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.
Imagine a brain implant which could help people who’ve lost the use of their limbs to control a computer keyboard using just the power of thought. Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink claims it’s successfully implanted a chip inside a human brain for the first time, adding that the patient is “recovering well”. The firm got permission…
Almost 900 improvised weapons have been found in just one year, at a prison where youngsters aged 15 to 18 are being held. Along with the increasing drugs and illicit mobile phones – rising violence at Wetherby Young Offenders Institution is leaving staff struggling to cope. There are around 160 inmates at the West Yorkshire…
We spoke to the Government’s Minister for Public Health, Andrea Leadsom.
Today marks Holocaust Memorial Day when in London and around the world the events of World War 2, which saw the deaths of 6 million Jews, are remembered.
Neither the Government nor anyone from the Labour party were available to come on the programme but earlier we spoke to Sir Mark Lyall Grant, a former security adviser for the prime minister and former UK ambassador to the UN.
We were joined by Nour Odeh, the former spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority, who’s in the West Bank.
We were joined by Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy from Tel Aviv.
We spoke to Police Sergeant Richard Cooke who chairs the Police Federation in the West Midlands and asked first for his reaction to the case today in Nottingham.
Earlier we spoke to the Conservative MP Robert Buckland, who’s chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee.
The head of the army has said the UK should train up a “citizen army” to better prepare for future conflict.
Former Conservative MP Lord Arbuthnot – who’s campaigned on the Horizon scandal for years – joins us from Westminster.
We spoke to Baraa Shiban, an Associate fellow at the RUSI defence think tank and a Yemeni human rights activist.
The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is considering whether to extend child benefit to hundreds of thousands more families in his spring budget – to give direct support to middle income families.
We spoke to Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy.
We spoke to Conservative MP Duncan Baker, who was a sub-postmaster himself.