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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 News Agents is a Global Player Original podcast. For advertising opportunities on this podcast email: [email protected] And The News Agents now have merch! Click here to buy yours now: https://store.global.com/collections/the-news-agents

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Special episode: Assad has fallen - what just happened in Syria and what happens next?
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Q&A: Trump succession, the most important PM and why politicians aren’t funny
Gregg Wallace, the BBC and the MeToo movement
The Jaguar backlash - Is 'woke capitalism' dead?
Q&A Special: "Live" from Washington DC
Hope and fear as America heads to the polls - who will win?
Can Kamala Harris win over Fox viewers?
Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
WTF just happened in the Tory race?!
Who is Hezbollah? And what is this war?
Are we reaching an end-game between Russia and Ukraine?
Are the attacks on Hezbollah a breach of international law?
Are the Democrats really inciting violence against Donald Trump?
Will the second Trump assassination attempt change the US election?
The far right, disinformation and the Southport riot
The Tory leadership race: Runners, riders, quitters
Has Keir Starmer overreacted to his seven rebels?
Trump shot: What does it mean for the election?
Q&A Special: Your questions answered a week on from the General Election
Is Farage's Reform bounce over?
Can Rupert Murdoch still decide how Britain votes?
Sunak v Starmer: Round 2
Rishi Sunak launches his manifesto. Is Britain still listening?
The Sunak vs. Starmer TV debate: who won?
Why the tide isn’t turning against Labour
Why is the UK still selling arms to Israel?
Has Rishi lost control of his party?
Starmer’s “Worst Nightmare”- Galloway wins in Rochdale
Sunak sets the election date (sort of)
Olivia Colman on domestic violence, paparazzi and The Crown
Is worrying about public service cuts “left wing"?
An interview with the Chancellor: is worrying about public service cuts “left wing"?
Why is pressure mounting on Keir Starmer to call for a ceasefire?
The News Agents Investigates: Hunting A People Smuggler
Is Rishi ditching a tax that would make him and his mates richer?

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Why is Liz Truss threatening to sue Keir Starmer?
The journalist who exposed the grooming scandal breaks his silence
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The News Agents awards of the year
Inside the trial that shocked the world
Can you stop an election being bought?
Is Keir Starmer ready to do battle with the Nimbys?
History in Parliament: MPs say YES to assisted dying
Net migration: Is it really out of control?
A matter of life and death
Wanted for war crimes: Benjamin Netanyahu
Can parliament control Elon Musk?
Why are farmers storming Westminster?
Why one journalist’s tweet sparked a media frenzy
Peter Mandelson on Elon Musk, free speech, and his next big job
Could an alleged sex trafficker become America’s next Attorney General?
Will Donald Trump 2.0 destroy the earth?
What does MAGA sound like in 2024?
Harris vs Trump: The final arguments
Is the next Conservative leader trying to be the Tory Trump?
Has the chancellor just raised the most painful tax of all ?
Why is everyone scared of the budget?
Will racist jokes get the voters out for Trump?
Is Labour 'interfering' in the US election?
Q&A - USA Election Special
Badenoch v Jenrick: Can either candidate get the Tories back to power?
Is Rachel Reeves about to tear up a manifesto promise?
Is EU free movement about to fall apart?
The most powerful man in politics - who is Morgan McSweeney?
Did Tory MPs go rogue ? The mystery solved
Is Elon Musk working for Donald Trump?
Why has Starmer’s Downing Street already fallen apart?
Strangeland: Jon Sopel on how Britain stopped making sense
Why is Labour being so weird?
Iran attacks Israel - how will Israel hit back?
Why aren’t the Tories more scared?
Q&A: Career regrets, Prime Minister's clothes, and middle class America
Is Freebiegate getting hypocritical?
Can Keir Starmer make the public trust politics again?
The void at the heart of Labour Conference
Has Starmer got a sleaze problem?
Has American politics been taken over by conspiracy theories?
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Does Donald Trump really believe he won last night's debate?
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Ed Davey on Tory extinction, Keir Starmer and campaign stunts
Q&A: Presidential bromance, Royal politics and Lewis' pitch for Hawaii
Did Liz Truss really consider scrapping cancer treatment on the NHS?
Can Starmer reset Britain’s relationship with the EU?
Keir Starmer: Things can only get worse
Is this Zelensky's biggest gamble yet?
Inside the 'cult' of the Far Right
Has the far right fury fizzled out?
Why did Kamala Harris pick Tim Walz as her running mate?
The far right riots, Starmer’s response, and the role of Elon Musk
Why doesn't Trump believe Kamala Harris is black?
The chancellor on tax rises, austerity and urinals
Is the US presidential race about to get dirty?
Will Kamala Harris replace President Biden?
Harriet Harman on misogyny, trans rights and whether Tony Blair was a feminist
What is Clacton MP Nigel Farage doing in Milwaukee?
What is Starmerism? Labour's first King's Speech
“Full of cranks and weirdos” - inside the Republican National Convention
Has the assassination attempt helped both Trump and Biden?
Did Rishi's 'rot' start with Boris Johnson?
Are the far-right about to govern in France?
Q&A general election special
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Starmer vs. Sunak vs. Trump vs. Biden- two TV debates, a world apart
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Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and the Daily Mail
The Tory betting scandal, and 'venal' campaigners
Farage's manifesto: Does any of it add up?
Labour launch their manifesto: but is there really any 'change'?
EXCLUSIVE: Nadine Dorries on the 'disgusting' Tory Party chair
Will Farage win in Clacton?
Farage stands: is this the Tories' worst nightmare?
Who broke Britain? With James O'Brien
Keir Starmer's 6 pledges - Blair, Blair, Blair or blah, blah, blah
Will Starmer now have to let Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn back into the Labour Party?
Why has Labour welcomed a right wing Tory defector?
Is the government 'gaslighting' the British public?
Election special: How bad is it for Tories?
The issue the political parties won't talk about
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Rwanda delayed: Will Sunak ever get planes off the ground?
Sleaze, campaign funds and a 3am phonecall: Another Westminster scandal
Does Liz Truss actually have a point?
Should the police be shutting down Nigel Farage and the NatCons?
What is Iran's endgame?
Europe's first black leader
Westminster sexting and the honeytrap
Will Labour just be another version of the Tories?
Is Angela Rayner really in trouble?
Ian Hislop on Boris Johnson, Piers Morgan and political satire in the age of the absurd
Why is David Cameron being reported to the ethics adviser?
Why did JK Rowling want to be arrested?
Q&A Special
Is the world running out of babies?
Is Rishi Sunak prepared to pick a fight with China?
The Moscow terror attacks: Are ISIS back?
Owen Jones on why he's left the Labour Party
Sayeeda Warsi on her "arsonist" Tory colleagues
Do the Tories have any credibility on extremism?
Another day, another Tory racism row
Lee Anderson wants his country back
EXCLUSIVE: The Telegraph and the "hypocrisy" of Andrew Neil
Why are we paying for a cabinet minister's libel bill?
Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Emily Maitlis to "F*** off"
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Is the Chancellor trying to nick Labour's policies?
Is it time for Rishi to boot out Liz 'deep state' Truss?
What do the Tories really think about Lee Anderson?
Has the Tory party been taken over by 'right-wing nationalists'?
Joe Lycett on raw sewage, Liz Truss and "woke" comedy
Is Kemi Badenoch telling the truth?
Should Prince William be getting involved with Gaza?
Why can't the West stop Putin's killings?
Two more Tory wipeouts
Recession: are we f***ed?
Is Labour's lead slipping away?
Could the weirdest ever by-election be won by George Galloway?
Does the Labour Party still have an anti-Semitism problem?
PopCon: Inside the Liz Truss revolution
How close are we really to a united Ireland?
Why is everyone starting to talk about World War III?
Why has America started to gas its convicts?
Rishi, Coffey, Kigali and...Count Binface
Have the Tories stopped caring about the rule of law?
Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza?
Sex Tape Allegations on Epstein's island: will we ever learn the truth?
Ukraine and Gaza: when will the wars end?
When will Sunak call the election?
2023 In Review: Part Two
2023 In Review: Part One
Christmas Q&A Special!
Has Macron given in to racists?
Will the courts stop Trump from running?
Wes Streeting: The NHS is not the envy of the world
Michelle Mone: Is it too easy for the rich and famous to lie to the public?
High Court: Piers Morgan knew about phone hacking
Does Putin think he's about to win the war?
Does anyone care what Gary Lineker tweets?
How has Sunak got himself into this mess over Rwanda?
Is the Tory right about to kill Rishi's Rwanda bill?
Is Rwanda about to bring Rishi Sunak down?
Boris Johnson: the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
Will you have to be rich to marry a foreigner under the new immigration rules?
Why is Rishi Sunak less popular than Liz Truss?
Matt Hancock takes the stand
2008, Alistair Darling, and the day the world changed forever
Does it matter who owns our news?
Why has Rishi snubbed the Greeks?
Why are the Tories arguing over immigration?
Hostages in Gaza, riots in Ireland and (election) shockwaves in the Netherlands
Is Jeremy Hunt really cutting our taxes?
Is the Covid Inquiry coming for Rishi Sunak?
Is the 'Suellafication' of the Tory party over?
Sir Keir Starmer on Cameron, a Gaza ceasefire and Rwanda
Has Labour's rebellion weakened Keir Starmer?
Is the illegal Rwanda plan dead for good?
One cabinet, two prime ministers
Cameron in, Suella out
USA Special: Dispatch from the Deep South - is the US about to give Trump a second chance?
Who does Suella really speak for?
Is Suella trying to get the sack?
How Putin is betting everything on Trump
The King’s Speech and Suella’s disappearing tents
Is there hope for peace in the Middle East?
Covid inquiry: Was Matt Hancock "playing God”?
Are the police getting the protests right?
The Covid Inquiry: F***pigs, morons and c***s
What is Israel’s endgame?
Your questions answered: a listener special
What is Netanyahu's next move?
Should it be a crime to shout "jihad"?
The rise and fall of a crypto billionaire
The misinformation of war
Can there ever be peace in the Middle East?
The UK politics of Israel-Palestine
Is Israel about to commit war crimes?
How does Israel get its hostages back?
How far will Israel go in response to Hamas terrorism?
Starmer's speech: has he done enough to win a majority?
Sunak suffers a Tory backlash - but what will Labour do next?
Sunak's speech: Has he cost himself the next election?
The Radicalisation of the Conservative Party
One year on: Are the Tories still Liz Truss' party?
Michael Heseltine on Suella, Enoch Powell and saving Liverpool
Does Rishi Sunak care about the North?
We need to talk about GB News
Is it too easy to be considered a refugee?
Is it too easy to be considered a refugee? Suella says so.
Who is the real Russell Brand? An interview with Gordon Smart
Rupert Murdoch resigns
Is this Sunak's 'moment of shame'?
Can you really cancel Russell Brand?
Why we need to talk about wealth
Could Starmer make Britain “a dumping ground” for migrants?
Why do we have to choose between new homes and clean water?
Let the election battle begin: can Labour actually win?
So, how do you catch a prisoner on the run?
Suella’s own goal
Don't panic! Gillian Keegan says only SOME of our schools are unsafe
Why has everyone sat on their arses instead of thanking Gillian Keegan?
Broadcasting's past, present and future - with David Dimbleby
1st Birthday Special: Your questions answered
It started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this? The Spanish sexism row.

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