The News Agents Podcast
1) Angela Rayner resigns - can a reshuffle save Labour?
Keir Starmer announced 'Phase 2' of his government on Monday - a reset of his Downing St operation supposed to get Labour gripping the agenda and on the front foot for the year ahead. Just four days o...Show More
2) Weekend Edition: NFL's Isak saga - a tale of player power & a Netflix drama - The Sports Agents
Former Super Bowl champion Jason Bell joins Gabby and Mark to talk about the NFL's biggest transfer drama of the summer, which puts the Alexander Isak saga to shame. We're talking about a huge standof...Show More
3) Why has Nigel Farage gone to America to slag off Britain?
The morning after Nigel Farage appeared in Washington DC to berate his own country before Congress, the News Agents decamped to a Farage-free zone; his own constituency of Clacton-on-Sea. On Capitol H...Show More
4) Is Angela Rayner on resignation watch?
Angela Rayner broke cover today - just before PMQs - to give an interview to Sky News in which she admitted she may have made a mistake on the tax she paid for her seaside property. The details are co...Show More
5) Nick Clegg: What really happened at Facebook?
Nick Clegg worked intimately alongside Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook/Meta for seven years. He departed Silicon Valley in January and has written a new book - How to Save the Internet - and given his fir...Show More
6) 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 Farage after a difficult first year in office...Show More
7) 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 Francisco, where trillions of dollars of investme...Show More
8) Weekend 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 selling Russian dolls and vodka to pay their ...Show More
9) 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 hoping that the new term will bring with it a ...Show More
10) 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 figures connected to the Trump administra...Show More