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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…
Episodes
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Why does Keir Starmer keep agreeing with Nigel Farage?
Keir Starmer has shaken up his core team in Downing Street today. It's an attempt to grip the agenda, improve the government's messaging and take on Nigel…
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Are we sleepwalking into an AI 'economic bloodbath'?
This is the first part of two special Friday episodes on the way AI promises to transform our politics, economies and societies. Lewis has been in San…
The News AgentsWeekend Edition: Russian dolls, fax machines & legal threats - the making of the first Women's Rugby World Cup - The Sports Agents
Our guest today, Alice Cooper, fought to set up the first ever Women's Rugby World Cup in 1991, along with three other trailblazing women. It took players…
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Everything wrong with Keir Starmer’s media strategy - and how to fix it
There's news today of a Downing Street shakeup and speculation too about a ministerial reshuffle next week. Parliament returns on Monday, with Labour MPs…
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Is a secret US spy ring trying to take over Greenland?
It's a story that reads like it's jumped out of a thriller novel. Denmark has today summoned America's top diplomat in the country, after reports emerged that…
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Farage, flags and Connolly: How the Right turned on the State
In an airport hangar in Oxfordshire, Nigel Farage unveiled Reform UK's mass deportation plan. Farage pledged to tear up international treaties, build new…
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Q&A: Trump, Putin and 100% inheritance tax
Does Putin have something on Trump? Is Trump deliberately deflecting attention from the Epstein saga? Is Starmer's advisor, Morgan McSweeney, overestimated by…
The News AgentsWeekend Edition: Can England's Red Roses pick up where the Lionesses left off? - The Sports Agents
As part of a special weekend edition of The Sports Agents - Gabby's been at Twickenham - the home of England rugby - to speak to key members of England's Red…
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Israel invades Gaza City. Will anything stop Netanyahu?
Palestinians have started to flee Gaza City after the IDF commenced its offensive on the largest city in the Strip. The incursion has been condemned by aid…
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Where are asylum seekers supposed to live now?
Anti-migrant protesters are celebrating today, with The Bell Hotel in Epping set to close its doors to asylum seekers after becoming a battleground over the…
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Is Palestine Action really a terrorist group?
There is a growing chorus of opinion - both inside the Labour party and out - which is increasingly uneasy about the recent mass arrests of demonstrators who…
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BONUS EPISODE: Zelenskyy survives the Oval Office... but has anything really changed?
In a tone entirely different from Zelenksyy’s last visit to Washington in February, this evening saw Trump praising the Ukrainian president. Zelenksyy was on…
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Trump-Zelenskyy: another showdown?
There's plenty about the build up to this Trump-Zelenskyy summit which tells you that it is no normal meeting. The questions over whether President Zelenskyy…
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BONUS EPISODE: The panic driving Europe’s leaders to Washington with Zelenskyy
President Zelenksyy is on his way to Washington to meet with President Trump. He's followed by several European leaders, including Keir Starmer. Rarely is…
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SPECIAL REPORT: Has America’s fentanyl crisis landed in the UK?
From coast to coast, America’s towns and cities have been besieged by an opioid epidemic, a crisis which has wrought misery and wielded political consequence…
The News AgentsWeekend Edition: Premier League Q&A - MOTD, Battle of the Bridge & time for hooters? - The Sports Agents
Gabby and Mark answer your Premier League questions ahead of the new season! Which Match of the Day pundit is most fun to watch a match with? Best Premier…
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Why the hard right hate London
Barely a day goes by without a right-wing influencer proclaiming that London has fallen. Crime in the capital, it is said, is rampant, police nowhere to be…
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Why is the US lecturing Britain on free speech?
While the Vice President holidays in the Cotswolds, Donald Trump's administration has accused the British government of “repeatedly” imposing “serious…
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Why has Trump ordered the army onto the streets of DC?
“Violent gangs", "bloodthirsty criminals", "roving gangs of wild youths", "drugged out maniacs". These may sounds like scenes from a Charles Dickens novel, but…
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Will Trump and Putin carve up Ukraine – then blame Zelenskyy?
In just a few days time, Vladimir Putin is set to set foot on American soil for the first time in a decade. He's been invited to Alaska by Donald Trump, a man…
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Q&A: the Epstein files, Corbyn as PM, and are Reform clickbait?
This Friday, Jon and Lewis are back with more of your questions. Would the markets take fright at a Jeremy Corbyn or Nigel Farage premiership like they did…
The News AgentsWeekend Edition: Inside Sheffield Wednesday's crisis & who's next? - The Sports Agents
The Championship kicks off this weekend but Sheffield Wednesday players and staff are still waiting to be paid. For the inside story of how the club fell…
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Did the homelessness minister evict her own tenants for profit?
Labour's homelessness minister is facing fury from her own side and calls to resign - not for her track record in government but her track record as a…
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Was Hiroshima a war crime?
Thousands of people have gathered in Hiroshima - including representatives from 120 countries - to come together with a renewed call for nuclear disarmament…
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Is Netanyahu set on the full occupation of Gaza?
“The die has been cast. We’re going for the full conquest of the Gaza Strip – and defeating Hamas." That was the quote from the Israeli Prime Minister's office…
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Why are Tories predicting a revolution?
More protests at migrant hotels took place this weekend - with people trying to break into a hotel in Canary Wharf on Sunday. As things escalated, rumours…
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What's going on with young people and God?
Why are more and more young people turning to God? A recent YouGov poll suggests the number has doubled in the past six years from 22% to 45% saying they now…
The News AgentsWeekend Edition: Triple H on 'genius' of Trump, Hulk Hogan's legacy & replacing Vince McMahon - The Sports Agents
We bring you a UK exclusive interview with a genuine WWE icon - Triple H! Mark Pougatch sits down with 'Hunter' to discuss what makes President Trump a…
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Why are defenders of free speech always shutting people down?
Exclusively on The News Agents, we speak to top democrat Jamie Raskin. He's here on a mission to find out if free speech is under threat in Europe. It’s a big…
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Is Starmer willing to recognise Palestine or not?
After a ninety minute crisis cabinet meeting - driven by the appalling scenes of starvation in Gaza - Keir Starmer emerged with a plan: the UK would recognise…
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Is Nigel Farage really “siding with Jimmy Savile“ by opposing the online safety bill?
Nigel Farage is no stranger to harsh criticism from his political rivals, but never before has he been linked to prolific paedophile Jimmy Savile. That is…
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What do the Epping Protests tell us about 'civil disobedience' in the UK?
A wave of anti-migrant protests and counter-protests took place at migrant hotels around the country this weekend, with police being drafted in from all…
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Tina Brown on how Trump lost control of the Epstein narrative
This Friday, Jon is joined by Tina Brown - former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker - to discuss her run ins with Jeffrey Epstein, the fallout from the…
The News AgentsWeekend Edition: A letter from the Lionesses to the Prime Minister - The Sports Agents
England are into the Euros final again! Last time, as soon as they won the Lionesses sent a letter to Downing Street demanding equal access to PE for girls. If…
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Trump's Epstein cover is blown
This is the story that Trump just can’t escape. The White House has pushed back after reports that the President was told in May that he was among hundreds of…
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Could Ghislaine Maxwell walk free?
For the last two weeks, Donald Trump has been trying to make the Epstein story go away after he claimed there were no missing files and there was nothing more…
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Are Gazans starving so that Netanyahu can survive?
“Let them eat burgers“ - Israel’s PM Netanyahu has popped up on a Canadian fratcast talking about his favourite fast food and weighing up the merits of the…
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Trump's $20 billion Epstein gamble
Donald Trump has filed two defamation suits of ten billion dollars each against Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal. The newspaper claimed Trump sent a lurid…
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Q&A: Afghan data leak, Diane Abbott, and the Coldplay couple
This Friday, Jon and Lewis answer your questions about the Afghan data leak - what were the legal loopholes? Why hasn’t the Speaker resigned? And is there a…
The News AgentsWeekend Edition: Usyk beats Dubois but where was the hype? - The Sports Agents
As almost 100,000 fans head to Wembley Stadium to watch Oleksandr Usyk fight Daniel Dubois to become the undisputed world heavyweight champion, Gabby and Mark…
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Why is Starmer firing his MPs?
Last night the Prime Minister chucked four of his more rebellious MPs out of the parliamentary Labour Party. Technically, he 'removed the whip' which means…
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Why the Afghan data breach isn’t just a Tory problem
Questions are still mounting after the super-injunction imposed on The News Agents - to stop us reporting the story of a catastrophic data breach that put up…
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BONUS EPISODE: Exclusive - Defence secretary on the "catastrophic" Afghan leak
The government admitted today that the superinjunction which for two years prevented us from reporting on a “catastrophic” data breach which put the lives of…
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The secret court that silenced The News Agents...until now
For nearly two years the government has taken The News Agents and other journalists to a secret court to prevent us from reporting a story of huge public…
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Can left wing populism beat Reform?
More in Common's latest research of 20 thousand people suggests nearly 90 percent of us have little or no trust in politicians. 70 percent of voters think this…
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The test that will define Keir Starmer
It would be an exaggeration to say the vultures are already circling the wagon - but there are already conversations taking place about Keir Starmer's future…
The News AgentsWeekend Edition: Lions with James Haskell - Pollock, Farrell's late call-up & almost killing a teammate - The Sports Agents
More bonus content from our new-look weekend edition! The British & Irish Lions are soon to face Australia in the big three Tests, after wrapping up their…
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Why does Gregg Wallace believe he’s the real victim?
Gregg Wallace’s friends have been telling newspapers that his "autistic hypersensitivity" meant that he had an “oddity of filters and boundaries", including an…
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Why has Elon Musk's AI chatbot started imitating Hitler?
Last night on X, Elon Musk's AI chatbot - Grok - started imitating Hitler in its responses to user questions. Was this intentional? Did Musk really command his…
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Would a wealth tax save Rachel Reeves?
The government has studiously avoided ruling out a wealth tax this week. Minister after minister has refused to knock down the suggestion, despite the…
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Does the government want to sack the BBC boss?
Labour used to be the party that leapt to the defence of the BBC. So why was the Culture Secretary this weekend calling for heads to roll, saying she was…
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Live Q&A: One year of Keir
Twelve months ago, the Conservatives suffered the worst general election result in their near 200 year history and Keir Starmer took up the mantle at Downing…
The News AgentsWeekend Edition: Tour de France - what does it take to conquer the world's toughest race? - The Sports Agents
Welcome to the new-look weekend edition with fresh interviews and content! With the Tour de France starting this weekend Gabby and Mark try to get their heads…
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Is Rachel Reeves now unsackable?
Keir Starmer did a round of interviews this morning in a show of support for his Chancellor. And the reason was clear. After she cried in the Commons chamber…
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Why was Rachel Reeves crying at PMQs?
There is much we still don’t know or understand about today. Was Rachel Reeves upset by an altercation with the Speaker? Was the issue something more personal?…
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Donald Trump threatens to deport Elon Musk
After a lull in the Bro Wars - the sequel. This time Trump is threatening not only to remove Musk's government subsidies but even have him deported. Why? It…
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Does anyone know what the Starmer plan is?
Tomorrow, Labour MPs will be asked to vote on the rejigged welfare reform bill. Senior Labour politicians Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham still don’t think it’s…
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How to catch a terrorist
This Friday, Lewis is joined in the studio by the newest members of the 'agents' family. Neil Basu is former head of Counter Terrorism Policing and Andy Hughes…
The News AgentsWeekend Edition: Euros exclusive, Wimbledon's 66,000 tennis balls & is 5-day cricket too long? - The Sports Agents
This week on The Sports Agents... A big exclusive ahead of the Euros with two of England's defending champions, Lauren Hemp & Niamh Charles, Gabby goes behind…
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Is Keir Starmer losing control of his party?
Remember how there was going to be no row back and no change to the government welfare reform bill? Well, now it seems there might be... Starmer's team are…