery and wielded political consequence.
Deep in the Nevada desert, Las Vegas - a city renowned for its seedy underbelly, has some 1,500 people living in its 600 miles of flash flood tunnels - many addicted to fentanyl. Lewis meets some of the tunnels’ residents to find out how this years-long epidemic is still wreaking havoc and claiming lives. San Francisco has become the emblem for homelessness and social decay, Lewis tours the city’s Tenderloin district to see why.
Despite being insulated from the crisis for so long, British treatment services are sounding the alarm bell. Nitazenes, a family of extremely powerful synthetic opioids, are spiking the drug market with dealers carrying out dangerous experiments on their clients causing overdose after overdose on the streets of Britain.
Has the opioid epidemic, once thought of ...
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- Is a secret US spy ring trying to take over Greenland?
- Runtime
- 49:04
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- It's a story that reads like it's jumped out of a thriller novel. Denmark has today summoned America's top diplomat in the country, after reports emerged that figures connected to the Trump administration had infiltrated Greenland to conduct “covert influence operations”.
Denmark's national broadcaster has today come out with a jaw-dropping story alleging that three US citizens are suspected of recruiting Greenlanders for a US-sponsored “separatist” movement. Are they rogue operatives - or are they working on behalf of the US State? Jon and Lewis speak to the journalist who broke the story,
Later, Labour are on the attack over Nigel Farage's mass deportation plan. The minister in charge of UK-EU relations, Nick Thomas-Symonds, has today been slamming Reform and the Tories for their aversion to closer ties with Europe - as well as branding Farage's migration proposals unrealistic and unworkable. He came in to the News Agents studio.
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- Starmer should ‘answer’ for her imprisonment..
- Runtime
- 1:38
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
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- Farage, flags and Connolly: How the Right turned on the State
- Runtime
- 30:17
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- In an airport hangar in Oxfordshire, Nigel Farage unveiled Reform UK's mass deportation plan. Farage pledged to tear up international treaties, build new removal centres, and strike deals with foreign countries in an effort to drive up returns at pace should he become PM. There was a dark message in his speech - that without his radical programme, Britain faces rising anger, even civil disorder.
Speaking at length about a political class and a legal class pitted against this action, Farage asked: "Whose side are you on?".
It follows a weekend in which Tory politicians have been condemning the British judicial system for convicting Lucy Connolly, who was jailed after calling on people to "set fire" to asylum hotels in the wake of the Southport attack.
When did the British Right turn on the British State? How did the conservative movement become so set on tearing down institutions rather than preserving them? Jon and Lewis discuss.
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- Politicians must be very careful using threat of public disorder for policy
- Runtime
- 2:04
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
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- Do Dems have to sound like Trump to beat him?
- Runtime
- 35:50
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- We start with the fallout from the unorthodox, perhaps undignifying diplomatic spectacle at the White House earlier this week. We are a million miles away from any peace deal in Ukraine, let alone any concrete shape of the 'security guarantees' Donald Trump has suggested may hypothetically be offered by the US in the event that Europe puts boots on the ground in Ukraine. And yet, already, prominent MAGA voices are coming forward to sound the alarm about American involvement in another foreign war. What do those warnings mean for how Donald Trump confronts the most pressing global crisis?
Later, Gavin Newsom has clearly irritated the President - and Fox News - with his social media imitation of Donald Trump. He's started TWEETING IN ALL CAPS!! and thanking followers for their attention to this matter. It's a novel approach, and does appear to have boosted his personal ratings as speculation heightens that he's eyeing up the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. Is it ...
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- Q&A: Trump, Putin and 100% inheritance tax
- Runtime
- 36:32
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Does Putin have something on Trump? Is Trump deliberately deflecting attention from the Epstein saga? Is Starmer's advisor, Morgan McSweeney, overestimated by the media? And what response has Lewis had to his 100% inheritance tax theory...?
This Friday, Lewis and Jon answer your questions.
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- “You are a complete tit”
- Runtime
- 2:08
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Prince Andrew bombshell: Epstein, Escorts, and Royal Scandals
- Runtime
- 31:56
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Jon interviews the historian Andrew Lownie about his bombshell new book 'Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York'.
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- 10 months ago
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- Where are asylum seekers supposed to live now?
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- 34:20
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Anti-migrant protesters are celebrating today, with The Bell Hotel in Epping set to close its doors to asylum seekers after becoming a battleground over the summer on the issue.
A High Court ruling ordered The Bell to stop housing migrants on a planning technicality. It did not receive the proper permission to switch its use from short-term stays to people living there for more than 30-day stretches, despite having run as such without incident for more than five years.
A failed last-minute attempt by the Home Office to get the case dismissed laid out the department's concerns. The government barrister warned that any injunction could lead to other councils following suit, a development "that would aggravate the pressures on the asylum estate."
He also warned that granting the injunction would “"run the risk of acting as an impetus for further violent protests".
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- Why a Putin-inspired deal could be catastrophic for Europe.
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- 10 months ago
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- Is Palestine Action really a terrorist group?
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- 34:14
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- 10 months ago
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- There is a growing chorus of opinion - both inside the Labour party and out - which is increasingly uneasy about the recent mass arrests of demonstrators who have been showing their support for the now proscribed group Palestine Action.
Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, banned the direct action group under terrorism legislation in July - but since then hundreds of people have been detained for expressing solidarity with the body and its aims. But that decision has been questioned, with Labour members opposed to the move, Labour MPs critical, and even the author Sally Rooney pledging to fund the organisation. Could the government rethink its strategy? Or does it need to do more to explain why it took the action it did?
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- Zelenskyy survives Trump... but has anything really changed?
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- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- In a tone entirely different from Zelenksyy’s last visit to Washington in February, this evening saw Trump praising the Ukrainian president. Zelenksyy was on the charm offensive. And it seemed to work. Trump bestowed his other European guests with compliments and promised that America would play a key part in the security guarantees if there is a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
It was in some ways a remarkable event, with European leaders sat around the roundtable kissing the ring of President Trump. But will it amount to anything? Can the US really guarantee the security of Ukraine? Will it? And where does this leave peace talks now?
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- History-defining White House talks take place
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- Trump's Cultural Revolution: the dismantling of truth
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- 10 months ago
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- What is Trump doing to crime figures, jobs numbers, museum archives and the Ivy League universities? A common theme is emerging - the President rewriting history like an authoritarian bored and irritated by fact. He’s been firing officials and replacing them with others who’ll massage the numbers in his favouring. He’s been threatening institutions and pressuring them to stump up cash. Is anyone confused by what the goal is here? Is Trump having to resort to make believe in his attempt to Make America Great Again?
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- 10 months ago
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- “I’m Being HUNTED!” - Why 50 Democrats have FLED Texas from the FBI!
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- 15:21
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Rep. Jolanda Jones will stay away from Texas “as long as necessary”
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- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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