The News Agents couldn't help but be reminded of something after seeing Lee Anderson MP's Full English tweet... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🍳

emily m | Jon Sopel | Global Player

“Rishi Sunak is 𝘯𝘰𝘵 very good at politics if he hasn’t even run this past his Chancellor and Foreign Secretary.”

The PM announces plans to clamp down on foreign student visas - only - his own cabinet don’t agree with it...

emily m | Jon Sopel | Global Player

“They disappoint you a lot, people who used to call you brother just keep silent.”

Oleksandr Zinchenko speaks to Jon Sopel about the Russia-Ukraine war, Arsenal and UEFA EURO 2024.
 
Coming to Global Player

Raphael Honigstein💙 | Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський

'He lost to a bloody whippet.'

Commiserations to Jon Sopel's dog Alfie who lost out on a golden oldies award at a dog show...

To a 16-year-old blind whippet. 🏆

emily m | Jon Sopel | Global Player

'The big question right now is - who 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 abides by the International Criminal Court?'

'Israel doesn't, America - their biggest ally - doesn't, so if the ICC issues an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, will it go anywhere?'

emily m | Jon Sopel | Global Player

“I can’t believe Prof. Marandi was given oxygen - he has the charisma of a gnat and is an embarrassment to his own country.”

Iranian-British actor and comedian Omid Djalili criticises the media for giving the Iranian academic airtime.

emily m | Jon Sopel | Omid Djalili |

'Freemasons have an influence on politics, on everything...' 🕵️

In Tbilisi Lewis Goodall spoke to an MP from the governing Georgian Dream party. Its leader, the Prime Minister, blames the country's ills on 'the global war party' - a mysterious, multinational organisation. 🇬🇪

The full episode 👇

globalplayer.com/podcasts/episo…

“It’s true the pledges are limited in scope - as were ours in ’97 - they are to show Labour's direction of travel.”

Former adviser to Tony Blair, Tim Allan, defends Keir Starmer’s ‘first step’ commitments.

emily m | Jon Sopel | Global Player

“There’s a civil war at Spurs…”

Is it ever acceptable to want your own team to 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚? ⚽️

Gabby Logan | Henry Winter | Mark Chapman | Global Player

“Blair, or blah?”

As Keir Starmer lays out the party’s 'baby steps' at a New Labour-style event, emily m and Jon Sopel ask if the ’97 election pledges were as ambitious as everyone remembers.

Global Player

“Completely flabbergasted.”

Remember the bridge collapse in Baltimore back in March?

21 crew members are 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 on board the ship - not because they are trapped - but because they don’t have permission to be on US soil.

emily m | Jon Sopel | Global Player

Why is Michael Cohen - Donald Trump’s former lawyer who paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 of his 𝙤𝙬𝙣 money - now on the stand testifying against him?

emily m | Jon Sopel | Global Player 🇺🇸

“You’d hope we’d lock up terrorists and 𝘯𝘰𝘵 people protesting climate change, right?”

“Well, Palestine Action, the damage they’re doing and the way they’re terrorising workers, we shouldn’t be relaxed.”

Lord Walney wants tougher measures for protestors.

emily m | Jon Sopel

“That is the sound of a bench of Labour MPs taking the piss.”

PMQs saw Labour jeering whenever a Conservative MP entered the chamber in anticipation of another defection to their party.

Are there more yet to come? 👀

emily m | Jon Sopel | Global Player

“If I had my time again as an athlete, I'd talk openly in the media if I wasn’t feeling right.”

“But I didn’t, it’s a scary place.”

Is there still a stigma surrounding mental health in football? ⚽️

Rio Ferdinand | Gabby Logan | Marcus Rashford

On Global Player

Conservative MP and Sec. of State for Wales David TC Davies MP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 wants to know why the Tories are doing 'so badly in the polls' when they've 'ended up with more Police and Crime Commissioners than Labour.'

... Only, that isn't 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 the whole story. 🧐

emily m | Jon Sopel |