“Nigel would ship them out - totally un-British, totally unacceptable, you have to call it what it is.”
Nick Watt asks Deputy PM David Lammy if he agrees with Sir Keir Starmer labelling Reform UK’s immigration plans as racist, saying “it reminds me of the Windrush scandal.”
#Newsnight
01.10.2025 15:14 — 👍 44 🔁 6 💬 5 📌 1
“Not you again!”
Health Secretary Wes Streeting tells Nick Watt that he thinks Sir Keir Starmer’s conference speech was “unifying” and “in stark contrast to the snake oil salesman Nigel Farage.”
#Newsnight
01.10.2025 15:15 — 👍 41 🔁 7 💬 6 📌 1
“Rachel Reeves, was that a better speech than yours?”
“Of course”
Nick Watt hears reaction to Sir Keir Starmer’s conference speech from The Chancellor, Bridget Phillipson and Ellie Reeves.
#Newsnight
01.10.2025 15:18 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 7 📌 1
"Farage does not like having his policies criticised, because he's used to simply standing on the sidelines."
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper responds to Nigel Farage calling the Prime Minister's language "a disgrace".
#Newsnight
01.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 90 🔁 17 💬 18 📌 0
"I'm all for people giving him a good kicking... but the danger is if you give him too much free publicity you turn him into a bigger figure than he is."
Former Labour MP, Diane Abbott on the focus on Nigel Farage during Labour Party conference.
#Newsnight
01.10.2025 15:48 — 👍 94 🔁 17 💬 17 📌 1
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“Terrifying” | Yanis Varoufakis and Gillian Tett debate the UK’s “sad” economic situation
WATCH: “Terrifying” | Yanis Varoufakis and Gillian Tett debate the UK’s “sad” economic situation
#Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FetFxnTysw
03.10.2025 13:44 — 👍 34 🔁 13 💬 8 📌 2
"Even more un-British than certain unsavoury people attending certain protests would be a world in which the country saw Jews or the Jewish community demanding that certain rights were disavowed or forfeited."
Sunday Times' Gabriel Pogrund on the weekend's planned protests.
#Newsnight
04.10.2025 10:44 — 👍 81 🔁 24 💬 15 📌 3
“You could certainly pick up people in the English Channel, hold them on some kind of a mothership & send them back to the land from which they’ve come on some quiet and moonless night”
Ex-Australian PM Tony Abbott tells #Newsnight how the UK could deter small boat crossings
07.10.2025 10:36 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 24 📌 8
“I’ll put it bluntly, Robert is wrong… it’s actually a very integrated place... Not the definition of a slum.”
Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands 2017-24, responds to Robert Jenrick's comments on Handsworth.
#Newsnight
07.10.2025 10:40 — 👍 262 🔁 90 💬 21 📌 18
“This is about substance - this is not showbiz.”
Nick Watt hears from Shadow Ministers, MPs and a former Australian PM about the mood at Conservative Party conference.
#Newsnight
07.10.2025 10:41 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 6 📌 0
“Was your language wise?”
Nick Watt asks Robert Jenrick about his comments describing Handsworth as was “one of the worst-integrated places" he’d been and that he had not seen "another white face" in the hour-and-a-half he spent filming there.
#Newsnight
07.10.2025 14:13 — 👍 27 🔁 5 💬 20 📌 8
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
"They poison our democracies" | Yanis Varoufakis on Big Tech, populism and the future of The Left
WATCH: "They poison our democracies" | Yanis Varoufakis on Big Tech, populism and the future of The Left
#Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlwt2YIVLnk
07.10.2025 16:03 — 👍 49 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
“I think it’s disturbing.”
Sohrab Ahmari, US Editor of Unherd, on Donald Trump’s comments that networks who criticises the President could risk losing their licence, following Jimmy Kimmel being pulled from ABC.
#Newsnight
19.09.2025 11:27 — 👍 60 🔁 13 💬 7 📌 2
“I’m just stunned at the idea that somehow in the media where 97% of the people are anti-Trump… that is somehow considered fair and balanced”.
Former Deputy National Security Adviser, KT McFarland, defends criticism of Jimmy Kimmel being pulled from ABC.
#Newsnight
19.09.2025 11:30 — 👍 48 🔁 11 💬 46 📌 4
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
"He's super irritated” | Michael Wolff on Trump's response to The King's state banquet speech
"He's super irritated” | Michael Wolff on Trump's response to The King's state banquet speech
#Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsI3vZnBAmY
19.09.2025 15:30 — 👍 45 🔁 13 💬 12 📌 1
"The Russians are testing the doorknobs... and what they're discovering is the US President is not at home."
Senior Editor at the Atlantic, David Frum, on President Trump's response to Russian jets violating NATO airspace.
#Newsnight
20.09.2025 09:26 — 👍 422 🔁 147 💬 17 📌 9
“Maybe the Lib Dems might have to be in coalition in the future?”
“I wouldn’t rule it out”
Nick Watt presses former Lib Dem leader and cabinet minister Sir Vince Cable on whether the party would join a coalition in the next parliament.
#Newsnight
22.09.2025 15:40 — 👍 44 🔁 9 💬 15 📌 4
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
Will Artificial Intelligence end the world? AI 'prophet of doom' speaks to Newsnight
Will Artificial Intelligence end the world? AI 'prophet of doom' speaks to #Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A895XUFscYU
22.09.2025 17:15 — 👍 19 🔁 8 💬 6 📌 1
"It's the same as saying people with lung cancer have matches in their pockets. It's not the matches that gave them lung cancer, it's the smoking."
Former Centres for Disease Control director Dr Demetre Daskalakis on President Trump linking paracetamol and autism.
#Newsnight
23.09.2025 10:30 — 👍 166 🔁 42 💬 10 📌 4
“You do not see a link between paracetamol use in pregnancy and autism in children.”
Author of 'Expecting Better' Professor Emily Oster explains the studies on paracetamol use in pregnancy, after President Trump warned pregnant women against using the painkiller.
#Newsnight
23.09.2025 10:33 — 👍 188 🔁 56 💬 12 📌 6
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
Why is Trump making unfounded autism links with Tylenol and Paracetamol?
Why is Trump making unfounded autism links with Tylenol and Paracetamol?
#Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7qmKs1oAxk
23.09.2025 13:16 — 👍 82 🔁 15 💬 58 📌 4
“Is it responsible to refer to Nigel Farage’s views on gun laws and talk about how children in this country need to have lessons on mass shootings?”
Nick Watt presses Lib Dem Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper on comments made by Ed Davey in his party conference speech.
#Newsnight
24.09.2025 11:09 — 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 25 📌 2
“This is an existential moment as a human race and I don’t think we should underestimate it.”
Paddy O'Connell questions Bryan Johnson, an entrepreneur with ambitions of living forever, about vaccine scepticism and RFK Jr’s influence on US health policy.
#Newsnight
24.09.2025 12:27 — 👍 37 🔁 7 💬 13 📌 0
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
“There are many types of patriotism” | Billy Bragg on the flag debate
WATCH: “There are many types of patriotism” | Billy Bragg on the flag debate
#Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=24iZ05pj180
24.09.2025 16:21 — 👍 42 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 1
Nigel Farage appeared on the radio today and failed to back the scientific & medical advice given to pregnant women when it comes to taking paracetamol
He also suggested migrants were eating swans & carp
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social runs through the claims and official responses
#Newsnight
24.09.2025 22:20 — 👍 271 🔁 94 💬 98 📌 28
“Trump doesn’t do geopolitics, Trump does his own ego… He wants to be ‘badass’.”
Gabriel Gatehouse, presenter of ‘The Coming Storm’ podcast, on how to interpret Donald Trump’s latest comments on Russia’s war in Ukraine.
#Newsnight
25.09.2025 11:39 — 👍 46 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0
"Nigel Farage was asked a question this morning on live radio, and perhaps he hadn't prepared as he much as might have wanted to."
Conservative Home founder, Tim Montgomerie, on the Reform UK leader's comments about whether there are safety concerns around paracetamol.
#Newsnight
25.09.2025 11:48 — 👍 37 🔁 7 💬 20 📌 1
"So obviously, it's almost embarrassing..."
Journalist Gabriel Gatehouse on whether Nigel Farage is trying to emulate Donald Trump.
#Newsnight
25.09.2025 11:51 — 👍 95 🔁 24 💬 18 📌 0
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Is Nigel Farage “obviously” copying Donald Trump?
WATCH: Is Nigel Farage “obviously” copying Donald Trump?
#Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQZdgSnHF0c
25.09.2025 16:54 — 👍 49 🔁 11 💬 17 📌 1
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
Virginia Giuffre's family call for Duchess of York to be stripped of royal title
Virginia Giuffre's family call for Duchess of York to be stripped of royal title
#Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx9Tb_qbrk4
26.09.2025 00:18 — 👍 286 🔁 85 💬 15 📌 6
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