The News Agents Podcast
1) How lawyers ruined Britain
While China is an engineering state, tech analyst Dan Wang says the America and the West are "lawyerly societies", reflexively blocking everything - good and bad - and it's halting real prog...Show More
2) Nigel Farage "off his head" over anti-semitism and the BBC
Reform's Deputy Leader, Richard Tice, popped up on the BBC today and appeared to dismiss the antisemitism claims of Jewish men who’d been at school with Nigel Farage as “politically motivated…made up ...Show More
3) Is Labour ready to reopen the Brexit debate?
Today's episode is an exclusive interview with David Lammy - Justice Secretary, Deputy Prime Minister and former Foreign Secretary. Is he prepared to ignore the internal Labour criticism of his jury p...Show More
4) Is the jury system overrated?
In the sane world of the commons, the Shadow Justice Secretary was only two minutes into his speech before he called the justice secretary a “Lammy Dodger“ and accused him of going back on his previou...Show More
5) What was The Chancellor's biggest budget crime?
Rachel Reeves is accused of misleading the public, lying and “possible market abuse” by the opposition. They’ve called for her resignation. The Prime Minister, however, is standing by her and told us ...Show More
6) Salman Rushdie on political violence, free speech and BBC "cowardice"
Salman Rushdie has spent half of his life under the threat of death, but it is only in his latest novel - The Eleventh Hour - that he has devoted a whole book to the themes of mortality. It is his fir...Show More
7) Weekend Edition: Q&A - Which rules should football steal from other sports? - The Sports Agents
Can other sports teach football a thing or two? On today's show Gabby and Mark take your suggestions on how to fix football, using your passion for a massive range of sports. Plus, we look back at The...Show More
8) Does Labour need to own its move to the Left?
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have been out defending their Budget - denying that the tax-raising measures contained within it break the Labour manifesto's promises around taxes on working people. In...Show More
9) Budget 2025: Has Reeves saved her job?
This time last year, Rachel Reeves pledged that her tax raising Budget “wiped the slate clean” and would mean no more need for future tax raids. Today demonstrably proved what a hostage to fortune tho...Show More
10) Are Trump's lawyers now controlling the BBC?
Just a day after BBC bosses were in front of MPs to address impartiality concerns, and there's a fresh impartiality headache for the beleaguered broadcaster. Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, who'd been...Show More