Coco Khan

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The executive producers are Kate Fitzsimons and Katie Long with additional support from Ari Schwartz.

And I'm Coco Khan.

Keir Starmer is having a busy week as he tries to keep Trump from totally losing it over Greenland, as well as his new obsession, the Chagos Islands.

Plus, Palestinian comedian Alar Shahada is with us to discuss his latest project, which shows the reality of trying to do a comedy tour in an occupied state.

Yes, all of life is truly here.

Now, a leaked letter revealed that he is blaming his threats to take total control of Greenland on the Norwegian government's decision to give the Nobel Peace Prize to someone other than him.

A letter, which is full of the usual Trump inaccuracies bullshit, shows the leader of the free world has the self-control of a toddler who's got into the Jammie Dodgers once more.

Normally, when someone is that wrong, it doesn't really matter.

You can kind of ignore it.

But Trump's inability to understand basic facts is impacting us every day.

Keir Starmer had to start the week dealing with the threat of massive tariffs on the UK and EU after a different Trump tantrum.

I listened to an interview with Darren Jones yesterday and he was actually trying to talk about something else.

But, you know, as is the case, just Donald Trump just takes over every single conversation when we want to talk about the news of the day.

And he was trying to say, look, actually, Britain's really good at diplomacy.

We're doing diplomacy behind closed doors.

That's what they keep saying.

It's really hard to have confidence in that, though, isn't it?

Yeah.