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Zelensky heads to Washington, to the court of Trump and takes Europe with him.
Are they panicking? And post-Alaska, do they have good reason?
Listen now.
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"People who are truly patriotic will realise that Farage doesn't really like Britain" - @libdems.org.uk leader @eddavey.libdems.org.uk spells out why he is sure Nigel Farage will never be Prime Minister 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
16.08.2025 18:35 — 👍 61 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 3Yesterday’s show was as another exercise in clairvoyance. I don’t think we’re ever going to see a plurality of journalism that properly reflects Trumps’s depravity & corruption. Never mind Putin’s. Not sure I’ll ever fully understand why.
16.08.2025 10:35 — 👍 851 🔁 130 💬 56 📌 4
NEW: Weekend @TheNewsAgents special report from Nevada.
If possible, America’s fentanyl crisis is worsening, with newer, even deadlier synthetic opioids flooding the market.
Worse still, these new opioids up are turning up in Britain and Europe.
Listen now.
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One way to understand the awfulness of what Trump is doing is to imagine FDR trying to ‘negotiate a ceasefire’ with Hitler in 1942 but with Churchill completely excluded. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
14.08.2025 16:19 — 👍 673 🔁 171 💬 48 📌 2
Palestine Action, the case against proscription & the killing of Anas al-Sharif & his journalist colleagues.
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"This isn't about Hamas, this is the Israeli govt's agenda who want to displace and replace the Palestinian people - they have been trying this for 77 years!"
Husam Zomlot says the international community has had their eyes opened to Israel's "endgame".
Did @balconyshirts.co.uk close down the facial recognition technology debate for ever with his ‘sinister future government’ zinger?
Weight loss jabs: the ‘deserving & undeserving’ users.
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⏰ Out a little early this week because why the hell not?
🧨 Why are populists so desperate for chaos on the streets?
🎙️ @alisonjourno.bsky.social @rmcunliffe.bsky.social @jacobjarvis.bsky.social + guest @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social on how the ’90s shaped our world
📳 Listen linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
Starmer’s ‘threat’ to recognise the state of Palestine; ‘influencers’ in Downing Street & everywhere else; the value of a degree…
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As elements of the political & media establishments edge ever closer to openly craving more race riots, we look back at the Southport murders & ask whether social media bans & reversing the mass closures of community spaces might lessen the chances of them getting their wish.
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If you're around 35 or under in the UK, the government has never made anything better for you. Tuition fees brought in, stagnating wages from frozen tax brackets etc. An entire adult life of austerity with another decade ahead
26.07.2025 20:55 — 👍 308 🔁 23 💬 17 📌 4
The crucial distinctions the government must make before it can even hope to improve ‘social cohesion’.
RIP Ozzy.
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🔴 BREAKING: "European youngsters will be able to move to the UK for more than a year under a youth mobility scheme, the minister in charge of Britain’s relationship with the EU has indicated."
This is excellent news for young Brits going to Europe too.
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"There's this 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 that we're blaming Labour for a Tory problem... yes the Tories took it out, but Labour maintained it!”
@lewisgoodall.com on why the Afghan data breach isn’t just a problem for the previous government.
The Afghan cover-up; that tree; Inheritocracy; the man who believes his sister died as a consequence of their mother’s narcissism.
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“Why would you be taking away the lifeboats at precisely the moment of maximum danger?”
@lewisgoodall.com asks Defence Sec John Healey why the asylum scheme designed to help thousands of Afghans affected by the gov's catastrophic data breach is closing.
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Big surprise announcement from the government this evening to reinstate electric vehicle grants.
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Striking doctors & swinging pendulums; Greg Wallace; extreme weather…
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‘I don’t like the position that I’m in. I can’t get past the numbers.’
@mrjamesob.bsky.social is ’sorry’ that he can’t support the doctors’ strikes, calling their pay demands ‘wrong to the point of offensive’ when the ‘public purse is in dire straits’.
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12.07.2025 21:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A 30% tariff on EU exports would hurt businesses, consumers and patients on both sides of the Atlantic.
We will continue working towards an agreement by August 1.
At the same time, we are ready to safeguard EU interests on the basis of proportionate countermeasures.
→ europa.eu/!tPvKn8
There's no place for institutional finance in rental markets. It's a predatory extraction machine that robs the poor and middle.
But one thing I'd add: we should stop calling these people "investors". They don't "invest". They buy up and milk existing assets. 🧵
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When is a ceasefire not a ceasefire? More Starmer drama. And the observance of Daniel Hannan Day with all the trimmings & traditions. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
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🚨 Special Episode: Trump strikes Iran 🚨
Trump did it - he attacked Iran: US armed forces struck three nuclear development sites.
Netanyahu is jubilant. European leaders are uneasy. The whole world is holding its breath.
Listen now 🎧
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“Absolutely. If you set a precedent for using the military on US soil, it doesn’t bode well for 2028.”
Would Trump try to cancel the midterms? Yuval Harari explains the ways in which leaders subvert democracy to hold onto power.
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"The media continues to cover politics as if it is still the 1990s. 'Both parties are basically center-right or center-left parties.' The journalism infrastructure in our country wants to pretend that that’s the world that we live in. The instinct is to treat everything politicians say as valid."
21.06.2025 12:25 — 👍 13804 🔁 3796 💬 624 📌 235This in outrage, an insult, a typically biased BBC attack on the dwindling band of doughty warriors trying to do proper public interest journalism in an increasingly crazy world. I *never* cross to the weather!
(Listen from about 11 minutes in…)
"Israel is acting in a way that will produce future generations that will 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦 them."
Lord Chris Patten rejects the argument that criticising Netanyahu's and Israel's treatment of Palestinians is anti-Semitic.
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