The News Agents
Trump’s court is one of gold and women, while Americans can’t afford essentials | The News Agents
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- Trump’s court is one of gold and women, while Americans can’t afford essentials | The News Agents
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- 3 months ago
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- Has Trump fallen in love with his 'human printer'? | The News Agents
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- 33:34
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- 3 months ago
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- A leading Democrat was mid stump speech which he suddenly sent the crowd wild. It wasn’t his mention of Trump's failed Iran war. It wasn't his failed tariffs, or his failed cost of living policies. It was the moment he let slip that the only thing Trump is interested in is his ballroom and his “travel with Natalie". So who is Natalie Harp? Why have Democrats been pushing unsubstantiated innuendo about the President and his aide? And could this turn into a real political headache for Trump?
Later, was Reform's Tim Montgomerie too outspoken? He’s been unceremoniously suspended after his latest candid tweet that said about Zia Yusuf what many others were thinking - he’s wandered off the reservation a little too far…Does this make Yusuf even more powerful in Reform?
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- Protesters in Albania march against planned development by Trump’s family. | The News Agents
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- 1:48
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- 3 months ago
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- The Hounding of Jason Arday | The News Agents
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- 34:45
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- 3 months ago
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- The chancellor of Cambridge University today has condemned the "racist feeding frenzy" around Jason Arday. Arday was found dead on Friday after a relentless slew of articles querying the veracity of his academic work and life story. Was it really in the public interest to scrutinise every aspect of his life - even after he'd resigned from his post? Or did the controversy around Jason Arday's appointment become a bloodsport for the British media? Would he have faced anything like the same level of hostility if he had been white?
Later, why are Albanians taking to the street every night in such great numbers to demand the toppling of their government? And why are the Trump family so intimately involved?
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- Did the coverage of Jason Arday, even after his resignation, become a witch hunt? | The News Agents
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- 2:58
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- 3 months ago
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- Was the Reform leader, in truth, trying to avoid ‘the circus of his own creation’? | The News Agents
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- 2:26
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- 3 months ago
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- Why is Farage still complaining after his by-election win? | The News Agents
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- 2:46
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- 3 months ago
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- Farage beats the bin - so why are Reform MPs livid? | The News Agents
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- 38:44
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- 3 months ago
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- The people of Clacton will be relieved it’s over, but one candidate was conspicuously absent from the proceedings last night: Nigel Farage. He and his team will say he was advised not to attend because of a security threat, Essex police deny any such advice.
Nonetheless, in a surprise to absolutely no one, Farage won the Clacton by-election, seeing off a record 33 other candidates. But just how impressive was the victory? Is Farage’s win really as big as he’d have us believe? Or is it even more hollow than the bin he defeated?
And, with the by-election behind him, attention now turns to the investigation into his £5 million in donations, which was swiftly reopened once the results were in. What happens next for Farage? And what does the Clacton result really tell us about his political future?
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- Why is Reform threatening to jail the boss of Vodafone? | The News Agents
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- 31:56
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- 3 months ago
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- Not content with calling a former Defence Secretary a "traitor" and getting a ticking off from Nigel Farage, Zia Yusuf has outdone himself today. He's accused Vodafone of aiding and abetting the "invasion of Britain" by handing out SIM cards to British charities - one such charity works with migrants in Calais. In an open letter today he's told the Vodafone board a Reform government would jail them if this happened under their watch. Is it actually Zia Yusuf who needs his SIM card taken off him?
Later, Karoline Leavitt has decided that with two toddlers in her life she doesn't have the capacity to work for a third in the White House. How much or a loss will she be to MAGA?
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- Is AOC entering her presidential era? | The News Agents
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- 33:08
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- 3 months ago
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- It was a mixed night for progressive Democrats in primaries yesterday. They chalked up some wins, but the Wisconsin gubernatorial hopeful Francesca Hong was probably the highest profile left wing candidate up in a contest - she'd been leading in the polls but ended up falling short to the more moderate Jason Crowley. Notably, neither AOC nor Bernie Sanders took up the invitations to endorse her campaign - and after a series of gaffes along the way they may feel vindicated.
In fact, AOC has been tailoring her messaging and her platform, arguably playing down the more radical side of her politics and playing up her winning track record. A recent poll had her as the preferred presidential candidate for Democrats in New Hampshire. Does she have a real shot?
Later, the problems with Donald Trump's plane bait and switch story. And why Truth Social premium (costing $100,000 a month) might become a whole can of worms.
With Miles Taylor.
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- Are Israeli settlers out of control in the West Bank? | The News Agents
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- 37:53
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- 3 months ago
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- "The West Bank is at breaking point" - the words of a top UN official at a Security Council meeting in New York last night. Settler violence has been ramping up. Two Palestinian homes have been under siege with the weekend, with families warning that their supplies are running out. The IDF has denounced the “illegal, reprehensible and unacceptable” establishment of settler outposts inside West Bank villages but doesn't seem to be doing much to dismantle them. Why is the violence on the rise? Are the Israeli elections fuelling extremist action? And can anything be done to stop it? We speak to the Jerusalem-based reporter Noga Tarnopolsky.
Later, fifty police chiefs from across the UK have warned that the early release of PC Andrew Harper's killers would undermine police morale and faith in the justice system. Andy Burnham is scrambling to find a solution to his first major test as Prime Minister. But should we be wary of our police forces wading into politics on this scale?
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- Trump’s great plane disappearing act. | The News Agents
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- 2:25
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- 3 months ago
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- What is going on behind the facade of what remains of the high street? | The News Agents
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- 2:19
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- 3 months ago
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- The 'traitor' row tearing Reform apart | The News Agents
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- 40:24
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- 3 months ago
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- It turns out running a poll to ask Twitter whether Ben Wallace should be prosecuted for treason is perhaps not savvy politics.
Zia Yusuf. the Reform home affairs spokesman has today been slapped down by his leader Nigel Farage for labelling the former Tory defence secretary a "traitor" for allowing thousands of Afghans into the country. Farage has said the language is "over the top" and that Yusuf will be getting a "ticking off". A poll today has Reform at their lowest since the 2024 general election. Are Reform crashing out hard? Why is it that after getting so much right - it now seems like they are getting everything wrong?
Later, comedian and host of the Screen Rot podcast Jacob Hawley has been campaigning to save the high street for years. Today, Andy Burnham announced plans to stop rogue vape shops, barbers and confectionary stores from popping up all over the place. Did he nick the idea from Jacob's podcast? Jacob is on tour this autumn with a new show,...
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- Is this another example of Reform mistaking UK voters for MAGA? | The News Agents
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- 2:21
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- 3 months ago
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- “How many golden retrievers had to die to give him that?” | The News Agents
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- 2:30
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- 3 months ago
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- Why does a leading Democrat want to cancel Thanksgiving? | The News Agents
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- 48:53
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- 3 months ago
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- Is the Democratic party fundamentally metamorphosing? After Abdul El-Sayed's victory in Michigan last week, attention is turning to another big test for the Democratic Socialists in Wisconsin. There, the progressive candidate is being dragged for old social media posts suggesting she wanted to cancel Thanksgiving. Is the Dem new breed too woke? Or are they exactly what the party needs to breathe new life into the fight against Trump?
Later, why is Ukraine pummelling the Russian equivalent of Amazon - Wildberries - and is the tactic working? Jon speaks to the New York Times reporter Nataliya Vasilyeva who has been taking a close look at what's going on.
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- “We’re seeing the Democratic Party finally catch up to the age of Trump." | The News Agents
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- 1:55
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- 3 months ago
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- What can Harold Wilson teach Andy Burnham? | The News Agents
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- 57:12
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- 3 months ago
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- A northern leader. A sudden change at the top. A cost of living crisis engulfing the country. A Labour party accused of tacking left. Not Andy Burnham in 2026, but Harold Wilson in 1963.
Considering his priorities and his focus, Burnham would do well to learn the lessons from Labour's last great northern leader. A four-time election winner, a progressive pioneer, a comms master, who shaped the country in his image.
Nick Thomas-Symonds was until recently the Minister in charge of our relations with the EU. He'd been on the Labour frontbench for 11 years - but Burnham's ascendance brought an end to his time in government.
A close ally of Starmer's, he's also a respected historian and a biographer of Labour PM's past. We asked him into the News Agents studio, to look at politics through an historical and contemporary lens: what were those last days of in the Starmer bunker like? Why has the European question dogged British politics? How will Starmer ...
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- Is doubling down on support for a former neo-Nazi really the hill that Kemi Badenoch will die on?
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- 2:52
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- 3 months ago
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- Why is the Reform party “too woke” for Kemi Badenoch? | The News Agents
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- 43:54
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- 3 months ago
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- 24 hours on from the Tory neo-Nazigate , a curious development. The candidate himself, Joshua Bonehill-Paine, has now withdrawn from the election in Somerset council - only to find himself promoted by the Conservative leader herself to a national advisory role.
Why is 'no gaffes' Kemi choosing this eccentric hill to make her point - and what in fact is it? Meanwhile, she’s given an interview ruling out any future pact with Reform - and lambasting THEIR leader as "too woke". All ok, Kemi?
Later, the singer Tulisa was the victim of a sting 13 years ago by the Sun on Sunday. It nearly destroyed her life. She tells Emily why she wants to make this kind of journalism illegal - and the petition she’s begun to change the way newspapers are regulated.
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- Tulisa on The Sun campaign that nearly destroyed her life.
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- 3:00
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- 3 months ago
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- Have Democrats found their new Obama in Michigan | The News Agents
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- 42:25
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- 3 months ago
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- The Michigan Senate race primary between two Democrat candidates was so tight that by midday it still hadn’t been officially called. But it looks like the progressive, Muslim candidate of the Left has edged it over his AIPAC backed opponent. Abdul El-Sayed is a charismatic orator already being compared in tone to Obama.
But is the Democrat party already splitting before a critical midterm election? And could it cost them the Senate? Later, why is alleged domestic abuser Max Miller still standing for the Republican party in Ohio? Has Trump now set the blueprint for any politician facing charges of abuse or violence who believe they can win if they just show resilience?
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- Would blocking the early release of PC Harper's killers set a politically dangerous precedent?
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- 2:44
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- 3 months ago
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- What was Kemi Badenoch thinking defending a convicted neo-Nazi? | The News Agents
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- 33:37
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- 3 months ago
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- UPDATE: Since publishing, the convicted antisemite Joshua Bonehill-Paine has withdrawn as the Tory candidate, saying that if he carried "other political parties will spend all their time focusing on my past rather than the work I'm doing today, or even fighting antisemitism in their own midst".
This morning, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch was in the slightly surreal position of trying to defend why she was encouraging a convicted Neo Nazi to stand as a Conservative councillor in Somerset. She and he say that he’s a reformed - not Reform- candidate who’s served his time (behind bars) and is now educating others on the ills of antisemitism. Can an abusive misogynist racist change in a decade? And should he be allowed to seek public office even if he has?
Later - the Thames Valley police chief has threatened to take the government to court over the early release of the killers of PC Andrew Harper. Is Prime Minister Burnham feeling his first political heat over this contentious ...
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- Why is Kemi Badenoch defending a convicted neo-Nazi standing as a Tory councillor?
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- 2:49
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- 3 months ago
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- Is Pirro out after refuting Trump’s claims the reflecting pool was 'vandalised'? | The News Agents
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- 3:00
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- 3 months ago
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- How Spain's migrant crisis is emboldening the hard right | The News Agents
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- 32:03
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- 3 months ago
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- Why are hard right politicians now flocking to the tiny Spanish enclave of Ceuta off the coast of Morocco? And why is Europe so spooked? After tens of thousands of migrants flocked to this northern corner of Africa, the EU has gone into emergency mode - nearly a hundred people died or drowned in an attempt to enter Spain through Ceuta. Italy has suspended free movement with Spain for a month. Other countries are suggesting they might follow suit. The government in Madrid is on the EU's naughty step - could it cause a bigger rupture?
Later, MAGA cheerleader turned Trump-appointee Jeanine Pirro is facing the wrath of the President after dropping vandalism charges relating to the Reflecting Pool that has become his obsession. He told reporters that Pirro had "choked" and "folded like a chair" - can she keep her job?
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- How Spain’s migrant crisis is emboldening the hard right
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- 3:00
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- 3 months ago
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- Will FIFA dump Infantino as quickly as Donald Trump has? | The News Agents
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- 2:40
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- 3 months ago
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- Will Farage and Lowe team up or tear each other apart? | The News Agents
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- 45:14
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- 3 months ago
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- Nigel hates Rupert but needs him and Rupert wants Nigel to beg. Could Restore and Reform ever do a deal to take on the newly invigorated Labour party? Or is there too much toxicity to even get on the phone?
Later - Will FIFA president Gianni Infantino last the week after so many football associations have turned against him - and will Trump stick by the man who gave him the peace prize?
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- Will Farage and Lowe - Reform and Restore - team up, or tear each other apart?
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- 2:21
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- 3 months ago
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- Did the 2008 financial crash cause a spike in populism? | The News Agents
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- 1:54
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- 3 months ago
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- Is a financial collapse coming worse than the Wall St crash? | The News Agents
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- 43:07
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- 3 months ago
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- Andy Burnham hasn't even been Prime Minister for two weeks, but the early verdict is positive. He's looked decisive, commanded the agenda and projected authority. The question is: will that matter?
New governments often think they know what will define them but history has a habit of intervening. The biggest political events are often the ones nobody sees coming. Could the next defining crisis already be taking shape?
This week saw a bruising sell-off in AI stocks as investors questioned whether the more than $1.5 trillion pouring into AI can ever deliver the returns being promised. Some are beginning to ask whether we're watching an AI bubble form. And if it bursts, the consequences could stretch far beyond Silicon Valley.
The last time we saw a collapse on this scale was 1929 - the Wall Street Crash. It reshaped politics, economics and the course of the twentieth century.
This Friday, Andrew Ross Sorkin joins The News Agents to discuss his new book on the 1929...
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- “Policies are being driven by big money, and who's got the money? The wealthiest!” | The News Agents
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- 2:02
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- 3 months ago
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- ‘Legitimate questions’ have emerged about how we handled Covid. | The News Agents
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- 2:56
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- 3 months ago
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- Do Fauci’s Covid diaries reveal he was enjoying what he was experiencing? | The News Agents
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- 2:33
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- 3 months ago
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- Why is MAGA trying to jail America's top doctor? | The News Agents
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- 55:01
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- 3 months ago
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- Dr Anthony Fauci became a world-renowned figure during Covid - one of America's top virologists with a lifetime of public service to his name. And yet, in a Senate committee yesterday, he was condemned in the strongest terms by several Republicans, and had to plead the fifth amendment 100 times.
He accused the senior GOP Senator Rand Paul (who chairs the committee) of having an "obsession" with him. Ted Cruz has said that his silence should lead to a contempt of Congress charge and potential jail time. How on earth has he became such an enemy of the American Right? And what does it say about the long legacy of Covid on our politics?
Later, Baroness Casey speaks to Lewis about the social care review and what it's like working for Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham.
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- Baroness Casey, who led a landmark review into racism within the Met, shares her thoughts.
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- 1:35
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- 3 months ago
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- Keir Starmer delayed the social care report for 'political reasons'. | The News Agents
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- 2:39
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- 3 months ago
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- Could Laura Loomer save Ukraine? | The News Agents
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- 41:58
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- 3 months ago
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- There are good signs that Ukraine seems to now be winning the war against Russia - and for Volodymyr Zelenskyy, there are even better signs that Ukraine is winning the battle the battle for hearts and minds with MAGA. Now long ago Laura Loomer, the hard-right MAGA cheerleader with the ear of Donald Trump, was accusing Ukraine of starting the conflict, regurgitating Russian propaganda, and generally denigrating the cause of Kyiv.
That's all changed. In something of a damascene conversion, she's been to Ukraine, interviewed Zelenskyy, and is now shouting from the rooftops about the nobility of the Ukrainian cause and the lies coming out of Moscow. Trump has been posting approvingly about her content, and was glowing about a recent meeting with the Ukrainian President. Sean Hannity too, another Trump whisperer, was practically hero worshipping him when he came on Fox News. So is MAGA finally rowing in behind the country it has so publicly clashed with in Trump's second term? ...
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- Is Andy Burnham betting his premiership on fixing social care? | The News Agents
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- 36:37
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- 3 months ago
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- Andy Burnham has set out plans to fix England’s struggling social care system — promising a new National Care Service, cross-party talks and a review designed to tackle a system he says is no longer working. But how quickly can reform happen, and who will pay for it?
In this episode, we unpack the announcement, and ask whether the new PM can finally deliver meaningful change.
Later, we're joined by Sky News' economics and data editor and of host of the 'Stuff Matters' podcast - Ed Conway - to analyse the economic challenges ahead for Burnham.
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- Will this be the worst week of Todd Blanche’s life? | The News Agents
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- 2:57
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- 3 months ago
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- Jon remembers the time he stood up to the White House in Kaitlin Collins defence.
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- 2:22
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- 3 months ago
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- Does higher education still offer social mobility? | The News Agents
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- 2:52
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- 3 months ago
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- Is there a hypocrisy in how Reform deals with free speech when it’s towards them? | The News Agents
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- 2:56
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- 3 months ago
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- Should Polanski be arrested for his Farage Insta post? | The News Agents
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- 40:00
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- 3 months ago
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- Reform UK has referred Green party leader Zack Polanski to the police for "inciting murder" after a post he shared on social media.
The image, shared and then deleted on Instagram, showed a man wearing a tee shirt with the words “we’re only making plans for Nigel” next to a picture of a guillotine.
Farage has said: "“If I was to post anything as inciteful then I would expect to be arrested, and so should Polanski”. The police are now "conducting inquiries".
The Greens say that Polanski “condemns the image on the tee shirt” and that he had only ever accepted being tagged in a post that contained 20 images “without realising there was more to it than he had seen”.
Has Polanski crossed a line? Is he too online? And why are Reform quick to defend people like Lucy Connolly but now calling for the arrest of a rival party leader?
Later, Andy Burnham unveils plans for vocational education to be offered from the age of fourteen, with bespoke train...
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- Why do Reform want Zack Polanski arrested?
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- 2:46
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- 3 months ago
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- Nick Clegg on the tuition fees he helped introduce | The News Agents
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- 1:23
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- 3 months ago
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- Burnham's best mate on what the PM does now | The News Agents
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- 44:25
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- 3 months ago
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- It's hard to think of a political alliance as tightly bonded as Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram. Both northern MPs who vacated Westminster to lead their respective City regions, they have even co-authored a book - 'Head North' - which lays out their roadmap to fix Britain. Many of the words, ideas and policies Burnham has unveiled in his first week in office are all laid out in that book. It's a manifesto for fundamentally rewiring Britain, for bringing a new set of values into politics, and for bringing development and opportunity to neglected northern towns and cities.
They are self-described "bezzie mates", even "brothers". So who better to speak to than Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, to get under the new Prime Minister's skin, and work out what happens now.
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