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.
The actor and comedian Omid Djalili had called for England’s footballers to stand in solidarity with Iranian protesters by pretending to snip off their hair when celebrating goals against Iran.
There was some relief today for those on the lowest incomes as the government confirmed they would raise benefits in line with inflation. But there were warnings that people will still suffer the largest fall in living standards since records began – part fuelled by an increase in the energy cap to an average of…
Earlier Jackie Long spoke to the deputy editor of Inside Housing Peter Apps.
Jackie Long spoke to the writer and Russia expert Anne Applebaum who is in Warsaw, and asked her what the reactions to the scenes in Kherson are like in Russia.
At least six people are now known to have died in an explosion which ripped through a central shopping street in the Turkish city of Istanbul – dozens of others were injured.
The names of 6 leading Britons have been added to the Order of Merit, chosen by the late Queen just days before she died in September.
We were joined from Kyiv by Alexander Rodnyansky, who is an economic adviser to President Zelenskyy.
We’re joined from Kyiv by Alina Frolova, who was Ukraine’s Deputy Defence Minister between 2019-2020. And from Tallinn, Kadri Liik, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
The language used to discuss those arriving in the UK via small boats has come under scrutiny this week. In particular, the comments made by Home Secretary Suella Braverman on Monday have prompted Holocaust survivors to write her an open letter, published in the Mirror, warning that Ms Braverman’s statements “risked fanning the flames of…
It’s estimated that more than 200,000 children in England between the ages of 11 and 17 are vulnerable to serious violence. Today a report from the Commission on Young Lives says a combination of Covid, the rising cost of living, and a possible return to austerity is “a gift” to those who exploit children. We…
We were joined by Kim Harrison, a lawyer for the family of John Atkinson, who as we have been hearing would likely have survived had it not been an inadequate response from emergency services, and Figen Murray, the mother of Martyn Hett.
In response to today’s report, a press conference was held by the emergency services, a chance to recognise and apologise for the huge failures at Manchester Arena.
We speak to Jane Monckton-Smith, Professor of Public Protection University of Gloucestershire, whose work focuses on homicide and suicide and from Westminster Labour’s Jess Phillips, who is Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding.
The government must act on the link between domestic abuse and suicide by urgently establishing a national database of every woman who takes their own life after suffering abuse, bereaved relatives and campaigners have demanded.
We spoke to Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor. He has been monitoring Manston, visiting twice in the last few months. His report into the detention centre is out tomorrow and we asked him about the conditions at Manston from his last inspection.