Jackie Long is social affairs editor and presenter for Channel 4 News.
Jackie Long is Channel 4 News Social affairs editor and presenter. She joined the programme in 2011, following more than two decades at the BBC. Most recently she was Correspondent at Newsnight, and she previously worked on The World at One, PM and Five Live.
Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey has been cleared of sexually assaulting four men. He had described the allegations against him as “madness”. We spoke to celebrity PR and brand expert Mark Borkowski and started by asking him how easy will it be for Spacey to rebuild his reputation.
Dame Louise Casey is the author of last year’s landmark review into the culture and standards of the Metropolitan Police that found institutional racism, sexism and homophobia.
An award winning Black bank manager who was wrongly accused of a string of serious crimes says promises by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner to end discrimination in the force are meaningless.
As the dust settles on the by-election results, there’s one question that Labour is no doubt wrestling with: how to manage the ULEZ controversy, and more broadly, its green policy, in the face of the Uxbridge loss.
We spoke to Labour’s Deputy leader, Angela Rayner and I began by asking her how she responded to the Conservative’s claim that London mayor Sadiq Khan had lost Labour the election in Uxbridge because of his controversial plan to expand the Ultra Low Emission Zone.
We spoke to the Chair of the Conservative party and MP Greg Hands – and started by asking him what he made of the poor night at the polls for the Tories.
The North of Tyne mayor Jamie Driscoll has resigned from the Labour party after it blocked him from running for mayor of the north-east. Mr Driscoll – who’s been described as the ‘last Corbynista in power’ – said he plans to run against Labour as an independent when the new Mayoralty is elected next year if he can raise £25,000 by the end of August.
A new drug which slows the progression of Alzheimer’s has been described as a ‘turning point’ in the fight against the disease. Trials show Donanna-mab slows clinical decline by up to 30% – allowing people to keep doing day-to-day tasks like shopping and managing their finances. But the Alzheimer’s Society say the NHS isn’t ready to start delivering it.
Dr Vivek Trivedi, the co-chair of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee, Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents health service employers and Anita Smith, a teacher at a secondary school in North Leeds.
We spoke to Roger Bolton, who worked for 50 years as a producer, editor and presenter at the BBC, and now hosts the Beeb Watch podcast.
We spoke to former Head of Religion & Ethics at the BBC Aaqil Ahmed and began by asking him why it took the BBC so long to act on the complaints made in May.
We spoke to the former editor of the Guardian newspaper Alan Rusbridger and began by asking him what he thought of the BBC’s response.
We spoke to Jake Moore, who investigated cyber crime for the police and now works for ESET – a cyber security company.
Kellie Sutton told police that she was ‘very frightened’ of her abusive partner Steven Gane, just weeks before she took her own life. He was jailed after her death, for controlling and coercive behaviour. And now, in an unprecedented conclusion, an inquest jury has ruled that Kellie was unlawfully killed.
It’s only a small township, so what is the significance of Jenin in this long running conflict?