The News Agents

How Keir Starmer called out Elon Musk

06 Jan 2025

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Keir Starmer has attacked those spreading lies over child grooming gangs. He didnt explicitly call out Elon Musk, but it was clearly he meant him. And...

What if...Boris Johnson had backed remain during the Brexit referendum?

02 Jan 2025

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In our final installation of our festive "What If" series Jon, Emily and Lewis ask what might have happened if Boris Johnson had decided to back the r...

What if...George Bush had lost to Al Gore in 2000?

31 Dec 2024

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In the third episode of our Christmas "What if" series, Emily, Jon and Lewis bring you a US politics special.First up, they ask how the world would ha...

What if...Dominic Cummings hadn’t tested his eyesight by driving to Barnard Castle?

26 Dec 2024

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What would have happened if to the Conservative Party if Dominic Cummings hadn’t needed to test his eyesight by driving to Barnard Castle? What...

What if...Scotland had voted YES to independence?

24 Dec 2024

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In the first episode of our 'What If' series, Emily, Jon and Lewis look back at some of the big sliding doors moments of our recent history and examin...

The News Agents awards of the year

20 Dec 2024

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2024 really has been a political year like no other - treating us to an indulgent helping of seismic elections, career comebacks and a gluttony of sca...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

20 Dec 2024

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This week on The Sports Agents... Sports Personality of the Year winner and 2024 Olympic gold medallist, Keely Hodgkinson, joins us for an exclusive i...

Inside the trial that shocked the world

19 Dec 2024

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Later in this episode we will be speaking exclusively to James Harding, founder of Tortoise media, in his first broadcast interview since buying the O...

Can you stop an election being bought?

18 Dec 2024

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Nigel Farage, Reform treasurer Nick Candy, and Elon Musk gathered below a portrait of a young Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago. They were discussing campaig...

Are Lewis’ holiday plans immoral?

17 Dec 2024

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Lewis has been urged to cancel his new year holiday by Britain’s best known conservationist Chris Packham. When he tweeted asking for travel tips in...

Why is Prince Andrew being blamed for the China spy?

16 Dec 2024

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A modern day thriller - a Chinese spy who infiltrated not only government, but Buckingham Palace. The alleged spy, Yang Tengbo, says he did "done not...

Emily Thornberry on Corbyn, Starmer, Trump - and a world in turmoil

13 Dec 2024

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Emily Thornberry is one of Labour's great survivors. An MP since 2005, she stuck with the party through 14 long years of opposition - serving in the s...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

13 Dec 2024

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This week on The Sports Agents... After the biggest contract in sports history was signed (15 years and $765m dollars for baseball player Juan Soto) w...

Is Keir Starmer ready to do battle with the Nimbys?

12 Dec 2024

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Angela Rayner promises to deliver 1.5 million new homes within five years. It’s setting the battle lines for what the Telegraph is calling the “bu...

Why have conspiracy theorists become suspicious of milk?

11 Dec 2024

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The agriculture company Arla foods is trialing a new cow feed in the UK that aims to cut down climate changing methane emissions. It’s been approved...

Why is the world swooning over an alleged killer?

10 Dec 2024

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Luigi Mangione is a 26 year old Ivy League graduate and an alleged cold blooded murderer. He’s also the top trending name worldwide with a Gen Z fan...

Will Syria be governed by terrorists?

09 Dec 2024

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Syria’s brutal dictator, Bashar al-Assad, has fled Syria for Moscow. On today's episode we speak to his first cousin Ribal al-Assad about the charac...

Special episode: Assad has fallen - what just happened in Syria and what happens next?

08 Dec 2024

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Rebel forces have seized control of Syria, leaving the country's President Bashar al-Assad scrambling to flee his homeland. There is jubilation on the...

Q&A: Trump succession, the most important PM and why politicians aren’t funny

06 Dec 2024

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Why aren't politicians funny anymore? Who is the most important Prime Minister in your lifetime? Will Elon Musk and Donald Trump's bromance last? And ...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

06 Dec 2024

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This week on The Sports Agents, Gabby & Mark tackled the controversy surrounding the Premier League’s annual LGBTQ+ 'Rainbow Laces' campaig...

Is Reform haunting Keir Starmer?

05 Dec 2024

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Today, in a movie studio setting Keir Starmer attempted to grab the public imagination with talks of pledges, missions and milestones. But the revelat...

Don't Panic! Why does Labour think it needs a relaunch?

04 Dec 2024

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Keir Starmer is making a 'plan for change' speech tomorrow. Just don't call it a relaunch. Why does the government think it's necessary? What will it ...

Could Elon Musk buy a UK election?

03 Dec 2024

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Elon Musk is reported to be weighing up a 100 million dollar donation to Nigel Farage to help him become Prime Minister. Farage has played it down but...

Gregg Wallace, the BBC and the MeToo movement

02 Dec 2024

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Masterchef presenter Gregg Wallace has just issued an apology for 'any offence caused' after he blamed middle class women for coming forward to compla...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

30 Nov 2024

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The week on The Sports Agents... Gabby and Mark Pougatch play darts with the world's best, teenage superstar Luke Littler and world number one Luke Hu...

History in Parliament: MPs say YES to assisted dying

29 Nov 2024

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When the vote in the Commons came back, you could have heard a pin drop. In the end, after hours of often compelling, personal and emotional debate th...

Net migration: Is it really out of control?

28 Nov 2024

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Net migration figures hit more than 900,000 in the year up to June 2023. And fell by 20 percent this year, down to 730,000. It was only a decade ago t...

A matter of life and death

27 Nov 2024

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The assisted dying bill goes before MPs on Friday. If it goes through it will mark one on the biggest social changes in legislation the country has se...

Could Marine Le Pen topple the Eurozone?

26 Nov 2024

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Later in the show we’ll be speaking to Department for Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall straight from the Commons, after she delivers her plan...

The Jaguar backlash - Is 'woke capitalism' dead?

25 Nov 2024

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The newly released Jaguar advert displays an array of brightly coloured models cat-walking around a large rock with no car. It has sent Jaguar traditi...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

23 Nov 2024

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The week on The Sports Agents... Gabby travels to Newcastle United to speak to players Dan Burn and Amber-Keegan Stobbs, and club icon Shola Ameobi ab...

Kim Leadbeater on assisted dying, fractious politics and Jo Cox

22 Nov 2024

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Next week, MPs will get their first opportunity in almost a decade to vote on extending the choices available to terminally ill people at the end of t...

Wanted for war crimes: Benjamin Netanyahu

21 Nov 2024

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The International Criminal Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of Israel’s Prime Minister, a former defence minister, and separately for the ...

Can parliament control Elon Musk?

20 Nov 2024

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Whatever happens on the streets of Britain, there's always an Elon Musk tweet. Often misinformed. Now parliament wants to take Musk on - or "invite hi...

Why are farmers storming Westminster?

19 Nov 2024

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Later in this episode we talk to Patrick Radden Keefe, author of global bestseller 'Empire of Pain'. His new Disney+ drama 'Say Nothing' tells the sto...

Why one journalist’s tweet sparked a media frenzy

18 Nov 2024

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On Remembrance Sunday the Telegraph columnist, Allison Pearson, had a visit from Essex police. Her report sparked a media frenzy, talk of a witch hunt...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

16 Nov 2024

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This week on The Sports Agents, Donald Trump will be the President when the U.S. host the World Cup and the Olympics - what will that mean for global ...

Peter Mandelson on Elon Musk, free speech, and his next big job

15 Nov 2024

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An ever present figure in British politics since the 1980s, Lord Peter Mandelson isn't done yet. He's hoping to become the next chancellor of Oxford U...

Could an alleged sex trafficker become America’s next Attorney General?

14 Nov 2024

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Donald Trump’s latest cabinet picks are actually laugh out loud hilarious. Unless, of course, you are American. In which case they are a signal that...

Has Elon Musk changed the media forever?

13 Nov 2024

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Elon Musk is the world's richest man, owner of the biggest media platform and the new President's latest bed fellow. Is X now an arm of the US governm...

Will Donald Trump 2.0 destroy the planet?

12 Nov 2024

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When the COP29 host country opens its own conference by extolling the virtues of fossil fuels, you know you’re off to a good start. Keir Starmer did...

What does MAGA sound like in 2024?

11 Nov 2024

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What does the MAGA movement sound like second time around? Dan Cox is a Republican legislator, heavily backed by Donald Trump for Maryland governor la...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

09 Nov 2024

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This week on The Sports Agents, Do winning teams need to be a bit "toxic"? England rugby centurion Danny Care, who has won three Six Nations and two P...

Q&A Special: "Live" from Washington DC

08 Nov 2024

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Emily, Jon and Lewis bid farewell to the United States by answering your questions on the US election.So what next for Kamala Harris? Why didn't the c...

How will Keir Starmer handle Donald Trump?

07 Nov 2024

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The Democrats are only just beginning to digest what went wrong and what a Trump presidency might mean for America for the second time around. But in ...

Trump takes BACK control

06 Nov 2024

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Donald Trump’s result last night was astounding. He reached corners of America few republicans had reached, both geographically and demographically....

Donald Trump: The Sequel

06 Nov 2024

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It's still early in Washington DC but in a remarkable and unprecedented night Donald Trump is on the verge of the greatest comeback in political histo...

Hope and fear as America heads to the polls - who will win?

05 Nov 2024

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The stakes could hardly be higher as US voters turn out to vote for the next President. Is it the White House or the jailhouse for Donald Trump? Could...

Harris vs Trump: The final arguments

04 Nov 2024

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We’re high on the rooftops overlooking the White House for our last full day of this election. How has each candidate closed the campaign? What shou...

Is there a real surge for Kamala Harris?

03 Nov 2024

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The News Agents are in Washington. And we’re asking one big question - will this be the election that brings women out for Kamala Harris in such num...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

03 Nov 2024

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This week on The Sports Agents, Imagine being stranded on an icy ledge 6,000m high in the Himalayas for three days with no food or water - that's what...

SPECIAL REPORT: A war on women - Florida’s abortion crisis

01 Nov 2024

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It isn’t just Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on the ballot in the US general election on Tuesday. Across the United States abortion rights are being...

Is the next Conservative leader trying to be the Tory Trump?

31 Oct 2024

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The membership voting has now closed on the Tory leadership race. By Saturday we will have a new leader of the opposition. What flavour will that cons...

Has the chancellor just raised the most painful tax of all ?

30 Oct 2024

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If there’s one thing Rachel Reeves drilled into us in the months before delivering her first budget, it’s that none of her tax rises would target ...

Why is everyone scared of the budget?

29 Oct 2024

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One day out from the budget we ask why The Chancellor appears to be frightening off the very people she needs to help flourish for economic growth. Bu...

Will racist jokes get the voters out for Trump?

28 Oct 2024

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Trump has achieved a lifetime ambition and played Madison Square Gardens, NYC. Throughout the night the stage was filled by supporters, surrogates and...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

26 Oct 2024

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This week on The Sports Agents, Brentford manager Thomas Frank tells us taking a big job like Manchester United wouldn't make his life better, in an e...

Badenoch vs Jenrick: the battle for the soul of the Tory party

25 Oct 2024

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The Tory party are down to the final two in another long contest for leader. It's an unusual contest with both Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick coming...

Is Trump a “fascist”? And do Americans care?

24 Oct 2024

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We have an interview with Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of Alexei Navalny - the Russian opposition leader murdered in prison earlier this year by Putin's ...

Is Labour 'interfering' in the US election?

23 Oct 2024

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Donald Trump's campaign has filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against - what sorry - the Labour party, accusing it of 'blatant foreign int...

Chris Kaba killing: should it have ever gone to trial?

22 Oct 2024

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Twenty four hours after a jury cleared sergeant Martyn Blake of all charges relating to the murder of Chris Kaba, the questions have only intensified....

Is Elon Musk trying to buy American votes?

21 Oct 2024

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Why is Elon Musk offering voters in Pennsylvania the chance to win a million pounds a day by registering to vote? Well, we can all probably work out t...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

19 Oct 2024

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This week on The Sports Agents, England named German coach Thomas Tuchel as the man to lead the Three Lions to World Cup glory - but does his national...

Q&A - USA Election Special

18 Oct 2024

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Will this be the most gendered election ever? How late should you stay up to watch the results? And who do Jon and Lewis think will win?With less than...

Can Kamala Harris win over Fox viewers?

17 Oct 2024

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Kamala Harris has been trying to reach the parts of America that Democrats dont easily reach. Her latest foray was on Fox News in a sit-down interview...

Badenoch v Jenrick: Can either candidate get the Tories back to power?

16 Oct 2024

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Tory leadership ballots have now gone out - and Conservative members must now chose if they want Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick to lead their party. ...

Is Rachel Reeves about to tear up a manifesto promise?

15 Oct 2024

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What exactly is a 'working person'? At the heart of that question is the answer to whether or not you think Labour has fudged its promise not to put u...

Is EU free movement about to fall apart?

14 Oct 2024

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Last month Germany suspended free movement at some of its borders, citing growing migration concerns. Critics of the move believe it’s dealt a body ...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

12 Oct 2024

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This week on The Sports Agents, Gabby & Mark Pougatch welcomed ex-Formula One Team Principle at Haas, Guenther Steiner, to talk about swearing and...

The most powerful man in politics - who is Morgan McSweeney?

11 Oct 2024

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Less than a week ago, the woman who was supposed to ease Labour's passage into government, Sue Gray, left her job as Chief of Staff following mountin...

Did Tory MPs go rogue? The mystery solved

10 Oct 2024

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Lewis, Jon and Emily have all been speaking to various Tory MPs either running the campaigns or voting in the leadership race. Together we work out wh...

WTF just happened in the Tory race?!

09 Oct 2024

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It's very rare you see the News Agents speechless. But today is one of those rare moments. James Cleverly, Tory MPs favourite as of yesterday has just...

Is Elon Musk working for Donald Trump?

08 Oct 2024

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Elon Musk has linked up with Donald Trump on the campaign trail - visiting Butler Pennsylvania and speaking to the crowds on the very spot Trump was t...

Why has Starmer’s Downing Street already fallen apart?

07 Oct 2024

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Sue Gray's resignation might have come as a surprise to some but as rumours swirled about mounting hostility towards her inside Number 10, her departu...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

05 Oct 2024

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This week on The Sports Agents, Gabby & Mark asked former Chelsea talisman Frank Lampard for his thoughts on their current one - Cole Palmer - but...

Strangeland: Jon Sopel on how Britain stopped making sense

04 Oct 2024

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After eight years as North America Editor Jon returned home to the UK, but things weren't quite as he had left them. In his book, Strangeland, Jon rec...

Why is Labour being so weird?

03 Oct 2024

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The Labour freebies story “broke“ over a month ago. Yet last night whilst Keir Starmer was meeting with Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels he found ...

Iran attacks Israel - how will Israel hit back?

02 Oct 2024

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Overnight nearly 180 missiles were targeted at Israel by Iran - revenge for the killing of Hizbollah leader, Nasrallah, last week. Western governments...

Why aren’t the Tories more scared?

01 Oct 2024

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Overnight Israeli began its ground war in Lebanon. They’re targeting Hezbollah but inevitably ordinary Lebanese citizens will pay a heavy price. Ira...

Is Kemi Badenoch another Liz Truss?

30 Sep 2024

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The Tories suffered their worst electoral defeat for a hundred and fifty years in July. So why are they so upbeat this conference? Today we introduce ...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

28 Sep 2024

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This week on The Sports Agents, We were joined by an array of brilliant guests to assess Anthony Joshua's shock defeat at Wembley and what's turning i...

Q&A: Career regrets, Prime Minister's clothes, and middle class America

27 Sep 2024

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What is your biggest journalistic regret? Should a Prime Minister's spouse get an allowance? And what does 'middle class' mean in America? Thank you a...

Is Freebiegate getting hypocritical?

26 Sep 2024

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Keir Starmer has tried to shake off further accusations that he's indulged in freebies from a Labour donor by pointing out how many in the media do it...

Who is Hezbollah? And what is this war?

25 Sep 2024

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The Prime minister has arrived in New York and called on British citizens to evacuate Lebanon after Israeli missiles targetting Hezbollah left more th...

Can Keir Starmer make the public trust politics again?

24 Sep 2024

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Keir Starmer made an hour long speech with the one funny moment carefully tucked away 55 minutes in. It was the first conference speech from a Labour ...

The void at the heart of Labour Conference

23 Sep 2024

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As protesters were wrangled off the conference floor, The Chancellor reminded her audience they were not a party of protest but a party of power. They...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

22 Sep 2024

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This week on The Sports Agents... Ahead of the opening matchday of the new and extended Champions League, we were joined by UEFA vice secretary genera...

Are we reaching an end-game between Russia and Ukraine?

20 Sep 2024

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Tickets are now on sale for The News Agents 'live on stage' at The Royal Albert Hall on Sunday December 1st. Buy yours from Global Player at the link ...

Has Starmer got a sleaze problem?

19 Sep 2024

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Just two months on from the landslide general election and Starmer is having to field questions about the 100k worth of freebies he's received since 2...

Are the attacks on Hezbollah a breach of international law?

18 Sep 2024

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The attacks on Hezbollah operatives were as audacious as they were incredible. Yesterday, targeting four thousand potential terrorists remotely throug...

Are the Democrats really inciting violence against Donald Trump?

17 Sep 2024

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Donald Trump has blamed Kamala Harris and Joe Biden's rhetoric for the latest assassination attempt, calling them 'Marxist communists'. So how is the ...

Will the second Trump assassination attempt change the US election?

16 Sep 2024

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It's the second attempt on Donald Trump's life in just two months, once again calling into to question the security services and the state of gun viol...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

15 Sep 2024

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This week on The Sports Agents, Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman are joined by former England rugby captain Will Carling to discuss the future of the game...

A Very Royal Scandal: Emily Maitlis on Prince Andrew

13 Sep 2024

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It was the interview that shook the monarchy and saw the downfall of one of its most senior members.A brand new drama based on that interview, titled ...

Has American politics been taken over by conspiracy theories?

12 Sep 2024

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Two days after former president Donald Trump claimed immigrants are eating cats and dogs, and babies are being executed after birth, Jon and Lewis dis...

Does Donald Trump really believe he won last night's debate?

11 Sep 2024

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Donald Trump was either up early this morning or didnt go to bed at all after his encounter with Kamala. He appeared on Fox News as they were discussi...

Kamala Harris wins the debate - and a Taylor Swift endorsement - The News Agents - USA

11 Sep 2024

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The Presidential debate on Tuesday night was everything that team Harris were praying it would be. Trap after trap laid for Donald Trump which he appe...

Why are people obsessed with the Lucy Letby case?

10 Sep 2024

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Health Secretary Wes Streeting has told Lewis that the wishes of the parents of the babies murdered by Lucy Letby must be respected. And yet - as the ...

Is the Kamala honeymoon over?

09 Sep 2024

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The (brat) summer was Kamala's. The Democratic nominee had two months of rave press reviews and sell out crowds. And a convention that left many remar...

Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents

08 Sep 2024

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This week on The Sports Agents, Gabby & Mark were joined by former Chelsea F.C manager Emma Hayes to discuss her brand new book,  ‘A comple...