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The News Agents
Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall – three of the UK’s top journalists – host an award-winning daily news podcast: The News Agents. They’re not just here to tell you what's happening, but why. Expect astute analysis and explanation of the day's news – and a healthy dose of scepticism and the ability to laugh at it all when needed. Episodes are available every weekday afternoon. You can listen to The News Agents on Alexa, just say "Alexa ask Global Player to play The News Agents" The…
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Can Rishi scare people into voting Tory?
If it had been a speech about defence, it might have made more sense. But Rishi Sunak had no new policy offerings in todays pronouncement - he warned of a…
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SPECIAL REPORT: Could Net Zero destroy a whole community?
Lewis Goodall hosts a special report from Port Talbot, South Wales, where thousands of jobs are about to be lost at Tata Steel. Port Talbot is Britain's last…
The News AgentsWeekend Edition - The Sports Agents
This week on The Sports Agents, Gabby & Mark took a closer look at a controversial new rule in cricket - the impact player in the IPL - and whether it's…
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Will Starmer now have to let Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn back into the Labour Party?
Did the Labour Party screw up in welcoming Natalie Elphicke into its party? One former frontbencher tells us Keir Stamer got this wrong. They're calling on him…
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Why has Labour welcomed a right wing Tory defector?
Very little political news is truly jaw dropping. But this morning's was. Natalie Elphicke, on the Conservative right of the party, and MP for Dover, has…
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Is the government 'gaslighting' the British public?
The government is determined not to let a little thing like a disastrous set of local elections put it off its stride. Over the course of the bank holiday we…
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Election special: How bad is it for Tories?
The local election and mayoral results flood in. How bad are they for the Tories? How much of that is Reform? And how well have Labour actually done? Editor…
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Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
This week on The Sports Agents, Gabby & Mark explored whether a Premier League salary cap will actually help smaller clubs bridge the gap to the 'Big 6' and if…
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The issue the political parties won't talk about
After several delays, Brexit checks finally came into force this week - adding cost and delay to how small businesses can get their goods into the UK. It'll…
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So, one person has gone to Rwanda...
As of this week, Rishi Sunak can boast he has sent asylum seekers to Rwanda. Admittedly, it was just one guy. Admittedly he was paid £3k to go. Admittedly he'd…
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Why are so many of our MPs facing death threats?
If the Palace of Westminster were a village - the Head of Counter Terrorism police tells us - NO one would dare to live there. Today we ask why so many of our…
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Humza Yousaf resigns. Is Scottish independence dead?
On the stroke of midday, Humza Yousaf, Scotland's First Minister, made the announcement that just a week ago would have been unthinkable. Acknowledging the…
The News AgentsINVESTIGATION: Britain’s hidden homeless children
In 2024 Britain nearly 140,000 kids are homeless. Just because you don’t see them on the street doesn’t mean they’re not there. This is Britain’s temporary…
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Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
This week on The Sports Agents... A Premier League launched an attack on VAR via their social media account - and threatened legal action... Is there actually…
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Neil Kinnock: The Prime Minister Labour never had
Lord Neil Kinnock - Labour leader from 1983 to 1992, Thatcher's biggest rival in her pomp, joins Lewis in the studio for a sit down chat to talk about his…
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Is the SNP government hanging by a thread?
Scotland's First Minister is facing a confidence vote after he pulled the plug this morning on his coalition government by ejecting the two Green party members…
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Wake up call or gimmick? The government's new defence plan
The Prime Minister is in Europe this week making the case for an increase in defence spending of £75 billion over the next six years - to deal with growing…
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Why is Elon Musk at war with Australia?
Australia’s PM is at war with Elon Musk - calling him an ‘arrogant billionaire’ - and worse. He’s fighting to get violent images of a church stabbing in Sydney…
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Rwanda delayed: Will Sunak ever get planes off the ground?
Rishi is making those naughty Lords stay in the chamber until they pass his Rwanda Bill without pesky amendments. That may come in the early hours of tomorrow…
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Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
This week on The Sports Agents... A Sports Agents exclusive - Mark & Gabby had a first-look at an independent report into diversity at the senior levels of…
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Have Israel and Iran stepped back from the brink?
The Middle East, the world, not for the first time in these long six months, has been holding its breath. Ever since Iran fired 300 hundred rockets into…
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Sleaze, campaign funds and a 3am phonecall: Another Westminster scandal
**Since publication, Savanta revised the polling data included in this episode to show the Labour candidate on a two point lead. More information here** A 3am…
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Does Liz Truss actually have a point?
Yes, yes, yes. She crashed the economy, has blamed everyone else, made Britain a laughing stock, inflicted higher mortgage rates on millions of households, and…
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Should the police be shutting down Nigel Farage and the NatCons?
It was a conference that few people here would have ever noticed. Suella, Nigel, Orban - speakers deemed "far right" by the Brussels authorities - found their…
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What is Iran's endgame?
On Saturday night, Israel warned its citizens to go to a safe room and prepare to spend the night there. Two hours later, Iran began sending drones into…
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Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
This week on The Sports Agents... An array of stardust as the likes of legendary jockeyAP McCoy and Team GB icon Denise Lewis joined Gabby & Mark on the…
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Europe's first black leader
On today's episode, we speak to Europe's first black leader - Vaughan Gething, the new First Minister of Wales. In an extended conversation, we talk his rise…
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Should Ofsted be scrapped?
TW: This episode includes discussions around suicide. If you need someone to talk to, Samaritans listen. Call them on 116 123. Last week, The National Union of…
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Westminster sexting and the honeytrap
William Wragg, the MP who found himself blackmailed by a person to whom he'd sent explicit photographs - last night resigned the Conservative party whip. It…
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Will Labour just be another version of the Tories?
It is a truth near-universally acknowledged (amongst pollsters at least) that Labour will be the largest party at the next election. But how would they…
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Is Angela Rayner really in trouble?
Police are re-examining claims Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner may have broken electoral law more than a decade ago by failing to pay a capital gains tax…
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Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
This week on The Sports Agents, your questions for Gabby & Mark on everything from Olympics predictions, to how the panel on Match of the Day is selected!…
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Ian Hislop on Boris Johnson, Piers Morgan and political satire in the age of the absurd
Ian Hislop, editor of The Private Eye and team captain on Have I Got News For You sits down with Lewis for an extended conversation about political satire in…
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Why is David Cameron being reported to the ethics adviser?
In the early hours of Thursday morning Layla Moran - the only British MP of Palestinian heritage- received news she’d been longing to hear for months. Her…
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Why is the UK still selling arms to Israel?
The Prime Minister has called the Israeli Prime Minister's actions in Gaza 'increasingly intolerable' in a phone call with Netanyahu after the deaths of three…
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Why did JK Rowling want to be arrested?
A new law has Police Scotland saying that they'd investigate every online hate crime. But what they've categorised as a hate crime has caused controversy. Why?…
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(Easter) Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
This week, The Sports Agents dug into why Arsenal are still in a league of their own when it comes to the commercial success of their Women's team, how Gabby…
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Q&A Special
Your questions answered in a special Q&A edition of the podcast with Emily, Jon and Lewis. Editor: Tom Hughes Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell Video…
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Is the world running out of babies?
Forget everything you know about an exploding world population. The sad truth is, our birthrate is plummeting globally to the point where there soon won't be…
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Is Rishi Sunak prepared to pick a fight with China?
Once you have revealed that China is hacking British citizens on a major and global scale, the next question is - well, what are you going to do about it? Well…
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The Moscow terror attacks: Are ISIS back?
The bombing of a Moscow concert hall left at least 137 dead and even more wounded. The regrouped ISIS - now ISIS K- have claimed responsibility even though…
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Owen Jones on why he's left the Labour Party
Influential left-wing commentator Owen Jones is in News Agents HQ a day after he quit the Labour Party - despite being a member since he was 15 - on account of…
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The Sports Agents: Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
This week, The Sports Agents took a closer look at the state of Rugby Union, reflected on Nottingham Forest becoming the latest Premier League club to suffer a…
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Kate Middleton reveals she has cancer
At 6pm on Friday the Princess of Wales released a video statement. In it, she discusses her cancer diagnosis for the first time. She acknowledges the…
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Could the Reform party overtake the Tories?
There's only one poll that counts and that's the actual election and that's not today. We know that, we get it, but the latest numbers from YouGov are worth…
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Why is Thatcher back in fashion?
Margaret Thatcher has been out of power for thirty years but this week it's started to feel like she's back in the room. Rachel Reeves, shadow chancellor, gave…
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How should the Royals respond to TikTok conspiracies?
Even after Kate Middleton appeared IRL at a local Windsor farm shop, the Tiktok conspiracy theories continued. Was it really Kate? Was the photo staged? Why…
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Are the Tories really ready to replace Rishi Sunak?
The weekend has been awash with talk of yet another leadership putsch. Is Penny Mordaunt on manoeuvres? Is Kemi Badenoch scheming? The answer is probably no -…
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The Sports Agents: Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
This week, The Sports Agents were invited to the head offices of 'The Enhanced Games' to interview President Aron D'Souza - who wants to put on an…
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Sayeeda Warsi on her "arsonist" Tory colleagues
British politics has been dominated by race this week. The big picture is that certain ideas which would once have been unsayable are now commonplace within…
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Do the Tories have any credibility on extremism?
Michael Gove has announced today that the government is redefining extremism. But given they've taken up to 15 million pounds worth of donations from a man who…
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Has Rishi lost control of his party?
The PM has belatedly conceded that the comments in which a Tory donor expressed his urge to 'shoot all black women' WAS actually racist. He's still not giving…
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Another day, another Tory racism row
Today's Tory 'was it racist?' row centres a donor who's given the Conservatives more than ten million pounds. The Guardian scoop revealed comments he made 5…
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Lee Anderson wants his country back
Lee Anderson has defected to the Reform Party, saying he’d done a lot of soul-searching on his political journey, and wants his country back. He had of course…
The News AgentsThe Sports Agents: Weekend Edition
Welcome to The Sports Agents, a brand-new twice-weekly addition to The News Agents podcast family, hosted by Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman... This week Gabby &…
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EXCLUSIVE: The Telegraph and the "hypocrisy" of Andrew Neil
There is fury surrounding a bid by the former head of CNN to buy The Telegraph and The Spectator due to the involvement of the Abu-Dhabi-backed RedBird IMI…
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Why are we paying for a cabinet minister's libel bill?
Michelle Donelan is Rishi Sunak’s Science Secretary. She has accepted that she libelled an academic. That’s unusual. It’s even more unusual that the taxpayer…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Emily Maitlis to "F*** off"
The Chancellor of the Exchequer made a fat joke about the Leader of the Opposition on the floor of the House of Commons as he delivered his Spring Budget…
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The worst Tory poll of all time
The Conservative Party have just received their worst polling results of all-time, with Ipsos now showing Tory support at just 20 points. It's the worst Tory…
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What's the strategy to make Trump president? Inside the MAGA bunker
After everything that’s happened - the million plus deaths from Covid, the January 6th insurrection, the indictments, the law suits the debts and the sexual…